- a few dozen vehicles either off the road, facing the wrong way, or on the road, same calamitous circumstances, owing to the slippery slope of snow
- whitened and crystalline branches, limbs, tree trunks, and mini-palisades
- rain or snow or ice against the windshield
- windshield wipers
- the tired yet wise and kind eyes of the 98-year-old woman who gave birth to me
- my hometown, remarkably recognizable
- toll booths
- lines of people at the rest stop, also called text stop
- road signs
- heavily mascaraed and tired-beyond-years eyes of a gas station sales clerk
- a McDonald's crispy chicken sandwich
- a holiday bouquet of not-very-fresh flowers
- a coffee-to-go, from Wendy's
- apostrophes
- the digital readout of mileage on my car's dashboard surpassing 100000
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
what I saw today
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this is like a slower, more reflective version of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". PK, you rule like no one else I know. Keep it up
No yellow-bellied sapsuckers?
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