June 3, 2021

Overcast, praying for actual rain so I can stop dragging the hose all over. 

A few minutes’ stillness on the front porch reveals a reptile population explosion– blue tailed skinks, and brown skinks of considerable size. 

Sweetboi now prefers the electric outlet pylon in the yard for his perch. He stretches on tip toe to see if I’ve tossed his morsel. 

Sent an announcement to the English Department about Washington Place: not a murmur of response. I recall the closely knit nature of the faculty at Hiram and at Syracuse, how the faculty looked out for one another even after retirement, as would a family. Not a ghost of that here. So much was wrong. I can’t even fathom the root of it. 

Asheville Police Department, having lost 80+ cops in a year, makes up a list of crimes to which they will not longer respond. I think the same could be accomplished through other means, such as not sending eight officers to kick the shit out of a jaywalker, or to pile up on a grandma who crossed the yellow line for two seconds. The resistence American police show to reform indicates that the reform will need ultimately to be painful.