Am I allowed to say it? Alternately, when will I stop saying it? These weeks have been busy: the events in question are now nearly a fortnight gone. Goals I rarely set goals for myself, whether qualifiable or quantifiable. I suppose I am not so wired? Or I don't find goals useful? I had a [...]
Every day is a return to start. Every day is the turning of another circle, so long or just so arced. The Earth spins each day and skips onward about the Sun, as we all—from Sun to maligned Pluto—inscribe some path so far indeterminate in shape through the stars. You shared this song with me [...]
Unplanned but fortuitous: I dined and reunited this evening with Team Grupo Do-It. This Seattle gathering was comprised of the majority of the 2010 Costa Rica crew, so named for a mammoth hardware & construction store we passed on a weekend outing. Yes, the store was called “Grupo Do-It.” How could we not be inspired? [...]
I finished this weekend Selected Stories by Alice Munro. I dare say Munro wrote better and better over time: the collection ranges from 1968 to 1993. Her stories are poignant and so true, no matter my total lack of experience with 19th- and early 20th-century Canada. I am experienced with emotion, with the complications of [...]
I am drinking an Americano, homemade, in a mug adorned with blue stars and sashes, a golden-winged eagle, and the following inscription: Lord, grant me PATIENCE But I want it RIGHT NOW! The mug came with the house. The puppy on my lap did not. I moved into Sarah & Charlie's new home on February [...]
My new year has not yet begun, not really. I think my new year might begin tomorrow. Tomorrow, I think? I hope. January 31, 2010 I believe too easily in cycles, in somewhat arbitrary (but still astrologically significant?) measures of times. One year ago today I was alone in Costa Rica, alone for the first [...]
For some reason or another, I was searching my email for ‘sushi’ and found an email I had written to myself some weeks past. Do you do this? I send emails to myself when I want to remember or record some information but don't have a particular place for that information. In this case, I [...]
