18 SEP 25
5:21 texts roll in... video of Oxbear cooking with fire.. pad Thai and sour spicy soup and curry... preparing to meet a group from Myanmar the next day...
A few hours later... bees feeding in their perfumed jungle of gold in sunlight... Puck watches amazed by the volume of buzzing dots... “There are so many bees... SO many bees...”
Patience sits at the breakfast table... toast stacked with avocado and tomato... Australian Youtuber inspiration...
Yali joins for math class... oboe concertos lulling them into hopefully some kind of serenity for long division without calculators... I mean why...
Meanwhile Puck gets busy tearing up his room into something more consolidated as he hauls his pull-up bar and weight lifting equipment from the basement... his fat yellow cat scatters in fear as his habitat is rearranged...
Back in our cracker box living room Patience is banging out hornpipes and reels in preparation for Oireachtas in November...
Yali has also decided to establish a crowd of stuffed animals for her benefit with complimentary jeering included... “It will help you practice for your competition” he encourages... arranging a menacing panel of teddy bear judges on the table...
After lunch Yali and Patience open their biblias to Genesis 5 where we read all names usual and unusual... including Enoch who walked with God and then was not... “So we'll get to meet him in Heaven?” Yali wants to know // “Appears so yes” // “I wonder what he'll look like.., maybe he'll have a beard and be bald and have a big belly...” // Patience cuts in with a sensible... “You're just thinking of Dad”...
With Puck at work and hot chopped chicken and cheddar sandwiches downed... Yali and I escort Patience to the studio for class... Yali kicks himself back with “Jurassic III” on my laptop while we wait... hoping for that fall of rain in the Southwest to reach us... never quite does...
Kids tucked into rolls of blankets by eight o'clock... a few pages from Madeleine L'Engle...
Mr. Inventor back from Produce crafting a new nightstand for himself using a hacksaw a metal oven pan and velcro strips...