Sunday, September 14, 2025

forty-nine







Clerkmanifesto is going context free for 100 days!

While I retire from 31 years at the Roseville Library, sell nearly everything I own, fly with my darling wife to Japan for 40 days, and then move together to France to start to build a life there, I present a less explained clerkmanifesto, a clerkmanifesto of snapshots and time travel. Below you may see old posts without introduction from my 4,750 post collection. You may see random photos, brand new or years old. I may write a passage about Japan as if of course you know I'm in Japan, I may make a simple observation or joke, but whatever it is, I won't be explaining it. You'll have to take it as it comes.

For more context you are welcome to read this longer introduction.

And if this is all too confusing I welcome you to investigate our thousands of fully explained historic posts from the past 12 years, though I'll be the first to admit, hours later, you may still come away a little confused.


Here, however it works, is what clerkmanifesto has for you today:









I'm not likely to get tired of these videos of old drawings of mine brought to life, thought this may be the last one from 85 and up, my show of Jewish people who were 85 years old or older. 

If you don't know the drill: click to engage the picture, enlarge it, and then click once more to play it.














1 comment:

  1. "Jack London drinking his life away while
    writing of strange and heroic men.
    Eugene O’Neill drinking himself oblivious
    while writing his dark and poetic
    works.
    now our moderns
    lecture at universities
    in tie and suit,
    the little boys soberly studious,
    the little girls with glazed eyes
    looking
    up,
    the lawns so green, the books so dull,
    the life so dying of
    thirst."
    ~ Charles Bukowski

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