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while birding today — a day of not seeing much — we came upon this guy in a pretty red plaid shirt, wearing a camera on his back, using another in front. i thought i had come to see birds, but now i’m pretty sure i came to see him and that shirt.

sometimes you don’t see what you think you’re going to see. and thank god, because then maybe it goes further than that. like today on this second day of a new year, when i don’t feel any kind of explosion of newness or any lightning bolt epiphanies… maybe the explosion and the epiphanies just don’t look like what i think they should. and maybe i should just keep my eyes on the path.

happy new year, friends.

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went impromptu ice skating at the new midtown outdoor rink saturday night, but i was too scared to try. clyde did great. he was brave, and it sure was pretty. i hope the fear (mostly of being wet and cold) subsides if we go again. i hate to be such a bore.

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