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lynn s blog lynn siprelle skip to main content lynn siprelle main menu home lynn s blog starry starry night submitted by lynn on tue 01 11 2022 12 31 do you want to go to the van gogh exhibit at the convention center my friend caroline texted this morning yes yes i did if you have a chance to see the traveling beyond van gogh exhibit go it s well worth it for those without a real art education me it gives a basic grounding in his life and a panoramic look at his art i found myself in tears after the exhibit the brushstrokes dance across the canvases in swoops and flourishes sheer joy in every one it and at times probably he was a delight van gogh was clearly mentally ill as someone else who is clearly mentally ill i can t help but wonder what his life would have been like had someone close to him either understood that or helped him i believe he was bipolar like me though i m sure someone with more actual knowledge of vincent has their own idea read more about starry starry night log in to post comments in which i forget the seventh submitted by lynn on mon 12 06 2021 17 11 i ve done it again i forgot december 5th was my stroke aversary the 7th one is it good i forgot i think it s good briefly on friday 12 5 2014 i suffered a massive stroke an ivh the warfarin i was mistakenly on thinned blood vessels in my brain to the breaking point i wasn t expected to survive more than 90 of ivh patients die the clear iii study saved my life though i was number 497 of 500 patients enrolled to see if the enzyme alteplase helped in strokes it or the saline placebo we ll never know helped me spectacularly well seven years later i walk with a cane and talk with a few struggles mostly for words i m also writing again a few hundred words a week not nearly as good as pre stroke but i ll take it in fact i literally cry happy tears i wish i hadn t had the stroke and yet i m glad it forced me to reckon with my self the me who faces the world it woke me up facing the world as i am was is still the simplest and hardest thing i ve ever done or will ever do read more about in which i forget the seventh log in to post comments adventures in knitting the 1898 hat submitted by lynn on fri 11 05 2021 16 29 i count myself among the good knitters and i make so many stupid mistakes now i chalk it up to the stroke but i dunno latest i m knitting an 1898 cap from the seaman s church institute free everyone on ravelry s knit it etc etc this is my first one i got a skein of briggs little from maritime family fiber as part of a mystery set which consisted of one skein of worsted in a lovely heather gray and one skein of a blaring bright orange hunter orange wtf am i gonna do with that thinks me you can see it from a mile away maybe two i go round and round it sits out waiting for a few months it aggravates me i complain about it the hubs finally says gee is that orange sigh yes he could really use an orange hat he says you know for when he goes hunting like hunter orange read more about adventures in knitting the 1898 hat log in to post comments a year in submitted by lynn on thu 04 08 2021 10 56 i keep meaning to post an update here on how we re doing for the three people who might read this it s been a year not half as long as i feared john and i are double vaccinated considered fully vaccinated on april 21st the kids will be vaccinated some time after the 19th that s a full six months sooner than i anticipated vaccines even to be available and that for the sickest among our society i didn t really expect us to be vaccinated before 2022 i didn t know if we d have a functional government i didn t know if john who needs human contact like he needs oxygen would make it through months on his own at work i feared the worst how happy i am to have been wrong on pretty much all counts read more about a year in log in to post comments now we are six submitted by lynn on sat 12 05 2020 09 58 this is a photo of me taken the morning of december 5 2014 in the bedroom of our temporary house it s the last in a series of self portraits i took every morning to document my life since a fire took our home three weeks before and it s the last photo i have of my first 53 years read more about now we are six log in to post comments stewart and blackberry the current situation submitted by lynn on wed 05 27 2020 10 11 hey dog what up i said hey dog what up dog you got ears what up oh hello kitty i am busy watching my boss ok well imma lay down next to you perhaps you will like to pet my butt not now kitty i am still busy watching the boss she is eating something so you not interested in petting my butt go away read more about stewart and blackberry the current situation log in to post comments a quick note on these times submitted by lynn on fri 03 20 2020 11 08 i m sitting here at home waiting for the all clear from the novel coronavirus incursion almost sheltering in place but not quite the mayor and the governor haven t made that call yet i don t know what s going to happen if ever i wondered what it felt like when the great depression hit i know now because we are shearing suddenly down that path these are times i ve been waiting for a long while it s not that i ve been hoping for this quite the opposite i ve been afraid of this now that it s here this time of covid 19 i m finding it not so bad to a point read more about a quick note on these times log in to post comments adventures in recovery the fifth anniversary submitted by lynn on mon 12 09 2019 10 28 friday was the fifth anniversary of the stroke that nearly killed me i didn t forget the day i just ran out of time to write down my thoughts i am wearing for a couple of hours a day a temporary prism on my right eye an occlusion on my left and no eye patch they ve set me back to where i was three years ago i m also using a keyboard which used to be a part of my body and which hasn t been touched in some months forgive me if i m even more fragmented than usual the stroke has put meilin my alter ego my writer of fantasies into a deep sleep she seems destined to remain in i don t know if she ll stay there i am now a lady of leisure forcibly retired and unable to write much i am deeply grateful i can be what i do with the next part of my life is now the question one i ve been asking myself for damn near the entire five years or at least since i d recovered enough to ask that question out loud i know i ve pondered it here and i apologize for thinking these same thoughts dammit it s what s on my mind read more about adventures in recovery the fifth anniversary stewart and blackberry it begins submitted by lynn on wed 03 13 2019 14 28 here is how it probably went between stewart dog an extremely friendly little guy and blackberry kitty our very aloof cat hi my name is stewart i am a dog i am a good dog hello kitty you must be the one the boss calls blackberry oh help oh you hit me how come oh help i will stand way way over here oh dear dont come anywhere near me unless i say its ok and im not saying anything in fact im pissed as hell wtf i am not looking at you i am looking over here instead oh dear you damn straight youre not looking at me you damn dog read more about stewart and blackberry it begins log in to post comments adventures in recovery yet more walking submitted by lynn on fri 05 25 2018 12 18 i ve had difficulty walking since the stroke unsurprisingly my gods i m happy to be walking at all when i walk i walk lower to the ground on my right it gives me a sort of rolling gait it s bothered me for some time but its cause seemed to be inherent to the stroke i was walking back from the credit union this morning when i made a realization it s not that my leg is shorter my hip is lower read more about adventures in recovery yet more walking pages 1 2 next last