Bat-Fest
Saturday, Oct 29th.
I am relieved to be in the sunlight, walking in the fall air, with family, enjoying the sights and sounds of Bat-Fest, the public celebration of Halloween held in downtown Batavia. On Thursday I was admitted at the ER for observation at Delnor Northwestern Medical center. The diagnosis: atrial flutter, or irregular heartbeat in plain words. Fortunately the condition resolved itself. The cardiologist MD assured me that in my case the electrical glitch in my heart muscle can be repaired.
How can I complain? Again, it seems that I dodged another bullet! I have been favored by good fortune more than once. I am grateful. How can I repay my debt? I doubt that it can be repaid, – but I will try.
Here are some photographs taken at Bat-fest, that festival of costumed chaos in a downtown by the Fox River. Does not the interlude of Halloween, a Mardi Gras-like holiday provide a necessary contrast with the day to day routine of “ordinary time”? The intrusion of ghosts, zombies, animal/human chimera figures allow a glimpse of our own ordinary world, which is just as contrived by our reason, logic, — the structures/institutions that sustain our common life.
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Jerry-great to learn you are out of the hospital and the scary condition you experienced is treatable.
Jeff