1.Old Country - Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Woodie Guthrie, Johnny Cash. It just sounds better when it's really dusty and you're in a truck.
2.Fishing - I'm trying to meet my goal of catching, killing, cleaning, cooking and eating a fish. But it hasn't happened yet. Still, it seems like fishing may be the only sport where if you don't succeed, it's still a pretty good time.
3.Crescent Wrenches - Ok, why haven't I been told about these? They can do anything! Women, get to RONA!
4.Raspberry Jam - With lots of butter on really thick whole grain toast... It's a slice of heaven in the morning.
5.Beaten up blue jeans - The jeans I wear for work are stained with oil and are beaten light blue, soft like silk and more comfortable. I love them. I love that I have lived long enough and worked hard enough to wear out a pair of blue jeans.
6."Return to Cookie Mountain" - TV on the Radio's new album. Beautiful and kind and sexy and smooth, better even than Bloodthirsty Babes. It competes with Bob Dylan on the cd player. Check out "I Was a Lover". Delicious.
7.My Last Cup of Starbucks Coffee - I sat on my stoop and watched the sun go down, and listened to Neil Young sing "Down by the River" and thought of my Bryan, and picked mud off my feet.
8.Kurt Vonnegut's Mini Memoir "A Man Without a Country" - A sweet little book, saying a lot of what's already been said, in a wonderfully Vonnegutian way. A short, summer read, to be savoured.
9.E-mail - I have to admit, I have more than missed my letters from home that were few and far written and received at camp. I carry a letter Bryan mailed me here in my backpack - it's my mail when I'm feeling lonely. What if that was still the only way to get letters.. *Shudder*
10. Sunlight - The air is so bright up here - unlike anything I've seen. So much light, so late into the night, beautiful and clear and strong and hot. It is summer, to perfection.
2.Fishing - I'm trying to meet my goal of catching, killing, cleaning, cooking and eating a fish. But it hasn't happened yet. Still, it seems like fishing may be the only sport where if you don't succeed, it's still a pretty good time.
3.Crescent Wrenches - Ok, why haven't I been told about these? They can do anything! Women, get to RONA!
4.Raspberry Jam - With lots of butter on really thick whole grain toast... It's a slice of heaven in the morning.
5.Beaten up blue jeans - The jeans I wear for work are stained with oil and are beaten light blue, soft like silk and more comfortable. I love them. I love that I have lived long enough and worked hard enough to wear out a pair of blue jeans.
6."Return to Cookie Mountain" - TV on the Radio's new album. Beautiful and kind and sexy and smooth, better even than Bloodthirsty Babes. It competes with Bob Dylan on the cd player. Check out "I Was a Lover". Delicious.
7.My Last Cup of Starbucks Coffee - I sat on my stoop and watched the sun go down, and listened to Neil Young sing "Down by the River" and thought of my Bryan, and picked mud off my feet.
8.Kurt Vonnegut's Mini Memoir "A Man Without a Country" - A sweet little book, saying a lot of what's already been said, in a wonderfully Vonnegutian way. A short, summer read, to be savoured.
9.E-mail - I have to admit, I have more than missed my letters from home that were few and far written and received at camp. I carry a letter Bryan mailed me here in my backpack - it's my mail when I'm feeling lonely. What if that was still the only way to get letters.. *Shudder*
10. Sunlight - The air is so bright up here - unlike anything I've seen. So much light, so late into the night, beautiful and clear and strong and hot. It is summer, to perfection.
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