Bill Pearse

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• Song for April, 2008

  By Bill Pearse on March 31, 2020 • ( 7 )

  It took me way too long to appreciate the nuance in that record, called April and released on April 1, 2008.

• More news from nowhere

  By Bill Pearse on March 29, 2020

  

  Lily practices the piano with her teacher on FaceTime and asks if he can teach her the song River, by Joni Mitchell.

• Spring frost

  By Bill Pearse on March 25, 2020 • ( 13 )

  By the end of March I’d started taking Ginger on daily walks up the trails near my mom’s house in Germany. There were two sets of trails, but I didn’t know what they were called so I referred to one… Read More ›

• Writings on the wall

  By Bill Pearse on March 23, 2020 • ( 7 )

  Writings on the wall Writings on the wall — Read on kedhikari.home.blog/2020/03/22/writings-on-the-wall/ Great piece from Nepalese writer Keshav Adhikari on COVID-19 and listening to nature’s prompts.

• 19

  By Bill Pearse on March 23, 2020 • ( 5 )

  

  And I thought back to when I was 19, and what I could remember of that: The Cure had released Disintegration and a roommate had the CD.

• Count the headlights on the highway

  By Bill Pearse on March 22, 2020

  

  I drove into town to deposit a check around 8, Sunday morning, light fog and no one around.

• Days, leaves, light

  By Bill Pearse on March 18, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  How the days unfurled unexpected and just hung there in the light.

• The virus diaries

  By Bill Pearse on March 17, 2020

  

  In three days Dawn and the kids had eaten three quarts of ice cream and most of the saltines.

• Of fear and fascination

  By Bill Pearse on March 14, 2020

  

  It is way too early in this thing for me to be getting irritable with my kids while we’re stuck at home.

• The new normal

  By Bill Pearse on March 13, 2020

  

  It was winter’s last gasp with wet snow in the lowlands and more expected in the mountain passes.

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