Currently reading: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 📚

So I pay close attention, and note every detail.

From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain? Will I achieve a minimum, or a maximum?

These questions are in my mind when your father asks me, “Do you want to make a baby?” And I smile and answer, “Yes,” and I unwrap his arms from around me, and we hold hands as we walk inside to make love, to make you.

excerpt from “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang 📚 💬

Finished reading: Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence 📚

Currently reading: Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey 📚

I recently re-discovered a John Denver tribute album that was compiled by Mark Kozalek (of the Red House Painters). 🎵

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It’s been really enjoyable listening to and the collection has aged well.

Finished reading: Artemis by Andy Weir 📚

Finished reading: Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe by Philip Plait 📚

Currently reading: Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence 📚

Go now, Persephone, to your dark-robed mother, go, and feel kindly in your heart towards me: be not so exceedingly cast down; for I shall be no unfitting husband for you among the deathless gods, that am brother to father Zeus. And while you are here, you shall rule all that lives and moves and shall have the greatest rights among the deathless gods: those who defraud you and do not appease your power with offerings, reverently performing rites and paying fit gifts, shall be punished for evermore.

• from the Homerica Hymns by Hesiod

Day 29: contrast

Day 30 treasure

Day 28: workout

Day 27: embrace

Day 26: beverage

Day 25: flare

Currently reading: Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe by Philip Plait 📚

Day 23: A day in the life

Day 22: road

Day 21: fall

Day 20: disruption