Dan Jewett
There are plenty of memes circulating the internet these days about how awful 2020 is. There were plenty of memes circulating the internet about how awful 2019 was. But 2021? Really looking forward to it.
Awfulness. Our new metric.
Here’s … the rest “Feeling the Heat”
Your colors may not blaze red in the Fall. Your shape may not represent a Platonic ideal. People may not take day trips to observe your beauty. And yet, you are still here, with as much capacity to enjoy the … the rest “Straggler”
A very pleasing listen to pre-fame Chuck Mangione this evening. More straight-ahead blowing than what came later. Gerry Niewood’s wonderful soprano sax playing.
I ventured out to walk this morning in what I discovered to be the last hospitable portion of the day. I could feel the humidity, but there was still a decent breeze blowing up the road from the river. About … the rest “”
… the rest “”His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before. That is, not in real life. He had seen it many times on the hyper-video, and occasionally in tremendous three-dimensional
Home from an evening walk. 83º so a bit of relief from the day’s heat. I’ve been enjoying walking without earbuds, especially later in the evening when it’s quieter.
Tonight was a little noisier as some folks are beginning to … the rest “”
My new GoFundMe project protototype.
Things are about to get ugly. Be prepared.
Now accepting pre-orders.
Regarding my Facebook friends list.
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
—Bilbo Baggins, Eleventy-first Birthday Speech
My phone camera distorted a tiny sliver-moon into a blurry dot, but still beautiful to hold in my mind.
The moon says, “I endure. I started to blink my eye at your birth and only now has the lid begun … the rest “Ancient”
… the rest “Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited”He simply wasn’t all there. He wasn’t a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of
We all have talented people in our lives. I feel particularly lucky to know so many. Musicians, artists, poets, healers. All of them making my life richer by association.
Recently, a friend of mine began painting with watercolors and sharing … the rest “Color Joy”
Today’s walking. Made an attempt with Marilyn around 6 pm. We made it 30 minutes and bailed. Miserable humidity. I tried again just now at 10pm. Still just awful.
Imagine a fine mist of Elmer’s Glue hanging in the air. … the rest “”
I quit Facebook this morning.
Again.
I won’t try to explain, because 1) nobody should care, and 2) I’m not interested in indicting people who still enjoy it.
Not gonna lie, it will be hard to resist checking in. I’m … the rest “I Mean It This Time”
I will not say them in a house
—Doctor Seuss, adjusted.
I will not say them with a mouse
I will not say them here or there.
I will not say them anywhere.
And lo, there came forth a spent piece of New York jet trash and he said to the people, “Vote for me, for I have been on television.” And the people did as he said.
And he said to the … the rest “A Good Businessman”
The legacy of the confederacy is shown in the image above, the number of Civil War dead (650,000~), and the enduring ugliness of Jim Crow. That’s it. There is nothing else.
We do not need these bronze and stone tributes, … the rest “Unset These Stones.”
2x6K walks today. Caught the sun on the first one. Caught some funk simmering off Line Creek on the second one.
It seems the fat-tire cruiser bikes are catching on.
The walking shorts I ordered came with a special thing on the right pocket. There is also a special thing on the left pocket, but it’s different from the special thing on the right pocket.
If your walking shorts don’t … the rest “”