February 23, 2025

hope's a reptile waiting for the sun.

Latest addition to the walls: a Sarah Matthews print of an MLK Jr. quote from his speech on “The Other America”. (I do also recommend watching the video of that speech)

we must realize that the time is always right to do right - MLK Jr. 1967

February is a strange month, one I measure in cups of tea consumed and soca songs considered.

This February I spent a week in Hong Kong for work and ate miso soup for breakfast each of those days; bought two pairs of walking shoes; signed up for a sewing class; read a bunch of books; did not finish a few others.

And now staring at March, into the teeth of which I ask: how did you measure your February?

Attribution

when things in need of doing go undone
and things that can't be undone come to call,
muttering recriminations at the door,
and buried ambitions rise up through the floor
and pin your wriggling shoulders to the wall;
and hope's a reptile waiting for the sun.
— from February by Bill Christopherson