Saturday 10/18/2025
Big event today was to join the No Kings demo. At 11:30 I joined Joanne and also Diana, a friend of hers, and we walked to the Town & Country shopping center where a couple of hundred people were gathering. At 12 we all started walking down Embarcadero toward Rinconada park. Except we three broke off before the park and returned to CH. Diana got in her car and went home. Joanne and I had a very quick lunch, then went up to the 11th floor at 1:30 for the Celebration of Life for our friend Pam, who died a couple of weeks ago.
I mentioned Pam several times earlier this year. When she started declining and moved to The Forum for rehab, and then when she moved back here to enter hospice care. I didn’t know her all that well before, just as a smart and sensible and witty neighbor and committee chair. You learn all kinds of things about someone at their memorial. She had a math degree and taught “information science” before it was called “computer science”. Then her father died of an inherited neuropathy, and then her sister died of it, and she realized she had it. She had married early but divorced and determined never to remarry or have children, for fear of passing the disease on. She worked for various high-tech companies in Australia and then California before retiring and moving to CH. She made it to age 78, an achievement, considering.
From the memorial we headed back down Webster street to Embarcadero and walked around the “democracy faire” that had been organized, along with the march, by Indivisible Palo Alto. Signed a couple of petitions. Walked back. Joanne then went off for dinner with old friends from her previous life. I had dinner with my 6th floor neighbor Bob and his visiting son-in-law and grandson.
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