68\u00a0 bar steady 29.98 0mph SE\u00a0 dew-point 56\u00a0 Sunrise 5:48\u00a0 Sunset 8:50PM\u00a0 Summer<\/p>\n
Waning Gibbous Thunder Moon<\/p>\n
Thump.\u00a0 Thump.\u00a0 Pause.\u00a0 Thump.\u00a0 Thump.\u00a0 Thrudda Thrudda Thump.\u00a0 Bang.\u00a0 Thump.\u00a0 Thump.\u00a0 Most of the time it is quiet here.\u00a0 At night the quiet becomes complete, with the exception of tonight.\u00a0 One of the neighbors must have had left overs from the 4th.\u00a0 Strange sounds at night make you wanna know what’s going on.\u00a0 Kate went out back and I went out front.\u00a0 Saw nothing.\u00a0 Either of us.\u00a0 Both of us concluded fireworks.\u00a0 A suburban July nighttime mystery.<\/p>\n
The tone of my last few posts has trended down.\u00a0 My inner barometer falls, not steeply, but it does fall.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Midsummer blahs.\u00a0 The whole weight thing.\u00a0 A certain inner doldrum.\u00a0 Maybe a change in my spiritual life.\u00a0 This is the realm of melancholy, not depression, and it usually precedes a creative period.\u00a0 As I fall deeper into my interior, it is as if my gifts and energy fall with me, not in a negative sense, but as preliminary to a harvest.\u00a0 When I pull inward, my outer affect often declines, but the interior feeling is that of gathering my resources, marshaling them into a coherent whole.<\/p>\n
The weather in Minneola, Texas has 97 and sunny as a theme for the three days we will be there.\u00a0 97 is cooler than past reunions.\u00a0 The last time I headed to Oklahoma for an Ellis reunion it was 107 the whole time I was there.\u00a0 That’s hot.\u00a0 We’ve gotten notes about what to bring to help defray the cost of food for 36 adults and a gaggle of kids.\u00a0 Charles Paul, that’s me, gets a pass, but Kate and I will pick up something once we get there.<\/p>\n
It just dawned on me yesterday why my name was Charles Paul or CP on both sides of the family.\u00a0 My dad’s brother was my Uncle Charles and my grandfather Keaton was Charles Keaton.\u00a0 A diplomatic choice of names by mom and dad, but it left each side with a need to differentiate between two of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
68\u00a0 bar steady 29.98 0mph SE\u00a0 dew-point 56\u00a0 Sunrise 5:48\u00a0 Sunset 8:50PM\u00a0 Summer Waning Gibbous Thunder Moon Thump.\u00a0 Thump.\u00a0 Pause.\u00a0 Thump.\u00a0 Thump.\u00a0 Thrudda Thrudda Thump.\u00a0 Bang.\u00a0 Thump.\u00a0 Thump.\u00a0 Most of the time it is quiet here.\u00a0 At night the quiet becomes complete, with the exception of tonight.\u00a0 One of the neighbors must have had left … Continue reading A Certain Inner Doldrum<\/span>