- Staycation
- Joan Didion, namely:
- Slouching Toward Bethlehem
- Pea gravel
- A (new) cheap laptop
- High Top Mountain +
- Metamodern Sound in Country Music +
- A Sailor’s Guide to Earth +
- Sound & Fury, which is to say ..
- How one thing leads to the next
- That John Prine tribute on You Tube, in particular:
- “Paradise” by Jack Prine and Tommy Prine
- “Speed of the Sound of Loneliness” by Sturgill Simpson (duh, I guess)
- Also the stuff by Isbell and Shires (ibid: duh) + Todd Snider + Eric Church
- Reading Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf re: notebooks / commonplaces
- A good ceiling fan (even a mediocre one will do)
- Pickles
- Hot dogs on the grill on a summer day
- Also ice pops + baked beans (not in that order)
- Oak Mountain
- Sleeping in (sort of)
- Surprise Sunday supper (thanks, J–)
- That new jar of raspberry jam that’s not too sweet
- S–‘s new car
- I Can Read with My Eyes Shut
- How S– says it: “I cuh ree my EYES! shut”
- Just listening
- Just reading
- Just sitting
- Just thinking
