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I enjoy finding these sincere bits of gentle whimsy in my travels. ☕️
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Accidental Connections poetry. 📝🧩
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October 17, 2025
What a wonderful day:
- I helped my mother with some chores and errands;
- I made birthday dinner plans for one friend and included another;
- I finished The Creative Act, then started and finished Ajax Penumbra 1969 (I really need to update my bookshelf…);
- I painted my nails a rich green, OPI’s “Stay Off the Lawn!”;
- and I had a fantastic dinner of beer, charred salmon, mashed potatoes, grilled green beans, and a chocolate mousse cake.
Really, the only down side has been trying to choose my next book. I’m torn between the many activism and progressive books I’ve added to my queue, and the classics that have been waiting patiently for too long. But I think that’s a decision for tomorrow.
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On a Friday like today?! Oh boy.
Their machine also sported “Don’t Use Dead Inside”, and the barista had “No Espresso” taped to their back. I’m guessing I was the only customer who just wanted tea!
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The nice thing about wearing a chainmail bi pride necklace over your black hoodie is that it accentuates the look of each.
The bad thing is when you forget you’re wearing the chain, whip off your hoodie, and whack yourself with said necklace.
It’s ok, I didn’t need to use that eye today. 🤕
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Happy start of spooky season! 🎃
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🔗 Nick Cave on where he stands
It is both calming and invigorating to hear someone speak and feel your soul nod in agreement. I really needed to read this, and maybe you do too:
I acknowledge that this may be, to you and your friends, an unhelpful admission, but I’m not entirely sure where I stand on anything these days. As the ground shifts and slides beneath us, and the world hardens around its particular views, I become increasingly uncertain and less self-assured. I am neither on the left nor on the right, finding both sides, as they mainly present themselves, indefensible and unrecognisable.
And later:
Perhaps this all amounts to very little, but I suppose, in the end, I value deeds over words.
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You can tell we’re in Trump’s world when the Harvard Co-op plays 80s hits back to back.
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One of the things they don’t emphasize about dealing with depression, is that doing the thing stops you from doing nothing, also takes energy.
Tonight, I’m letting depression have the win. Not forever, but just tonight.
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The Naked Gun (2025) ⭐️⭐️
I’ll be the one to say it- it’s not as good as the original movies. There are a few too many gags that didn’t make me laugh, but instead took me out of the flow and made me go, “Um, what? That’s a weird choice.” This type of movie should never make me think that. 🎬
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And with that, my student loans are paid off. 😮💨💸 #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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These quiet fall mornings are becoming increasingly rare. The quiet this photo was taken in was quickly replaced with rush hour traffic. I’d rather have this than a commute, though. ☕️🥐🍂
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Finished Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3. Quite the uneven season, and I think they took the lazy way out of a major plot point. Still, I’ll look out for season 4! 📺
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Of all the random connections: the Philip Johnson chapter of Bad Gays describes how he built the Crystal Cathedral. My mother watched Robert Schuller religiously, and the slow pans across that building are indelibly etched in my mind. What a shame such an awful person built it. ⛪️🏛️🏳️🌈
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Taken a few days ago: A Spotted Lanternfly. in my neighborhood. It’s such a pretty creature; too bad it’s invasive. Next time I see it, I’ll wish it a good rebirth as I kill it. 🪲
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I’m sitting in my living room, mad at myself for something I shouldn’t be.
I’m sick; it happens, right? I just woke up from a nap, wondering how I got sick and how I can handle recovery while also achieving work goals and projects, and not let my friends and coworkers down.
That’s why I’m mad at myself. This is a highly inconvenient time to be sick! Why couldn’t I have taken better care of myself? Why did I schedule all these events and tasks in my life? Why am I not strong or tenacious enough to do the work while sick? I see my friends and coworkers doing it, why am I just now waking up from a nap during the productive time of my day? Now I’ll have to cut into my personal time to catch up and lose more sleep-
Do you see? I talk to myself like an entitled fool. I should rest, that is the right thing to do now. And a large factor contributing to why I am sick today, is because of the obligations and stress I have put on myself; berating myself as weak or stupid for not being able to bear it isn’t just unfair, it’s counterproductive. Pushing myself in any way is the wrong thing to do right now, in my position.
I’m mad because my world isn’t the way I want it to be. Resting, reflecting, and taking stock (literally and figuratively) is what I should be doing. And if I do take on one of the delayed tasks, it should be because I get joy from it. Obligations have no hold on me today; needs do.
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A short rest.
A cool, quiet evening just after sunset. The acrid and welcoming smell of low tide. Occasional barking cries of sea gulls somewhere around. The overcast grey of a rain already gone by. The impossible windmill blades, resting like starships in dry dock, reflecting the many harsh suns of floodlights.
Amongst the fishing and shipping warehouses in this industrial part of New Bedford, I found this momentary respite from people and politics and news and worry. There is only this scene, and the quiet space it makes in my mind.
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I’d tweaked my back again yesterday, so I’d feared all my plans were lost. But no! I made it to D&D last night, and the opening of the show my friend Brooke curated. My heart is full, even if my back is angry.
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Solving the daily Wordle in two is certainly a way to wake up in the morning! 🧩
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I find it hard to have much sympathy for Charlie Kirk’s death. A man who openly courted and excused rising fascism, who said dead people were an acceptable cost for his interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, who peddled conspiracy theories and outright lies around immigrants, COVID, and the January 9th insurrection, and who stoked hate against anyone deemed wrong by his christian nationalist cohorts, is not someone I will pour one out for.
But he also had a family, a wife and two children, who were reportedly in the crowd when he was shot. He had friends who loved him and felt love from him. I have plenty of sympathy for them, and I hope you, dear reader, do too.
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Over the Garden Wall ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
One review called this the Western Spirited Away, and boy does that sum up this beautiful, haunting, sweetly somber tale. It’s close to perfection, made by crafters who understood what they borrowed from and created something unique. Have some cider and enjoy it!
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I love creative protest! 🇺🇸🪧✊🏻
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Ludovico Einaudi - Midsummer Echos
A new album of soft, gentle piano music, perfect for a stroll or sipping tea as you start your morning! 🎹🎶
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More peaches news: I ended up needing a day off work to let the antihistamines do their job. (I always turn into a zombie when I take one; it’s not worth letting a screen destroy my eyes for.) So, in scheduling an appointment to review my allergies. I’d really rather not go through this again.
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Here’s to beautiful late summer mornings with friends who bring you peaches from their backyard! 🍑👯
Edit, 24 hours later: I found out I’m mildly allergic to peaches! So two more of my friends are enjoying the rest of them.
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