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Monday Night on the Back Porch

Douglas — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:30:16 +0000

A color unreproduceable on film marks late evening. You want to call it grey or describe it as dim but you can still see reds and greens and blues. It’s certain your eyes have checked out for the day because nothing in front of you is distinct. Only the periphery is in focus but you can’t look at that. You just know.

Cicadas bunch in groups around the backyard with a loner nearby and a squak of crickets around the corner. Out front some jackass on a motorcycle revs by the house. Doesn’t she know kids are in bed?

Fucking mosquitos have found veins close to the surface near my ankles and face. A good scrape with my overgrown finger nails does the trick till it doesn’t and a second one does. Some how that scratching wells up a sneeze.

Fireflies rise up like sparks over the neighbor’s fence with the campfire smell of a recently cooked grill. A pair of inexplicable summer cousins commingling for effect.

hand held; thumb written

Apposite to this Endeavor

Douglas — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:52:59 +0000

I Have Maybe 82 Books Left to Read Before I Die

Douglas — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:40:04 +0000

There are books. There are lists. And there are the Internets.

These three things combine occasionally to brush past me like a work friend on her way to get coffee or lunch. We pause to chat then get back to whatever we were up to before crossing paths.

Today she passed me again. A thought I had the first time but didn’t mention rose to mind again this time, so I’m mentioning it now.

In recent years I’ve been reading maybe three books a year, because I just need the time. I’m not like some of these monsters that crank out a couple books a month. At 39 a 230 pound non-smoker doesn’t have alot of good years past 80, so that leaves me 41 years of book reading available.

2 * 41 = 82

I have at best less than one hundred books I can read before I die. No shit, that scares me too.

I should have a plan to remedy this. A few things that come to mind:

Lose weight
Read shorter books
Kill the TV
Kill the Internet
Read faster
Live longer
Audio books (do those count as read?)

That’s about it.

How many books do you have left to read before you die?

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Not Not Writing

Douglas — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:54:40 +0000

I am not not writing. I’m in In-law induced hibernation.

Or was.

If you don’t see something here later today or tonight then I am indeed a slacking bastard and should be taken to task for it.

I extended the inspiration of that cloth covered bowl I mentioned a week back to include a fun new fantastical garment. Maybe I’ll do that.

This doesn’t count.

The Phrontistery

Douglas — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:46:58 +0000

I was writing yesterday–enough to count, but not enough to be finished enough to post here–when I was looking for a word.

I found it in spades and then got lost in this site. You should too.

http://phrontistery.info/index.html

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Me Too

Douglas — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:12:58 +0000

Wonderwebby captured well what I’ve been feeling of late about my last 75 days of writing…

I love reading or combining words that are visually evocative or phonetically interesting.

I am not certain I have been doing that, but I do enjoy it.

Briefly to her implicit point that some feel social media stifles communications, I am not sure how any believable argument could be constructed to support that possibility. I suppose texting would be the place to start, but I am not sure anyone feels threatened that substantial work will be done in that style. Form follows function after all.