First day of chemo done. Wrote a blog post a few days ago about being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and some of the adventures I went on this summer https://jottenlips.github.io/blog/cancer/finding-out-8-30-2025/

#cancer #Hodgkins #climbing

#GoodNews:
#VivianCampbell of #DefLeppard Is Officially in #Remission After Long Battle With #Hodgkins #Lymphoma

https://americansongwriter.com/good-news-vivian-campbell-of-def-leppard-is-officially-in-remission-after-long-battle-with-hodgkins-lymphoma/

_The Evening Post_, 1 December 1924:
NEW ZEALAND ARTISTS
EXHIBITION OF WOMEN'S WORK
MISS F. HODGKINS AS A CUBIST
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
LONDON, 21st October
Three New Zealand artists are exhibiting pictures at the annual exhibition of the Women’s International Art Club. These … [include] Miss Frances #Hodgkins … [who] distinguishes herself by launching out into an inexplicable form of so-called art, and is not being taken very seriously…
Miss Frances Hodgkins lives in France, and has absorbed French ideas. She has long since diverged towards the extreme expressions in art…. For some reason she has suddenly plunged into a new style for her—cubism—and two works she shows in this exhibition are startling, to say the least. One is called “Summer Time,” and shows three grotesque and distorted figures of what are probably meant to be young women. There are quadrilaterals of vipid [sic] colour spread about, and the hands of the maidens are like those of wooden dolls. The other work is called “Sleeping Child.” To the uninitiated it is not unlike a hideous distortion of a babe in an oyster shell. A vague mother may be discerned amidst the wild squares of colour.…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19241201.2.101

#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Cubism #Art #NewZealand #England

LIVE #Tornado Watch for #Chicago area. Late announced mini-supercells. Radar systems down.

🌪️ Expired: #PlatoCenter #Elgin #SouthEglin

🌪️ Expired: #Ohare #ParkRidge #Niles

🌪️ Expired: #Hodgkins #Summit #Stickney #Cicero

Likely new tornado watch east of #LakeMichigan. (Waterspouts apparent.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVT58D2sov8&ab_channel=MeteorologistAndyHill