fridays/saturdays

interesting day--went down to the river---is that a line by Cream--watching the river flow--ok, that's a Dylan song----similar to a line from Neil Young---checked the mail and, yes, another dreaded SASE with a form explaining how it would be better if they could send everyone an individual letter, but---why, would that actually make you feel important and that they actually read your stuff before rejecting it?-----and, and as it always seems the same time, I got a couple of bags of mail-order prescriptions--left them all in the mailbox and went to sit on my rock---the river was, and i hate this word because it is used to death, but the best word i can think of is surreal-because with the cloud cover and all it looked almost oily black. with flickering small waves, looking solid enough that i could walk across-but i am not that arrogant--so i sat watching for a computer generated mermaid to rise up from the depths and talk to me--but i settled for a good sized pod of bottlenose dolpins that seemed to hang around and didn't look in the least bit cgi. and in spite of what Sun Tzu said, i did not see the body of my enemy float by (or would that be the bodies of my enemies?)--no matter, nobody or no body floated by.
then on the way up the hill to my house, i borrowed a few avocados from my neighbor's tree--i do have her permission and pulled a couple of limes off our tree that is almost overloaded.

then sat in front of the computer and got an e-mail rejection from another place--yeah, one of those days----but then also had an e-mail from a friend that i literally hadn't heard from in 10 years--actually she is a friend and a cousin---well, her gggggrandfather was the brother to my gggggrandfather--apparently their father had come over from county cork, ireland sometime in 1700's--it was great to hear from her------then i looked outside and the setting sun lit up the clouds to the point that everything was glowing outside--just the way Maxfield Parrish would've painted it
take care
-will-