Guess who came to visit!?!? Sully!
More on our Sully here and here and here. (Thank you Susan for taking photo)
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T.G.I.F.: This must be what paradise is like…
Oh this must be what it’s all about
This must be what paradise is like
So quiet in here, so peaceful in here
So quiet in here, so peaceful in here
~ From Van Morrison’s “So Quiet in Here” (Hit link to listen to greatest tune ever…)
Photo: DK, Daybreak. October 14, 2020. 6:48 am. 48° F. Cloud Cover: 2%. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT
Lightly Child, Lightly.
When I got to the part that went, I shall be telling this with a sigh, he asked, ‘Do we sigh when we think about choices we’re glad we’ve made?’ We went through the whole thing like that. ‘So what do you think the poem is really about?’ he asked me when we were done. I told him it was about how we can’t really know where our choices are going to lead us. ‘Not only that,’ he said, ‘but we’re probably going to regret those choices either way. Frost had a fundamentally tragic view of life. There is always going to be a road not taken. We only get to live once. Nothing we do is ever going to wholly satisfy us in the end.’
— Christopher Beha, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts: A Novel (Tin House Books, May 5, 2020)
Notes:
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
- Portrait of Christopher Beha: The New School
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
Notes:
- Photo: Krimamr with “Pyramids of Giza” (Thank you Susan)
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again.
Something about the waves, those that lift us, those that wipe us out.
This morning. Cove Island Park: Empty, but for DK and gulls. 55° F. Rain. Blustery, with wind gusts up to 32 mph. Cloud Cover: 98%. Post Title from: The Great Offshore Grounds: A Novel by Vanessa Veselka.