June 1, 2017 (Thursday)

May 31, 2018

And now it’s June, and now we might get a warmer day. Just for the day, though – after that, back to cooler weather, and it looks like rain again all next week. Apparently it’s unusual only to the extent that warmer-than-usual and drought-ridden weather of the past years has acclimatized us to something else. […]

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May 31, 2017 (Wednesday)

May 30, 2018

The sky is an even light gray, thick-looking. Not a wash, not some kind of gauze, but a thick coating of industrial-strength latex paint. Not a plaster gesso, some kind of pigment applied to al fresco plaster, but a uniformity of gray. A uniform. It’s somehow so suitable, like a suit – as uniforms are. […]

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May 30, 2017 (Tuesday)

May 29, 2018

Back to the grind of getting up early, albeit an hour later than what we were sticking to for about six weeks up until the middle of last week. Yesterday saw W. complaining about the weather. He will easily disparage it if it involves too extreme a state (snow storms, say, or crushing heat and […]

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May 29, 2017 (Monday)

May 28, 2018

The worry factor, that’s what it is, what I’ll call it. I realized during meditation this morning – I’m on the “Appreciation” pack – that it’s hard for me to sink into a feeling of appreciation at the moment because worry intrudes. I sit at my desk (in my Capisco chair by HAG, which is […]

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May 28, 2017 (Sunday)

May 27, 2018

What a great thing it is to sleep. I really need to do more of it. But unlike “morning people,” my best sleep is in the morning hours, after I’ve battled a night of darkness and restless dreams, slaying all the dragons. Only then, when the sun is truly up and looking out over my […]

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May 27, 2017 (Saturday)

May 26, 2018

It’s the weekend, no rushing to get out of the house, which means I do the meditation –> writing (morning pages) in this order. On weekdays I do the morning pages first, then run around, getting out of the house with W. (even if I didn’t walk with him, I’d be “on call” to drive […]

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May 26, 2017 (Friday)

May 25, 2018

Not much tilt-a-world effect today, although the trees do appear to be even taller than yesterday; just the same headache that’s been hanging around for about five days, a kind of sinus-y, low grade annoyance. And a complete blanket of misty cloud cover, solid, impenetrable, as far as the eye can see. Welcome, Memorial Day […]

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May 25, 2017 (Thursday)

May 24, 2018

When I sat down at my desk just now and looked across it through the window, I thought for a moment the world had tilted. I’ve written before about the trash maples extending their reach into my field of vision. This morning it seemed they had done so by another meter or so in increased […]

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May 24, 2017 (Wednesday)

May 23, 2018

If anything I write should ever interest readers – and any reader is a future reader, interpreting words written in the past (which once was a present, but let’s not get too complicated) – it will be because somehow it touches on common ground, on something identifiable …and shared. Sometimes that’s a hard pill to […]

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May 23, 2017 (Tuesday)

May 22, 2018

Today I feel like I should write in big loopy letters, enlarge my handwriting beyond its usual size, make it gigantic in fact, so I could fill three pages in no time. I am comatose. While I haven’t drunk anything alcoholic since Saturday, I feel hung over. Really hung over. And it’s purely from getting […]

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