{"id":312,"date":"2020-08-07T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minimoog.net\/daphne\/?p=312"},"modified":"2020-08-08T05:24:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T05:24:37","slug":"narrative-mostly-freewriting-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minimoog.net\/daphne\/narrative-mostly-freewriting-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative Mostly Freewriting #5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sitting on the couch, listening to Birdland, Weather Report style.  Low key dancing because I want to write, not move around.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Widowhood Season #6 is coming to a close.  It&#8217;s the time I allow myself to be a little more pensive about Kevin and that era of my life.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ah, <em>Goodbye Pork Pie Hat<\/em> is on.  I haven&#8217;t heard a lot of Jeff Beck, but I&#8217;ve loved what I&#8217;ve heard.  Something about talented musicians getting into a recording studio and having fun makes for delicious music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So yeah, the Season.  It hasn&#8217;t been too bad.  I&#8217;ve accepted that I&#8217;m gonna be a little moody and certain songs may prompt anxiety or tears.  That happens when one spent nearly half her life with someone and ended up being the only surviving being from that time.  I know that&#8217;s a big deal, but then I look over to my Sweetie, who&#8217;s shown me what true love is, and I shrug.  Kevin didn&#8217;t want me to dwell on my life with him.  Now that I have a full time job and an apartment, there&#8217;s less time to dwell on memories.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sweetie and I decided to go for a drive in my Miata with the top down.  Be it ever so native SoCal resident, we went through the local In-N-Out drive through.  There&#8217;s so many ways to get anywhere around here, so I drove a completely different way home.  Was a bit surprised to find a sobriety checkpoint, but those are easy when one is sober. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do miss Kevin still.  I&#8217;ve found myself wanting to share stuff with him and Golden Ears lately.  I decided to watch the Hash episode of Barney Miller again because I missed them both.  Sometimes it&#8217;s still hard to believe they&#8217;re both gone, along with too many others.  Did Devo call it?  <em>&#8220;The lucky ones are gonna be the first to go.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yes, the world is going to remember Robin Williams on Tuesday.  I felt it fitting that I ended my Widowhood Season on his death day, because of how it felt to watch the world mourn his loss while I was mourning a similar loss.  So cruel for him to get a brutal type of dementia.  He never said good-bye to us, and that sucks.  I think it would have been easier if he said that he was no longer the Robin we all love and he was going to quietly fade away from the public eye.  I think we would have given him that.  I would have.  The jokes about karma alone would have been brilliant!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting on the couch, listening to Birdland, Weather Report style. Low key dancing because I want to write, not move around. Widowhood Season #6 is coming to a close. It&#8217;s the time I allow myself to be a little more pensive about Kevin and that era of my life. Ah, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat is&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/minimoog.net\/daphne\/narrative-mostly-freewriting-5-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Narrative Mostly Freewriting #5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daphne","category-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fVx5-52","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":517,"url":"https:\/\/minimoog.net\/daphne\/widowhood-season-8-13-the-mourning-that-comes-into-view\/","url_meta":{"origin":312,"position":0},"title":"Widowhood Season 8.13: The mo(u)rning that comes into view","author":"Daphne Lightner","date":"July 14, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Siberian Khatru, Yes, Close To The Edge To me, this song is the prog equivalent to a movie using a \"party song\" to tie everything up in a neat bow and play until the credits finish rolling. 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