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WC on Sunday morning: 1,257 WC on Monday night: 1,130  Total so far: 48,640  Music: Christmas Adagios, a collection of beautiful classical pieces, some choral some instrumental. There are two Ave Marias, one by Pavarotti and the other by Leontyne Price. Also Vivaldi’s Winter Largo, which breaks my heart every time I listen to it.  Sunday morning I wrote early because I met my friends Renee and Kimm for coffee at Epoch, a coffee house Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, ago

Broke 46,000 words

Words: kind of lost track, but I think about 1,500. I forgot to mark the starting number and there was some infill. Music: Silence is the new ritual. Or maybe it was the whirring of the dryer (my office is in the pantry/laundry room). It’s rhythmic and undemanding.  Yeah, seriously, maybe what this means is that ritual isn’t as important as we think. Maybe we’re just fooling ourselves and all we need are the ABCs Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, ago

Owl in the backyard

Words: 943 Music: None. huh. What does that say about rituals?  We were sitting in the swing in the backyard, just enjoying the twilight before the mosquitos came out in droves, when Ben spotted the owl in the hackberry. He just kept his eyes on us while we got the binoculars for a closer look. He wasn’t a great horned owl, though there is one of those in the neighborhood, and he was too big to be Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, ago