2064. flying east

beginnings:

cut, fold, snip, fold, paste….

ten thousand times

*

listening

to chinese music, thinking

of my father

 

Beginning now, another origami composition with little birds….wondering where they will lead me….drifting all the way home to China.

2063. the power of play

two little trucks

one more and a small pushcart

2 + 2 makes 4

*

gently used toys

free to a good home

thinking of Yulin

I was totally charmed by two little gently-used trucks, left there by the side of the road free for the taking for some other child to play, imagine and dream. Then while I was taking pictures, two more toys joined in on the scene. This made me think of my big brother, how he loved the Toy Story movies about the secret lives of toys when humans aren’t around. 

 

2062. i don’t get it

we’re in a heat wave

firewood for sale $6.99

i don’t get

 

I don’t get it. Temperatures the past five or six days have been mid 80s to low 90s—super hot and humid! Right now it’s 8 o’clock at night and the local supermarket has three pallets of firewood on sale out in front of the store. Who’s going to buy firewood in a heat wave?! Did I say, I don’t get it!?