Your daily sentences roundup is the highlight of my month, month after month...even though typing month so many time feels like marbles clogging my mouth and brain now. 😆
I know and love 'vespers' from a religious practice, but when I googled it I found this: 'A famous drink invented by the fictional spy James Bond in Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale. It mixes gin, vodka, and Kina Lillet.' Maybe it's time to create a new 'vespers' moment??
Always love these sentences. I'm glad to hear Grandmother is angry. I never thought of it that way and that is somehow very validating and against everything I was taught as a kid. I don’t think I'll see that red orb in the sky any other way again.
I should say "I'm glad to hear about a deity/spirit/power that is angry about all this mess", as in, why is there no other anger about this decimation? Not in the mainstream nonsense I was taught and constantly questioned as a kid.
I always love these sentences, Chris. They transport me, and quite often bring a lovely memory of mellower days in Montana as well as the wilder ones. Many blessings and MUCH LOVE! ~Wendy💜
I have never met Wendy, but we have traveled the same highways. She writes, "I knew Bearhead Swaney, and quite well. When I was in high school and worked at the Old Timer Cafe in St. Ignatius, he would stop in and entertain! I enjoyed visiting with him. He was quite a character! He and Doug Allard could stir up the morning coffee crowd! I can believe that Bearhead would have had a belt buckle like that! Doug Allard probably sold it to him! AMERICA: LOVE IT OR GIVE IT BACK."
Late to reading them this month. Concerned as many express depression in my reading. Your sentences support many in ways you cannot know; your life matters; find joy wherever you can and keep going - and keep not going/not doing as the necessary antidote. May your wellsprings of the natural world never dry.
From my month:
2026.07.22 | Amidst all the junk mail, I find an "IndigiPalooza MT Resistance 250+" t-shirt in my mailbox, and I declare the day a complete success.
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❤️ 2026_0706
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9tC_VRTQe8
Best comment ever. Truly. ❤️🙏🏽
Your daily sentences roundup is the highlight of my month, month after month...even though typing month so many time feels like marbles clogging my mouth and brain now. 😆
Ha ha, miigwech, Angie.
May we all have a 7/12 moment.
Indeed!
Digging this installment. Vespers indeed. Stay cool. -Nigel
Hope all is well out your way, Nigel.
I know and love 'vespers' from a religious practice, but when I googled it I found this: 'A famous drink invented by the fictional spy James Bond in Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale. It mixes gin, vodka, and Kina Lillet.' Maybe it's time to create a new 'vespers' moment??
Seek more vesper sparrow moments!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9tC_VRTQe8
Your sentences —a joy to read—make me
want to commit to daily sentences, at the very least in the seasons when poems aren’t flowing.
They are often the thing that keeps me wanting to keep going, Holly. 💚
2026_0701 and 2026_0706, and now I wish to find opportunity to apply "Vesper" in my days.
Good to read you again, Chris.
It's such a calm sounding word.
Always love these sentences. I'm glad to hear Grandmother is angry. I never thought of it that way and that is somehow very validating and against everything I was taught as a kid. I don’t think I'll see that red orb in the sky any other way again.
I should say "I'm glad to hear about a deity/spirit/power that is angry about all this mess", as in, why is there no other anger about this decimation? Not in the mainstream nonsense I was taught and constantly questioned as a kid.
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The hoody's hibernation day is a solemn day indeed. Ours comes much earlier than yours, but it does come for us all.
Let us take a moment.... 😂
I always love these sentences, Chris. They transport me, and quite often bring a lovely memory of mellower days in Montana as well as the wilder ones. Many blessings and MUCH LOVE! ~Wendy💜
I have never met Wendy, but we have traveled the same highways. She writes, "I knew Bearhead Swaney, and quite well. When I was in high school and worked at the Old Timer Cafe in St. Ignatius, he would stop in and entertain! I enjoyed visiting with him. He was quite a character! He and Doug Allard could stir up the morning coffee crowd! I can believe that Bearhead would have had a belt buckle like that! Doug Allard probably sold it to him! AMERICA: LOVE IT OR GIVE IT BACK."
Late to reading them this month. Concerned as many express depression in my reading. Your sentences support many in ways you cannot know; your life matters; find joy wherever you can and keep going - and keep not going/not doing as the necessary antidote. May your wellsprings of the natural world never dry.
"Return to Attention" was marvelous -- I hope you'll do it again?
As always thanks for your daily thoughts - pleasant, angry, happy - all of it. I honor the publicness of sharing here.
I haven't heard "higglety pigglety" in decades. My Scottish grama and my mama often said it.
Vespers in Latin = evening.
A deliscous moment yesterday AM to need my hoodie. A sneak peek of hoodie days to come.
Be well and soak up some peace in Yellowstone.