If You Find Someone Who Can Forgive All Your Bullshit, The Least You Can Do Is Try To Forgive Them.

Fortuity.

“Said one observer on Gallatin Road, about three-quarters of a mile north of the storm, ‘The tornado cloud was first observed while watching the unusual hail, which fell prior to the storm. The cloud approaching from a westerly direction appeared like a huge inverted cone moving rapidly across a light-colored background of rain, looking very much similar to a shadow moving across a motion picture screen.’”

https://www.weather.gov/ohx/nashvilletornadomarch1933

Tent life.

Summer 2018, Nashville, TN.

Virginia Woolf, from Orlando: A Biography

One hundred and thirteen years.

One hundred and eleven years.

We know you were terrified, brave, horrified, strong, resilient, panicked, and courageous, and we honor you this night of the year. Death is not failure. Your lives were you and you remain wonderful, somewhere out here in our atomic jigsaw of existence. I’m so sorry you experienced such horrors.

Deepest of peaceful rest to you.

“They lived and laughed and loved and left.” - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Banishment.

(RMS, 6-8-22.)

One had a day; one had a year.

(RMS, September 2021.)

Finally got to thank them for saving my life after twenty years.