31 December 2023 Sunday
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1995.12.31
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4. The issue of metabolism as a mode of our imagination is something very new and needs careful explanation.
5. Animals as skin (or flesh) that took on hair, and plants as hair that took on flesh. [?]
6. Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents and its relation to metabolism.
10. The rib cage as a return of peripheral skeleton and possible new East/West duality.
11. Quotation from Encyclopedia Britannica under 'urinary system' concerning metabolism in the kidneys.
12. Relation between osmosis, symmetry and duality, e.g., the kidneys and the lungs.
Art that can be construed as supporting LGBTQ+ rights
1812.12.31
I rose early to prepare for my return home. Redwood came to see me. SL who went to Ury last evening returned before 9. We had breakfast. I wrote a note to E. Bronson noting the dissatisfied state of some of our minds about the exhibition of last evening, expecting him to publish it. I then waited upon Swinger who as SL informed me had dined at Ury with Karloff, Russian Consul dined at Ury yesterday. He presented me with a Terrier puppy about 6 weeks old to be called Pan in memory of Miers’ dog which died in the 4th month last while we were attending the Yearly Meeting. He also gave me a handsome print of Alexander I Emperor and Autocrat of the Russians and showed me a collection of views taken by himself in different parts of the United States, many of them in Philadelphia and its vicinity. They are well chosen and handsomely executed. I rode down and conversed with my brother on some business for the last time in this year, and then came home arriving about 20 past one. I found Michael O'N...., a laborer who has been working here near 2 months employed in haling[?] out tobacco compost to try its effect on grass grounds and this afternoon he delivered to Thomas Miles 15 bushels of small coal. I had yesterday a very satisfactory conversation with Francis West concerning my beloved son Samuel R. Fisher who died as herein before related at Lexington, Kentucky August 9th last. He informed me that he boarded in the same house with him, was with him in his room several times and altogether several hours in every day. Saw his treatment the physician gave the most regular attendance. To of their young .... students set up with him when toward the last his end was expected. Every necessary convenience were provided. Next[?] Robert Garrison the nurse of colour who attended to him was the most diligent, faithful and tender nurse that he had ever seen. That two days before his departure he was informed by his physician that his end was near. That his spirit had been very lively, he had been full of conversation and was disposed to talk politics, but most of those that visited him were so opposites to him in opinions and discourse that he complained that they were enforcing a gag law upon him, but after he was told his real situation be became ....... quiet and appeared resigned, his body swelled. T.W. was with him until about 1/2 past 10 on the night of the 9th when he was lying quiet and in about an hour after went peacefully. ____ This day has been as mild as in the 4th and 5th months, thermometer at 50 degrees. None of my cattle have yet been housed except the 2 carriage horses. The third and all the farm horses, 4 in number have been grazing in the fields. The cows and young in the corn field upon the husks in the daytime and put up at night.
The year 1812 ended with as pleasant a day, considering all things, as most of its constituent days. ____ The weather for about 3 preceding weeks had been genuinely so cold as to call for our warmest winter clothing. Clad in these, the 29th, 30th and 31st gradually moderating, were on the last especially so genially warm as under such apparel to remind us of the approach of May. ____
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