Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. The White Queen 💬

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. Henry David Thoreau 💬

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. Benjamin Franklin 💬

I hate edge tiling of windows.

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, ‘What are you?’ – Grace Hopper 💬

💬 Groucho Marx: I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Chaos is a friend of mine – Bob Dylan 💬

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. – Alan Turing 💬

Life after death?

Not quite social distancing.

Lady TaDa

Leftovers

New pen! Lamy 2000. Black with EF nib. Colorverse “Map of Mars” ink.

Daffodils

Maintain a social distance while Dancing in the Street.:)

Thinking about a gofundme for local restaurant workers who survive on tips. Is this workable?

📚Also finished Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. I should have read this years ago.

📚Finished the audiobook of The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas. Loved the narration by Bill Homewood. It was a bit commitment since the book runs about 55 hours. I was expecting a bit of a swashbuckler, but instead found a morality tale of the dangers of omnipotence without omniscience.

My nephew has made it home from Denmark where he was studying.

Archdiocese of Detroit suspends all public Masses

LOCAL BOOKSTORES - FAIR TRADE BOOKS IN RED WING, MN

I admit that I’ve been getting most of my books from Amazon or from our library as ebooks. They are convenient for reading in bed or while traveling, but those are the only advantages. There is nothing to mark up and, worse, there is nothing to share. I had a short list of books I wanted to buy that friends had recommended and decided to stick with paper this time. I could get that from Amazon as well, but there are still a few independent bookstores left in the area, including one in Rochester.

More ink! I’m probably set for this life and many after.

I’ve been journaling regularly now for over a year and sporadically before that: pen, paper, and text only. I don’t understand journaling like this.

I received three new inks today. Can’t wait to try them out.

I’ve recovered from my norovirus attack and am now basking in a cool breeze off a Dunedin fishing pier. #mbfeb