Twittering away…9 months of microblogging…in 140 characters or less
“Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?”
Twittering is like sending a telegraph or writing a haiku. Over time, the messages accrete, and the rhythms of a life become discernable. At least, that’s what they say.
In 38 updates between mid-December 2007 to mid-September 2008 (with most of the updates from May-July), here is the shape of my life, in reverse chronological order. —JGR
September 13, 2008 It’s dark now at 6 a.m. Must really be fall now.
September 12, 2008 Great day in the Botanical Gardens with Niki de St. Phalle’s gorgeous sculpture.
September 10, 2008 Pop and I back from Bloomington train trip for brother’s 62nd birthday celebration. Slow but steady run the rails.
September 04, 2008 Counting my Be-Gratitudes upon my pilgrimage homecoming from Southern Africa. Friends fed me supper last night. We talked post-Apartheid.
September 02, 2008 About to have a root canal in two hours. Thank goodness tooth #20 waited until I returned home from Africa!
August 29, 2008 Back home from Southern Africa. Heart and soul not blocked by cell phones at the ready there. Unpacking. Dreaming of the Delta.
July 30, 2008 Shopping for my trip to Africa! South Africa and Botswana for three weeks in August!
July 28, 2008 Pop and I finished researching music history for mechanical licensing of “Sightlines” audiobook.
July 28, 2008 Pop and I just got back from a family reunion.
July 23, 2008 My brother Gary cooked an all-garden dinner…everything but the brats, he grew….corn, potatoes, squash, green beans, beets.
July 23, 2008 Louis and Evan came for supper. Evan and Pop played their hearts out on their violins.
July 23, 2008 Pop and I entertaining the Potosi, Missouri, cousins. Pie for dessert.
July 22, 2008 Took Pop to his first garden party yesterday. He was a star!
July 20, 2008 Pop and I just launched “Gems of Yesterday” at Godfrey Congregational Church with music, stories, poetry, memories.
July 18, 2008 On Blogtalk Radio Saturday 11 a.m. with poetry and music from upcoming audiobook for “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary.”
July 18, 2008 Pop and I chatted on “Let’s Talk” WBG 1570 Z about “Gems of Yesterday: The Poetry and Philosophy of Bee Lewis” and played music from that era.
July 18, 2008 Went to an Obama community organizing meeting at Ron Gregory’s just around the corner in St. Louis.
July 18, 2008 Burned the green beans I carefully prepared from my brother’s garden.
July 16, 2008 Just had the most social week of my life in N. California. Carol Cole Lewis’ Eggplant Parm. IS yum!
July 01, 2008 Hosted major donor program head from Western Illinois University at homeplace. She’s here to interview Daddy.
June 28, 2008 Just came back from a day of remembering my cousin Cathe Christoe’s life. Just a little older than me. The family came out to the house.
June 20, 2008 Setting up radio interview for Gems of Yesterday: Poetry and Philosophy of Bee Lewis.
June 20, 2008 Interviewed by Chicago Tribune Redeye for 100 Things Challenge. Saving string in a drawer.
June 08, 2008 In Terre Haute heading for high ground as flash flood warnings from River Walbash come in. Sun’s shining!
June 5, 2008 Patricia Rice of St. Louis Beacon rocks at Leffingwell hat luncheon. Love that red hair.
June 05, 2008 Ladies hats bobbing, swaying, hold down in the wind at Worlds Fair Pavillion. I wore gold with a frog on my crown.
June 05, 2008 Ladies hats bobbing @ Worlds Fair Pavillion: Forest Park Forever! Wow! St. Louis’ jewel goes genteel.
June 02, 2008 Walked 4 miles on Riehl Lane to the hard road and back.
June 01, 2008 Hosting a slumber party for two little girls.
May 23, 2008 Just back from Nashville! Recorded audiobook Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary.
May 13, 2008 Picking lily of the valley at Pop’s under luminous sky.
May 12, 2008 Rolling my eyes and smiling my lips off about my newsmaker Pop, 92, with 2 articles back to back!
May 10, 2008 Agog about Pop’s literary legacy reception “The Write stuff: Writers’ Club founder speaks to students” by Telegraph’s STEPHANIE KISZCZAK
May 10, 2008 Reading Dan Brannan’s column in The Telegraph on Pop’s Music Program Donation.
May 05, 2008 Just back from major donor banquet @ Western Illinois University where Court & Grace Johnston Fund loans keeps students in school.
December 15, 2007 I’m reading on a snow day at home in the CWE of St. Louis.