July 19, 2023

Autumn died 18 years ago today.

Oliver is sitting next to me quivering. It is distracting.

I should be asleep. I woke up too early. I always wake up too early.

I can’t get past a paragraph that is under a line of text on the page. I think this one will wrap. There it goes.

This is so profound.

A Calm & Marvelous Evening

I am on a night walk sitting in a bulldozer bucket under a massive oak with my doggy friends. It was hot today, but the evening is comfortably warm and breezy. A dog barks off on the horizon. A bird is chirping off to one side, another pips above, yet another is chirruping as she flies. What a calm and marvelous evening.

I am Truman

I thought of the blog and came to it today. I decided to read it a bit and see what I’ve been writing here. After the first few posts I realized that I remind myself of Truman in The Truman Show, without the audience. I’m just living life in my little bubble writing my weird nonsense. The scene where Truman draws a space suit on the mirror and becomes a space man is exactly something I would do except instead of drawing in soap I’ve been entertaining myself by writing these bits and pieces for what now, sixteen years? If I could make sounds on here, I would whistle like a little alien in my spaceship communicating with no one except myself. Cue: Long whistle…