Dug Coal. Rained.: Bad News with a Long Shadow

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Bad News with a Long Shadow

Bad news about Lynn's dad came today. Tried to live normal workdays (me-editing film, writing letters of recommendation, Lynn-at school) in the valley of the shadow...and then drove to Coshocton for a tear-y, quieter than usual, tater tot casserole at Kristy and Brian's.

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When Lynn found her great grandfather's diary, many of the entries read:

Dug Coal. Rained.

I suppose if my world demanded such work in such conditions, I too, may have grown terse.

On the other hand, the artificial imposition of Two Sentences A Day seemed like exactly what's needed to satisfy my yearning to archive the daily flow of life.

To bookmark particular sensations and experience.

To leave a scar that I can return to be assured that I really was alive back then:

My life really did happen.

So for the last year I wrote two sentences a day.

These days I'm re-reading to see whether the archival urge and the reflexive urge together can do anything to heal my soul or shed insight across a tiny sliver of the world...

Dug Coal. Rained.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Bad News with a Long Shadow

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