June 10th 2025

It's barely seven o'clock in the morning and both kids are sandwiching me cuddled in blankets watching snake videos on my phone... boas and rattlers and garters... Yali is mesmerized...

With Patience back at the studio for another six hours of camp...

...Yali is spraying down Puck's old gold car with the garden hose... some baked-on egg and spring pollen... preparing it for pick-up by Vehicles for Veterans...

...followed by in-depth argument on apologetics and theology indoors between the rest of us while Oxbear and Puck carve into grass-fed steaks for lunch...

Puck then borrows my car for the afternoon to hit up Six Flags with J...

Patience emerges from the studio with all the “juicy” news from the girls which usually involves break-ups with boyfriends or obtaining new boyfriends or nearly simultaneous break-ups and obtainings...

Home for dinner then...

...drop Oxbear at an elder's meeting at church...

...Patience back to the studio for a two-hour class... chattering about things like homemade Taco Bell's Baja Blast and pancake makers at hotels and babies... while Verdi's “Macbeth” plays on the radio...

...home briefly in red-orange honey glow of an evening...

...and back once again to grab Oxbear from church and a fourth time to the studio to get Patience who never seems to lose all of her dancing energy...

Home under luminous strawberry moon...