Derivative work
Jessy encouraged me to submit the microfiction from last newsletter to publications. I was glad she was enthusiastic, but I have no need for publication beyond here. Her attention did, however, mean I kept thinking about the little written work and wondering how it might evolve into something else. The solarprint/cyanotype above is one of four variable prints—I had to move the feathers each time to remove the exposed paper.
Overheard in the library
[The subject of the conversation was horror movies.]
“Do you want to be entertained, or do you want to be emotionally eviscerated?”
Overheard in my car
[Loudly, from the next car over at a stoplight]
“She stood up and she yelled ‘FUCK YOU!’ and he said ‘M’am! You do not speak that way to a judge!’”
Bodies
The pain that I wrote about recently has finally begun to recede. For so many weeks the location and intensity of the pain from my pinched nerve would change from day to day but wouldn’t really improve. In the last four days or so I have been able to notice and enjoy some considerable lessening of the pain, to the point where I am not taking my pills at the first possible moment.
I have also begun to think about my weight again. I weigh around 195 pounds, and I think I would feel better if I weighed less. I feel like I have never once lost weight except when I was sick, or when Shanon was in the hospital for a month, and neither of those diet plans are appealing.
I know that it’s likely that the main reasons I haven’t lost weight are because I haven’t done the right things, or have done the right things but in amounts that are too small to make a difference. But because I haven’t been successful yet, it makes me feel like I might never be successful. Which is frustrating.
Song/performance of the day
Love them. This crowd in NY is fabulous too. I wish I’d been able to see them at Red Rocks.
“Do you want to be entertained, or do you want to be emotionally eviscerated?”
Both?
Actually, I can emotionally eviscerate myself just FINE all on my own, thankyouverymuch.
❤️