a day or two of livin' the life

Dew laden spider web lit by the morning sun.

Sunday afternoon when I was walking Minnie down one of the two streets that bookend my little neighborhood I saw an iPhone laying on the street. So yeah, of course I picked it up. It wasn’t damaged and I carried it with me while we finished our walk. Once home I took a picture of the back of it with the intent of posting it on the various Wharton city/county chat groups on FB but before I could do that, it rang. I picked it up, slide to answer, do you have my phone? I’m thinking why else would I be talking on it but said yes. Are you at XXX Yes, XXX on XXXXX street. I’ll come get it. By the time I walked out of the house and around to the front a little white car was parked in front. A young man got out, thank goodness for ‘find my phone’ function, they had been tracking it as it was moving around, apparently noticed it was missing about the time I found it. Yes, I was walking my dog. Asked him if he could tell me what the picture was, his little girl, and I handed it over. What do I owe you he asked. Nothing. He seemed surprised that I didn’t want a reward. Anyway, I’m glad he got his phone back.

It must have gotten cold enough one of our nights in the low 40s last week to trigger the trees. I noticed yesterday that the tallows had quite a few red leaves instead of the ones that fall one at a time, the gingko leaves are fading to yellow, and the pecan tree leaves are very yellow and drifting down even though (checks notes) it’s already 80˚ at 10 am. Such is fall on the Gulf Coast plains of Texas.

I ordered my favorite rice last week, organic short grain brown rice. I don’t really care for long grain brown rice, would rather just have white jasmine if that’s the only other option so I have to order it on line. I can’t buy it at any of the stores around here. Used to be, the local grocery store in my neighborhood and some of the little organic foods stores carried it. Then that stopped. Whole Foods carried it in loose bulk but I’m not so sure they still do. Regardless I’d have to drive into Houston and I’m not doing that. Costco had it a time or two but not for several years so I order it from Lundberg Farms, 12 pounds worth which comes out to 8 quarts, about a year’s worth for us. So one quart jar full in the pantry and 7 vacuumed sealed quart jar’s worth. 

Blogger Mitchell of Moving With Mitchell posted John Lennon’s song Power to the People, recorded and released in 1971, an anthem and call to action for social and political change, that the power of governance belonged with the people, not a small ruling class of elites. It was relevant then during the years of social turmoil and the VietNam war and is even more relevant now, 50 years later, while the Republican turned fascist authoritarian Party, the MAGA movement, dismantles our democratic government, suppresses the vote, throws due process out the window, eliminates the social safety net and access to healthcare, moves even more money from the common people to the already obscenely wealthy while propping up an obviously ill disgusting bully of an old man with dementia as the figurehead. This isn’t really about all that but about the music of the 60s and 70s when we were young and protesting and fighting for social and political change. Where is that energy now? Where are the young musicians and song writers expressing rage against the destruction of our democracy, the loss of our civil rights, the disappearing of people into facilities never to be heard from again, the warmongers bombing boats and killing people with no proof whatsoever that there are drugs aboard? 

Other than that, I’ve been good about doing some yoga every morning except Thursday when I don’t have time but have class that night and Saturday, I gave myself a day off and I can already tell a difference. That and I’m working on another little painting.