Up before the alarm.
Full moon dropping over the suburbs, big planets are lined up over the lake like they are running for office. Sun is about to push them all off the stage. Kind of like Mayor Daley once did.
Chalkboard line is from Emily Dickinson. Yeah, the quiet lady from Amherst. Yeah, I know, lace curtains and teacups, but the woman had stones. She said:
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
She died in the 1880s with only seven of her poems in print. She didn’t get famous until the ‘50s. Lucky for her, somebody kept her words alive. Making sure Emily didn't live in vain!
Makes you think... are you putting in another day that matters, or just another day? Yesterday I was filming a TikTok. Yeah, this older, robust dad guy is making TikToks—when I blurted out, “People are different, but human beings are the same.” I didn’t plan that line. It just fell out. I checked it later on Google, it’s legit, it is a Jumbo original. Might be my one line that sticks a hundred years from now.
But today?
I’m going to a kegger in the woods. Part of Riverside’s 150th. Mostly folks who were keg kings and queens thirty, forty years ago. I’m showing up with my beer bong, riding my bike over to the kegger like it is the Tour de Old Style. Beer bong slung over my shoulder like a championship belt.
Dog days are officially here. The sun is gone before eight tonight. Don’t waste your Saturday. Signal your turns. Hold the door and fill someone else’s red solo cup before your own.
