Monday, January 13, 2020
Adapt or Die
I'm trying to fill a void here. This isn't easy to make out small, but I think you'll get a kick out of it when you enlarge the picture. What could be more appealing than circles of young women holding hands. We won't see the likes of this again.
"The void" is multifarious.
I haven't watched a football game all year. In the last two weeks, I've watched seven of them. Luckily, they were fairly interesting games.
Henry, the yardman, is definitely gone. The yard is piled with leaves and the weeds are emerging. That, maybe, is a good thing, for when they are mowed over, they are harder to see. I will spend some time this week pulling them out by their stubborn, tenacious roots. But I have to get a new yard service soon. Luckily the grass is not growing much, but the yard still looks unkempt. I don't own any of the tools to do the work since I've had Henry since about 1985.
Things change.
Adapt or die. To deny the facts is perilous. I guess that's why we have football.
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I commented 7 years ago to the day with this YT link (still works!). Do you remember it?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h61w0WrHw50
Film by Ivan Besse. Find more in the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Besse+%28Ivan%29%22
ReplyDeleteAnita - hauntingly beautiful - thank you. I love when we can look back like that - also - wow 7 years. :) .
The first photo IS absolutely fetching. I like it with all the "stuff" on it - makes it sort of more mysterious.
So surprised about Baltimore losing. Hannah texted me "the supposed unstoppable Baltimore offense is currently sputtering" during that game. Made me so proud.
I'm rooting for Jimmy G and the 'Niners. Hannah still thinks there may be an opportunity to for her to have a meaningful relationship with him.
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ReplyDeletePoem of the Day
Eight Ball
BY CLAUDIA EMERSON
It was fifty cents a game
beneath exhausted ceiling fans,
the smoke’s old spiral. Hooded lights
burned distant, dull. I was tired, but you
insisted on one more, so I chalked
the cue—the bored blue—broke, scratched.
It was always possible
for you to run the table, leave me
nothing. But I recall the easy
shot you missed, and then the way
we both studied, circling—keeping
what you had left me between us.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55342/eight-ball-56d236d6418f5