A Long Weekend

Started off Thursday with a 2.5 hour trip to Yakima for my grandfather’s memorial service. I managed to get sunscreen on my face, but neglected the rest of me. Apparently that wasn’t an issue except for one arm — I thought I’d found shade, but I guess I thought wrong. Oops. […]

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Aw, Goddamn.

U. Utah Phillips died Friday.
Folk music is boring. “Black fall, the die doe, blow ye winds, high ho,” hell, that’s boring, but I am a folksinger. This is a folk music organization. You are ostensibly the folk, nest pas? That means we own this song together, right? We have thereby incurred certain social obligation which […]

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And Just Like That

She’s gone. The vet called us first thing this morning to let us know we should come over because it was time & so we went, but she went first. I hope she didn’t feel abandoned, but I think with as fast as she went, it was just that she couldn’t hang on. […]

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