Writing room – 21 June 2026 I'm going away to Lake Powell, AZ, this week to stay with some friends on a house boat. I've never been, but growing up in Utah, I was always around people who would go annually. Being in a "Lake Powell family" was like a status symbol, of sorts. I never thought I'd go. I've had a chip on my shoulder since I was a teenager when I learned that in the 1960's, when they dammed the Colorado River to flood Glen Canyon and create the reservoir, over 2,000 indigenous American archeological sites were destroyed. Since then, I've seen the lake as a symbol of the reckless, selfish, individualistic mentality that plagues the culture of people in the Southwest and their disrespect for cultures outside of their own. Even still, I hope to find time while I'm there on the lake to relax and enjoy the beautiful red rock landscape as well as the company of our friends. I'll try and resist being a wet blanket, though I will feel ambivalent about our being there. 16 June 2026 Ralph Vaughan Williams in the morning, Erika de Casier in the evening – I put my watch on upside down again today without noticing. I've started imagining what something like this could mean. People used to base their entire lives around superstitions like this. 4 June 2026 Songs for when the afternoon sun is filtered through the leaves of a tree and everything it touches shimmers and glows a vibrant yellow-green > https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/happy-today > https://daveholland.bandcamp.com/track/jazzonia 2 June 2026 I lost my copy of The Magic Mountain, I think it slipped off the bench without me noticing while I was at the park. Oh well, maybe I wasn't meant to read it yet 28 May 2026 TextEdit is my favorite app 27 May 2026 I live almost entirely in the moment. Sometimes this is good, sometimes this is bad. – A few months ago I wrote something about allowing myself to be like a pebble in a stream, watching the river flow by, but I do think there comes a time where it's time to pick up the pebble and toss it around a little. 26 May 2026 I've been incredibly restless lately, I must have spring fever like my cat. I've desperately been needing to find new ideas, new projects to work on, friends to be around, energy to feed off of 19 May 2026 I have learned to love the smell of the air when it's hot and humid