hey why am i still awake? 3 hours ago i was exhausted asleep in the car, dad driving us home from our day at point reyes seashore. i emerged from exhaustion every once inawhile to murmur to dad 'you doing alright?' cuz he was tired too, then sunk back again, not sure what i would do if he was to ask me to drive, which he wouldn't do, dad being dad, but anyways feeling beyond retrieval to the world of alertness. and now here i am a couple hours of internet reading later, thinking about the plight of africa and uneven economic development, the state of my personal life, and what i need to do tomorrow, and wishing the blue light on im would blink.
a fox i think though hard to tell ran down from a hill onto osema-bolinas road and we hit it.
ate $13 fish&chips at osema inn. the bathroom had little white octagonal tiles like our philly bathroom. and pizza at mary's pizza shack, open since 1959.
walked about 7/8 miles, mostly in the grey, with damp pine and sweet grass smells, hawks with their feather tips spread like yoga toes, black glossy lakes growing green mats of algae, eight-branching trunks of eucalyptus shedding their bark, leaving shavings all around the grove and trail, people walking in couples, a french family, steep drop to the ocean, long gray horizon, lapping water, white wash breaking foam, shirring sound and footsteps, wind past my ears and tickly spots on the skin of my face, head rested near gopher holes, first drops of rain without release, a bunny rabbit in the same spot going and returning, a deer in the distance grazing on a hill...
okay now i'm really going to bed. maybe i'll read the last few pages of herzog first.
posted by Liza 29.12.03