I’m going to start appending “Undisclosed sources reveal… ” in front of everything I say, in order to make them sound more authoritative.
Summer’s sweet farewell kiss
“See?” October says. “I’m not so bad!”, and gives us an 80° day to start the month.
Don’t be fooled. From the looks of the forecast, this is the ONLY day this warm this month, which means, possibly for the rest of the year. No other day this month is forecast to exceed 65°. In fact, only twelve of the other thirty days are in the 60s.
Fourteen days are in the 50s.
Four are in the 40s.
Consider today a sweet farewell kiss from Summer 2019. See you in 2020…
Writing practice
“Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.”
―Natalie Goldberg
My writing
I tried writing a nice, normal story once, but I fell asleep in the middle of writing it.
Obstacles
The light of the full moon may be blocked by the clouds, but the tides are undeterred.
— Me
Another time, another place, another book
This essay made me think about the experience of returning to a book I’ve read and loved.
Sometimes, in a moment of grace, I glimpse the me-of-another-time that read and loved the work enough to want to return to it again someday.
Sometimes, it’s a rediscovery, and I wonder how I ever could have forgotten it.
Sometimes, it’s a disappointment; sometimes, I have a greater appreciation that the ‘me’ of today brings to it.
It’s been said that you can’t step in the same river twice. Equally true, that you can’t read the same book twice. But you can still appreciate the view, even if it’s not exactly the same, and be glad you made the journey.
99.3%
The moon won’t be completely full for another day, but it’s 99.3% full now, which is close enough for most werewolves.
Modern wishes
Modern wishes aren’t what they used to be. These days, it’s “Have a wonderful day!” or “Enjoy that cake!” Used to be, wishes and gifts involved big and dangerous things like turning stones into bread or making everything you touch turn into gold.
Admittedly, those seldom went well.
John Henry and the steam hammer. This time, John Henry wins.
The occasional egregious typo aside, it’s been a good week since I turned off Autocorrect on the iPad. It seems Autocorrect has a higher rate of faulty autocorrections than I do of typos.
Sorry, MacBook Air…
I checked out the current generation of MacBook Airs yesterday. I have an older (pre-butterfly keyboard) Air. Airs are cheap (for Apple) right now.
I could type quickly and accurately on it, but I really didn’t care for the shallow key travel, so I think I’m going to pass for now
Apple has been faulted for prioritizing thinness and style over function and reliability. For the price they command, I expect better than a keyboard that doesn’t feel much different than typing on the virtual keyboard on my iPad.
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/03/27/apple-apologizes-about-third-gen-keyboard-issues/