Hey, happy Sunday to you! I have two items.
First, I woke up before sunrise and went on a walk (has not hardly ever happened) and when I got back I wrote this. I call it “A Beautiful Morning.”
I walked up the road toward Wilson and thought about the love letters he wrote to his wife. ‘No, not wife,’ the internet insists. ‘Mistress.’
And the crows rolled up over the hill with the grayed-out sunrise to their unsung stations in Southwest. They never see me this early.
They perch in the nerves of our wooden brothers, whose arms hang broken, snapped like twigs from water and wind. Dad calls them widow-makers.
“It’s a beautiful morning,” I whistled as I looped back home, then said to the woman setting up the farmer’s market. “It sure is,” she says.
Second, I want to introduce you to Boat. I learned about Boat from Defector’s Barry Petchesky. Boat is the protagonist of a ten-minute video set to Dvorak’s “Symphony No. 9,” wherein Boat journeys for one day between Rotterdam and Amsterdam. I watched first on my phone, then again this morning with Lana on our TV, and we were enchanted. Put Boat on the big screen and turn up the sound! I believe you, too, will learn to love Boat.
We traveled along with (the) Boat and enjoyed Dvořák's "New World" music. Fun. Sometimes we wished the video tempo had slowed down some so that we could look more carefully at what was going by.