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Flowers of transient fragrance, fruit tarts everlasting

Taste: sweet, fresh, fruit tart; Granny Smith
Sight: cyanotype blue photos; the redundancy of Halloween decorations; fuzzy russet and black spiked Woolly Bear caterpillar of the Isabella Tiger Moth (Pyrrharctia isabella); a pale yellow, dinner-plate-sized toadstool - amanita muscaria; a 1963 black Pontiac Bonneville
Sound: perfect for October-Gary Numan
Touch: blueberries pop
Smell: Vampire incense
Extra: a bright pink house; green clad fairies underground; word of the day: Parnassus (n.) late 14c., from Latin, from Greek Parnassos, mountain in central Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, symbolic of poetry. "Parnassus has its flowers of transient fragrance, as well as its oaks of towering height, and its laurels of eternal verdure." [Samuel Johnson, "The Rambler," March 23, 1751];
 "So the world became morally charged, I guess is how I'd say it. People were precious and not just my people. All of that started working its way into the stories, I think, or at least I hope it did."

"So I have a lot of things left to do, I hope. But the main thing is: get better, by which I mean get more scope and kindness and power into my books, and into me too." — George Saunders, AWP, The Writer's Chronicle
Grateful for: good sleep, dreams, early nights in and books written so well the sentences make you swoon, specificity

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