Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: August 2003

Jacob Lawrence, "The Life of Frederick Douglass No. 20" (1939) — Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Frederick Douglass No. 20. Frederick Douglass left America to lecture in Great Britain. Here he met some of the most progressive and liberal-minded men in the English speaking world. He made a great speech on Covent Garden Theatre on August 7, 1846, in which he told of the people he represented-how at that moment there were three million colored slaves in the United States. (1939)

Workbook: August, 2003

August 31, 2003: Call me Ishmael. Or, call me Stan.
August 30, 2003: Sunshine. Yellow-gold. The color of the sky, vibrant blue, desert blue.
August 29, 2003: My ex very kindly and tactfully suggested that therapy might be appropriate.
August 28, 2003: Another lifetime. A different universe.
August 27, 2003: Packed plaza, people pressed body to body, moving with difficulty through the enormous crowd.
August 26, 2003: Parking lot, Sausalito, afternoon on a sunny summer day, 1999.
August 25, 2003: On horseback he'll ride down a friend...
August 24, 2003: Tall woman, pink prom dress, surveys the party from the top of the stairs.
August 23, 2003: Her one purpose in life is to ensure that the people around her are less happy than she is.
August 22, 2003: The neurotically violent slogans of the counter-demonstrators at this year's antiwar rallies.
August 21, 2003: It's only after twenty years, and fourteen years of distance, that I'm able to see what my friends saw at the time.
August 20, 2003: It's like Norm walking into the bar on Cheers.
August 19, 2003: Her strange Puritanism.
August 18, 2003: The way adults project their fantasies onto children.
August 17, 2003: The sound of cracking tree limbs.
August 16, 2003: MUNI bus, San Francisco, early 1990s.
August 15, 2003: We all knew who the burglar was.
August 14, 2003: "I've been afraid of changing 'cause I built my life around you..."
August 13, 2003: Hospital bed, intensive care.
August 12, 2003: University campus, lower floor of a multistory urban building.
August 11, 2003: Look out the doors, what's to be seen?
August 10, 2003: Jesus' message is remarkably simple.
August 9, 2003: It's really only...
August 8, 2003: Bitterly he said...
August 7, 2003: Hairs on end on the flesh of your arms...
August 6, 2003: With an upturned nose she said, "I read that men's beard's grow faster if they're anticipating sex."
August 5, 2003: Shower. Friends' house, San Francisco, 1983.
August 4, 2003: American flags by the dozen.
August 3, 2003: The Professor entered New Camp X-Ray looking quizzical.
August 2, 2003: Hat in hand, the Skipper walked hesitantly into New Camp X-Ray, where he stood facing Gilligan through imaginary bars.
August 1, 2003: Clutching a large aluminum briefcase to his heart, Mr. Howell reluctantly entered New Camp X-Ray, where he stood facing Mary Ann through imaginary bars.