being a life of artistry

---

What a pleasure to be a NYTimes “Pick” at comments on an article
I loved reading. Of the editors’ few picks, out of over 400 comments,
I’m the last word!

Now, not to burden you with intricacies, please bear with me to a figurative (non-intricate) end.

fairly aiming

---

Gorgeous days have come to Berkeley, just as the Covid-19 scare causes Cal’s botanically-lush campus to become as quiet as spring break.

I completed the “set of aims” that I mentioned March 6, but went to bed last night a little despaired about how I could do anything with it briefly for an update here.

This morning, I became enchanted by an astronomy article in the NYTimes, which caused me to spend the morning writing exotically
to the author, David Overbye. Then, I turned that into a blog posting,
“for astro-science funding—then beyond.”

What to do with the elaborate organization of notes that express the set of aims remains to be seen. But the thematic distance from the “way post...” below (textist) to “—then beyond” (cosmic) tropes the scale of my aims.

---

way post up for words

---

A new post, above the one before (above the one before (above the one before…)) allegorizes increasing departure (going up as pathing forward). Reading down the list as going back and disclosing implicit presumption by what’s above: that the writing has already lived what going down recalls.

With diaries, a reader opens to the beginning and reads into the future. With blogging, a reader opens to the present and increasingly (reading down) finds a past.

Yet, the writer’s present is implicitly drawing itself into an anticipatory path.

days go by

---

Mar. 6

I need time until Sunday for an update here, because I have a set of aims I can’t be fair to, by late tonight.

---

Mar. 7

No, I can’t get it done. Too much aim, too little time.

I’ll have it before Friday, Mar. 14 (he said).

But the g.com home page update (March 7) got more interesting.

Last night, I streamed “The Handmaiden” (2016) which is amazing—
and thanks to the stop-and-start option of streaming, one can be sure
to not get frustrated by subtitle reading amid major action. Later
discussing this feminist fable of duplicity will be fun.

Now, I’m going to stream “The Souvenir” (2019).