And another good thing, of a different sort, for the day. Chris grew a watermelon this summer. He thought he was planting a vine for gourds, but it was a melon vine instead, and it yielded a sole, small fruit. Today he muddled some of the fruit and added gin to make a little drink for each of us. I'm not a fan of watermelon in general, but this watermelon in some Ethereal Gin was wonderful.
Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
10/1: reading a sonnet
...or rather two sonnets by Edmund Spenser. I came across one of them--Sonnet 28--earlier in the week when I was looking at Daphne-related poems and art. I wanted to think more about it today, and I decided to see what the surrounding sonnets were like. It turns out that Sonnet 28 sets up Sonnet 29 so it's important to look at them together. Taking them as a pair changes my view of Sonnet 28 in a way that I'm glad for.
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