She goes back to the West Coast to drink in the sunshine

and I will stay here in these dead plains and try to make a seed grow.
and I would pray for rain if I thought that would help.


September was good. It was momentous and disastrous and sad at times but October is here now. It's what I've waited for since autumn disappeared. I was walking through these trees this afternoon and the wind picked up and started blowing all the dead leaves off the branches. I almost caught one, it was nice.