20160731.1219

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To update you on
Our progress

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Nothing is wrong
No delays are anticipated

Your continues patience is
Appreciated

20160730.2007

Please excuse any inconvenience
We are in the middle
Of relocating
And your content will resume
Regular delivery
Soon

20160729.0820

Work continues
As ever it must
But
Now
It is not enough
Really
It has never been
Enough
Since there is always
More
To do
And there is more to do
And more of it is
Unseen
Than
Seen

20160728.0749

I often wonder
What I would need to set aside
To be pure

The answer depends
On the purity I seek
Of course
Because
It is not as if
Only
One
Kind
Is to be found
And
It cannot be
That all are achieved
Save by emptying the self
Fully

But
In such a case
I am minded that
Nature abhors a vacuum
And what would rush in
To fill my void
Is likely undesirable

20160727.0857

Coming back from the ranch
To the small city
Mimicking in miniature
The greater motions of people
Green to gray
Quiet to noise
I was struck by
The haze of the rain
Over the hills

20160726.0638

It is summer in the hills of oak and cedar
And the heat is known
Legendary, even

Among its effects is
A stifling
Not only of action
But of communication

It is hard to talk
To add more hot air
To air already heated
To the limit of endurance
Or beyond it
As is the case for no small number

This is true for words
Spoken mouth to ear
Written pen to paper
Written finger to key
Even if there is
Air conditioning

20160725.0645

Oh, what a happy day, today!
It's Christmas in July!
I'll go shopping! I'll not say
What all I'm going to buy!
It has to be surprise, you see,
Each of the many gifts
That I will pick up, to my glee.
Oh, how my soul uplifts
When I partake of commerce now!
Oh, how my spirit soars
When, at last, I me allow
To go into the stores
And spend the money I have earned
Through hours spent ill at ease!
Although my skin is not sunburned
Or I hit with disease,
I am tired from the work
And shopping gives a little perk
To me, just enough to jerk
Me to complacency

20160724.1043

Moving forward
Challenges will present themselves
But we will endure
And we may even thrive
Although things will not be
As they were

Then again
They cannot improve if
They do not change

20160723.1059

At times like this
I am tempted to look back
To reflect on what has been
Where I was
Who I was

I am fighting the impulse

Acceding to it
Will only make me feel worse
Either
Because I was better then
Than I am now
Or
Because I was all too much
An ass

There is no point

20160722.0803

I hate
Waking up
With a headache
When I did not even
Drink
The night before

How do I wake up
Hungover
When I was not
Drunk
Or drinking
At all?

I hate it