I do love the City and need what it has, but I’ve also had run-ins with dog owners, bicyclists and a Co-op worker. I’m OK with a lot of types of coffee.

I need the City.  But sometimes I just want to drive around or use both fire-pits. I like people but then also like myself without too many people. I live outside the line but pretty much follow the rules.  There are no sidewalks on our side walks. We are thankful for water and family.  Blackberries are an issue. I’m not an arborist but have cut limbs. County Folk.

The Loop.    Burn(s), chin-rashes, toe-munches, bruises, sweat and Class III.

Now I’m back and wearing pants/socks for the first time in 10 days.  But we’ve been to the lake and we drank some river and it all still lingers.  Memories linger.  Memories are like food. Memories are what we eat and they cook and ferment and sometimes rot and the very best age gracefully baking into stories.

Photo by Moonwater

The Violent Femmes & a Dad preparing for an  “are we there yet”  long drive to a day at the zoo in 80 degree weather followed by an outdoor concert with a real security line followed by a late night drive back,

they bring all their equipment on the bus/sedan.

It was a weird Monday right into a weird week. We ended up taking the longest way home.

fishing    –  —  —  —  —— 〉

we never seem to  catch much

but everything

Some disjointed guesses I’m trying to join→

There is no controlling what they remember,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I guess.

When you can feel or smell a long term memory being cooked in another it’s special.  Guess sometimes good-special sometimes bad-special.

And then you just stop and look straight at the beauty as long as you possibly can.  I’m guessing that’s a big chunk of the whole/my/our point anyway.

And then someone tells me beauty is in the eye of the beholder but then forgets to tell me how to be the holder.  They never even mention how to only hold what I want and let go of the rest.  They’re just guessing too I guess.

So now you know

instead of a thank you sometimes you receive a gift in return for a gift that is just maybe as powerful as the original gift.  The original gift was real big. But this is bigger because it has added on.  It’s a  super gift.  It couldn’t have existed even without the first gift or all the parties involved or the gift of time(ing).  But then it appears out of no/every-where and re-ups the whole thing.

I think differently but am really no different  –>

I want to be taken seriously/have all my jokes laughed at.

Olympics—> you know I’m a fan.    But

these games and my interaction with them have been understated and in periphery, and the U.S. coverage curious and of course commercial.  I’m convinced Tirico (NBC Host) and his studio are stateside not even in PyeongChang and I’m unconvinced most of us know how to say PyeongChang.

Olympic news/notes from the shadow of our own mountain range:

• Coverage and even reference to host nation is noticeably absent.
• Where are the fireside chats (Tirico are you in Burbank or NYC???)
• Not many fans at events and seems intentional in some cases.
• I’ve learned things from both Bode and Weir.
• I say you can’t have too many relays.  Let’s add relays to downhill skiing and luge somehow.
• NBC missed some huge stories while highlighting to exhaustion some lackluster ones.
• We only show medal counts if we’re winning.

—>  Yet there are still these moments to be had.

Right on time a  “here comes Diggins” arrives to save my peripheral vision.

Jessica Diggins, left, of the United States, celebrates after winning the gold medal past Stina Nilsson, of Sweden, in the during women’s team sprint freestyle cross-country skiing final at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)