Dr. F.G. David and the indole ring
Jul 13, ‘07 11:27 AM
for everyone
(Vinideo ko si Sir David secretly nung 5-30-7 class namin on July 10, 2007, not knowing na may mangyayari pala sa kanya a day after.)
We will miss how you’ve memorized our names after just a few meetings. We will miss how you don’t really […]
19 Sept 88 (2:40 a.m.)
ALDEN PARK
Dearest Momsette,
(I may not be able to maintain writing my diary. My schedule for the year, until Aug 89 appears to be tight. I really am more than a Rip Van Winkle, even just in my field of specialization, in which just about most things that matter, especially instrumentation, are […]
Continue reading about Letters Written September 19-21, 1988 at Alden Park, Philadelphia
For my wife and children: If I can sustain it, I’ll send you my diary, so you may know about my life. Take care, I miss all of you, painfully. — Den
Diary
08 Sept 88
I left my wife, Ethel, and three of my children, Boboy, Avi, and Uc, for the last time at the guests’ room […]
FG, like most writers, wasn’t above ridiculing himself. In one letter, he wrote:
When I am about to reach my day
To become a doctor among the dull in the fish school
To resume croaking affectatiously in horrid big classrooms
And grade bluebooks that only mouth what everybody knows
How must then I commence
And what shall I presume.
The Original:
NOW I […]
September 8 holds a special meaning for me, primarily, but also for our family as a whole. It was on September 8, 1967, when FG left for Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to start his master’s degree program in Psychology. It was also September 8, but 21 years later, in 1988, when FG left for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, […]
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It was a shock to learn that Mila had passed away only a few days ago, about Thursday, September 4. As is usual when one hasn’t seen a friend, or anybody for that matter, for a long, long, while, my memory of her is frozen in time, and I still see her in my mind’s eye as […]
we can never stop looking for things that we’re sure would’ve made him laugh
…and remind us of him as well.
… Death sets a thing significant
The eye had hurried by,
Except a perished creature
Entreat us tenderly
To ponder little workmanships
In crayon or in wool,
With “This was last (his) fingers did,”
Industrious until
The thimble weighed too heavy,
The stitches stopped themselves,
And then ‘t was put among the dust
Upon the closet shelves…
(excerpt, by Emily Dickinson)