A Fistful of Aliases

 

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His Eightieth Birthday

 

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Seventy-nine point Nine Eight Years

 

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At the Threshold of Eighty Years

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This Body Is Only a Vehicle

 

הגוף הזה הוא רק רכב

לדרך אין סוף

Tämä keho on vain ajoneuvo.

Tiellä ei ole loppua.

דעם גוף איז בלויז אַ פאָרמיטל

דער וועג האט קיין סוף

ᎯᎠ ᎠᏰᎸ ᎨᏒᎠᏎ ᎤᏩᏌ ᎠᏦᏙᏗ.

ᏅᏃᎯ Ꮭ ᎤᎭᏎ ᎤᎵᏍᏛᏁ.

Text and image Copyright © MMXXII by Donald C. Traxler aka Yakov Bloom aka Yablom.

Approaching Eighty

 

The photo above was shot in NYC on September 11, 2022 (last Sunday). Apart from being a historically fateful day, that was twelve days before my eightieth birthday. Sandy and I were in NY for the US Open (tennis tournament).

Lately I've been interested in documenting the aging process, which I mostly do photographically, using myself as a model. This trip, though, gave us another way to assess and document it. We had made the same tennis pilgrimage thirteen years earlier, in 2009, but all the way from California instead of from Florida. This time it was far, far harder.

But we survived. Aside from fabulous tennis, we had fine dinners, excellent visits with friends, and we saw a wonderful play. We are glad that we did it, and grateful that we were able to do it.

Text and image Copyright © 2022 by Donald C. Traxler aka Yakov Bloom. 

The Truth that You Seek

 

The truth that you seek, find, and know

is the one that will set you free.

The truth that you reject

is the one that will keep you in bondage.

Text and image Copyright © MMXXII by Donald C. Traxler, aka Yakov Bloom.