on gratefulness – day 1
Today is my father’s birthday, so it feels appropriate to acknowledge him and how grateful I am for him. I am grateful that he has been in my life as much as he has, and how genuine and deep his love has felt, as his wish for my success and health. from my father I…
Weakness and Opposition
I have had some time away recently due to a work trip that took me to Bali, and it’s been three days back and i’m in a funky circadian flux. I slept from 2 til 9pm yesterday, and again from midnight til 3, and I spent the wee hours of this morning laying in the…
400 days
T and I spoke a couple weeks back and we determined that we’d start trying for children in the spring of next year. What better way to test the new marriage paradigm than the chaos and responsibility of a child? So I did a rough calculation and figured I have a little over a year…
Book – The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
Began: 9/26 Finished: 10/1 Book: The Road Written by: Cormac McCarthy Main themes: guardianship, is living for the sake of living worth it? what happens to people when they are at their end, the end of everything. Innocence, childhood. Summary: post apocalyptic world, somewhere in america, nameless father and son (not sure if it’s even…
Book – Lolita, by Vladamir Nabakov
Finished 9/26 Book: Lolita Written by: Vladamir Nabokov Main Themes: Obsession, fixation, child-rearing, child-fucking (not really, but yes, tho sort of in the background), the impossibility of happiness, of true joy. Summary: A tell-all memoir by intellectual and pedophile “Humbert Humbert” (a self-given alias), centering on his relationship and cross-country adventures with a young preteen…
Hurricane Irma arrives (and we are ok)
The power went out, due to the overnight arrival and departure of a storm meteorologists have named Irma, a category 5 storm with wind speeds that gusted over 200 mph over the caribbean at one point, scaring many floridians out of their homes and speeding, or slowly gridlocking northward through the popular arteries of our…
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