I was finally able to sit down and watch a televised baseball game with real interest, after class yesterday. Cards-Padres, post-"season," never mind (for now) the sea of empty seats. My focus was instead on those green fields, in San Diego and in my imagination. I've missed them badly since March, when David Price took the mound for LA in Arizona just before COVID canceled the Cactus League and snipped the season. It feels good to care about something so inconsequential as a game in the sun. That's what Roger Angell said too, that the caring is why we should let games that don't really matter, matter to us... (continues)
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Thursday, October 1, 2020
Cultivate your garden, clean up your mess
LISTEN. Just spilled hot coffee all over my hand and wrist (and kitchen), maybe I should consider a different method than pour and drip at 5 a.m. But I'm up and woke.
I was finally able to sit down and watch a televised baseball game with real interest, after class yesterday. Cards-Padres, post-"season," never mind (for now) the sea of empty seats. My focus was instead on those green fields, in San Diego and in my imagination. I've missed them badly since March, when David Price took the mound for LA in Arizona just before COVID canceled the Cactus League and snipped the season. It feels good to care about something so inconsequential as a game in the sun. That's what Roger Angell said too, that the caring is why we should let games that don't really matter, matter to us... (continues)
I was finally able to sit down and watch a televised baseball game with real interest, after class yesterday. Cards-Padres, post-"season," never mind (for now) the sea of empty seats. My focus was instead on those green fields, in San Diego and in my imagination. I've missed them badly since March, when David Price took the mound for LA in Arizona just before COVID canceled the Cactus League and snipped the season. It feels good to care about something so inconsequential as a game in the sun. That's what Roger Angell said too, that the caring is why we should let games that don't really matter, matter to us... (continues)
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