Small Craft Advisory April 11 — Saints

URGENT – MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE WEATHER SERVICE 906 AM PDT WED APRIL 11 2018 WAVE INDEX: THE TIDE IS COMING IN UNDER THE BRIGHT EYE OF THE LIMINAL SPRING MOON. CREATURE INDEX: AT SUCH A HEIGHT AS TO BE NEARLY INVISIBLE, THE BIRDS ARE CIRCLING. SIGNALS INDEX: THREE LOW LIGHTS OVER THE WATER. A DULL […]

URGENT – MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE WEATHER SERVICE

906 AM PDT WED APRIL 11 2018

WAVE INDEX: THE TIDE IS COMING IN UNDER THE BRIGHT EYE OF THE LIMINAL SPRING MOON.

CREATURE INDEX: AT SUCH A HEIGHT AS TO BE NEARLY INVISIBLE, THE BIRDS ARE CIRCLING.

SIGNALS INDEX: THREE LOW LIGHTS OVER THE WATER. A DULL GLIMMER MOVES IN THE DEPTHS. A CORKED BOTTLE BOBS ON THE WAVES. A SCRAP OF PAPER IS SLIPPED INTO YOUR HAND. ACROSS THE DARKENED ROOM, DIMLY IN THE MIRROR, YOU SEE YOUR REFLECTION LIFT ITS CHIN WITH A DETERMINATION YOU YOURSELF HAD FORGOTTEN.

906 AM PDT WED APRIL 11 2018

…SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT… THE WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A WARNING:

THE LAST SNOWS OF THE YEAR ARE FALLING. YOU STILL HAVE NEED OF YOUR SWEATERS AND GLOVES. HERE ON THE WATER THE WIND IS STILL COLD. YOU ONLY NEED BREATHE THIS CHILL A LITTLE LONGER, ONE MORNING IT WILL BE WARMER, ONE MORNING IT WILL SEEM THE DAY IS ALMOST KIND.

**********ONCE TWICE THREE TIMES ASUNDER***********

THE FOOL AND FEASTS HAVE PASSED.

THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO DAFFODILS OUT THERE. MAYBE THREE BY NOW.

CONSIDER THIS ANOTHER CHANCE.

Marginalia:

Toto’s Africa — The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come — saints who broke their legs ice skating — what would you be the saint of? — Saint Dymphna — everyone in the Middle Ages had a toothache — the longreads thing is real —  our friends have built a Leamond’s Tiny Hut on the internet — it’s hard to convince an animal to let you wear them — tank at the aquarium — Sherlock Holmes, Serial Character — keeping a single bee — The Watership Down of Bees — “Discomfort is your cue to change something so you survive” — “so you’re already suffering, before you’re suffering, and afterward you can remember it” — we skipped from saints to gods — gazelles doing a walk — do animals have minimalism?