I ended the day by digging up my garlic. I remember four years ago standing on the edge of a trip while the kiln cooled. I was undecided, was it too soon to pull my garlic? In the end I decided it was better to be early rather than too late. The planned five day get-away turned into three weeks as I sat with my dad who had had a heart attack. He hung on for a bit and finally passed away. My dad always thought father's day was a corny Hallmark contrivance, but I am happy to honor all the Dads in our orbit. Twas lovely to have a surprise visit from our daughter and her fiance, to linger on the porch and to jump in the pond as if it is full-on summer.
What matters is precisely this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.
-- Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry, 21 July 1912
What matters is precisely this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.-- Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry, 21 July 1912
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