It's almost midnight on June 16th. About an hour ago, our power returned after an eight hour power outage brought about by Avista's precautionary blackout after a fire broke out east of Kellogg on a red flag warning day. (Avista is our utility company.)
1. Tonight I finished reading Lonesome Dove. Maybe I'll have reason in a later post to write more about it, but for now I'll just say I found it a story of decisions and consequences, physical endurance, regret, failures, successes, violence, hatred, and love. It's about displacement, riddling its readers from beginning to end about whether there's such a thing as having a home in this world.
2. It's also about mortality and loss and emptiness. The inner emptiness these displaced characters often feel is made physical by the open spaces they encounter in southern Texas before they drive cattle to Montana, confronting the spaciousness of the Great Plains. The characters have to wrestle with mortality as several characters die in this book in a variety of ways, some of them detested and others deeply loved.
3. I seem to be tired, temporarily of lettuce salad. After making couscous salad yesterday for family dinner, today I made another one. I changed it up a bit. I used black beans instead of chickpeas. I included black olives and the last of the Trader Joe's olive tapenade I had on hand. I dressed this salad with basil pesto and olive brine and I didn't have cucumber on hand, so I used zucchini. I had used all my cherry tomatoes in Sunday's salad and didn't go to the store to replace them.
It worked.
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