"The middle way describes a creature in many ways like a stray hound. Lo, does the stray dog follow the path of wrath, or the path of still? Ask the stray dog. It will not answer- because it is a dog, and you are not very bright. The shame you feel is a first lesson: do not make too much of a fuss of details."

Tend the melons. Pushups. Situps. Tend the melons. Sleep.

"It is a rat-gnawed, weather-tossed thing, shaking in each and every limb from malnourish, from the pressures of the very air around it. But the stray dog stands, and gnaws the old trash of the alley, and goes on."

Tend the melons. Step outside. Daily walk about town, hello to:

-East
-Draghnier
-Bessie
-Vess
-Vedi if you can find her outside the company of Vess
-Olive
-Kotula
-Aisha
-Bessie again
-Shillelagh
-Kalani
-Auntgie

Pushups. Situps. Tend the melons. Sleep.

"Consider now the life of the dog. What trash does it eat? When does it bark, when does it run, when does it sleep? Who could begin to understand but a second of the life of the hound in any way that is not fumbling and clumsy? If one could communicate the qualia of being with any measure of accuracy, I would not need to think on such things as I do now. My teachers would have given me themselves, and I would have become Learned."

Tend the melons. Examine the leaves for crinkled edges, the soil for a lack of the particular characteristic that makes them pop up from the soil like great bloody eggs, sweet with pulp. Examine the melons, if they are ready for bringing in, bring them in. If they are not, leave them be. Tend the soil, tend the water, mind the melons, wake up.


Take your daily walk(that's becoming more of a focused jog these days) about town, hello to:

-East
-Draghnier
-Bessie, my word she's spirited today. Hope she don't jostle somethin' out of place.
-Vess, because she seems like she knows where you can get a few books on handwriting. How to read proper-like.
-Vedi if you can find her outside the company of Vess, you'd be too cruel in your joking for comfort
-Olive
-Kotula
-Aisha
-Bessie again
-Shillelagh
-Kalani
-Auntgie



Pushups.