Time marches on . . .
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12/8, Sunday. Stormy
weather, cold wind and clouds rolling over the mountains from the coast, with
snow in the high elevations but dry here on the ground—living in a rain shadow.
12/9, Monday. Department
of Where Has the Time Flown: Watching Johnny Mathis sing a Christmas song on
The View this morning and remembering a concert in Chicago in 1961 when we were
both in our 20s.
12/10, Tuesday. With
the rest of the country and Canada in a deep freeze, it seems hardly right to
complain about 38 degrees outside this morning, so I won’t.
12/11, Wednesday. Starting
into chapter 1 of a western in German that begins: “Als Jim Whittaker über den
Pass kommt, kann er das lange Tal unter sich bald immer besser übersehen.”
12/12, Thursday. A
strip of half-inch weather stripping has finally found its way to the top of a
door at the back of the house, and I’m waiting for the next cold snap to see if
the room feels any warmer.
12/13, Friday. Edgar
Allen Poe notwithstanding, the ravens here in the desert always sound to me
like they’re laughing to themselves about something—and just like it’s gallows
humor.
12/14, Saturday. Community
Service Department: On walks in the desert, I’ve stopped picking up other
people’s trash.
Image credits: Ron
Scheer
Coming up: Alfred
Wallon, Showdown in Abilene
I like this idea but don't know if I can restrict myself to one sentence. I'm wordy'
ReplyDeleteRavens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich is a fascinating book, even if the ravens are a bit far east- in Maine to be exact.
ReplyDelete"I like this idea but don't know if I can restrict myself to one sentence. I'm wordy"
Get in training with subordinate clauses; semi-colons (and parentheses) are cheating.
Take a plastic bag with you, then you can keep your hands free while it fills up with trash. You're going to feel guilty if you stop. I shouldn't think a western in German has the same "relaxed" grammar feel to it that we expect in a western.
ReplyDeleteRon, I didn't know about a western in German. The genre seems to have a following among non-American and non-English writers. I liked the Friday line.
ReplyDeleteI love ravens.
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