My new green composition notebook, wherein I write down all my feelings
Feelings
The Silver Moon: Lullabies and Cradle Songs, written by Jack Prelutsky and illustrated by Jui Ishida
Things coming into (some) focus
Being on Twitter much, much less
Reading actual books (as opposed to digital ones)
That one Leslie Odom Jr. quote about how most of us are really Aaron Burrs
Leslie Odom Jr.
Starting to come to terms with all the ways I’m an Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr was Vice President of the United States, for goodness sake, so coming to terms with all the ways I’m no Aaron Burr either
My nighttime routine
Thinking about how all the art I love is a mash-up of disparate elements (e.g., Jeff Mangum reads The Diary of Anne Frank and somehow comes up with In the Aeroplane Over the Sea .. or Lin-Manuel Miranda reads Chernow’s Hamilton and somehow comes up with a hip-hop musical .. or Sturgill Simpson from High Top Mountain all the way through to Sound & Fury, with all the coal songs and Motown horns and anime and homages to Kurt Cobain and When In Rome and hallucinogens .. also the Bible and Zadie Smith and etc ..)
Thinking about how I love art (How did that happen, I wonder?)
The dream I had last night in which no one was wearing a mask and everyone (me included) was dancing and it wasn’t menacing or scary or irresponsible at all — it was deliverance, redemption, release .. from the other side of something
Praying
Reading with my son
Not (always) trying (so hard) .. also knowing that not all trying is “Trying” (i.e., effort + experimentation)
