May 3, 2026

I woke up this morning feeling as though I been kicked a lot yesterday but thinking about new things. So the truth I'll take the pain over boredom any day.  I really did have a good day yesterday and it felt good to be in a positively creative environment.  

But today I had to move very slowly.   I did go to open mic and got to be with a community that I feel so good about.   I didn't read, but only to let others in.  I didn't have anything I was excited about reading. I listened.  And was motivated.  

Afterwards I went and scanned some photos to send to Kelley for the slide show she is making.  I didn't find as many as I would've liked, I think most of them are on the external drive I can't access.  But I found 10 prints to scan.  

One year, Loren, Lexi, Jay, Willa and I went to Martha's Vineyard for a week.  We had a really good time.  That was the summer Loren, Lexi and I built up our swimming to go across a pond and back. We felt so successful.  It was a lovely place in Tisbury next to both an ocean beach and a pond beach.  I could ride my bike to the pond. It felt really good.   Anyway, I found a few photos from that vacation, Jay sunburnt and surrounded by big women.  I sent a couple of those.  Pictures of a happy time.

There were a lot of birds up at the rookery.  It was 57 at 5:30 this afternoon and birds flying all around.  It was a sweet day for pictures of what is hidden everyday at the rookery.

Vitek read a poem today about what is between things, what is between musicians, the space where music floats together in harmony.  It's kind of on the same level of my fragility thinking or music as energy.  

bird count,

c. merganser

red winged b.b.

c geese

swallow

kingfishers

vulture