Dark and getting darker all the time.

Every three years since we began courting, I have created a mixtape/CD/playlist for my beloved, which drops during the summer, usually in time for a big road trip. They are a chronological document of the songs we enjoyed together, concerts we attended together, movies we had seen together, moments that surprised us together, even times that we had suffered together.

The series is called Music From the Big Love, this year I created collection number ten. That's thirty years for those of you scoring at home (and if you are scoring at home, knock it off). The past three years have seen us from the closing of the quarantine through the emptying of our nest and so many other occasions.

Things that go to make up a life.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 28:49
Pace: 9:17

"Kiss Me While the World Decays"

(Music From the Big Love 2021-2024)

Disc One:

Chaise Lounge - Wet Leg

Benny's Dispatch from "In the Heights"

America from "West Side Story" (2021)

Radioactivity - Kraftwerk

Wedding Song from "Hadestown"

Cracker Island - Gorillaz ft. Thundercat

Nothing Left to Lose - Everything But the Girl

Theme from Succession - Nicholas Britell

Route: Boulevard Loop
Temperature: 52°
Climate: cool
Mood: all right
Stretches: yes 
Water: yes

Pain Reliever: yes

First morning for the new year of the residency. Poor sleep (the cat visited me a half dozen times) but I rose early to have a run before we begin. I plan to continue in this way for the next several weeks. I hope that I do. Every other day, a run.

And the world has turned. Literally. I must run through the city, where there are lights, and not through the woods, where it remains dark. I will return to them over the weekend.

Upper body: 

Core Strength: 

Baseline: 185 lbs.

Weight:  174 lbs. (+1.0)

Goal: 170 lbs.

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, bagel & cream cheese

Coffee Break: coffee w/cream, oatmeal cookie

Lunch: sushi & salad, Fruit Snacks

Snack:: Cheez-Its

Dinner Prep: Nosferatu, almonds

Dinner: Gazpacho, crusty bread