Three things, approaching midnight, a week into September in These titles mean nothing.
- Sept. 10, 2022, 11:39 p.m.
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I got out of bed to fire up the computer, to look for youtubes. It’s cold enough for socks, an extra sweatshirt and a stocking cap. I left Annie’ Proulx’s Wyoming stories in my bed. They make me feel like me, like here, like places wilder and people both tougher and more vulnerable.
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I write in sentences. I skip the work. I end up with nothing. But still the same, it’s in my head, in my heart if I had one, in the time that passes, that chases round the moon poles month to month, piling up the years, leaving scant and stinky evidence, like cats do.
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I would hope for more, for better, for a hand to hold, for words to echo back to me. I would hope for that, except I know better. I know there is only this. This night, this early cold night. Has the ice cube season passed? I hate to think so. I want some more clink and cold and wetness at my beckon.
Jinn ⋅ September 11, 2022
It hasn’t turned cold yet at home and I am not anxious for it to do so . I want ice cube season awhile longer too .
Just Annie ⋅ September 11, 2022
I didn't know there was a season to ice cubes.
woman in the moon Just Annie ⋅ September 11, 2022
It's summer, I think.
Just Annie woman in the moon ⋅ September 12, 2022 (edited September 12, 2022)
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Yes, that does make sense. I like my cold drinks COLD, so I'm always adding ice. :)
gattaca ⋅ September 11, 2022
I loved Wyoming Stories. They're all excellent reads. There's a very short one called "55 miles to the gas pump" and it's astonishing.
woman in the moon gattaca ⋅ September 11, 2022
She's an interesting woman. The ranching/big country/hard life aspects put me a bit in mind of aspects of how things here even in my little groomed and civilized corner of Iowa.
Ah but the rodeo riders break my heart - Brokeback Mountain is so so so sad.
Beret ⋅ September 12, 2022
I drink iced tea all summer long. Unsweetened. We live in unsweet tea territory. But restaurants will ask to make sure. Anyway, back to iced tea. I use ice cubes. Once the weather starts to cool off I can't drink it. It makes me too cold. If we go out to dinner and I don't want a beer or whatever I will order iced tea. I can drink it while eating out. But that's it. Ice cube season is on the way out here.
NorthernSeeker ⋅ September 12, 2022
Ice cube season is all year long in my house. Seven years ago we were painting flowers at your house. Time does fly.
Serin ⋅ September 23, 2022
Ice cube season? Is this why the convenience store clerk gave me weird looks when I got a popsicle for my walks to the subway station after school in winter?