the juxtaposition of my grandmother’s kept yard with the neighbor’s un-mowed yard. short grass and edges, fresh mulch versus dandelions wishing in the breeze, and bearded iris growing wild against a tree.
we are porch swinging, waiting for a friend to come over.
‘I hear she’s a drunk,’ my grandma says to me.
Pittsburgh, vacations, flowers, jokes, other things.
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Oh, spit in the ocean and see if it comes back.
Oh, spit in the ocean and see if it comes back.
Thao & the Get Down Stay Down - Kindness Be Conceived (feat. Joanna Newsom)
Air - Playground Love.
Some, soon enough.
Well I am thinking about quitting things and starting things and letting other things just do whatever, blow in the wind if you will, detritus, flotsam, jetsam, who gives a fuck.
But the monkeys in the middle of all those things,just hanging out, are daily rituals like: drinking coffee, eating lunch, brushing teeth.
Jobs, and vices, love, friends, stability will arrive and then leave, but waking up and whole grain bread and hygiene is forever.
But then I suppose you could be sentimental for a certain toothbrush or bathroom mirror and then convince yourself to quit that, too, quit all that sentimentality before it gives you a headache or a cancer.
But the monkeys in the middle of all those things,just hanging out, are daily rituals like: drinking coffee, eating lunch, brushing teeth.
Jobs, and vices, love, friends, stability will arrive and then leave, but waking up and whole grain bread and hygiene is forever.
But then I suppose you could be sentimental for a certain toothbrush or bathroom mirror and then convince yourself to quit that, too, quit all that sentimentality before it gives you a headache or a cancer.
“I smoked cigarettes all the way, began to think of myself as a lightning bug […] and I left the seashell roar and the aurora borealis of the city’s heart farther and farther behind me.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, in Mother Night.
Statistics.
Ice creams ingested: 1 (coffee cookies ‘n cream)
Ice creams spotted on the sidewalk: 2
(first looked like white house, second maybe choc.)
Las Palmas tacos for lunch: 2
Lunch buddies: 2
Miles walked: 5.5
Pages read while walking: 111
How is not smoking better for you when smoking keeps you so regular?
I babysat the other day and we went for a walk and ended up racing around some tennis courts but no one was there so I did my best to explain what goes on with the rackets and balls. Ramona could not have been less impressed. That is, until some kids showed up to play and everything I had pantomimed came to be. Ramona stared for some time and then wandered around whispering, Tenn-isssssss. Tenn-iss. Tennnnnnn-iss! and smiling this smile, delighted although pinched.
