From Cover Of March 31, 1952 General Motors Shareholders’ Quarterly Report. Shown Is XP-300, The Buick

“In the deep fall, the body awakes,”

— Robert Bly, from “A Home in Dark Grass,” The Light Around the Body (HarperPerennial, 1991)

My inner self checking in, during the middle of night when no one is around to hear.

Kurt Vonnegut:

“When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”

And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.”

The Mighty Tardigrade is defined by his endurance. He persists, the Avatar of resilience. Tardigrade cannot be felled; The Tardigrade carries on.

I wish I owned any property because I really need this wall somewhere in my yard.

It will continue down this trajectory inexorably for the remaining years.

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) dir. Wes Anderson

It's got cool

THE VAMPIRES - AKA MILTON DELUGG

I adore this oddball, instrumental novelty record.

Howard Chaykin’s 1979 graphic novel adaptation of Alfred Bester’s sci-fi classic, The Stars My Destination

Everything is coming apart.

The world is tilting on multiple converging global crises.

The question is,

what would Bob Dobbs do?