Ten.One Thousand, Two Hundred & Forty-One

1. Beat her again.

2. Pages fill up quickly. Turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy before coffee.

3. ”Everything reminds you of fire, ” I write.

4. Her. Always so good to be with her.

5. I describe the first few days and notice how I drift away and everything is so vivid. I wonder if this is what she meant by ”post-traumatic stress disorder.”

6. He says I can get it today.

7. Study. Make notes. Test the printer. Should have bought the paper cutter back when I thought I was going to be a homeschooler.

8. But really, it's just a beautiful place. There's no getting around it.

9. But what if we embraced the connection instead of deviating from it so much?

10. Efficiencies. Must increase efficiencies.

11. Stumped my the riddles. ”We can't even get the ’medium’ ones right.”