The wind is getting colder, and my ears feel like declaring independence from my head. Got some work done today, need to do some more. It’s been roughly four years since I first found this app, & I feel like I’ve changed in some ways, and stayed true to my weird old self in others. The wind carries people’s voices and they float, adrift in icy air. I played gentle,tender music as I walked back from the rec center. It was Ashley Helal, an artist and creator and downright beautiful,iAmSure,person. Soft mellow ukulele — or is it a certain cousin of the uke? I think about words sometimes now, I test them, pronouncing every syllable as carefully and as crisply as can be. /L