Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
all these emails no one writes, they're generated by some algorithm that thinks it knows who i am. it takes too long to unsubscribe and it's irksome to tell them why i dint subscribe. i feel irked a lot by algorithms and i need to move my body more not just from point a to b. i'd like to be free of civilization. it sure feels intrusive, trashy and savage to me.
the stump where mister posed is still there. lifting charlie i remember lifting his sweet weight, his earnest calm. charlie did good too, so light. she gets me. sometimes the island felt like our own little world. soon it's going to change and we won't be able to go back. yeah everything is gonna change not just this tiny island sanctuary.
everyone loves lulu. the trial of the murderer derek chauvin begins. there's little or no hope for justice in this place. i look at the memorial to the murdered by police, there are some pictures left, but george is gone. lulu wears the day of the dead carnations from last may. on the east wall every message was cut out, leaving the blue painter's tape frames, all but one—no justice no peace. i guess some of them may have vanished in the wind.
Monday, March 29, 2021
once upon a time in obamaland.
never say of anything that you have lost it but that it has been given back. is your child dead? it has been given back. "but it was a scoundrel who took it!" well, what does it matter to you by whose hands the Giver has taken it back again? while something is given to you, take care of it, as something that belongs to another, as travelers treat their inn.
—epictetus
i don't know what it is but it seems like my sneezes and my burps are louder than ever before. my plan is no plan per se but to walk until i croak having no pension inheritance or social security.
withdraw your aversion, then, from everything that is not in your control, and transfer it to anything in your control which is opposed to nature. -heavy. for the present, eliminate your desires completely. since, if you desire anything that is not wholly in your control, you are bound to be disappointed; while of those things which are in your control, that it would behoove you to desire, none are yet within your grasp.
—epictetus