Hard May rain pummels my domicile. I am cooking up a mushroom and rice soup. Rain and soup always go together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quail make their monkey noises in the\nhedges. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am reading Ralph Ellison’s Invisible\nMan<\/em> for the first time in 35 years. Naturally it is holding up\nand searing and relevant. Didn’t a black man just get lynched in\nGeorgia a few months ago? \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n I took a walk earlier and rain had\nsomewhat stopped and I dreamed up a new story about a couple on a\nsuspension bridge, a true story about something that happened on the\nDrift Creek Falls bridge just south of Lincoln City. No, not murder.\nThe exact opposite. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am writing more words per week than I\nhave in a long time. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n A new part time job has presented\nitself. I get to be out in nature and work by myself. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think a lot about the state of my\nnation. We seem base and pathetic and almost unworthy of a future.\nBefore the virus hit, we were already weak. Now we are so much\nweaker. Are we finally dying? One minute of watching the US Senate\ntry to govern on C-SPAN seems to suggest that it really is over.\nThere is no wake up call for America. We had one\u2014the Civil War\u2014and\nwe didn’t listen. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n I liken us to the Ottoman Empire. They\nonce stood at the pinnacle of many fields. Then they weren’t and\ndisappeared. They didn’t leave anything behind except mosques and\nthat’s not much. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n I almost dread picking up Invisible\nMan<\/em> and continuing. I forget how it ends, but of course I know\nhow it ends. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n I put the word out the other day that I\nwanted someone to buy one of my books. Someone did, and I truly\nappreciated the effort. He found my work in the most unlikeliest of\nplaces. I tend to always find the best readers that way. How about\nsomeone else reading this buy a book? I’ll throw in some goodies! \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hard May rain pummels my domicile. I am cooking up a mushroom and rice soup. Rain and soup always go together. Quail make their monkey noises in the hedges. I am reading Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man for the first time in 35 years. Naturally it is holding up and searing and relevant. Didn’t a black […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-of-walking-in-rain","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\/6044","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=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6047,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions\/6047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}