I am sitting outside a new Sellwood coffee joint, one that dedicates some of its profits to the welfare of shelter dogs. I’ll drink my iced coffee to that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s pushing 90 degrees. The interior of the joint boasts a good vibe with the usual suspects on tablets and phones. Unfortunately, there is no reading material present for a patron to pick up and read. Is reading material ever coming back to coffee joints?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Give this place 200 years and it may vaguely resemble a European street corner in the old part of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I just wrote a letter to a friend in a distant city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s pretty low key around me as I write this. Nevertheless, the pandemic rages on and I canceled my writing workshop that would have taken place today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone around here is complying with the mask mandate. Elsewhere, morons wave flags and pitchforks. It’s hard to believe that people will die from attending a rock or country music festival. And they weren’t even shot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This could be a good spot to write this fall and winter if I had anything to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People and their dogs pass by me. They are shopping or heading to and from restaurants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After writing this in my notebook, I have nothing left to do all day except cook dinner for Dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ll probably finish the Upton Sinclair biography I started reading yesterday. He has to be one of the more peculiar American writers who ever lived. He wrote 90 books! He was a ranked tennis player! He was a socialist! He concocted literary hoaxes and sham controversies to promote his books! He ran for Governor of California!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier this morning, I bicycled through the homeless encampment near the park. It had grown by another RV and another van. Whatever goes on there is beyond my comprehension. Still, I try comprehending. Maybe that’s the whole point of my writing about it. Comprehension = Incomprehension. Maybe that’s the theme of the book about the homeless I am marinating in my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who says you have to write about something to make sense of it? How about writing on a subject as an act to not understand a damn thing and thereby settling the nerves? What an interesting theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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