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Saturday
October 26, 2024
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our center
of gravity has shifted back to the city, where tall buildings instead of trees still seems weird to me even after a coupla weeks. my heart is in the country but my brain enjoys the social and cultural stimuli of the tangled human mass. after a lot of conversation with friends last night, today we walked the 1.8 miles downtown to see jesse's art at orcas paley, a tightly curated walk-in cabinet of curiosities whose proprietor peter gaučys is a paragon of propriety. communing with nature is nice, but so is whiling away an afternoon in wide ranging conversation with new acquaintances, plus some familiar faces who happened to happen by. then we walked to good will and, boy, nothing makes me feel better than walking out of a thrift store empty handed, like maybe some day i can rise above it all. whether country or city, one thing that doesn't change is snuggling with cats. got in bed after dinner, sunny joined me under the blanket and patchouli nestled on top between my legs. but it was only 6 pm and there were still miles to go before sleep, so we rousted ourselves and ventured into rainy night by bus and rail to see mike watt et al perform at the chapel, a sacred secular space that shows you can't have religion without music, but you can have music without religion. mark drove us home and we hung out a while playing with the cats. |