Dug Coal. Rained.: The Day Before & The Day After

Daniel and I tried to work around the loss of electricity at his house and managed to finish shooting B roll for MLR. Mom and I coordinated the menu list and the grocery list that Lynn and I shopped for after the kids were in bed.

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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.

Friday, July 04, 2008

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