22 AUG 25

Patience is riding back towards Forest Park to babysit cousin R that morning...

...while back home Yali is eyes deep in dinos and plastic ferns and fake blood...

...and Puck is wrapped up in his plush fuzzy blanket with his big fat yellow cat after a plate of avocado toast to a slow-start morning...

By mid-afternoon Puck is pulling too-old bananas at work...

...while Patience runs up to him for advice on more avocado selection... returns to mix guacamole and snack with blue corn tortilla chips before leaving for a private lesson at the studio...

She emerges an hour later with more stories of conversations with teachers... “Miss D was dancing in her hard shoes without any socks on so I told her she would get mushrooms growing in her shoes and that made her laugh and then I told them that I don't like Clementine's ice cream and so she asked if I liked some other place I didn't know... it started with a... T...” // “Ted Drewes?” // “Yes... what is that?” // **I have failed**

Peachy blast of mid-summer evening light in continued pop of peepers and tumbling cicada song...