4 miles
minnehaha falls and back
67 degrees
Another successful 9/1 run, where success = picking something and committing to it and keeping steady and relaxed. Yesterday it rained most of the day, so no running. Evn if it hadn’t been raining, I wouldn’t/couldn’t have fun; smoke from the Canadian wild fires made the air quality terrible. Not just hazy; I could smell/feel the smoke. Today it’s much better.
9 Things
- mowing
- sweating
- bugs
- shadows
- voices
- laughter
- crowds
- cars
- potholes
I tried something new today with the 10 things. At the end of my run, I pulled out my phone and recorded a list of things. I ended up with nine because I forgot to count as I was doing it. By the end, I wasn’t sure of how many things I had listed.
On Monday, we moved RJP into her new apartment. She handled the stress of moving very well. What a difference a year makes!
Here’s another bit from Brian Teare’s Companion Grasses I’d like to remember:
from Tall Flatsedge Notebook/ Brian Teare
A guidebook calls it “tall Flatsedge” but at my desk
it doesn’t stick : each sketched notebook detail floats
slowly from what once had make it live. At its smallest
:matter has no ideals” : taking off my socks, I find
several flatsedge seeds hooked : no split of self
from self—it can’t lack—carbon, oxygen, nitrogen—
it’s being & being singly is. All day at Chimney Rock
I’d returned to three thoughts :
you; the “world
we wanted to go out into,
to come to ourselves into”;
& the right form
to bridge two subjects apart
“organizations in the sound of them
verg[e] upon meaning,
upon ‘Heaven;”
As part of this section, Teare includes sources for these ideas in the left margins. I fiddled around with columns to add them in, but I wasn’t able to. Maggie Nelson did a similar thing with sources in The Argonauts. And Alice Oswald does it in Dart to identify the “voice” that is speaking in the poem. I’d like to experiment with this in a piece involving my notes for a gorge run.
I also like his discussion of bridging the gap between two subjects — you and the world. Here I’m thinking of the you and the I, too.