26 AUG 25

Sitting for their first “listen” to the St. Louis Symphony's annual “Picture the Music” contest music selection that morning... Patience closes her eyes and envisions “pirates fighting in England”... while Yali sees himself “eating a giant sandwich”... later he confesses that the music didn't inspire this vision at all... he shrugs... “I was just hungry”...

Late morning Patience is sloshing pineapple juice all over the kitchen pausing to laugh at her lack of coordination in preparing a long-awaited tropical smoothie...

...while Yali suits up in the costume fatigues of the United States Army handling another bottle of fake blood to hit the trampoline for more flip-deaths and other dramatic death encounters resulting in gore the consistency of raspberry jam smeared across his serious brown face... until this hardened and bloodied soldier is chased back inside by a... honeybee... shoots off the trampoline zooming back into the kitchen slamming the door behind him... “THAT BEE WAS GONNA GET ME!!!!”...

Doesn't stop him from later during our afternoon walk grabbing an empty cicada shell off a tree to chase his sister down the sidewalk back home...

It's mid-afternoon and Patience gets busy arguing with Puck before he leaves for work about Patience's topics-of-choice like proposals and engagements and weddings... Puck doesn't really care but it's kind of weirdly fun to argue with a nine year-old sister who “doesn't know anything”...

It's evening again... Patience is at the studio for two hours...

Oxbear and Yali play through a round of VR golf together...

Puck drags weights across the yard and sprints back and forth through the dried-up turf...

Everyone full of baked chicken and cornbread muffins and red beans and rice...

...as the sun sets too early for summer into a colder night silken plunge under slice of moon...