1. Drove along LSD this morning with a cotton candy colored sky and bright pink sunrise as my backdrop.
2. Any day I wake up and have the will to go to yoga or do anything that makes me inhabit my body in a healthy way is a very good day.
3. S. Pellegrino Essenza. My fave effervescent water of late. :)
4. Ada Limon's Intimacy brought light.
I remember watching my mother
with the horses, the cool, fluid
way she’d guide those enormous
bodies around the long field,
the way she’d shoulder one aside
if it got too close or greedy
with the alfalfa or apple.
I was never like that. Never
felt confident around those
four-legged giants that could
kill with one kick or harm
with one toss of their strong heads.
To me, it didn’t make sense
to trust a thing that could
destroy you so quickly, to reach
out your hand and stroke
the deep separateness
of a beast, that long gap
of silence between you
knowing it doesn’t love you,
knowing it would eat the apples
with as much pleasure from
any flattened palm. Is that why
she moved with them so easily?
There is a truth in that smooth
indifference, a clean honesty
about our otherness that feels
not like the moral but the story.
5. Ran across The Crack Up this afternoon. Much needed reread.
