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.

3 comments:

  1. I commented 7 years ago to the day with this YT link (still works!). Do you remember it?
    https://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

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  2. Anita - 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.

    x

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  3. Poem 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

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