Sometimes I get so twisted up in thought processes until I can’t see anything straight.
I’ll get so worked up about something that I make this once lumbering tree whose shadow I was afraid of, into an arrow. I just widdle away until there is nothing left, but what I want to see. And soon it becomes an arrow in my back or a splinter I just discard. But what a waste of time. What a waste of a tree.
“Casimir Pulaski Day” by Sufjan Stevens. Everything I wish to do in life. Just write songs that are great. And perform them. And have one kid go home and find an old dusty banjo and start playing.
I make to-do lists for my days off and just sort through things, put them back where they were (in a pile) and eat cookies. Hopefully I have milk.