August 9, 2025

SS expresses interest (guarded) in Purification. FM writes, “It may be the best play I’ve ever read” and wants to market it to Cleveland theaters. Are there Cleveland theaters? 

Lesson for the day: If you buy raspberries in a market, eat them fast. Otherwise, they’ll vanish under fungus in two days. 

Finding those sing-along pages on You Tube, to practice sightreading until the choruses start up again. 

M is pregnant with a daughter.

Bear comes into the garden at sunset, noses around, takes a drink from the pond, makes his rounds totally unperturbed by my rushing from place to place trying to take his picture.