The poetry of Emily Dickinson still pricks my soul and haunts me. I remember Ed Folsom's class at Iowa, wherein I was made to memorize a po-em (he always had an emphasis on the second syllable).
Now I've just discovered a "new" edition of her po-ems (from 2016) called "Emily Dickinson's Poems as She Preserved Them." Which I must have. Does the library have it?
I used to get The NY Times in print for free from the stands that were placed throughout the University of Iowa campus. You swiped your student ID in the hopper, popped the lid, and grabbed a paper. I would sit at my desk, paper open, with a notebook, and write down notes on articles as I went.
I don't really know why I did this. But I did it for years.
Songs in my head this morning:
I successfully pushed an update to my personal site that automatically sorted my "Reading" section by the most recently updated page. It uses the .md file into to sort things around. This made me pretty darn proud - because it's exactly how I wanted it to look.
Listen: I'm no web design genius. But an idea and or two, sparked into flame by the info and tutorials available online can get you very far down the path.
Today I randomly sang a quote from The National, "I'm going through an awkward phase," in my best Matt Behringer baritone and it made my daughter laugh out loud.
This is an official test of the push from the Mac. Using my long sought after method of creating a file via the terminal and then using mate to edit in Textmate.
Testing a sync pull
The French love for their little Victor reminds me of Hawkeye fans love for Caitlin Clark. Bordering on obsession. I write this while wearing an Iowa shirt bearing her number.
When the strings kick in on Wall of Eyes. And you know This isn't a The Smile. It's a Radiohead record. Post-Radiohead. Okay.
Decided to go out to Braum's for end of summer after soccer ice cream. The kids were messing around with the salt shaker - one tasted some and remarked "Too salty!"
I forgot what I was going to write, just now. But I'm excited to be writing what I forgot to write from my new/old 2014 Macbook Air.
Iowa football enters the preseason rankings at number 25. Something to watch this year. I'm hoping to attend a slate of local high school games and soak in and report on their various cultures.
Those Stone Temple Pilots records - I think they hold up pretty well today. Core … is pretty MEH. But especially Purple and Tiny Music … they were sort of a tad bit reviled by the alt-rock punky purists of the time … but they sound good now.
"I just hope it inspires Mattison to see her papa working hard."
Spoken as the true inner monologue of workaholic parents everywhere. Suddenly realizing that all the time they thought they had went up in smoke.
My new parenting book says
Months have passed in the story. And I love how when reading a novel, you can fluidly move back and forward in time.
We've been muddling through a trying ordeal of a soccer tournament. It's at the beach. All the parking area flooded. And the weather has been bad. On again off again. Now it's on again.
The warp and the woof of it all.
Let's just take for example, Namibia.
Saw Inside Out 2. Enjoyed it and it was worth seeing. Not as thoroughly captivating as the first. BUT - the portrayal of Anxiety was spot on, I thought. The color orange seemed exactly the correct color. And the voice (Maya Hawke) evoked a touch of sympathy but also an edginess - it was always teetering on the verge of losing control - yet continued to stay the course and believe in her good intentions. Powerful.
For an unknown reason I'm thinking of the Iowa State Cyclone basketball teams of the early 2000's. Eustachy's teams. And when he showed up at that student party. And the star player was ... someone ... Tinsley. And the big guy — I can't remember his name.
I'm getting quicker and quicker to just declare RSS bankruptcy and mark everything for a day As Read.
The thrill of finding a new sound or a song that speaks. It still makes my heart come to life and thump.
Mowed the grass today. Used one of my N95 masks, which didn't leave me a pile of snot for the rest of the day after.
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