Observations 7.13.2020

• The full bakery case at Coffee House on Cherry Street in Tulsa.
• The taste of my perfect double tall late.
• Feeling good hearing Dr Mastin say my mouth was healing up just as it should.
• The new barista at CHOC’s wearing her mask to prevent the spread of Covid-19 under her nose.
• Waking up to lightning flashes and thunder shaking the windows.
• Reading about the record for the most cases from one state in one day so far since the pandemic started – Florida – 15,000.

Obervations 7.9.2020

• Reading doc Glatz’s “postcards from the road” email dispatch. Temporarily, he’s now the main hoer and gardner at Tamchop Farm in Michigan, formerly a dentist and always a chef and lover of music festivals.
• Watching Austyn play a video game in his house, just like the old days in the house where he grew up.
• Eating sushi bowls with Austyn and Gabbie; celebrating coldbrew’s “childhood” album going over one million streams.

Observations 7.7.2020

• On my walk today, visiting with a lady who just adopted a golden doodle from Texas. She tried to talk the owners into keeping her, but they just took on more than they could handle with a two year old child.
• listened to a great podcast today, On Being #828, Ellen Davis and Wendell Berry. – “The Art of Being Creatures”. So good. I need to listen again.
• Opal gave me a few Iron Cross bulbs to plant. I put them in a pot of moist soil today – maybe my “lucky clover” will sprout up soon.

Observations 7.6.2020

• Tammy not listening to me when I tried to tell her how to get home after my mouth surgery when I was still loopy, thankfully.
• Tammy taking the best care of me after the same surgery.
• Aman calling to check on me.
• everything spinning as my anesthesia was getting started. Felt pretty good.

Observations 7.5.2020

• spent fireworks on the path around Boomer lake this morning. I had to pick them up.
• identified a Mississippi Kite on my walk this morning.
• two pileated wood peckers at one of my bird feeders this morning when I went out to walk, so big and pretty.

Observations 7.4.2020

• independence day
• the beautiful food spread we made.
• feeling great because everyone participated in the typewriter poem. we each added lines a different times.
• Nina showing everyone her new phone; and taking photos and sharing them.
• seeing a used mask on the ground on my morning walk.
• wishing we could have all been together, the whole Moffat family, and celebrated like all the other years we took for granted.
• being inspired by austin kleon’s journal making.
• the way the firework smoke settled into the grass. when we walked through it the smoke would spread out from under our feet.
• going to bed happy, at 12:03 am.

Observations 6.21.2020

• Father’s Day
• Read a poem by Jericho Brown, in the NYT, a 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, titled Say Thank You Say I’m Sorry. A kind of tribute to grocery store workers durning the pandemic.
• Walking in the drizzling rain in woods on the orange trail at Lake McMurtry.
• Playing cards after a gourmet meal cooked on the grill by Tammy. We played Oklahoma and… Tammy won! She won big time too.
• Getting a very cool coffee cup and a succulent from Aman for Father’s Day. Tammy gave me some extra cash to get something I “need”. They all gave me a day I’ll remember forever.

Observations 6.19.2020

• Seeing an amazing cloud display on the way to work.
• Watching a sopping wet squirrel run into our parking lot at work, looked around, then decided to go back.
• listening to and reading about the controversy over Trump coming to Tulsa during a pandemic for a rally.
• enjoying the rain, all day; and loving the 60 degree temps even more.

Observations 6.18.2020

• the neighbor’s roughly trimmed Great Pyrenees stretching in the morning sunlight on my way to work.
• counting our purple Martin nestlings. we have 33 and 5 eggs.