1000 Days

Yesterday was not what I’d planned.  I meant to write about the dialogue of Coupling.  Watching Star Wars: Episode II last night reminded me.  It turns out that no matter how much glamor you throw up on the screen to dazzle the audience, you can still fail big because you can’t get the right words [...]

The home stretch to Day 100 is proving tough indeed. Think of this a regrouping.
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The morning water draws a line from bank to bank. Bare aspens stagger out of the beaver pond and climb up the flooded slope. The edge is crisped with ice.
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The first pellet of rain draws a line from [...]

The dip and the stoke of the paddle in the clear mountain lake hypnotized me.  Gravel, rocks, and boulders glided beneath me.  Their refracted positions making them look magnified.  I hardly noticed as the level surface before me bent sinuously into a hole of falling water.
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Plap, plap, plap, plap.  Wake waves splashed out a brief [...]