October 17, 2026

Cold. All windows closed. Heater in the study on, furnace set at the lowest point I can endure. 

Thomas confides, as we pass the very spot, that he was conceived in the Burger King parking lot on Patton Avenue. 

If I sit at the desk downstairs I see the sky-blue (sometimes) and lavender (sometimes) hydrangea flowers held on stalks to tall and thin they look to be floating.