Tea: Pu-er Poe/Jasmine blend
Time: Midmorning
Music: Bill Withers, "Lovely Day"; Jayhawks, "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"; Adrian Belew, "Big Blue Sun"
It's a bit of hopeful thinking, perhaps, this whole loveliness thing. It's supposed to be 90 out today, and I am not in favor of this. Summer is all right after dark, but I still think of it as a bad opening act for fall.
But ... how can you listen to "Lovely Day" and not start nodding your head? Follow that up with "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me," and the prospect of a sunny day doesn't seem so bad after all. Complete the trifecta with Belew's Beatlesque ditty (even if my copy plays at a crummy 96 bps), add caffeine, and voila! Instant happiness, or at the very least a big plate of cheerful bemusement with a side of motivation.
It's also hard to remain blah when drinking the daily cuppa from a mug with a picture of a T-Rex skull on it. It's from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Never been, but I'm going to NYC for the first time this fall for a series of writing classes and workshops. So, time permitting, I'll get to go.
In the meantime, here and here and here are pictures of other impressive dinosaurs.
Yeah, they're all meat-eaters (or fish-eaters, in one case). Face it, carnivores rock. When was the last time you saw a kid pretending to be a placid herbivore?
OK, maybe one of these. Because big horns are pretty cool, too.
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