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“Shopping list for first three-day weekend in the country to rent a house for the summer: Contac, Kleenex, Beatles tape, citronella candles (to leave in the rented house if we find it), jump rope (for losing weight), walking shoes, jeans one size too small (to force oneself to diet), a handful of short-lived cut lilac to carry in the car as an aide-mémoire. . .” . . . harold brodkey. spring fugue (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpyU4aNOfJp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

had a wonderful and wild week in seattle. (at Waterfront Seattle) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClKhGF-uDvj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“She was a girl straight out of the fifties. She even dressed that way, and not self-consciously. I never saw her in pants; she wore skirts and dresses exclusively, modestly cut but given a sexy edge by her high-heeled shoes. Her hair and nails were flawless.” -Is this pleasure, Mary Gaitskill (at Fire Island Pines) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkG1Qz2uTUn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“Three months after I was born, in the aftermath of one of our elaborate Sunday dinners, my grandmother ordered my brother to get her silkworm box.” (at Fire Island Pines) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiLr3rxu8uY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Sometimes the weekends are pretty good :) (at The Standard Spa, Miami Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg3CpRVO-64/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

spring break 2022. part 2. very very wild. (at Cherry Grove, Fire Island, NY) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc_Lg00uYpF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

spring break 2022. part 1. very wild. (at Cherry Grove, Fire Island, NY) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc_LTUBuWZD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

She is a tall dark beauty containing a great many beauty spots: one above the breast, one above the belly, one above the knee, one above the ankle, one above the buttock, one on the back of the neck. All of these are on the left side, more or less in a row, as you go up and down: . . . . . . -donald barthelem. snow white (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZU1T41O7j8/?utm_medium=tumblr

“I have spoken of the rich years when the rainfall was plentiful. But there were dry years too, and they put a terror in the Valley.” -john steinbeck. east of eden (at Joshua Tree, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZLdHA2u1x-/?utm_medium=tumblr

“It was a fine day. In the west there was a massive stand of cumulus cloud so like a city seen from a distance—from the bow of an approaching ship—that it might have had a name. Lisbon. Hackensack.” . . . the swimmer, john cheever (at Ghent, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXHDHKvuiOT/?utm_medium=tumblr

out there, beyond the foggy windscreen and white lines, was the forest. . . . h is for hawk. helen macdonald (at Central Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWRtiWALY-D/?utm_medium=tumblr

Cuties. (at Colonia Verde) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUDZAhpL6lu/?utm_medium=tumblr

But it is you I want now, here in the middle of this uprising, with the streets yellow and threatening, short ugly lances with fur at the throat and inexplicable shell money lying the grass. It is when when I am with you I am happiest, and it is for you I am making this hollow-core door table with black wrought iron legs. I said, “We have many years left to live; with luck we will survive until matins.” -Donald Barthelme. The Indian Uprising. Sixty Stories. (at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTLE9n3r_bu/?utm_medium=tumblr

And here is a Polaroid photo, shows your Aunt Sylvia and me putting an ant farm together. That’s how close we were in those days. Just an ant farm apart. See the moon? It hates us. -Donald Bartheleme. See the Moon? Sixty Stories. (at Roosevelt Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTLDOP3LaeQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

“Mrs. Hewing hadn’t been to bed yet, and she got into the elevator wearing a long dress under her fur coat. She was followed by her two funny-looking dogs. He took her down and watched her go out into the dark and take her dogs to the curb. She was outside for only a few minutes. Then she came in and he took her up to 14 again. When she got off the elevator, she said, ‘Merry Christmas, Charlie.’” -john cheever, Christmas is Sad Time for the Poor (at Sand Castle On The Ocean) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRCvmbshryH/?utm_medium=tumblr

“This was the site of the last known large-body impact on the Earth’s surface, nearly a hundred years ago. The force of its entry—the compression and superheating of the air beneath it—caused it to explode some twenty-five thousand feet above the ground, but then the term “explode” hardly does justice to the event. There was a detonation—a flash, a thunderclap—with the combustive power of eight hundred Hiroshima bombs. Thirty miles away, reindeer in their loping herds were struck dead by the blast wave, and the clothes of a hunter another thirty miles beyond that burst into flame even as he was poleaxed to the ground. Seven hundred square miles of forest were levelled in an instant. And this was only a rock. And it was only sixty yards across.” -excerpts from Chicxulub by T.C. Boyle (at Cades Cove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQdlhG4hPLY/?utm_medium=tumblr

“fatherhood as a substructure of the war of all against all, said thomas, we could discuss that. i can speak to that, said julie. me too, said emma, for i know nothing about it, and am thus presuppositionless.” -barthelme. the dead father (at Cherry Grove, Fire Island, NY) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQFPFUZBLj6/?utm_medium=tumblr

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