moving at the speed of youth
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Dreamed the goldfinches were back
Category: Wild Card
Matter of the ego
Gertie Stein: Every writer wants to be told how good he is, how good he is, how good he is.
Kinisi 17
small stuff / completion, as in loss
cosmic calculations / where now?
……….
oppose / uphold
envision / enact
Overheard in the locker room
The virus can’t enter your body without consent.
Two high-school swimmers, getting suited up for their daily practice.
What other bad counsel have you heard?
‘Butt time,’ Bukowski’s term
Best done religiously every day.
I’m amazed by the amount of sheer physical energy writing takes. Long stretches of total concentration. Back hurts. Fingers, too.
Reworking a long piece, especially.
Kinisi 16
The broken presidency.
Our broken democracy.
What would you do with an extra day?
It’s Leap Year, and February gains one day. The one that’s counted today.
It’s not exactly a holiday, though, and nobody gets the day off, much less a three-day weekend.
What’s exactly the point of it, then? It looks like any other day to me. Any other northern New England winter day.
Anyone else feeling cheated?
