A Pennsylvania-themed weekend winds down. Fewer private jets from “biggest game since 1985” overhead.
Two books on Kindle fully read:
Andrew Yang’s straight through, Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy, released this week, tour to Philadelphia tomorrow.
In zigzags toward its middle, the 2021 book by physician/writer Jason Karlawish, Professor of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and Neurology in Philadelphia, and Co-Director of the Penn Memory Center, The Problem of Alzheimer’s: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease Into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It (St. Martin’s Press), and completed this insomniac morning, Part 2: The Birth of Alzheimer’s Disease, e.g., “bipartisan pair of senators from Iowa (Charles [sic] Grassley, the Republican, and Tom Harkin, the Democrat)” interviewing each presidential candidate at public forums on long-term care.
Bonus! Spotted neighbor sporting memorabilia sweatshirt: a homemade iron-on-decal image of her mother as 1950s era Groundhog Day queen, local beauty in her Gobbler’s Knob hometown.
Sunday, October 10, 2021, Philadelphia, PA, 22:17 EDT:
Mars 17° 02′ Libra conjunct Sun bi-quintile Pallas 11° 33′ Pisces
Saturn 6° 53′ Aquarius stations direct
Mnemosyne 25° 04′ Rx Aquarius
Image: “Punxsutawney Phil on February 2, 2018.” Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.