Tuesday, August 18, 2026

You want to run — I'll run with you

Be cunning, and full of tricks

First a note to any remaining loyal reader(s): it was brought to my attention that you can make a comment here, but then it seems to vanish into the ether. "Do you moderate comments?" my brother Adam asked me, after leaving one on my most recent post. "Um," I thought to myself. And then I checked and yes, I do, although I seem to have neglected my moderating duties for the last...eight years? Oh readers and former readers who are not reading this: I'm so sorry, I wasn't ignoring you, I was just blissfully blogging into the dark. If you leave me a comment now, in 2026, I will (theoretically) see it!

News of the yard: we've expanded from our resident one butterfly, one bunny, and one hummingbird. Now there are two bunnies, occasionally adjacent to each other, kind of playful, hopping in concert, big and little, the big one seeming subtly irritated with the small one. When it's business as usual, they just inhale clover and dandelion, packing it away for the colder months, little eating machines with shiny black eyes and twitchy soft ears. Clover occasionally has a staring contest with one of them, but she doesn't chase them.*

A dream in which I worked at Whole Foods and was answering a customer's question about when we would be getting a fancy new locally made jam. I told her there would be an event that very evening, and then they would start rolling it out. And then I said, because in my dreams I am a standup comedian: "But very carefully, because most of it is in glass jars."




*best girl.


Monday, August 10, 2026

We were looking at the ceiling and then we saw the sky

"Ohoho what's this?" my three readers are no doubt exclaiming, at the sight of a post that is not a monthly rabbit. I have clearly been uninspired to write here for some time, in part because this blorg had mainly become a litany of things I see in my back yard. Birds and rabbits, birds and rabbits! Which was making me think sadly about the photos Mark's dad took toward the end of his life, all of them capturing only what he could see from his La-Z-Boy (the TV, mostly).

Nevertheless, onto the birds I saw today while walking Clover: SO MANY DOVES. Maybe 20? Flying and landing on a roof, clearly doves, not their streetwise pigeon cousins. I held the thought in my head all the way home: look up terms of venery for doves. I had to remember rather than search on the go* because I've been deliberately leaving my phone at home more often, to prove to myself it's not a remote control required for my normal functioning. Also because I was wearing lightweight summery clown pants that become more clownish when I put items in my pockets.

As usual, there are many collective nouns to choose from when it comes to doves. I like dole and pitying. Also bevy. A dole of doves. A bevy of doves. 



*related: no photographic evidence

Wednesday, July 01, 2026

Rabbit rabbit

 

“I’ve long believed that the ones who have more joy win.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer