don’t know, nor care to know, why

There’s a beauty about them, like snow leopards … lions … hummingbirds. So, this morning, reading through a book instead of in order and searching for a quote to add to the December page, I flipped back to read the dedication. Letters from Father Christmas, published posthumously, comprises letters and drawings that JRR Tolkien sent to his children. Flipping through the book yet again, I saw a picture of four penguins dancing with a polar bear (p. 197).

Must write today, besides unbagging, wrapping, boxing, card-writing, greenhouse tidying (it’s a balmy 58 degrees), and whatever else. You know the routine.

On Thursday, I drove a bit to some shops, and the creative spirit, the muse, pinged and nudged so much that I voice-texted and recorded memos almost all the way home. So much so that my heart was full to bursting. While recording a memo, I said I must go out for drives more often. Thinking of it once I got home, I realized I wrote the two completed novels on the move — while I commuted to work, frequented the beach, etc. I have become a bit home-bound, even before the imposed isolation I had isolated. Although moving and journeying doesn’t have to be physical, for me, it seems to invite (or uncover ?) hidden thoughts and wilderness that want to run. Like (yet unlike because they are much brighter than) shower thoughts. Digressed a wee.

I feel a continuum here…do you?

Miriam forgets again and stands on the right side of the car. They laugh.

“Where to now? Any thoughts?”

“The zoo,” she would like to ride a double-decker bus, doubts they will, “but not until later, the penguins don’t walk till two fifteen.”

“We’ll go to the harbour.” He glances at her. “Penguins. You want to see penguins?”

“Yes, they go out and walk in the park at two fifteen. I read it in a guidebook.”

Sinjin throws his arm out of the car and yells. “I’m in Scot-land with a Puerto Rican who likes penguins!”

MINE TO GIVE
Six Weeks

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I have yet to listen to and transcribe the memos and texts. Will do it now. Good thing I thought of this.