just for one day

I took a late afternoon walk yesterday, out over across Broadway and into the four east/west streets which transverse the neighborhood known as Sullivan’s Gulch. It was warm enough, for the first time in a while, to pull off my long-sleeve tee and parade around with my tank top and a pair of sweat pants. Casual kid.

Much earlier, after yogurt and peanut butter, I’d taken a long walk through the Northeast neighborhood this side, north, of Broadway before hopping in the Camry upon return and driving up to Starbucks, a mile away. There and back, two miles, all I drove today and the same yesterday. Both early and late walks likely felt a bit longer than an odometer would say, it’s my ambling, lazybones pace and stopping all over the place to look at communities of bees, play with a sidewalk kitty when I’m lucky, stop on the sidewalk or the middle of Halsey or Clackamas or Wasco or Multnomah Streets and stand in nothing short of awe staring up at one spectacular tree after another.

So I barely used any gas and spent just $3.45 on the coffee, and before the late walk switched a computer streaming service to one in combination – the change was $2 added difference. Pretty much I made a decision June 30 – you could read it in my Morning Pages – to not spend any money in July beyond food, coffee, and gas, in that order. I became a wild spendthrift with that $2 only because on the first I received $5 from Gavin – a monthly contribution to support the blog, arriving more than two years now. There remains $3 to do who knows what with.

All of this, and so very much extra, is why David Bowie sang “Heroes.” See what I mean?