Ya left a message

                      You don have to apologise for missin my telephone call

No. I’m apologizing for the several messages I didn’t return.

Im not countin  Everybodys got a life to lead

                                                Eventually wed touchup

You’ll touc . .

. . Youre married Im not

                             Awfully simple when you think about it

A bluesfest in the mountains

Where

It’s called Winthrop.

John  Puritan  Earlymiddle Seventeenth Century

                                                      Dude was a classic hard on

Do as he saiddid not tolerate dissent in his ranks

I don’t know about that.

W  I  N  T  H  R  O  P

    Yes.

                I think you’ll like this. Confluence.

Youre nieces dug it when you explained to them 

                                                     Its permanently assigned to you  Wha rivers

The Twisp and Methow.

I like the names

                  Indian  First People

Yes.

      Twisp. The Methow’s name for a wasp or hornet.

Don have to askkilled two birds with one stone

How’s that?

Tribes name

How’s that?

Methow

          Thas the tribe

Yeah.

       Ohshit.

A pair of history lessons  We both learned something

                                                          Might suppose you can teach an old dog new tricks

With tha

          Time to sing you Happy Birthday an Sto-Lat

 

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https://www.si.edu/object/john-winthrop%3Anpg_NPG.2004.1

https://www.scenicwa.com/story/the-hive-of-the-methow-the-buzz-about-twisp

https://www.polishamericancenter.org/StoLat.htm

. . . yacrack me up

I crack you up? lip twisted  looked like that hurt

Jahyado

I’m afraid this isn’t funny.

Id agree

Then why the hell are you saying that?

    Exactly

                 Because it isnt

You signed the paperwork

This situation isn’t what I signed, what I agreed to.

Please  Show me where in the contract the clause is tha youre arguing

                                                                              I know the contract

Wha youre recitingsuggesting is not there

Although I am willing to wait entertain you while you look for itplease

It may not be verbat . .

. . Verbatim

               Not close not in the neighbourhood

I want to speak with your manager.

he let them get that out

                       Im not wasting their time  Theyll agree with me

You haven’t heard.  

Heard    Wha he knew what was coming

they sniffed the air as if suddenly lovely aromatic flowers blossomed

                                                            The customer’s always right.

    Do you know who said tha didnt wait

                                           A customer no scented flowers

he pushed back on the roller chair he sat instood up

                                                       Were done here

I want satisfaction.

You an the Stones

                    Excuse me

I want to talk to your manager.

 

 

going home that night he wondered if they did

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Stones  (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSSxnv1_J2g

Ohbrother he thought  I hope thas anchored

                                               a towering cubbyhole couldnt makeout its top row

to one side was a slightlyinclined ladder affixed low and high he assumed with rollers that provided access above ones reach

guessed twentyfivethirty cubbies per row inside each and every one were tchotchkes  unique

they made him think episodes experiences witnessings readings writings learnings

                                                                             Ohshit

it occurred to him His cubbyhole  holes

 

had to test his theory

closed his eyeswalking side to side he reached up stooped down purposefully disoriented himself become senseless to several tchotchkes he had admired

                                                    randomly

                                                    reached in

                                                    withdrew it

opened his eyes

half of a heartshaped rock

its broken face coarse silicate flecked

reverse side weathered smooth

a sliver of a rock not fourfivesixteenths wide

if square inchanahaf at most

                                   remembered a gift from Hallie that she plucked from the west branch of the Bitterroot River below Darby on a trip she made alone through Idaho Montana Wyoming Grand Tetons returned through Idaho Oregon sidestepped Nevada south through Burns Lakeville Californias Susanville

they talked every evening when she went to bed

he was in theirs

he remembered

 

he backed away as far as he could

                                          still hadnt the angle to see the top there had to be a top

chuckled

             Theres there there

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. . . freein flies    again

    Again

                 How?so?why?

she makes him laugh

                        Why not kiddo

Not keen on houseflies

                          Id rather they let their freak flags fly  outside

Lemme ask, how are you freeing them?

The kitchen window missing screen flys buzzin nearby slide it open stand still an it seems as long as one of the cats doesnt come in disrupt the scenario the fly  goes  out

Not all the time  but Id say a good seventyeighty percent of the time

                                                                           Its worth it to me  Likely them

Some of your screens are torn.

Cats

Would seem the flies enter through the holes.

Id agree with you

You ought to have the screens repaired.

I have cats

               Such is their price

Like

      Don have cats unless youre a masochist

I’ve heard you say that.

If I may borrow your line  True that

                                        Also  freeing the flies the ripped screen not so much the masochism but otherwise  they run in line with my sense of wabi-sabi which you may not have overheard

Again.

Wabi-sabi

No.

     Haven’t cleared her throat overheard that.

Taking exception

I don’t interlope.

No winked You have exquisite hearing

                                        You are  exquisitely sensitivewhich I adore

You’re teasing me?

    A little bit leaned in  kissed her  she let him

Your sense of wabi . . . ah . . rhymes with it.

Sabi

Yes, thank you.  Wabi-sabi.

                                 Which is what?

Its a Japanese aesthetic philosophy valuing imperfection impermanence incompleteness

Ohmy. Suits you to a T.

Its good for my health my psyche my seele so says Jung

You’re funny.

Your kind of funny kiddo

Yeah.

       I dig you  

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wabi-sabi  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-instincts/202512/why-wabi-sabi-is-the-best-philosophy-of-life

psyche  seele  https://pacifica.libguides.com/Jung/psyche

Bacon jam

                    Pleease  tha a thing

    almost rocked to her heels What have I told you?

Please

         Tell me thasnot a thing

Doesn’t sound appealing?

No

      Now  If someones tossinout bacon grease I ask if I can have ityoud be surprised how many people do   Otherwise  Im not keen on bacon

    You ask for the grease?

Jah  For eggs Potatoes   Onions

                                      Doemup in bacon grease

Delicious

My grandfather taught me

So doing up bacon, he ate it?

No Did it for my grandmother ate bacon  She was fond

Tellya Hot grease residualcrumble drizzled over dandelion greens  Manohman

Dandelions?

Correct

           Also hot over al dente green beans 

You make your kids eat that?

Nope

         My wife woudnt let me

Also enjoyed boiled dandelionsget it before the bud opened theyre like brussels sprout

                                                                                            Also green sandwiches thick slice of onion brown mustard

I remember you saying you ate them when your wife was pregnant with your first child.

Jah  We didnt have a pot to pee in

                                      I was makin damn sure they were nourished

What about you?

Im here arent I

                           Bacon jam

Really a thing

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