Daily Archive: September 26, 2003

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver I never really knew what I was going to be “when I grew up.” I still...

Woke up feeling sick to my stomach and shaky, so I stayed home from work. I’ve managed to accomplish rather a lot picking up the house and laundry-wise, plus some AWC computer work, after sleeping all morning, but still have a headache, and am definitely not 100%. Didn’t want to go to work anyway, as it’s been making me crazy for several weeks and I’m just not motivated. Just saw on CNN that Robert Palmer has died of a heart attack at the age of 54. It’s sunny today but looks awfully windy. I have to force myself to get...