Slipping and Sliding Through Monday

 Yesterday morning was one of those mornings where I was more tired after I woke than when I went to sleep. A rocky start to the work day. Luckily, things did go well.

I made it home around 2:30, when I got a call from sister that she was coming down. By now, the knot in my back erupted and I decided to take a nap. Until I got her text, I planned on going out and getting groceries.

She got here around 4. With her came a new bike. It is a Huffy and looks good. I meant for her to take a photo and I forgot.

Then we made the rounds looking for a chain. This took us to Walmart, where I got groceries. No lock was found there (or Buyer's Market or Freddie's Flea Market). She left around 6. The bak pain left me before reaching Walmart. It became a headache.

After dinner, I went through the email and added to "Love Stinks."

This came in the email:

We are grateful for the opportunity to read “The Local Boy Who Made Good.” While we are not able to provide a home for this piece, we thank you for trusting us with your work. At Vast, we’re about cultivating literary community and every submission is a contribution toward that goal.

Best wishes with this piece and all your writing.

The Editors

Vast Chasm Magazine

Just in case you are hearing Trump is a victim of Joe Biden or whoever, I point you to Why Trump was charged on secret documents and Clinton, Pence were not. It is not apples and oranges, but an orange (colored man) and tulips.

Let's talk literature. I like this Irish idea:

Its capital is home to the €100,000 Dublin Literary Award, one of the world's richest literary prizes, and has been a UNESCO City of Literature since 2010.

That hasn't always been the case, says McDonald. 

"Many Irish writers left Dublin because of a repressive censoring state, and certainly the great Irish modernists, like James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, got out of Dublin," he says.

"But now, and for the last several decades, Ireland has very much cosied up to its writers and marketed them and celebrated them — and funded them.

"The Irish state is quite generous with its funding for writing; it gives tax breaks and has a well-funded Arts Council."

Why so many of the world's best writers hail from Ireland, from James Joyce to Colm Tóibín

 Why not do this in America? Maybe start with Indiana? 

I answered an email from Charlie G. He reports Fort Dix will soon resume visitation - which had been shut down thanks to Covid.

The word count for last night: 1176.

We had rain yesterday morning, and it is raining now. I hope this knocks off our drought worries.

Oh, I saw the great blue heron again along White River north of the Batavia Street bridge.

Have a good day.

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