Sail on down the line

There's a short-cut I take sometimes, through a field, and parts of it are kept mowed: the path I take alongside a fence and the latter half of the field. But to my left for a good ways is all dense thicket, higher now than I am. A whole little ecosystem. Yesterday I stopped just past the thicket, looking down: some fat little rodent creature, who'd obviously been living well, was hunkered down, his back to me, nibbling on something. I watched him a while, enjoying his little afternoon snack. He finally noticed me and scurried off to the side but watched me go.

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I mailed off two double spaced, 12 point Courrier copies of Notes to the University of Nebraska Press yesterday. The manuscript comes out huge that way, over 100 pages. They'll begin proofing the manuscript now, which is exciting.

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The First Noble Truth is so true.