1) Back porch coffee on this soft morning: soft light, soft green colors, soft cool breeze. It’s like late spring or early summer. The sleepiness in my head is not soft, though. Which is why God made coffee.
1a) The honking of Canada geese betrays that this is really autumn.
2) Coming and going. Today the rain is coming. Also the rug people, who will cart away my gramma’s Oriental rugs for a good deep cleaning. And I am going, in the rain, to the opera. BLO is performing I Pagliacci tonight, which I have never seen.
3) It’s been eight months.