03 JUL 25

Between Yali's and Patience's morning fights... “Puck... I'm taking the kids to camp and I'll be right back”... Puck stares at me... “Camp?” // “Yeah they've been going to camp all week” // **pause for reflection** “That's why it's been so quiet...” // uncannily...

On the drive north... Yali is worried about what will happen next with Yellow Bird pausing for a full year until next fall... “What will happen now? Will I get beat up by gangsters?”... Yali living in a perpetual comic-strip-action-film world...

So while they get busy swimming and crafting coral reefs from all kinds of scraps in bright colors and varying textures and eating popsicles the color of carrots...

...Oxbear is off work so he takes a meeting with the worship director at church to reformat services...

…and Puck scarfs plates of bacon and steak before another five-hour shift in the afternoon...

It's an almost tropical evening while Patience hits a final class at the studio before a two-week break...

Driving home she is all questions and facts and observations and details... “Miss E is going to give me a bottle of mustard for my birthday... What would we do if we found that cat on that lost cat poster?... I have one two three four... ten mosquito bites on my leg!... Who is Yadier Molina?”...

... I have failed ...