The Little Words Mean the Most

The Case Writers dine out in San Diego

Mr. Lepp, Ms. Love, Ms. Eustace, Ms. Cohn, Ms. Hopkins, moi

2nd swing-low hike in 2 days

 

What Ashley wore for the hike

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The terrain: Sim One & Ashley

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We choose big leaves as Halloween masks

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What we learned at the end

 

John Haydon & Tom Ahern hike, thru a cemetery, near Halloween

 

of course it's a GREAT cemetery, Mt. Auburn, the first in the US designed so people WOULD visit and linger and contemplate; it is an arboretum as well as a graveyard; it is beautiful and ample; it celebrates great events in US history like the late-1830s Voyage of Discovery and the American Civil War; entry is free; the map costs $1; I gave John a rock cooked poorly 50 million years ago (we have a volcano on our land) and he gave me chocolate; there are still plenty of spaces available in Mt. Auburn, BTW, for interment and cremation

early notes: You go to a cemetery to learn about life. And you learn YOUR legacy is NOT about this: gravestones of strangers few recall. I watched a red-tailed hawk stalk lunch. And give up.

 

In response to long-ago friend who lost her brother last month

 

let me know if there's anything I can do

 

what can I say that would help?

 

absolutely nothing, I guess & expect

 

delightful, charming, deeply missed people die like autumn around me and you at our age, more every year

 

but it happens, yeah?

 

there is an arc, we have a span

 

you sip every flower you can

 

i know nothing times nothing times nothing

 

I do know this, though: I admire you

 

do

 

 

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in my absence

 

swept the table

nope

 

Is it still a crime to satirize #45? I'm hiding

 

our pest saviors arrive 4 times a year

quarterly I pay their bill with murmured prayers

they've kept my cold coffee generally clear of stink bugs

the Dalai Lama said on air