Saturday is for Sully and for napping…Guess who’s visiting?!?!
Saturday is for…
June 1, 2019 by 22 Comments
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
April 29, 2019 by 14 Comments
I start each day by letting in light and doing something for someone I love, in order to do what needs to be done to repair our small part of the world. Then I listen, and that listening becomes the perch from which I chance to see all we are a part of. The day unfolds and I get excited, then annoyed, then confused, and tired. I eat and sleep and do it all over again. When I get tangled in the tasks, it can seem like hell. But when the light illuminates the inside of things, like today, and the coffee is brewed, things go quiet, and there’s nothing else I could ask for.
~ Mark Nepo, Things That Join the Sea and the Sky
Notes: Nepo via Make Believe Boutique. Photo: Coffee (via Your Eyes Blaze Out)
Flying North N.E. AA1263. With Track Suit.
March 9, 2019 by 79 Comments
An introvert’s sanctuary. Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport. The world’s 4th busiest airport. Giant footprint. Take trains between terminals. Get lost among the crowds, the lines, the heavy foot traffic. Near zero probability of seeing anyone you know.
I pass through security. No random check. No single coin in back pocket triggering body check and palm swab for explosive residue.
I walk.
I pass a line that spills out into the concourse, and down along the wall. Chick-Fil-a. How good can this really be? Didn’t realize Chick-Fil-a served breakfast. Make a mental note. Must try that. But can’t risk it now. Middle-aged thing sprouted out of nowhere. Stomach, formerly cast iron, now leaky.
I look for an overhead sign pointing me to the Admiral’s Club. 10 gates down. Texas does it big here too. Large (very) facility, high ceilings, a refuge for business travelers. Quiet. Soft lighting. Spotless bathrooms. Cushy leather chairs.
I walk.
I look down at my black sneakers. When your work life has more than ample amounts of stress, you de-risk all other elements.
Like my attire. [Read more…]
It’s been a long day
February 26, 2019 by 30 Comments
I remembered the fearless, confident boy I used to be back then…I didn’t miss him. I only, sometimes, missed the high spirits that often used to seize me when I was ten. Would there ever be an event in my life that would catapult me back into that ecstatic, silly lightheartedness, even if only for a moment?
~ Benedict Wells, The End of Loneliness: A Novel (Penguin Books, January 29, 2019)
Notes:
- Photo: Getty Images (via Hammock Papers)
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Flying North N.E. AA1263. Add, yet another addiction.
February 23, 2019 by 62 Comments
It’s that time again. An updated inventory of Addictions.
- iPhone. Like Jenny Erpenbeck’s “Bone to bone, blood to blood, as if (we’re) bonded together.”
- Talenti Mint Chocolate Chip Gelato. Heaven in a cup. Sweet Jesus. 3-4 pints a week, minimum.
- iPad Pro. Speedy wifi in-flight. Enable online work in both directions.
- Sugar. Stonewall Kitchen Sour Cherry Jam. 2.5 heaping tablespoons stirred in with Chobani Fruit on the Bottom Greek Yogurt with Pineapple on the Bottom.
- Seat #24 E, Exit Row, AA Airbus A321. To/fro LGA to DFW. Same seat (or take different flight)
- Socks: Ultra thin, over-the-calf knee high. Can’t have hot feet or exposed skin.
- Advil PM. Ingest 1/2 pill one hour before bed time. Insomniacs sleep aid.
- Knee pillow. To sleep. Avoid bone to bone contact.
And so here we are.
Dallas, TX. Hotel. Wednesday evening.
I open the Jabra Elite Active 65t Wireless Earbuds charging case to find the right earbud missing. Major problem. [Read more…]
It’s been a long day
February 21, 2019 by 22 Comments
What? What are you thinking?
Sorry, sorry, I’m just trying to think of—of things I’ve given up on.
No. I can’t think of anything.
~ Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?: A Novel
Notes: Photo: poppins-me
It’s been a long day
February 13, 2019 by 31 Comments
That sound of settling into the sheets and the covers has to be one of the best things in the world. Sleep is a mercy. You can feel it coming on, like being swept up in something.
– Marilynne Robinson, Lila: A Novel
Notes: Photo: Tatiana Koshutina (via see more). Quote via quotespile
Riding Metro North S. With the Glow.
February 1, 2019 by 70 Comments
Work.
Mon 6:10 am start. Home at 8:10 pm.
Tues 5:31 am start. Home at 9:12 pm.
Wed 4:43 am start. Home at 9:36 pm.
Thur 4:30 am start. Home at 9:45 pm.
See any patterns here? Any obvious trend lines? [Read more…]
Saturday Morning
January 26, 2019 by 39 Comments
She likes it best when everything is very, very quiet.
~ Linn Ullmann, ”Unquiet: A Novel” (W. W. Norton & Company, January 15, 2019)
