October 5, 2021
Gleanings
- As I awake in the mornings, the fall sun late to arise, pulling the covers up to my chin attempting to avoid the nippy air around me, my brain and body are beg for just five more minutes. But as my feet hit the ground, and I head out the door, my experience so far, hasn’t been anything miraculous, but more of a quiet, contentment of just being.
- here’s hoping that the tough-talking swaggering braggarty chick that i always wanted to be still lives inside me…i think she does.
- Writers have been describing residential schools for decades. So have the elders. But, we have not seen what we were seeing.
- So I was thinking all this and wasn’t falling asleep. Suddenly I wanted to hear Charley Pride once again.
- I feel like there are bubbles of the past around my house that I walk into by accident, and am transported.
- More music: listening to Prince “Gett Off” and the line about 23 positions in a one-night stand just seems improbable, or maybe even indicative of trouble, like something wasn’t working.
- If I knew the story, I don’t think I’d bother writing it.
- the way orange sneaks up on you
- That morning light, the shadows. Light fades into shadow — it always attracts me.
- I’m only now, in this late stage in life, this third act, really seeing the beauty in art, although it has hovered on the perimeter of my consciousness for years.
- If I were a millennial, I would get a tattoo of a bassoon on a part of my body I wouldn’t mind showing to strangers, such as the back of my hand or my bicep muscle.
- The constancy of the histrionics of these angry people is utterly exhausting to decent folk who are finding their patience and tolerance stretched to the max. This cannot go on.
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