(1) Today. (2) Plans for today. (3) Transitions. (4). Options. (5) Neutral Milk Hotel. (6) Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label that Got Big and Stayed Small by John Cook, Laura Ballance, and MacCaughan. (7) Violin recitals. (8) The cold. (9) My Warby Parker specs (still). (10) A generative season. (11) Sounding boards. (12) Stations. (13) Coherence. (14) Incoherence. (15) These six micro-memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly. (16) Ashley M. Jones. (17) Jermaine Thompson. (18) The last day of the farmer’s market (yesterday). And its mementos: (19) Turmeric root. (20) Napa cabbage. (21) Flat-leaf kale. (22) Beets. From: (23) Snow’s Bend Farm. (24) Come to think of it: YESTERDAY! […please note/compare #1-2 above… What a wonderful day yesterday was. Wow. This is truly a revelation…not just how wonderful yesterday was: coffee and pastry at our favorite cafe; the farmer’s market; S–‘s violin recital; all day afterwards at the park; him running and laughing and playing and making new friends; perfect weather; delicious healthy food all day; the Amazing Race finale with the family; sitting with S– in the evening, doing our thing, reading/thinking in (mostly-)silent-togetherness; etc… BUT how quickly I moved on from all of that WITHOUT truly marking or even simply noticing what was an extended moment of, basically, perfection. Truly. The perfect Saturday. Note to self: let’s just stop for a second and say a little prayer of thanks for these punctuated equilibriums of perfection. They happen. Maybe more regularly than we like to admit. Amen.] (25) The 30 Things list and its persistent revelations. (26) Unpeeled carrots. (27) Affirmations: I am an artist. I am an artist. I am an artist. (28) This revelation: #27 above involves tacking back and forth between #13 and #14 above. (29) This revelation: the audience for that is me, first and foremost. (30) This revelation: #13 above is rooted […oblique echo of #26 and #22 and #19?…there are roots in this, he notices, and also a little more noticing of the noticing than normal… stop (where is my mind?) / cohere (the equilibrium punctuates…)] : #13 above is rooted in my family.