Today 2 things happened, but not to me.
____________ was given his retirement party by his colleagues and the doctors at Kaiser on Sunset told him his cancer had returned. I am not certain he saw any connection or noted any irony. I did. We discussed each event separately, as if they’d happened ages apart, with appropriate emotion in each case. Bemused flattery for the former and unsentimental sadness for the latter. Then we went to the diner on Glendale Blvd for dinner. He asked me to feel the ugly sweater he was wearing. He said it felt beautiful.
