I stop in for some elk drive-thru. There they are, all males, 20-30, old dudes with lots of points, lounging in a pasture with some geese.<\/p>\n
I just put in a call to an old friend, someone I deserted years ago in her time of cancer. I will work hard to reclaim a friendship that began in the 1980s. I will have to earn her trust and follow through. Follow through. That’s what it’s all about\u2014in everything. <\/p>\n
What a place to write, on a bench with elk a hundred feet away.<\/p>\n
Random non-elk thoughts enter my mind:<\/p>\n
How come I can’t find a real wool or fake wool crew or v-neck sweater in thrift stores? There used to be hundred, thousands. Not a single one in years. (I have one left and it is unraveling as I write this.) All fleece and shiny acrylic pullovers! Fleece totalitarianism! How did this style ever take over (white) men’s outerwear fashion? I don’t want to look like a martinet college football coach on the sidelines or lying at press conferences. I want to look like a writer or old fishermen or scotch sipper! <\/p>\n
You can’t make art wearing fleece! You can’t tend a burn pile wearing one!<\/p>\n
In the big city, I will meet a woman I met on a mountain. I’d never met anyone on a mountain before. It’s sort of a thrilling prospect to see where such an initial meeting might go.<\/p>\n
Reunions are afoot. New work might be materializing. I want to work. <\/p>\n
My beach installation has reached nine forts.<\/p>\n
I assisted a woman on the beach who had lost her dog. Mission accomplished, but not then. We didn’t find the dog. She did later, but thanked me in a text for the attempt. <\/p>\n
Reading two Westerns at the moment. One is by a female author, Jessamyn West. Her Massacre at Fall Creek<\/em>, published in 1975, is a minor classic in the genre. Relevant today. Funny. Smart.<\/p>\n I want to write a modern Western. They still sell! None of the new ones published are ever set in Oregon. Why is that? And you never read about Westerns set at the ocean. I think I’d call my Western Meth Town<\/em>. <\/p>\n I look up from my notebook. An elk is coming toward me. I put the notebook on the bench and wait. Waiting for elk. <\/p>\n\n I stop in for some elk drive-thru. There they are, all males, 20-30, old dudes with lots of points, lounging in a pasture with some geese. I just put in a call to an old friend, someone I deserted years ago in her time of cancer. I will work hard to reclaim a friendship that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[302,13,491,264],"class_list":["post-4812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","tag-elk","tag-oregon-coast","tag-oregon-western","tag-westerns","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4815,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions\/4815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}