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Frequently Used Words
ago is a hard word to begin with - perhaps not impossible but damn near am is to pm as day is to night, except it splits not by light and dark but by where it thinks one day ends and another begi...
An experiment
Frequently used words after the moon has risen books matter and still don’t, always could be the most or the least fix my brokeness good morning to all I’ve ever wanted her look that’s always...
Nice day .......
Today we went to LaCrosse via Caledonia where Jim picked up a part from the International dealer. When we got to LaCrosse we found out there was a St. Patrick’s day parade so the streets were ...
Where are the calves today?
We sold calves yesterday. It’s the biggest single payday at the farm. By far. It’s the payday for a year of work and the return on a lot of capital. And for some bizarre reason it pays we...
A couple links and maybe a bit more...
I found an Aussie public broadcasting show that focuses on politics in the U.S. via friend Four. https://www.youtubThie.com/watch?v=IiMjg9Yt060 It’s called Planet America. For what it’s worth I’m...
Bonus Day
Why is it a Thursday at the end of the last week of February? I suppose there is an answer I could Google, but I haven’t done it yet. First I”m going to save this so I can see how many February ...
mild surprise
Christmas was two months ago. Christmas will be in ten months. Hard to remember. Time to prepare? I hope so. Does it matter? Heck to know for sure What to buy for who? How much to spend? May as ...
today
I wonder what it will be like to leave. Leave what? you ask. Anything. Everything. Something in the middle. Will I miss eating? Sleeping? Other stuff? I suppose this is another death entr...
How spacey are we?
This is a test. This sentence has one space after it. This sentence has two spaces after it. This sentence has three spaces after it. This sentence has four spaces after it. This is the en...
Hi there -
Where have I been? What have I been doing? Well I’ve been wallowing in words. And pictures. In some kind of order. I finished James Frey’s book about Los Angeles, Bright Shiny Morning. I gu...
Open water
https://www.rotarylights.org/live-river-cam.html Unseasonably warm. Jim is complaining that his silage pile is getting muddy and also it’s muddy in the fields where he feeds the silage. I lis...
Let's pretend
We meet on the sidewalk. It’s a warm day so we can stand and talk. We probably won’t have much to say. We greet each other. One of us remembers the other’s name. Probably you remember min...
2024
Happy New Year - everyone. I wish good things for us all. I know life is not that simple. There are things happening that hurt so many. There doesn’t seem to be any happy endings in sight. My own...
French Connection
I’m reading a Saul Bellow novella called A Theft. It’s was copyrighted 1989, and my copy was a generously sized Book of the Month paperback. It’s about me, who I might have been with money, co...
It's the first lines that kill me
And the parentheses around the third lines from the end. what if a much of a which of a wind gives truth to the summer’s lie; bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun and yanks immortal stars awry? ...
NS's questions and some of mine
What thing will instantly make any day better? I firmly believe but do not do — get outside every day and take a walk - somewhere. Doesn’t have to be a long walk. I don’t have to take the dog. ...
First three of Freyjah's Connect and Review Questions.
What are the first thoughts that come to mind about the mood of the past year? Mostly positive, negative, or neutral? It hasn’t been the best year - although maybe there are no best years. T...
Old Friends
Simon and Garfunkel song - written by Paul Simon of course The words? Old friends, old friends Sat on their park bench like bookends A newspaper blown through the grass Falls on the round toes O...
Well today is the day it is
The first Wednesday after Thanksgiving, USA style. I called my daughterinlaw today. We had a nice talk. My nephew - my brother’s son - is getting married at the end of next month in Chicag...
Three pictures
Roth, Bellow and Auster
Auster, Bellow and Roth https://medium.com/@tournerlesmots/paul-auster-a42ff036b6ae#:~:text=Despite%2C%20and%20perhaps%20because%20of,plan%3A%20150%20or%20200%20pages. I’m reading The Dean’s Dece...
I was 27 in 1973.
The barn was 43 in 1973. The steel pillars on the wall are intended to hold the barn up. In 7 years it will be 100. The signatures and dates penciled on the granary wall attest. -=-=-=-=-=...
Pics and words
Two pictures from across the pond. First Katie at breakfast in a hotel lobby in Dublin. It was the only hotel we stayed at on the night after the day we drove back from Lisconnor and went to Gui...
Two pics and maybe a few words
Pic above looks familiar like I posted italready- byt I don’t see it in IMGUR.... so there it is. Bags of silage. Seems like I even remember sayikng that I hope it gets eaten. But that mig...
Deneuve is 80 and the movie came out in 1964
when she was 21. I was 18 in 1964. The movie was/is/always will be ‘The Umbrellas of Cherbourg’. Great theme by Michel Legrand. Happy Sunday
Book Description
Just a few words that don’t mean anything.
