coming up soon: Portland

*Four very amusing nephews who love visiting volcanoes (I think we’ll go back to Mt. St. Helens, which I saw with my brother in ’92).

*Rush concert with my brother and two eldest nephews. A wonderful high school throwback.

*A first chance to meet Prof. Michael Flower (who, among many other things, did the diagrams for The Quadruple Object).

*If time permits, idle leafing through Clement Greenberg’s marginal notes on Heidegger or other philosophers. Bizarrely enough, all his papers (and his personal art collection) are deposited in Portland, as I just learned a couple of weeks ago.

My first visit to Portland was in 2007, and it left a good impression.

Iowa City is always fairly silent in late June, but seems even more so this year.