30 December 2020

   I had a video visit with Carla yesterday, and for the first time I realized how lonely she is. This pandemic has been hard on everyone.

     I believe she is an interesting woman.

     I believe the pandemic had been harder on people outside of prison.  Prisoners are used to isolation.

     Carla showed me her phone over the Zoom connection, and she has my artwork, downloaded from the Artforum website, as her phones wallpaper.  I thought that was cool.  I was tickled pink.

     I ran four miles this morning but will count it as 5K.

     I went outside yesterday and measured my walking gait, then walked my normal running path.  It takes just over eleven laps to run a mile, and thirty-five laps is just over 5K. 

     I had been running thirty-four laps and calling it 5K.  Running extra laps, the next two days should make up the shortage. 

     I have not been running in the courtyard all that long.  Prior to that it had been on the treadmill once they shut down outside recreation.

     Joe Hecht sat for me this evening and I did a portrait of him, graphite on drawing paper, 9" X 12", as source material for my Mug Shot series.