May 26, 2025
Bookmill, 1:30 71 degrees


A couple hours of writing in the sun with 

people who make me happy and inspire me to write more.  What more could I ask for?  I will rewrite what I wrote and post it sometime this week.  But I'm very happy to have the beginning of a writing routine.


The toad stayed with us the entire time we wrote, he thought he was so well camouflaged in those shadows.  Very cool looking toad.  


















Got to the rookery around 6 and it was 59 degrees and partly sunny.  It seemed to be a happy place this evening.  I'm not sure how I make that assumption, except I was happy, so it must have been.  Bird list was big on Merlin, but as far as my eyes could see it was: heron, C. geese and 3 babies who have grown much bigger and swim much faster than a week ago, several red winged black birds, swallow, a pair of ducks that I will identify in a moment, starling, robins and a very loud tufted titmouse.

Today was filled with ideas, big complicated concepts, curiosity about human relationships and humanities/ greed.   It was very green out today, all shades of green, all textures of green.  My leg still hurts, but I felt comfortable with myself today, felt comfortable with my ambitions, felt blessed by my loved ones.



This is the first cat I've seen at this farm since last Fall.  I was beginning to believe they were taken by something this winter.  I stopped to say hi to him.  He looked at me like, what's the matter?  I told him I was pleased he was alive.

Yeah, it was a nice day.  But you know, I cannot celebrate war.  So I didn't miss having a barbeque or whatever we used to do on Memorial Day.  What did we do? I never heard my father celebrate war, ever.  I heard him honor fellow soldiers, and I heard him tell his sons he supported them not going into the service.  I think the war hurt him badly and he never recovered from that.  This is one of those big subjects I was referring to.  

Starting tomorrow I have two weeks of events to prepare and pull off.  Here I go,  I will try hard to keep writing throughout the busy spell.  Wish me luck.

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