this is jack. he got into a fight and ended up with a wound on his side. the vet suggested a shirt as a less stressful approach to keep him from chewing it, rather than a plastic cone.
fun fact: most cats fit into baby shirts sized 0-3 months.
—
‘i work best when there’s a safety trampoline of kindness.’
-ruth negga
credits: red tart art/imgur.com
i came face to face with this colorful display
and was struck with a sudden terror
for i knew
this was
a sure sign that
the fruitcakes were on their way.
—
“a sharp bolt of hunger hit luther hard. his knees almost buckled, his poker face almost grimaced. for two weeks now his sense of smell had been much keener, no doubt a side effect of a strict diet. maybe he got a whiff of mabel’s finest, he wasn’t sure, but a craving came over him. suddenly, he had to have something to eat. suddenly, he wanted to snatch the bag from kendall, rip open a package, and start gnawing on a fruitcake.”
― John Grisham
what happens in peaches’ kitchen
when you receive
a surprise present bag
for no reason
filled with
a bajillion packs of ranch dressing
and it’s
your very favorite thing.
—
“the excessive increase of anything
causes a reaction in the opposite direction. “
-plato
a day in the life of glenn frey the cat not the rockstar: a one-act play
as written by grandies j and b
in our early morning wakeup writers’ workshop
with a lot of naturalistic dialogue
a wonderful story arc
many plot twists and surprises
suspense until the final moment
a very dramatic ending
that is sure to leave an audience
on their feet and wanting more.
—
“get into a scene late, get out early.”
– david mamet – the paris review
our first snowflakes fall
and from the looks on their faces
i’d say the fall pumpkins
are having a hard time
accepting the arrival of the winter weather
and wish it would all just go away.
—
“ignoring facts does not make them go away. “
-fran tarkenton
thank you for your service.
envelope left behind by a kinder in my class
who created it for someone special.
—
‘i have found that if you love life, life will love you back.’
-arthur rubinstein
the notes i scribbled after each walk in the parks
sometimes in a code that even i could not decipher
the artifacts i gathered as i walked the parks
most dried out to the point where i could not recognize them
—
i threw all of the the notes and artifacts into a big shoe box
in one heaping pile
things fell out and fell in
i found a purple feather and holiday glitter in the mix
clearly a very complex and organized system.
—
“if you wish to forget anything on the spot,
make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
-edgar allan poe
my first step in the parks in my first pair of shoes
steps in the parks somewhere in the middle
my last step in the parks in my last pair of shoes
—
with all of this stepping into the parks
i thought it was be easy and interesting
to look back and see just how far i had walked
using multiple sources
and multiple attempts
it turned into quite an impossible task
as each park was shaped differently
i had walked in no particular pattern
and converting the 2061.6 total acres into distance
proved to be a bit more complicated than i expected.
s0me of my early rough calculations
(having dinosaurs on the paper seemed fitting)
scenes of me asking the big questions
with no definitive answers
i went to my daughters
who tried to create an algorithm for me
but they again pointed out that i had no consistent shape of the acreage
nor did a have a consistent path of travel through them
—
i then went online to an international group
of physicists, mathmeticians, engineers, etc. to seek their answers
here is a sampling:
can’t convert an area into a distance… If you walked the entire area of the parks so as to pass within 20m of each point, this would be 250 miles at least.
While metric units are usually easier to work with, an acre represents an area of a chain (22yds or 20m) x a furlong (220 yds / 200m) which is 1/8 of a mile. If you were a medieval ploughman, an acre (from the Latin ager = field) would be a strip 22yds wide and 220yds long. But now it’s any shape at all with that area of 4840 sq yds or 1/640 of a square mile.
Best way to work out your distance will be with a gps app. Download the Viewranger app, get it to record your track, then it’ll tell you the exact distance. Other gps apps are available.
There is no way to tell. You tell us areas but not distances, nor do you give us times or velocity.
—
i have decided that according to my calculations
my final answer is that i traveled pretty far
during the time i spent covering the 2,061.6 acres
and interesting coincidence
the last park on the list
the last steps i took
were in a park at the top of the very street
where i first lived in ann arbor
in my rattletrap apartment with no money
when i moved here at age 40
having quit my job to go to grad school
and change the course of my life
this long journey with it’s twisty and immeasurable path
had somehow led me straight home.
—
‘only those who will risk going too far
can possibly find out how far one can go.’
– t.s. eliott
I didn't have my glasses on.... 
