I can't sleep…
Where to strike when work is home?
A persistent little voice that says,
get out, get out —
— Lotte L.S., from “This Energy Wasted by Flight — ” (NY Times, September 3, 2023)
DK Photo: Great Blue Heron @ Daybreak. 56° F. 6:46 am. September 2, 2023. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More photos from this morning’s walk here.
The summer morning, its gentleness, the sense of great work being done through the grass where I stood scarcely trembled.
— Mary Oliver, from “The Perfect Day” in “Long Life: Essays & Other Writings“
Notes:
To hear Joni Mitchell (79) hit certain notes again in that inimitable voice was like glimpsing, in the wild, a magnificent bird long feared to have gone extinct.
— Lindsay Zoladz, Joni Mitchell Returns to the Stage, Golden, Glorious and in Control (NY Times, June 11, 2023)
There was a full moon outside and it was the only peaceful thing they had seen all day.
It shone with an impassive beauty, like a cold gem against dark velvet, not at all interested in the human pain down below.
— Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel (Bloomsbury Publishing; 1st edition (November 2, 2021)
Photos: DK’s Moon shots @ 5:45 pm today from backyard.
Some gulls soared in the air above me.
They seemed almost to be enjoying the warmth and stillness.
A stillness so seldom here.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard, The Morning Star: A Novel. (Penguin Press, September 28, 2021)
Photo: DK @ Daybreak. 6:57 am, October 19, 2021. 45° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT
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