We're having the kind of November
weather that inspires total strangers to stop and wonder aloud -"Can you
believe this warmth?" "It feels like September, doesn't it?"
"Isn't it fabulous, won't last too much longer." "Might as well
enjoy it while we've got it..." The kind of weather that makes you want to
call everyone you know and say, get over here, come take a walk, this is
amazing...The kind of weather that makes you say to the grumpy little troll in
your brain, muttering about global warming, oh, sit down and shut up.
We are in a gentle fall-forgetting
for a moment the aberrant October snow storm-as if the seasons were reluctant
to change places, taking just one more bow. We, too, are reluctant to hurtle
through time.
I got up very early; too much to
do. On the way to the library I passed a sign, carved into its surface-a line
by Jenny Holzer. I stood and gazed at
the block-lettered inscription: IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU
WERE FULL OF JOY. That word, joy, stuck with me and it sprang to life.
Overheard this week…
You'd expect men running for
president would sling around a little less horseshit...And know enough not to
step in it, too.
Later…