Saturday, July 30, 2011

Read this

read this

If you haven't read This Heated Place: Encounters in the Promised Land, you can still correct that. Lucid, detailed, fascinating, well-written, comprehensive, eye-opening. If you don't get what's going on in Israel or what the Palestinians are on about, here's the ticket.

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Friday, July 29, 2011

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Spotty

feeling spotty
overdid it over the last few days. today I'm just zoinked. slept 16 hours unwakeably.

when awake, the day is largely a write-off. which means the backlog pushes into tomorrow.

complicated by eating comfort foods — the dairy in pesto, thus congesting my COPD-predisposed lungs, and tomato in stew thus exacerbating my joints.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Basswood Protection

basswood protection

I'm powerless to stop this too. My mom is resolved.

I detest the human habit of getting rid of what lives become inconvenient. The basswood tree has a contract with "a tree surgeon" to be removed.

There goes another memory — 20 summers sitting in its shade with my dad.

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Monday, July 25, 2011

Warmth of Evening Comfort

dusk

As dusk falls, cyclists, joggers, lilies, and a lost tennis ball.

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