📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 26: Critters
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 25: Spine
The spine of this tattered old book tells a story of how loved it is. I must have read these stories a dozen times over the past thirty years. Scribbles and underlines and exclamation marks scattered throughout. A life in marginalia.
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 24: Light
Is there anything more mesmerizing than the shifting light and shapes of a campfire under a blanket of stars?
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 23: Dreamy
Currently reading: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 📚
Finished reading: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 📚
Characters who love books and reading, lots of fun literary references, a bookstore set on an island … this one could have been written just for me. ★★★★☆
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 22: Blue
Crossing the Strait of Juan de Fuca on a clear, calm day.
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 21: Mountain
Mount Rainier while under sail in Commencement Bay (2006).
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 20: Ice
The winter before we moved full time to Arizona.
Currently reading: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 📚
Finished reading: Desperation by Stephen King 📚
Maybe not one of Mr. King’s best efforts, but it was entertaining, and the ending came together better than I expected. ★★★☆☆
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 19: Birthday
A puppy for my son’s 13th birthday back in 2015. Happy memories.
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 18: Mood
Tonight’s camp site here in the Mojave National Preserve has put me in a good mood. It doesn’t get much better than this.
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 17: Transcendence
La Ventana Arch, New Mexico
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 16: **flâneur**
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 16: flâneur
Today’s photo theme reminds me of Vacilando, which I learned from this passage in Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck:
In Spanish there is a word for which I can’t find a counterword in English. It is the verb vacilar, present participle vacilando. It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere but doesn’t greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction. My friend Jack Wagner has often, in Mexico, assumed this state of being. Let us say we wanted to walk in the streets of Mexico City but not at random. We would choose some article almost certain not to exist there and then diligently try to find it.
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 15: Small
I’ve never felt quite so small or felt part of something quite so large as when standing on the lip of the Grand Canyon. It truly is one of Earth’s wonders.
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 14: Cactus
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 13: Page
A random page from The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Definitely the trippiest book I’ve ever read, yet poignant and incredibly memorable. In sailing, we say it’s the journey, not the destination that matters. Same with House of Leaves.
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 12: Magic
📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 11: Sky
