reading notes

"But maybe that’s not how life works at all. Maybe you’re not supposed to put up so much resistance. Maybe a lot of that is pride and ego and pointless in the end. In which case she’d been misled by all that required reading and by the Die Hard movies."

Leila, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

how much for the teals?

also insomnia

I'm getting too old to run on this little sleep any more.

I hate this heat

and I wish it would snow.

that's what Camus says, anyhow

It is during that return, that pause, that Sisyphus interests me. A face that toils so close to stones is already stone itself! I see that man going back down with a heavy yet measured step toward the torment of which he will never know the end. That hour like a breathing-space which returns as surely as his suffering, that is the hour of consciousness. At each of those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks toward the lairs of the gods, he is superior to his fate. He is stronger than his rock.

almost...

not a fish in sight...

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Daylight Savings Time

Normally, I just grumble about the lost hour and being sleepy.  But this evening decided to take advantage of the extra daylight for a walk down to the garden plot for some preliminary work.  New growth on the accidentally wintered-over root vegetables:  yes, please.  Flowers and shoots around the neighborhood:  don't mind if I do.  The smell of people firing up their grill:  welcome Spring,  old friend.

Snowy Walk

With ducks in the river

Friday Night Lights

Birthday Wisdom

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.  

--Marcus Aurelius

Friday Night Lights

The icicles outside the window are getting bigger...