Something odd will cross my mind, or a memory will catch me off guard, or my monkey mind will swing from the ceiling fan, or a tiny ant will crawl up the bookcase next to my chair. Then I get curious and curiosity is the first step in an unknown direction
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A NORMAL ENOUGH DAY AT EIGHTY-FOUR
She is sitting around thinking about nothing when out of nowhere she wonders how porcupines have sex. She looks it up. The first thing she learns is that female porcupines are fertile and want to have sex only several hours a year and they...
Will Wonders Never Cease?
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You sit down in your chair on the porch to smoke a cigarette. Your drawing paper and a pen are on the table next to you, because you never know what might show up. More than once, you have found odd thi...
HAMMER
HAMMER
Tim chose a hammer as an example to explain the Platonic Ideal. It wouldn’t look anything like a hammer, he said, you wouldn’t have any idea what you were looking at, but it would be perfection, the Platonic Ideal of a hammer. This...
DRAWING ELEPHANTS
My friend Denise emailed me a documentary about The Sheldrick Wildlife Facility, a wilderness camp in Kenya that rescues and cares for orphaned baby elephants. There’s also a very small hippo. The good people who work there raise these youn...
LOSING MY WATCH
I took a shower this morning. No particular reason, I just wanted the feel of water falling all over me. And it was lovely. Drying off, I looked at the sink where I’d left my watch. It wasn’t there. I don’t want to admit that I panicked, bu...
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Abigail Thomas has four children, twelve grandchildren, two great grandchildren, two dogs, eleven books, and a high school education. And she loves writing short pieces about nothing at all to find out why something tiny made her curious.
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