Category Archives: Atmospheric

18-FORT

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Quenching

Mark Singer: Is there anything you’ve been able to draw upon, David? Is there comfort in the past?

David Milch : I feel the past falling away and the attachments of regret for what wasn’t done or was done badly or was done without sufficient sympathy, and it was for that reason that our granddaughter’s visit was such a redemptive and compelling occurrence. Everything is an adventure for her and a delight and a surprise, an opening up, and that’s a big gratification.

Mark Singer: I’ve never thought of you as a sentimental person, but maybe I misread that. How would you characterize yourself?

David Milch: As an unsentimental person.

Third Act by Mark Singer (New Yorker May 20, 2019)

01-LOCK

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Flocking

Seven older gentlemen of various political persuasions gather in the courtyard under the squawking birds to politely discuss and examine, in regulated heartbeat, the current issues and events of the week.

High-school classmates, both living & dead, unknown to others outside of Los Gatos, they also like to talk about.

Exclusive club it is.

30-WERB

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Energetic

Photo by M.Thomson

Had a great test ride today. Harley-Davidson LiveWire has a very strong, broad powerband and handles quite well as a quiet (and sweet smelling) street bike.

Expected sunny weather but instead got drenched by a cloudburst when approaching the foothills around the valley, so I stuck with the streets around town and put off riding the winding back roads. Still, lots of fun.

Windy.com

Interested in the drive to electrify California? With focus on electric motorcycles? LiveWire is #1 in the lineup of futuristic transportation vehicles.

Just think of the many issues needing resolution before the year 2034, including fortifying the energy grid and making electric recharging more convenient.

It’s an exciting challenge.

23-CORV

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Nonstop

Raucous Cosmopolitan

Americans, we have much to be grateful for. We have freedom, and freedom is everything.

Pete Campbell, San Jose

Loved ones we call the dead depart from us and for a while are absent. And then as if called back by our love, they come near us again. They enter our dreams. We feel they have been near us when we have not thought of them. They are simply here, simply waiting while we are distracted among our obligations. At last it comes to us: They live now in the permanent world. We are the absent ones.

Wendell Berry, The New Yorker, NOV 24, 2025

17-XPAN

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Wilderness

Out here by myself in 2016 at a place almost totally inaccessible to normal people; motorcycle stuck on that hill for several hours. There’s no water! Nowadays I stay home, look at the picture.

Trinity College Library, Dublin (abundant resources and signs of humanity)

He turned to Stephen and said:

—Seriously, Dedalus. I’m stony. Hurry out to your school kip and bring us back some money.

—That reminds me, Haines said, rising, that I have to visit your national library today.

—Our swim first, Buck Mulligan said.”

Ulysses by James Joyce

07-WASH

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Disturbance

Finally, got our wish!

“We’re going,” he said excitedly, and shivered with energy.

“Where? How?” said Arthur.

“I don’t know,” said Ford, “but I just feel that the time is right. Things are going to happen. We’re on our way.” He lowered his voice to a whisper: “I have detected,” he said, “disturbances in the wash.”

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING, Chapter 2 – by Douglas Adams
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