Holiday or not?

Dear friends and family,

For many this is still the 4th of July weekend holiday, so Happy Last Day of the Weekend! It's the birthday of my beautiful friend Phe. We have known each other since our sons were in a coop nursery school together, where mothers did everything. My son Arthur will be 58 this Friday, so Phe and I have known each other and have been friends for 54 years! I am smiling thinking of our youth and enthusiasm, which we both retain in abundance.

Yesterday we had an impromptu lunch with Evelyn and Harris and then went to an Italian movie, "I am Love," but it could have been "I am Lust." Oh, my, what hokey sex scenes, with cross shots of flowers and insects, and it went on and on. I don't know. This just seems an excuse for filmmaking. Remember those 1930s films? The excessive details were not necessary, especially those views of his crack as he labored over her. But we had fun with our friends Harris and Evelyn, and doing something spontaneously is a good idea to get unstuck from the mud.

To my woes—face rash, pelvis—I have added a knee problem, same leg that the pelvis impacts, so maybe it's from favoring that side too much? Or exercising too vigorously? that is, comparatively. I'll check it out with Jack, the P.T. this morning. No holiday for him.

Love to all for best wishes on the rest of this holiday,
Bernice