It's too dark too early and too late but perfect months for reading and writing. Stand yourself up. Put on your thermals. Soup and salad, how lucky can that be? The winter solstice will be here still a few weeks but coming. And then more sunlight after that. I hate winter. I love sunlight. Shorts … Continue reading Winter Is Coming

Up early as usual, checked my Google calendar. November 22. Getting a little into memoir theme, which really am resisting but probably something everyone should do. (My Mother has told me that she remembers when FDR, probably my first hero, died. Can stream his Four Freedoms and Fala speeches.) (Next to Lincoln, best of best … Continue reading November 22

Task list. Get Austin Pets Alive, Piatt County Animal Shelter, Animal Hospital of Monticello, Humane Societies in Texas and Illinois on my sidebar. (Gosh Word Press I've got some figuring out.) (Word Press is offering me some popups I don't really want.) Figure it out. Getting into memoir territory which with all respect to people … Continue reading Chole, Oliver And Quinn, And Fala, Miles, And Gunther

Long sharing talk with the most thoughtful, compassionate, giving, sharing, friend of years. Best way to begin a day. And good futures ahead.

"It's going to be a bumpy night." Bette Davis, how chill. Badass Bette. I've been sickened, disgusted, by what happened Tuesday. I only could write notes, not even personal journal quality, for all of yesterday. Some consolation, my home state of Illinois, Land of Lincoln, stayed blue. Pod (yes, pod) bless (save) Chicago. I did … Continue reading “Fasten Your Seatbelts”

Finally reset my WordPress password. Long complicated getting better year. Jeez just didn't feel like writing, nothing, nada, during all the hospital time 2023/2024. Couldn't even read some books I thought I cared so much about, now back home and caring coming back. At home, looked over my old journals going back to high school. … Continue reading Recommend…Don’t Break Bones…And “Opportunity Economy” “When We Fight We Win” (Si Se Puede)

My compassionate and generous Sister-In-Law has drove me to the aquatic center here in very early mornings all this summer. Can't compare the meditation and breath of lap swimming how healthy it feels, to anything else. Sunrise through trees, daybreak. Compassionate and generous person in my family, with plenty, a lot, real lot, on her … Continue reading More Small Found Things

On my task list. Done and done. When I was living with someone in Austin and wanting to show him a little bit of the idyllic place that my parents made where I grew up, I did a sloppy aerial drawing. (I'm not good at drawing.) Then with lots of moving, I could not find … Continue reading More Small Found Objects

Playing my David Byrne, that song, and dancing in the kitchen while no one is watching. It's getting there. Three storage units now down to one. (I had to make a very quick move from Illinois to Texas during early COVID, then two trips back to Illinois and back to Texas and then back to … Continue reading Independence Day