Windows
We all view the world through our windows. The best people have the best, largest, most open windows – maybe even the kind that stick out from the house a little and have a nice place inside to sit and have only glass on three sides. The size of windows tends to decrease from there down the line – the smaller your house and your situation, the smaller your windows. Some windows have bars over them, some have latticework, some have curtains. Some even have blinds.

Speakerbox
During the summer, we dance without eyes. The nights are dark – moonless or cloudy – and we go to the parks or into the woods and we bring stereos along. We have our tapes with us. We’ve pored over these cassettes, homemade edits and splices of sound and delight. We know the sequencing by blood, how to best merge each stereo’s idiosyncrasies into a wondrous spiraling tower of sound. And so we dance.
We dance for joy and darkness and night. We pulse with the rhythm, we glide in the black. We vibrate in tune to the air.
It’s supernatural delight.

Word of the Day: Dessicant
Dessicant is a word that belongs in a fantasy novel, as some unseen villain who threatens to destroy all of the green, beautiful creation that forms a mystical land. It has the right harshness, the correct hisses – I’m befuddled as to why it hasn’t been used before. Or maybe it has and I just haven’t heard of it.
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Well, done with catching up. Today, now.
Things I’ve Learnt
1. I can come up with about three passable ideas per time I sit down to write. More is pushing it, pushing it very hard.
2. Sometimes I can succeed in pushing it.
3. More often I cannot.
4. When I cannot, it’s usually better to stop and give things a rest and try again the next day.
5. For once, I’m going to act on these things I have learned.