10/25/22 10/25/22

Ten.One Thousand, Eight Hundred & Eighty-Nine

I don’t think I could wake up any earlier than I already am. But I need to wake up earlier than I already am.
The half-oat milk, half-coffee seems to be doing the trick.
His cart is still wet and a little dirty. He slides across the entire seat to dry it with his pants. A true gentleman.
I am sad that I can’t go, but I also need this time alone to do real work.
“…how come you didn’t tell me?” “I don’t know.”
The sound of gravel crunching underneath my feet. Little gray lizards scurrying between the rocks. The courts are empty and quiet.
Sometimes, when you don’t care, you feel a little more free.
I am excited for her.
Fewer than yesterday but keeping the faith.
He’s feeling proud.

7/24/21 7/24/21

Ten.One Thousand, Four Hundred & Seventy-Five

The first bit of golden light.
Cereal and water and coffee.
We head to the peach stand first. She tells us which peaches are available for today. We talk about ways to eat them. I tell her about the roasted peach with maple nut crumble and cream that I just ate at the CIA not too long ago. She wants to keep talking but more people are coming to the stand. Esther is her name. The money from the sale of the peaches goes back to the farm to help it convert to organics, she says through the open car window.
Helicopters overhead. Circling and circling and circling.
I do like it here.
I tell him about threes. I know he thinks it’s silly.
Someone nominated me?
Quiet but for the buzz of the flies. The air is still. It is quiet. I look for the swan. How much longer can it stay with the water continually receding?
Olivia Brion Tempranillo with the grilled pork.
Peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream. I squeeze a little caramel sauce on the side. I hope there is still some left when I wake up tomorrow.

8/15/20 8/15/20

Ten.One Thousand, One Hundred & Thirty-Eight

I hear him open the window and then close it. Too hot for that today.
Remember to look up the naked lady flowers.
Sunrise through the trees. Coffee. Hashing out future plans.
It just might work.
Sometimes we speak completely different languages.
That was easy.
Two emergency room visits in three days.
She’s freaking out because she’s worried that by just being in the hospital her significant other will get COVID. She has nothing to wipe her snot with. The security guard tries to calm her down.
I watch the old ladies walk their old men to the cars. The sounds of their shuffling feet across the dirty pavement.
Everything is fine.
She makes the brownies.
This was definitely the most right choice.

5/28/20 5/28/20

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

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You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
Because it will help you focus your own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

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Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
What topics do you think you’ll write about?
Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

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