the sky is bruise-coloured; even the edges where the sun weeps through are old & yellowed, ugly half-healed bruises. somewhere just a few feet away, i saw something fall from the sky — an angel, broken & bloody, pushed out of heaven? all that’s left is her heart, a stone. look closely and you’ll see […]
The fact that I have ‘Make your own kind of music’ stuck in my head STILL. It was going away, and then they played it again on this week’s episode, too. Damn you, Lost.
We did bear it, of course we did, because you just do. I sometimes think you never know how much you can bear until you have to, until you are faced with it. You surprise yourself, amazed that confronted with the unbearable you just carry on, putting one foot in front of another, with a […]
Finally, my cat is lying down with me, and I don’t need to go elsewhere (or to the bathroom), I can just enjoy the fact that she is stretching out on my legs.
Of course, there are things I need to do. I am trying not to think about any of it. Which is really […]
Well, that was a brief, shining moment of less-unhappy.
Instead, let me talk about other stuff.
This weekend will need to be furniture weekend. I want to get a nice couch and chair, because, yes, they’re expensive, but they will then last me my entire life, modulo reupholstering. Also, they’re comfortable, and I am always sitting […]
“these facts are all true to the best of our knowledge, however since i am surrounded by weirdoes, i take no personal responsibility”
(from The Muppet Show DVD)
I am, for the record, feeling better, or less actively bad. I’m still delaying on things I need to do, of course, but a lot of them aren’t crucial, not in the same way. And I am sleeping closer to 8 hours a night than to 4. I even napped today. I went to the […]
I went to the video store to pick something up for my sister — bribery works so well with me — and I noticed that The Muppet Show (season 1) is out on DVD. Muppets! Good muppets! With JOEL GREY guest starring. Oh I am so excited.
“I don’t see much sense in that,” said Rabbit.
“No,” said Pooh humbly, “there isn’t. But there was going to be when I began it. It’s just that something happened to it on the way.”
-A.A. Milne
Any packing.
Any art.
Any list-making.
Any of the phone calls I needed to make.
Any of the errands I wanted to do.