I’ve been off for two weeks now. God, I love being off! A chance to unwind and relax, to live without the stress and distraction of work. Greens and purples in the garden to greet the new season. The dog gets a nylon bone from her basket and I make her howl. It takes forever to get dark and then it gets light again before 5. I get my hair cut for the first time since February on Saturday. I grew lamb chops just like an American president! We have two teenaged girls now and all of us are going a bit nuts. It’s not age as much as it is attitude. I medicate with wine and age fast like the dog, whitening around the jaws. I try to appreciate poetry but don’t like needing things explained to me. Life shouldn’t be so hard, nor should art!
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Bill Pearse 
teenagers. enough said. and I like your tableau.
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I often think of your advice about just closing the door and not even looking in their rooms, from a while back. That helps, some…
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John Quincy Adams? Martin Van Buren? Al Gore? What look are we goin’ with here. Maybe order a top hat like Slash to complete the effect.
I like the tableau, too, is that a really big badminton birdie on the right? Why the heck is badminton spelled that way, had to look it up. Yeah, I think a lot of us will end up going a bit nuts.
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That is a birdie and it lights up! Good eye! I was thinking Van Burenish. Nuts to the max, mixed, roasted nuts.
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We’re going to need a pic before you get that haircut
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Ha ha. The imagination is always better innit?
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We should do the dillio on Insta, yo’…I’m in the Yellow Pages, there. “Pinklightsabre” I think.
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If I can force myself to sit down with some poetry, I don’t mind not knowing. At least there’s the music and the rhythm of the words. And it’s a quick hit, right? Just spent, I think, a month, slogging through White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Same thing: I liked the sounds but missed the point. No book should take that long.
Hey, I’m back. Liked the camping piece too.
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Hey you’re back! Welcome back and thanks for sharing your disdain of poetry with me. Same boat, the way you put it. Happy Thursday, it’s “Ross day!”
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I think “force” was too strong a word. I like poetry, but it’s like setting out to do those pushups; it’s not my natural inclination but what’s I’m down on the floor, I’m in.
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