Category: Blog
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Lemon Sky and Detritus at Sunrise
I read about hope this morning on Maria Popova’s site The Marginalian. Popova ponders Steinbeck’s observations about hope as a survival effect of humans—Steinbeck calls it a “diagnostic human trait” (qtd. in Popova)—while he was on an expedition studying sea creatures. Nonetheless, as much as Steinbeck acknowledges that “hope cushions the shock of experience” (qtd.…
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Hit the road, get trucking
Ween’s “Piss up a Rope” came on my playlist as I was running this morning. I think I spent the last six months of 2022 preparing for this to be my anthem for 2023.
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A monkey broke into my kitchen, made a mess, then left me to clean it up
I had a panic attack in the parking lot of the emergency vet, then paid the money. The x-rays only confirmed what I already knew: I had to euthanize my cat, then my relationship. Heartbreak is inevitable when we adopt a pet or start a love affair. The may have been a slow decline for…