Sunshine Diamonds

Nostalgia the word of the week.  Leaf, Nerds t-shirt, Shrimp, and the rest from the theatre arts timeline assignment.  Joel and 44 and the window at the Inn.  The Livingstone connection from Engineers without Borders.  Photos distributed tomorrow in advance of the Zoom... 

Pandora or Swarovksi, had me thinking for a second, until I realized.  M. was right about the mayo on the lips.  Good on her attention to detail.  Wonder which brand she prefers. Wonder what Shears will think.

Orange highlighting on Psalm 23, led me to google tonight, which led to a Paul Kelly Nov 2019 article, and Auden through Four Weddings. "I was wrong." Seemed right to buy the $40 book and have it sent home to Dartmouth. Mother's day seems like the natural end of this quarantine in Moncton, with an LM weekend effort in between. Can you parlay the social distancing? Heh. And is it Mother's or Mothers'...? Strange. 

No MMc comments on the stories today on the walk. So weird, the difficulty in finding people to read the words, or honestly comment on them. The NS contest seemed to ignore the work, and I am not of the mind to follow-up at this stage to see. Should gather a bit more material here before departure in three weeks, but to what end... such writing seems so evidently self-indulgent to me.

Increasingly hard not to think of it all as a simulation. So many experiments around, evidencing things unneeded, paths not wanted, subtle directions. More so, thinking back. More so, looking forward. The one perspective and set of eyes we must see through. All the work that goes on around. The examples. Faceless. Nameless. Driving. Gardening. For what?

The senselessness of today. How can it be, the largest mass tragedy in the country begins in Portapique? A denturist. Words without meaning, absurdist. Sadness for some without end. Choices, always choices. Consequences of freedom. Yet what makes sense? Driveways and weeding and dog-walking and suits and ties....  dangerous edges to walk toward. Fires in houses and soup kitchens and disease and poverty from which we turn away. What qualifies as shocking, outrageous?

The world turned upside down. A few more weeks. But what it all means? Time to plan the escape. Later than you think. And you have already waited way too long.