Somehow I created a new and better me. I was most proud of my accomplishment, sending it to four men – including my faithful Computer Guru Chris
Me:Later for the blog. But look what I created! Looks like me on a good day! Hahaha So Chris we do have to put in on the blog just to show how advanced I am. Goodness gracious 82 this month and I can create an image that looks like this. Nothing short of a miracle.
Shamir: Wow im speechless 🥰
Me: Fabulous response!
Chris: Ok, very good! Do you just want me to make a post with the photo and the short text you put with it
Me: Great idea. I will do that with a longer response!! So we will post again with it, a prior photo and a conversation I had with Mohan about it. I just read this this morning when it was already posted but it deserves to be posted again. Hahaha
This the conversation with Mohan. I sent the ‘advanced image creation’ to him on WhatsApp.
Me: Guess who? I created it today. Cute, you have got to admit.
He: Cute, Cute Cute
Then a longer voice message which I will listen and recreate.
Me: I absolutely love it because, I totally do. The reason I love it is because – its really complicated. There was a picture of me that was taken of me for my birthday in the British Museum in London. It looks like I am filled with such hope and optimism, I utterly loved it. put a quote from Camus and the picture into a poster, The quote from Camus has been a mainstay my whole life. It speaks of in the midst of winter finding an invincible summer within you. And that is me, somehow I can do it. It seems like a miracle to me. I have bad days of course, but I keep to myself. To create and to see this image of me in which I look even more hopeful seems totally unbelievable,
This morning I undertook the task of finding the poster, it was frustrating. Finally arrived at a plan. Typed Camus into the search engine of the blog – finding a blog written on May 29, 2017.
I quote it in its entirety, It is most paradoxical as you shall seen. It is entitled: I Feel Blessed; Hannah’s Amazing Picture Taken in the British Museum on May 29, 2016; Notes on a Napkin But Still Trouble in Paradise
“I awoke this birthday morning to a beautiful day on the nineteenth floor of the Trump International Hotel. The view is stunning, the sun is shining. I feel blessed and no one could ask for more. it is the happiest period of my life and the most creative. There are notes on napkins on the bed beside me. I am almost always without pen and paper so when someone says something nice to me I am forced to scribble it on a napkin. One says: “I love you and that is an understatement.” Another describes me as: “vibrant, outstanding and uplifting.” These are sentiments voiced by strangers – they would have to be say those who know me well. Well not exactly strangers but it was funny. But there is trouble in paradise. The hot water bottle leaked in the massive bed and now I will have to explain to housekeeping staff that I did not wet the bed. I moved to the other side and changed out of my wet fancy night attire – the huge T shirt picturing Homer Simpson saying: “English, I do not have to learn English. I am never going to England.”
Hannah Laycock, a friend I met in London, took this picture of me at the British Museum one year ago on an absolutely memorable day. The caption I rediscovered in a book that Jessica gave me. It has been my guiding light for most of my life and I think the look Hannah captured is the feeling of hope that I feel when I find the invincible summer even when I feel like I am in the midst of winter. Hannah, as you can see, is an extremely talented photographer.”
What makes it SO entirely paradoxical is this. As you have read, I was writing from the Vancouver, Canada Trump Hotell. The owner, Joo Kim Tiah declared bankruptcy, the effects of covid and other factors, discovered after some investigation. The same owners reopened the hotel calling it the Paradox, then opening a chain of hotels across the world called the Paradox.
What is paradox??? It is a a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory. Synonyms: contradiction in terms, inconsistency, incongruity, anomaly, absurdity, oddity, enigma, oxymoron. My favorite? Oxymoron, of course!.
But who would ever stay in an Oxymoron Hotel??? Hahaha
