--EVEN THE STARS FALL FOR YOU

…How was your weekend?

Where I live, we had stellar weather.  You reside in a place where it can rain for four months straight and then the sun appears, well it’s kind of spiritual.  You certainly appreciate sunny days a lot more than say, a Floridian or Californian.

…I’m reading many books at once, which I used to never do.

Here are some, and they’re all good so far:

-“Everything Neon,” Bud Smith

-“Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Home, “Ben Fountain

-“The Submission,” Amy Waldman

-“Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned,” Wells Tower

-“The Zero,” Jess Walter

-“Going After Giaciatto,” Tim O’Brien

-and also, “Where’d You Go, Bernadette?” which is not so good.

 …Whenever someone (usually someone famous) says they have no regrets, would never change anything that happened in their life, I call bullshit.  Who wouldn’t want certain moments, choices, events altered?

…I love babies and kids.  I wish there were more of them in the world.

…I want to learn to be more grateful: grateful for everything that exists that is good, grateful for my life.

…Deer are incredibly graceful creatures.  I don’t know how anyone could shoot one.  It’s be like killing a child.

…The “Shameless” season finale was pretty good, but not as terrific as the episode it followed.

…”The Walking Dead” is very addictive.  What a great cast of characters (and I’m not talking about the zombies).

…Today should be a good day, don’t you think?

…Here is the notable commentary from last week’s Facebook posts:

-The very elderly man in front of me in line at Rite Aid purchased the following:
- 80 condoms
- 2 enormous bottles of multivitamins
- toilet bowl cleaner
- nasal strips

-It's a beautiful day today, despite the fact that a seagull just shit on me. I'm hanging out in a gasoline storage tank field. They look like birthday cakes under vast blue sky. Mucho sunshine. The weekend right here. Even the gasoline smells nice. I have forgiven the seagull.

-Totally officially divorced. Fuck yeah.

-Your sex life is a not yet written Sci-Fi novel.

-There are a lot of great things about getting older, by the way. One of them is you can take your clothes off in the kitchen.

-I have now witnessed the ultimate in internet irony. Someone called someone else a mooreon.

  -Ah Monday, you capricious little prankster. A 5 hour power outage and right on into 38 degrees with a bone chilling driving rain! Such a lively imagination!