The world didn’t end until the third mirage. By that time I was going like a bat out of hell, hot wind and sand burning my eyes til I could barely see. Stole my breath away about a hundred miles back, but who needs to breathe when you can fly? I hit the edge of the world at a million miles an hour, and let the bike go. Watched it tumble tumble tumble, wheels over teakettle, down a rabbit hole big as the sky. And I began to fall after…
Rabbit Hole
I met a boy while I was running down the stairs, but when I stopped to talk to him, he grew golden wings of wax and flew away toward the cold bright sun. I watched until I couldn’t see him anymore, and he never fell, so maybe he was more than angel and less than a boy, or something that’s the next best thing. There’s desert all around, and there’s frost upon the trees. The road in front of me is shimmering in the heat, and I’m not sure it…
Rabbit Hole
I woke up this morning with the itch to be going somewhere fast. The kind of need that propels you out of bed, makes you do fifty situps before you’ve even gotten dressed. What, you’ve never had that itch? Huffing out breath and watching the stars glimmer though a crystalline ceiling? Can’t bother to shower because the morning might be over by the time you hit the stairs to get out of the house? The feeling that life is so big that you have to hit it at a dead…
blfeh.
No walking to Rivendell (or Lothlorien) this morning on the treadmill. I did get it set up last night, and the TV, too. But it turned out the TV’s remote requires 3a batteries, not 2a batteries, and we have none of those. Which, ok, yes, I am aware there are OTHER WAYS to turn on a tv besides the remote, but given that the idea here is that I walk and not keep leaping off the treadmill to try to fix sound, captioning, etc and whatever, and the controls for…
spendy goodness
I hoff bought a monitor arm. I hoff bought a monitor. Now all I need is a CHAIR (and maybe a footrest) and Nook 2.0 will be underway. I hoff written 1200 words and expect to finish the chapter tomorrow. I hope plan intend to forge on after that, for I hoff also made a hair appointment for 3:30pm Saturday afternoon, and since doing SOMETHING with my hair is the reward for finishing the book, I obviously need to finish the book by then. I hoff walked a mile and…