slow march to senescence

September 10, 2001

Today I am 23 and good things have come in the mail: a space-age garlic press, Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool, and well wishes from those near and dear. I couldn't have asked for better weather either: sunny but not hot. Now to see about dinner.

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.