Mostly responses to reading. Sometimes other stuff.

Dinner break from work. Bought the Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay & Facing the River by Czesław Miłosz at expensive bookshop. # @elleeffect friend of mine has a Diana+ he’s not using, if you want. Don’t know when you need it; but I’ll be in wv next Thursday w/ Cobbs. in reply to [...]

“Who told you there is no such thing as real, true, eternal love? Cut out his lying tongue!” — Bulgakov, The Master & Margarita # “… girl glimpsed / leaning over green balconies of rain, / adolescent incalculable face, / I’ve forgotten your name” –Paz, Piedra de Sol #

Ha. Awkward mistakes are my, how do you say, area of expertise. i have not yet begun to fight. # @hmapple how are those snozzberries? in reply to hmapple # I am now telling the computer exactly what it can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate. # Every hour I spend staring at this [...]

discovered a new poet today. i picked up “midnight to dawn” by grace freeman at the thriftstore. she’s good so far. economical & honest. # christmas present peppermint bark from lisa & @smoonen is beyond delicious. it is also gone. # “How dare this old / theater of my plush life / book anything but [...]

Shiraz, stuffed mushrooms, & italian potluck with my homegroup. Overwhelming win. # @elleeffect well said. (thank God you’re not in the dark, though, for all the annoyances of artificial lighting.) in reply to elleeffect # “Beardless Harry, what a waste / Couldn’t even get a small-town taste / … Figured he was good to get [...]