The City & the Country no.82 – July 7 2015

Finishing up summer teaching –

Then into some frantic attempts to rent the house for the duration of our August trip to Ireland and the UK, while packing up our possessions and moving them into the studio/cottage, now vacated by Dan after more than a year.

Yard sales galore – beginning with the one at the Woodstock Elementary School, much less well attended than usual, alas.

A treat at the Kleinert-James gallery: a showing of ‘La Comare Secca,’ – the Grim Reaper – script by Pasolini, directed by Bertolucci (his best, reckoned his wife, and I agree), starring our friend Allen Midgette, glimpsed here in close-up, beyond the popcorn machine lent by Lenny B., along with his wine. He forced 4 glasses on me during the film, and I tottered down the hill to the pizza parlor to watch the Women’s World Cup Final. Arrived 17 minutes late, US had already scored 4 goals. 17 minutes gone and the game was over.