i also went to Alyssia's to get the new laptop.   The one here finally simply could not go further.   It had been failing for a while.  Alyssia had gotten a replacement that had  waited.    We sat on the driveway of the Yellow House as she did the necessary things to transfer to the new…

January 7th.   Sharing Tricksters Hoard   Trickstershoard.com.   Margery Knott.    She offered.   i said,  Yes….yes,  please. Today Old Oak is on this Hill.   The box arrived at Alyssia's  Tuesday night.   I went today.   the three of us opened  the box in the driveway of the Yellow House.     and then back here.    This,    This, …

Feeding the Worms Ever since i found out that earth worms have taste buds all over the delicate pink strings of their bodies,   I pause dropping apple peels into the compost bin,  imagine the dark, writhing ecstacy,   the sweetness of apples permeating their pores.   I offer beets and parsley,  avacado,  and melon, the feathery tops…

i said to self that i would be conscious of the thoughts that came and went as i worked there today.  Make a point to know.   But when it was time to come back,  walking up,  and i remembered this….i realized that it IS true,   the reason i don't remember thoughts there is because i…

i woke this morning to a stuffy left nostril.   Lay there….breathing…realizing i was doing some kind  scan.   Was i hot?  Did i have a fever?   i coughed to see what my lungs were doing.    Lay there.   realizing fully how this low grade FEAR has become insidious  i gazed out the window,  seeing the world…

 to Document.    Covid has come.    Jeff picked up Fate as he does every thursday after school.   Upon arriving home,  he was coughing.    How Alyssia put it:   We cut and run.    This is a long story short  and there's no way i can explain it so it makes any sense without paragraphs…

about Evolution…geological and then on,  into all the life forms rising from that and on.  into  "civilization".  What works and what doesn't.   Primitive,  still.    yet so complex.    and then….there is a Kite

this has been sitting Out here to my left for months.   i barely look at it.   don't really like  it….the large piece…it's largness, its shape.   But i also haven't moved it       away.   today i looked.  and wondered.   What was i thinking?  Why did i do this?   It must have been a significant thought…

at the end of October or early in December,  i didn't write it down,  i just pushed some peas in the grow bags.  and i dont remember if they were Pods or Snap Peas.   I really didn't think anything would come of them.  The ones that i'd grown since spring,  that vined,  succumbed to the…

all the errands and then…Verizon,  to talk about the impossible connection recently and the young woman there was so Great and cheerful and said i had an extremely outdated plan which she tapped away and away and FIXED…all new,  but yes,  the ifyness might continue for a month or so as Verizon is improving it's…