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On a side note, I tried to read Lauren Groff. Yes, Obama loved her - along with many others. It didn't click with me. Can't get past the name "Lotto." Lancelot? Give me a break. Who has time for it.

Johnny Marr finding that Gibson L-5 at the guitar shop was my favorite moment from this past months' New Yorkers.

Soccer practice in late November is maybe more tolerable than in mid August. But when it's breezy and about 50, things could feel better. Thank goodness for my midwestern wardrobe.

Do you ever see a random cozy building corner or an overpass and think That's where I would move if I didn't have housing.

There is also something solipsistic about the "laptop performance" concert. Which we also all can relate to.

It is the feat of harnessing a runaway laptop that is the engaging element of a live "laptop music" setting.

Will it be tamed or will it break or go its own way.

Morning pages: People don't understand the quantity of what I do because it is how someone else wants it. Someone else prefers it to be such and such a way.

I can't take the level of destruction happening in Gaza today. There have been 12,000 people killed. Indescribable horror and loss. Just so bad.

nowplaying XO by Elliott Smith.

This record is growing on me. Used to very much prefer the more stripped down acoustic records - but this one might be the sweet spot of what constitutes a True Sound - Quintessential.

Donating plasma is like practice for the medical intervention part of dying. Preparing to be stuck in a spot at the mercy of people in white coats. The build up and the fear and the release at the end when you get to arise and return home.

TIL that a business student in the 7os invented "calimari." As a business opportunity, of course, but also as a response to overfishing. There were still a lot of squids out there.

Recent reading: Biograohy of a Poem, Matthew Hollis. Had to return, but I plan to check it out again and continue.

If you buy a new phone case every couple years, it feels in your brain, and is perceived by the world at large, that you actually got the entire new iPhone that you are coveting somewhere in your soul.

If you buy a new phone case every couple years, it feels in your brain, and is perceived by the world at large, that you actually got the entire new iPhone that you are coveting somewhere in your soul.

You pick a few musical artists to accompany you on your journey. Then you buy their records whenever they come along, and get a shirt, and get out to the show at the local club.

This is the way.

Stray too far from this path, and it all starts to break apart.

Pound would pose the question 'What is money for?' And he would answer: That the whole people shall be able to eat (healthily), that the whole people shall be housed (decently) and that the whole people shall be clothed (adequate to be climate).

Did the writers and people of the Bible have any concept of human self-determination and actualization such as exists in the modern world? What would they think of it? Does the interplay between past and present matter? More pressingly, is the average reader of the Bible able to discern these matters at all? Do they care?

Wordle 801 5/6

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