When I was in my early teens, Brother Peter sort of told me a joke. That is, he asked me a question and would not tell the punch line to this joke for many years, after I “gave up” and nearly begged him for the answer. He referred to this as a “Time Joke”, and […]
I remember Peter had a (humorous) phrase he used, often, in the later Tacoma years, anyway… He would say, “Good judgment comes from experience, and often, experience comes from bad judgment.”, or something like that, and then he completed it, with the syllogistic punchline eluding me! If you remember Peter using this phrase, PLEASE take […]
Thanks for sharing this personal moment, Linda! One evening my husband Steve was out on our back deck, when he was overcome with grief and a sob escaped him. Peter was on the other side of the fence, and asked Steve in a most concerned tone of voice, “Is everything all right? Is there anything […]
Sorry I haven’t posted here in a while. A recent discussion of cleaning and chores brought this to mind: Peter was not, in my memory, the cleanest/neatest person ever, but he was certainly less messy/cluttered than I am. Most of the time, when I was a kid, he didn’t seem to notice the clutter. But […]
"Always cop to a lesser plea!", Peter advised.
Thanks for sharing this Tale, Linda! Late one evening, our neighbor’s dog began to bark. The dog, named “Jack”, who was not prone to barking without reason, continued to do so, then subsided, when another dog began to bark, with the sound coming from the opposite side of our house.Then Jack gave an answering bark, […]
Brother Peter was fascinated by: Chaos Theory, Fractals, M. C. Escher, Op Art, Möbius strips, Kline bottles, Tessellations, Penrose Tiling, and Puzzles, don’t you think? BTW, I found this unattributed limerick on the internet… "A […]
I have long and often wondered about Peter and books. For example, I estimated once to someone in a conversation that my brother Peter had probably read 100K books and that he was a “speed reader”. Pure speculation. So I had occasion to tell Peter about my conversation (I went to the source) and he […]
When Peter worked at a place in the Northwest teaching computer hardware and server systems about 8-something years ago, he had a co-worker he talked about sometimes. This co-worker was not very informed on the subject, according to Peter, but at the same time was very cock-sure about his knowledge, waving his hands and mumbling […]
Peter taught me to juggle in the early 1960’s. He wasn’t professional or anything at it, but he was good, very entertaining. While I never attained his skill level, I admired his accomplishments. One of the “tricks” he did with juggling was to juggle two balls with the right hand, and then lift the third […]