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Milwaukee Visit Photos, #1

Overwhelmed by the sheer Norman Rockwellness of it all, but it’s been great so far seeing the family and the fall. I offer pictures of changes leaves, pumpkins, and blond nieces.

They are, dear reader, just the tip of the iceberg of brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews.

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A Sacramento Memory

Today is the third anniversary of our mother’s passing. A while back, my dad gave me a short fragment of an autobiography she intended to write but never finished. As he said, she was “too busy living.” That is so true! But here it is for you, and I think you will enjoy the time period it evokes, a world that doesn’t really exist anymore:

Gerry Arnold, 1/11/1926 - 10/7/2008

My grandmother’s house was a tall white Victorian with a bay window in front, the porch and stairs to the right, and my grandfather’s rose garden on either side of the front walk. There were palm trees lining the 17th Street side, and a large screened in porch at the back.

In the summer the blinds were closed against the valley’s hot afternoon sun. The house itself seemed drowsy. The Lister upright piano was stately along one wall of the front parlor. With no musical education and no innate ability, still I loved to strike the keys and try to imagine the music sound resembled the song I was singing.

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The room behind the parlor was a sitting room, sort of a fore-runner of today’s family – or great – room. My grandfather’s Morris chair sat next to the bay windows with their window seats. The beautiful rococo gilt frame mirror and oak library table with ball and claw feet were other furnishings I recall. But the Morris chair, with its black leather upholstery and wide wooden arms, was my favorite. I loved pushing the button that made it recline.

Most of all, I can still feel the three-year-old’s love for this kind (old) gentleman as he put my grandmother’s thimbles on the fingers of each hand and rat-ta-tatted drum like for a little girl’s amusement.

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Oh, how we miss you!

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Happy Birthday to Pati!

Link to Metafour on Myspace

Pati Arnold belting one out

Happy September 7 Birthday to my lil’ sister Pati in Milwaukee!
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Besides being a sister, a daughter, a mom and a (gulp) grandmother, Pati’s also a wonderful jazz singer. Check out the link to Myspace location of Metafour, a group she sings with, and listen to some of the standards she’s got there, like “Cheek to Cheek.”

I’m in heaven.

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Los Angeles council OKs law protecting cyclists from harassment

LA Times story on new law protecting bicyclists!

Photo: Arbron

I know I haven’t posted much of anything in July. There is a reason for this and the reason is, I’m in the process of moving to another city (to Los Angeles from Palm Springs) and this is taking much longer than anticipated. I was supposed to move July 1, then July 8, then July 15, and now it looks like I’m finally going to be able to move on Monday, July 25.

The reason? Delayed escrow closing in Palm Springs. This has got to be one of the more stressful things I’ve dealt with in years, and has on its own given me a nice case of adult ADD and insomnia. One of the results is not being able to focus long enough to write a post.

I had found an apartment, put it on hold, then with the delays it could not be held for me any longer. Earlier this week, I went back to L.A. and found a place, suggested by a friend, which actually is a much better deal than the first place, so I should be (and I am!) grateful for the SNAFU* which had rendered my life FUBAR**. It’s not exactly all rainbows and balloons now, but edging closer every day.

Anyway, to the link. Loved this story about how local government is actually doing some good things – like sticking up for bicyclists, who in places like L.A. don’t get much respect. This law allows civil lawsuits for harassment from bicyclists against asshole drivers, so there doesn’t need to be a law enforcement arrest before such remedies can be sought. Perhaps, eventually, this is a path toward greater recognition of the necessity of sharing the road, or at the very least, acknowledgment of the existence of bicycles on the road.

Be careful out there and wear those helmets (OK, me too).

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Can’t Prove Birth, Therefore Can’t Join Group

My Certificate of Live Birth

My goodness! The Native Sons of the Golden West tells me I can’t join because my birth certificate is not the real one!

I can’t believe this would happen to me. One day, it’s only Donald Trump deflecting attention to his hair problem and then the next, here you are, just an average Joe, with powers that be not believing you are a native!

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Don’t know what to do. This is what the state government gives you when you send in your money for your birth certificate. Will I have to break into the capitol building to steal my files? I don’t know where to turn. Crap!

(Not.)

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Hallelujah

I was fooling around on the piano again today. I like this Hallelujah song by Leonard Cohen.

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I hope you enjoy the clip. I promise I will get better with the editing thing.

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A bit of the old Ashokan Farewell

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I wanted to see how the built-in camera records a little movie and and how it sounds. Passable? I suppose so. I set the laptop up on a counter and then just played a bit.

Sorry for the hesitations, I was trying to not make mistakes. Obviously, I need more practice! Still, I’ll try to do some pieces in the upcoming weeks to alternate with the otherwise feverish rants from the depths of my increasing paranoia.
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An Arnold hits 90

My Aunt Joan

I couldn’t decide whether to post something on this or not, and hemmed and hawed about it for a few days. In the end, as evidenced by what you read, I decided to acknowledge my aunt’s birthday, which was Tuesday, December 14.

The reason for my hesitancy is that she’s a private person who doesn’t like the spotlight. But I know she’s also kind of a feisty neo-Luddite (to put it mildly), and I know (and hope!) the chances that she’ll see this are pretty low.

Probably, the number of nonagenarians in the world is greater today than ever. My aunt, however, is not your typical 90-year-old, or at least, she seems unique to my undoubtedly prejudiced eyes.

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If that’s not enough, she volunteers in her spare time. She makes sandwiches for the homeless for her church, and she also volunteers cataloging birds for the Natural History Museum. At one time, she got an award from then-Mayor Koch for her work with the blind.

In her younger days, she acted off-Broadway and is still a huge theater fan. A typical New Yorker, she’s got an opinion on everything, jaywalks, and will cut you off mid-sentence if she has a point to make.

She’s also taught me, as a single person like her, what it’s all about to age with some grace. I think that message is that it’s about others and the world around you, being engaged in civic life, helping the less fortunate, and being grateful for the rich life you have. I believe it’s that sense of purpose which has made her so vital throughout her life, and I cherish that lesson.

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Liberace reborn, at Milwaukee Rep’s Stackner Cabaret with Jack Forbes Wilson

Liberace reborn, at The Rep’s Stackner Cabaret – Milwaukee Metro, WI Local News – Fwix.

Jack Forbes Wilson and me a few years ago in MKE

Giving a plug and best break-a-leg wishes to Jack Forbes Wilson, an Arnold family friend, who’s starring as Liberace in a show at the Milwaukee Rep. It opens tomorrow.

Jack has been a very close friend of my sister Pati for years, as well as the rest of the family. He’s been a piano teacher for nephews and nieces, and he almost always lends me his bicycle when I come to town.

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Liberace, truly larger than life. I was always so embarrassed he was from West Allis, Wisconsin (a suburb of Milwaukee), as if that were our only claim to fame. People couldn’t focus on Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne – it had to be Liberace. Like the article says, I know he liked sausage.

The other photo is from a furniture and art sale earlier this year, held at Liberace’s former home in Palm Springs. A friend and I just happened to be passing by and decided we wanted to see what it looked like inside. Ostentatious beyond belief and totally inappropriate for a desert environment, the palace did not disappoint.

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Joe Genshlea’s One Man Show "Son of a Sense of Place" in Sacramento

Ellie Genshlea and Jim Arnold

Marie Ann Lewis, Jim Arnold, Mary Clare Genshlea, Mary Cerutti, Joe Genshlea

Had the privilege over the weekend to go up to Sacramento with my cousins Mary Cerutti from SF and Marie Ann Lewis from Carmichael to attend the one man show my first cousin (once removed) Joe Genshlea(prominent Sac attorney) was doing at the Crest Theater in downtown Sacramento.

The show, a benefit for Sierra Forever Families, was about his recollections and observations of what it was like to grow up in Sacramento in the 1930s and 1940s, and how that differs from the much larger city of today.
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Although I was born in Sacramento, I lived there only for a couple of years as a very young child and have no memory of that. My mother was from there, and it’s interesting that her accounts of what her hometown was like, which I listened to my entire life, are so similar to Joe’s. It’s also fitting that this show and trip would happen this week, as it’s the two year anniversary of Mom’s death.

I know she would have been pleased that I finally met some more of our relatives (including Joe’s sisters Mary Clare and Ellie) and got more of the Sacramento story – which has been on my mind because of the upcoming elections.

Remember, folks, D is for drive, R is for reverse…. go Jerry!

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