Oyster farm at sunset — where the Salt Bay meets the river

Think like a mountain — no nature without fear • Also reminded me of one of my earliest microblog posts, when the traveling adventure first began — with a fitting quote from the great Barry Lopez and a photo of what I believe is (fittingly) Rising Wolf Mountain in view

Kitchen Chalk Talk (read the whole poem here)

🍿 Watched Project Hail Mary yesterday as planned. The whole room clapped at the end, which is a thing we’re doing now, I guess. This was a very fun Thing To Do over the past few weeks — reading and sharing the book before the movie — and we’re a little sad it’s over. I would give the movie a Met Expectations grade. I have to agree with my friend Jeremy, I don’t think the movie itself matched the hype, not without the book. I laughed a lot, and enjoyed it a lot, but always because it recalled that moment or that line or that characteristic in the book. (There were some minor changes and truncations, and one or two big ones.) Still, though I don’t usually like mixing movies with books, this was well worth it. A friend of mine used to wear a t-shirt that just said “I’m good clean family fun.” Put that 5-star endorsement on the cover.

Finished reading: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 📚

Delightful. Meghan and I had fun sharing the book. We’ll see the movie this afternoon at our quaint old local theater after some lunch-brunch in town, which will be our first second official date in, oh, 2 1/2 years 🙂.

Text from the wife. That’s my boy!

I stalled reading Ross McCullough’s The Body of This Death over a month ago, mostly I’d say for reasons also mentioned by Mr. ReaderJohn — namely, its notebook aphorisms quality, which does not promote page turning. But the book does reward at random. It’s nothing if not interesting.

“The perfect, blurry image of the child you imagined is replaced with this child, with your child, and there is no going back.” — Hannah LaGrand