I had to look up an evening grosbeak - so vibrant and beautiful! Sounds like it's been a fantastical, jam-packed month. (As for 0501, well... that's a perspective, I guess.) I'm looking forward to the paperback release and tour, it's coming up quick now!
A few from my side of May:
2025.05.03 - Bluebird sky, green grass, and me in my traffic-cone-orange helmet on two wheels.
2025.05.08 - Ecstatic to share what we've learned, even if most of the audience is tiny rectangles on a big TV screen.
2025.05.11 - Grateful for the determined robin at the top of the spruce tree, calling into the world for love.
2025.05.13 - Turns out, a whole day of learning and chatting is a lot when you're years out from school.
2025.05.18 - An hour staring at birds on a pond, under cloudy spring grey skies, washes off the clutter of recent times from my mind.
2025.05.19 - In the end, gardening was really the best way to spend an off day.
2025.05.20 - Attempts to evoke high degrees of brain power after lunch will be met with frustration and fatigue.
2025.05.21 - Resigned to accept that the free pizza was cancelled, I console myself with an overpriced latte.
2025.05.24 - Blessedly, the weather stays tame enough to entertain friends with nostalgic crafts and a fan-favorite dog.
2025.05.26 - Even when it's condoned and meticulously planned out, I still love that chaotic feeling of running through the streets with tens of thousands of fellow goobers.
2025.05.27 - Rain splatters on otherwise ordinary rock wake up the ancient aquatic origins of these lumpy shapes.
2025.05.30 - Dear Murphy, your law is hilarious, except when it happens to me.
I grew up north of San Francisco, and that Bay view with the fog pouring in is always breathtaking. And I always think, I can see all the way to Hawaii! Even if I can’t. Really happy to have met you in person at last.
I spent several moments wondering how the fox got on the hotel balcony, and why -- then the caffeine kicked in and I realized you were watching the fox. . .games my brain likes to play 😂
I looked up "Jewish Indian Theory," and once again I find myself relieved that years ago I removed the words "believe" and "belief" from my vocabulary.
2025_0602: Unexpected solidarity found in the sauna at my local hot springs with a professional ballet dancer who shares my struggle with posterior tibial tendonitis.
Having followed you for a long while now, it always brightens my own mood to read an edition of the sentences, but even more so when your voice sounds so bright in many of them. May I bring such good humor and presence to my days this month! And get outdoors in my own unruly yard.
Thanks for this, these, your spirit and mine. Going for a walk down the hill to the Muskingum River before the planet catches fire and I must hide in my apt. and while the birds are singing their morning hymns. Namaste'
The mistaken crosswalk chirp for a bird call had me in stitches. Relatable. Lol
Wily relatives, those crosswalk birds....
I had to look up an evening grosbeak - so vibrant and beautiful! Sounds like it's been a fantastical, jam-packed month. (As for 0501, well... that's a perspective, I guess.) I'm looking forward to the paperback release and tour, it's coming up quick now!
A few from my side of May:
2025.05.03 - Bluebird sky, green grass, and me in my traffic-cone-orange helmet on two wheels.
2025.05.08 - Ecstatic to share what we've learned, even if most of the audience is tiny rectangles on a big TV screen.
2025.05.11 - Grateful for the determined robin at the top of the spruce tree, calling into the world for love.
2025.05.13 - Turns out, a whole day of learning and chatting is a lot when you're years out from school.
2025.05.18 - An hour staring at birds on a pond, under cloudy spring grey skies, washes off the clutter of recent times from my mind.
2025.05.19 - In the end, gardening was really the best way to spend an off day.
2025.05.20 - Attempts to evoke high degrees of brain power after lunch will be met with frustration and fatigue.
2025.05.21 - Resigned to accept that the free pizza was cancelled, I console myself with an overpriced latte.
2025.05.24 - Blessedly, the weather stays tame enough to entertain friends with nostalgic crafts and a fan-favorite dog.
2025.05.26 - Even when it's condoned and meticulously planned out, I still love that chaotic feeling of running through the streets with tens of thousands of fellow goobers.
2025.05.27 - Rain splatters on otherwise ordinary rock wake up the ancient aquatic origins of these lumpy shapes.
2025.05.30 - Dear Murphy, your law is hilarious, except when it happens to me.
Excellent and lovely, as always.
: Brought to tears by a high schooler’s transcendent rendition of a magnificent poem
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I grew up north of San Francisco, and that Bay view with the fog pouring in is always breathtaking. And I always think, I can see all the way to Hawaii! Even if I can’t. Really happy to have met you in person at last.
Yes, quite a wonderful coincidence!
I spent several moments wondering how the fox got on the hotel balcony, and why -- then the caffeine kicked in and I realized you were watching the fox. . .games my brain likes to play 😂
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I can't pick a favorite -- they're all so evocative of your presence, and of all that is here, still. Thank you as ever for sharing these gems.
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THIS brings me SUCH joy!!!"2025_0519: Scheming begins in earnest for the paperback tour."
I'm excited too!
Outdoors near home is a very good place.
Many thanks!
It's a good place here too.
“2025_0514: The Cassin’s finch craftily employs his screaming pink Mohawk as camouflage amongst the flowers of the cherry tree.”
Wonderful. Thank you. Brought up W.C. Williams in my mind, yet your clear voice.
Would that my euphonium were eponymous in today’s band concert. Thankfully, the cover of other musicians makes it seem so.
(Spring wind band concert at SOU. I played in it rustily but with enthusiasm.)
"With enthusiasm" is always the best way to do things.
I looked up "Jewish Indian Theory," and once again I find myself relieved that years ago I removed the words "believe" and "belief" from my vocabulary.
It's nuts.
These NEVER disappoint.
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2025_0602: Unexpected solidarity found in the sauna at my local hot springs with a professional ballet dancer who shares my struggle with posterior tibial tendonitis.
Ugh.
Oh, those crows!! Good thing I like them as they start 'talking' outside my bedroom window around 5 AM. They are good company, tho, aren't they?
I love crows.
Your words are moving, as always. Thank you.
Thanks for reading!
Having followed you for a long while now, it always brightens my own mood to read an edition of the sentences, but even more so when your voice sounds so bright in many of them. May I bring such good humor and presence to my days this month! And get outdoors in my own unruly yard.
💚
Thanks for this, these, your spirit and mine. Going for a walk down the hill to the Muskingum River before the planet catches fire and I must hide in my apt. and while the birds are singing their morning hymns. Namaste'
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