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(Summer Breeze) |
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July 17, 2023 |
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For a moment yesterday (Sunday) evening there was a pure good moment. The |
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weekend was disorienting as they often are. This time I was juggling a not |
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completely unusual mix of whiplash from acquitting myself from my day-job |
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workweek, and attempting to get stuff done around the homestead, and |
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needing some sort of recovery time--from everything, really. The medium of |
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opposites was enhanced by an emulsion of successes and failures. |
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The garden was producing beautifully, but the rodents were threatening to |
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get out of hand. I personally felt low-energy and strung out, but I also |
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didn't seem to be drawn towards being anxious or angry about it, which was |
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the usual case. My own internal emotional world seemed to center on an |
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unusual, for me, anesthetized neutral tone. I felt harried by all the |
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million tasks, but was able to put in some actual work into things that I |
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usually don't find time for, setting up some monitoring cameras on the |
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driveway and doing some work in my home server. |
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It was hot during the day, or at least hot for somebody who has become |
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acclimated to the coastal zone. And while working in the garden, tying |
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things up and watering along side my partner, I decided to start working |
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on a Yacht Rock playlist. I had picked up a taste for Yacht Rock during |
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quarantine, the "genre" hit me just right in a way I can't quite explain. |
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The early evening started setting and a small weather front came in, the |
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temperature dropped and a breeze kicked up. My thousand concerns receded |
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to the background, and in a cheesy miraculous theme-music synchronicity, |
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worthy of the genre, Summer Breeze by Seals and Croft started playing. |
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For a few minutes, everything was beautiful. |
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