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Approaching the End of Some Things (Good and Not-So-Wonderful)

     I’m looking forward to the next return (of Saturn). I don’t know 

     what’s around the corner. If life’s taught me anything it’s that I 

     cannot predict what’s going to happen but I look forward to the 

     first human robot marriage on tv and um that we will have run 

     out of water and we’ll be drinking other things duringthat return.
             —Amy Poehler on a podcast episode of Good Hang**

You know how it is when you get almost to the end 

of a book that has blown your mind?  Some of you do 

(show of hands*).  *Attempting to pretend I’m not taking 

this notion very seriously.  Except I am.  Diane, by the way, 

you rascal you, I love the angel on the cover of your Christ

mas card (the only one received this year by me).  I’m having
something lately that I don’t have very often: family angst.
All of the bronze-colored stars around this bronze-haired angel

make me feel just a little bit rich in my paltry apartment. Today, 

this morning, two days before 2026, this is a good thing, and I 

appreciate it.  I appreciate you, angel surrounded by bronze, which

is to say I appreciate Diane.  And the book I’m almost finished reading 

by Kim Hyun, yes, entitled Glory Hole.  Mind-bending.  That’s enough for now.

**The episode with Rachel Sennott