(1) Potato salad (with an improvised mustard vinaigrette). (2) Dav Pilkey. (3) Invisible e’s. (4) Greens from our neighbor’s garden. (5) Ceiling fans. (6) School of Rock. (7) Mayday coming. (8) An hour of writing this morning. (9) A haircut. (10) An epic dinosaur movie. (11) “The Trees.” (12) Philippe Petit. (13) A warm bath. (Still.) (14) “Boeing 737.” (15) Man on Wire. (16) Dozing off. (17) S– at the guitar store. (18) Seeing the rain in the distance. (19) The stretch run. (20) “Sunloathe.” (21) The still, small silence of 5 a.m. (22) The history and culture of flash lit (so to speak). (23) The Beethoven tonie. (24) Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor for solo piano. (AKA: “Für Elise.”) (25) “In the Hall of the Mountain King.” (26) “Peter and the Wolf,” as read by David Bowie. (27) Shampoo, the verb. (28) A charged book lamp. (29) “Thus Spake Zarathustra.” (30) Swan songs.
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