A Few More Sentences – 03

Gichimanidoo-giizis (Great Spirit Moon) Edition

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January, 2023

2023_0101: The owls calling for the thin clouds to make way for the moon don’t care what year it is.

2023_0102: The butt muscle can’t keep up on sprint seven out of ten, ending the regimen early not so much with a bang but a grimace.

2023_0103: So much frost in the branches of the cottonwoods that sunlight sets them aglow as if they’d been hung with tiny gems.

2023_0104: The road north begins in darkness splintered by high beams and the red glow of tails … but unfolds by midday as glorious light reflecting from the wintery crags of the Mission Mountains.

2023_0105: Heavy mist in the Jocko Valley can’t keep the Boy from Dancing.

2023_0106: Phone and wifi off in an effort to focus on the task at hand, yet I am unwilling to close the curtains on the distracting spectacle of Nookomis hanging outside my window in the early morning hours.

2023_0107: Atop Waterworks Hill and the Missoula valley’s winter inversion, to the west a snow-painted Ch-paa-qn gleams above the clouds, magnificent.