i just washed our breakfast dishes by hand. My Sweetie and i live in a 2nd-floor walk-up while i’m in school: no dishwasher, no central A/C (we smuggled in window units), all sorts of century-old visual charm. almost every time i wash the dishes — which is my general responsibility, since My Sweetie continues to be our chef, so once or twice a day — i think: damn, this only takes about ten minutes.

things i lost track of today, october 3 2025, in no order: washing the dishes going swimming (working out) hanging out with God / devotional time things i made happen today, in no order: reviewing all my emancipatory pedagogy notes and pulling out what matters to me... which gets me closer to those exam questions dropping my travel blazer at the tailor (i'm getting the sleeves shortened)

A phone-photograph doesn’t see with eyes, it merely captures raw visual experience. So I don’t know whether you can find my luxuriant pathway, crushing violets in Lydia’s purple and sunshine stored in dandelions as I stride.

It’s early on Saturday. I’m waiting outside my shoe repair shop. I assume he’s gone to the store, like last time — there’s only him, as far as I can tell from Saturday mornings. Shoe repair is one of the things I’m fussy about: I know what I want to happen, and artist-artisans are the ones that deliver. Not chain stores.

begun Nov 22, 2022 — in Chestnut Hill, MA (aka Boston) — completed Apr 2, 2025 — in Evanston, IL (aka Chicago) — because PhD life is a series of interruptions in whatever personal sensemaking one might be doing I married a man 15 years my senior. The year we married, we also bought a house, because he "was tired of moving all the time." (I was too, don't get me wrong!) I have lived in that same house from that point forward...

Write a short (500 word) essay addressed to a non-specialized audience describing your research question/thesis. What are you planning to do? Why is it important? To whom is it important? Present this in class and submit it here. Yeah, it's been plenty of minutes since I've written here. And yet I thought of y'all as I got ready to do this school assignment!

Issue #88 Alan Yue Incomplete Blues There are frays in the way a child lets a parent go.               Bb7 I drop a stone off t…