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Managed to get back in motion today. Even did a walk in between the rain showers. Been a wet weather day. Read late into the evening last night and got up late this morning. Had nothing planned so just started my morning routine late and went from there.

Reading a collection of short stories called The Lives of Rocks. Finished one called Permanent Visitors. Both are excellent and quite different. Lives of Rocks has stories where nature and isolation are background themes. Exquisite detail, to the point of making me wonder how he ever got to know such subjects so thoroughly, so completely.

I'm actually in the middle of the title story, which is a long piece. I wanted to keep reading it last night, but it was already late. It's a beautiful story about a woman, who is undergoing chemo, and is living by herself in a mountainous area. Her closest neighbors is a "back to the earth" family who live in an adjoining valley. She starts carving small boats and sends them with little notes via a nearby stream to the family. Two of the children find the boats and come visit with her. She begins to teach them about rocks and fossils and geologic time. And it goes from there--to whatever ending he has devised--which I'll know tonight.

All of this author's stories are incredibly rich like the Rocks tale.

The funk I was into yesterday receded some today. It helped to get back to my rituals. I'm cooking up some rice and steamed veggies for dinner. May have to start getting up earlier so I can expand my exercise and meditation schedules. That didn't happen this morning, but it needs to begin. The time has come, again! Walrus or no walrus!