April 22, 2017 (Saturday)

April 21, 2018

It’s the weekend, this session of Morning Pages is coming along after the old (usual) routine (meditation first). I almost didn’t get out of the house yesterday – the weather was so shitty and felt so confining. Finally, in the afternoon I hied myself to the Y, in a relentless drizzle that refused to shift […]

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April 21, 2017 (Friday)

April 20, 2018

I’m looking through rain-spattered window glass at a barely illumined rainy day. The sky is low and yet transparent, the rain merely steady and boring. Nothing portentous to see – can’t see the sea, either. Covered by mist, the parts of rain aerosolized in the atmosphere. The man from the house on E.-St., across the […]

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April 20, 2017 (Thursday)

April 19, 2018

Yesterday the wind blew so cold and fierce, it felt like winter. I went for a walk in the afternoon, looking for glass (i.e., I visited two glass supply shops in town) and then walked to D.-Street Beach. I was close to unpleasant. At the stores, I struck out. The first one basically said, “Nothin’ […]

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April 19, 2017 (Wednesday)

April 18, 2018

It’s chilly. It’s just after 6a.m., and I turned the heat back on. The man who lives in the house on E.-Street opposite to the one right below me just returned to his front door and entered. One assumes it’s him – the man who lives there – although I first assumed he was a […]

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April 18, 2017 (Tuesday)

April 17, 2018

And so it begins. Another attempt at routine, this time a 6:15am first-thing-in-the-morning sit-down, attempting morning pages. Semi-comatose. Of course the irony (if that’s the right word) is that this morning everything looks different because seemingly overnight it all leafed out everywhere and I feel like I’m falling falling, falling into a sea of green. […]

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April 17, 2017 (Monday)

April 16, 2018

What day did my oven door explode? It was on Saturday evening, …right! I had made a pizza at the usual high temperature (500ºF). We had finished eating, watched something on TV, the oven was off and the door was open the whole time after I took out the pizza, and the oven had completely […]

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April 16, 2017 (Sunday)

April 15, 2018

I can at last see little green buds, the promise of leaves about to unfurl into big green, all-encompassing blankets, on a few of the trees outside my window. At finally fucking last. It only took till well past the middle of April. Yesterday, W. and I walked that Masconomo loop in Manchester-by-the-Sea (MBTS), the […]

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April 15, 2017 (Saturday)

April 14, 2018

Back to the “old” routine for the weekend – meditation, then writing. Later, maybe exercise. This whole business of finding a rhythm is really quite interesting. One way to find it, I suppose, is by sheer force of personality. (And ego?) (Yes, and ego.) There are these monsters who believe so strongly in their mission […]

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April 14, 2017 (Friday)

April 13, 2018

Boston gears up for a big weekend, starting today with the Catholics celebrating Good Friday. Then, on Sunday it’s Easter. (Passover, which started last Monday, also continues, until Tuesday.) And, co-incidentally, the Boston Marathon is on Monday. W. went in to work this morning, and will also be commuting on Monday. I tried out my […]

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April 13, 2017 (Thursday)

April 12, 2018

Changes, I need a new routine perhaps. I think that if I stick to my present morning routine going forward, it will mean having to rush through the morning pages unless I were to get up even earlier, and that’s not good (neither the rushing nor the getting up even earlier…). Today I got up […]

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