February… the hard to spell, quick month. Done. Just like that. Robbed a few precious days, it always feels.
It kicked off with a sporting coup here in Los Angeles. Former Dallas superstar basketball player Luka Dončić became a Laker. Right at the beginning of a big rec league season for my son. I saw some parallels. I wrote about them (10:37).
Rain came to LA, not that long after the fire. Which had me thinking about the everywhere James Taylor song “Fire and Rain” (21:38). I hadn’t given it much thought previously, or more than a cursory listen. Though it is in an excellent episode of The Simpsons. Anyway, it’s okay. Hopefully you are, too.
We’re making some updates at the house. I went online to find a fridge and was unexpectedly made to reckon with the shameful disaster that sits quietly in our kitchen (25:06).
Speaking of the improvements, the men working on our garage got me thinking about my days of laboring jobs and the feeling of being connected to one’s work, without being connected to the rest of the planet online. A sacred space (28:14).
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- Toby
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