Fall New (Samhain) Moon
Rain washing away the drought, ushering in cooler, more fall like weather. Gray skies and a general chill in the air. Familiar to anyone from a temperate latitude. I like it.
Busy day today. Up early and out in the garden in the cool before dawn, working with my hands spreading fertilizer, raking it in to the top couple of inches of soil. Back inside to write my 2nd essay for ModPo, this on a William Carlos Williams poem, identifying its imagist qualities. After that, a nap.
Greg and I took my creaky Latin back onto the track. I pumped the handle hard, but the little car moved pretty slow. We set some goals per two week period, 60 verses per through next May. If I can go faster, I will.
Immediately after Latin over to Kyoto Sushi, an all you can eat Japanese restaurant in Maple Grove just off Weaver Lake Road. Bill and I had lunch and he passed some bio-till to me along with some reading material. As old guys sometimes do, we also discussed hearing aids.
Back home for a second nap. Back up and two lectures on Emerson, Self-Reliance and Experience. Emerson as a proto-Nietzsche and Baudelaire influence as well as a post-Kantian precursor to the modernist critiques of the early twentieth century. Whew. That confused me, too. Basically, he emphasizes active personal experience, moving forward into the future, letting the past be the past and your self be its Self.
Workout. OK. Time for TV.
