https://www.patreon.com/posts/five-things-as-i-32930251 There aren’t a lot of people I can read the way I read Sjón, with a respect that is awe-adjacent, and without a twinge […]
Category: Musings
Foods of my people: a recap.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/32900679 Long, long ago, in the sunny days when online journals had content and there were not so many spambots and Russian trolls in the […]
Rice Lake is always strange days.
I am finding this a harder visit than it has been in other years — though it is never easy. I visit my mother once […]
Stykkisholmur.
We drove up from Reykjavik yesterday: a mildly stressful hour as we got our ducks in a row–picking up the car and driving back to […]
Yesterday: Reykjavik, day three.
This is my fourth visit to Reykjavik, which changes things. Gone is the astonishment of so beautiful and new a place: what are these mountains? […]
Many announcements, much wow.
Last week was lost to a combination of too much news and a sort of failure to thrive that’s been going on for weeks and […]
Rest and retrieval.
(This cat was from Edinburgh last year: I am not looking at newer photos because then I’ll have to deal with my feelings about losing […]
This week gets the angry baby pic.
When I was a baby and small child, Mom had a Minox camera, which took closeups better than almost anything else. There are therefore lots […]
Falling, or a small trip.
Fall came, in an icy blast that I was not ready for. I mean that literally: the batteries in my thermostat had failed, but I […]