1. LA and I have been watching Six Feet Under. She’s never seen it. We’re on Season 3. Now: I want to live in a California canyon with Patricia Clarkson, a hammock, and wind chimes, hippie style.

2. Saturday night, LA and I were awakened by the sounds of our neighbor violently dry heaving into the night. It was both comic and disturbing.

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4. I recently bought an African Violet. I saw them at the store and had a flash of my grandmother’s house in Paris, Texas. She use to keep African Violets in small pots on the window sill in the den. They sat in windows that looked out on the back yard. The sturdy swing set and the clothesline, there.

5. Yesterday was Ruination Day.

On this day in 1865: Abraham Lincoln was shot.

On this day in 1912: the Titanic struck an iceberg and began her slow descent into the cold, deep Atlantic.

On this day in 1935: the worst storm of the Dust Bowl, known as the Black Sunday Storm, devastated parts of Oklahoma and Texas, displacing thousands of people.

On this day in 1969: Katharine Hepburn and Barbara Streisand tie for the Best Actress Oscar (oh, the humanity!).

On this day in 2010: thousands die as a result of an earthquake in China.

On this day in 2014: It was kind of cold in Colorado. I taught most of the day. Then: I had a late night production meeting about a disaster related show, which opens square‘s 9th Season. Later (and technically today): a blood moon lunar eclipse. All things considered: it was a pretty good day. I hope it was for you, too.