Top X, 5/7/08
It’s kind of hard to see moments of grace lately. I try to catch up on Twitter and I see the number 22,000 stamped across each post. It’s a hard number for me to visualize: I keep trying to find a more personal way to conceptualize it. No luck so far. I want to sit with the number 22,000 and turn it around in my mind, look at it from different angles.Anyways.
In the one creative writing class I ever took, the teacher shared a poem he had written about a spider that crawled across the piece of paper he was writing on, and his coin-flip decision to let the spider live. The poem turned on the phrase because life does manage to inhabit, and I’m not 100% sure what he meant, but the phrase stuck in my head, 13 years now, and I think about it whenever I start to wonder why we bother.
1. My two-year-old was very excited to go to his new classroom this morning.
2. Candy. A kind of chocolate I’ve never had before. Australian licorice.
3. David Barringer, who sent me the tools I need to put out more books.
4. “Look at Miss Ohio” by Gillian Welch
5. “suppose” by ee cummings
6. Situations that could definitely be worse.
7. My five-year-old’s constant stream of questions about Super Mario Brothers 3. A bell of mindfulness.
8. R.
