GRIZZLY PEAR

written snapshots

Category: Artifacts

  • Whenever my head gets too big, my brain remembers it’s a biological machine.

    We love dark chocolate.
    I’ve enjoyed a piece (or two or three) every day.
    All summer.

    Until I stopped.

    Headache
    (Withdrawals from a caffeine addiction).
    Then a second day.

    Finally, quiet.

    ䷷䷢

    the wanderer’s inn burns down

  • Little man loves his new pants.

    Seventeen years ago, my girlfriend made pajamas with a purple fleece with white stars.

    Yesterday, grandma pulled out the box of scraps to make pants for the boy.

    He insisted on the purple fleece with white stars.

    And paraded around the house in mama’s PJ’s.

    ䷲䷔

    thunder repeated

  • He joyfully proclaimed “I want to make daddy sad!”

    I collect old receipts to use as bookmarks.

    While reading a book of haikus on the lazy Saturday afternoon,
    I begged her to bring me a few.
    (Didn’t want to get off the bed.)

    Instead, they made bookmarks.

    Watch
    out
    for
    THE
    DADDY
    DEVil

    wa! haha!
    The daddy
    devil!!
    The
    daddy
    devil!
    !!!!!!!
    AHH!
    !!!!
    !!!

    Daddy
    The
    monster
    book-
    mark!
    AHH!
    !!!!!!!!!

    Daddy
    is
    a bad
    monster
    !!!!
    !!!!
    dun dun
    dun!

    DADY is STIOPiD
    DnD n Dnb

    Fat
    !daddy

    Daddy
    is fat.
    The Fat
    daddy
    book-mark!
    dun
    dun
    dun!!!

    DnDnDnDnD

    and a wordless
    drawing of
    a “cave jail”

    ䷏䷄

    one falls into the pit
    three uninvited guests arrive

  • Korean ASMR Restaurant Videos

    The algorithm fed us a collection of Youtube channels that film restaurants as they create their signature dishes.

    Thumbs Up
    Applehead Boy
    Delight

    No narration.
    Just the work.

    Dessert
    American
    Appetizers
    Korean
    Entrees
    Chinese

    I imagine the employees normally play music in the background.
    But these videos are peaceful.
    However, the idea of making the same thing every day is mind numbing.
    It’s gotta get old pretty quick.

    But anything is interesting in a tightly packaged 15 minute visit.
    Fun to watch while eating dinner.
    Thinking of all the unhealthy things we could be eating instead.

    ䷜䷮

    a jug of wine and a bowl of rice
    earthen vessels
    simply handed in through the window

    ䷸䷺

    In a dream
    I visited a restaurant next in the basement of a shopping mall.

    It was closed.
    The door was taped up.

    The property manager left a note.

    This venue will remain closed
    until the Owners remove item 14
    from the menu and website.
    By orders of SNHD.

    What was item 14?!?!

  • As usual the Ballad of Pancho Villa played in the background.

    He called a Lego baseplate a Park
    The Park sparked an Amusement Park
    That grew to fill the playroom.

    Toilet paper structures with Lincoln Log beams,
    Platforms of Wooden Blocks,
    Duplo towers,
    A Sporting complex of putting greens and pink balls in a Hoola Hoop.

    Stuffed animals were the guards.

    Lego figures and plastic toys lined up for opening night.

    ䷧

    if there is still something
    where one has to go
    hastening brings good fortune

  • Lilly the Fox, Dog Digger, and Boogerbooger celebrated their unbirthdays.

    We squatted around an upside down wicker basket, filled a watering can, and found three easter egg halves.

    Picked leaves for vegetables.
    Grabbed rocks for plates, small ones for biscuits.
    Pulled grass for seaweed tea.

    Tea party.

    ䷀䷙

    flying dragon in the heavens

  • Those things never helped them sleep.

    We lost the mobiles
    but kept the music boxes.

    He pulled them out
    while she studied Chinese with Grandma.

    A pleasant dissonance,
    two metallic tunes,
    one at each ear.

    ䷴䷌

    the wild goose gradually draws near the tree

  • The boy speaks in first letters.

    “H”

    What?

    He whispered “D – O – G – H”

    Huh?

    “dog house!”

    He glanced at the sheet draped between the sofa and the coffee table.

    ䷐䷏

    following has supreme success
    perseverance furthers

  • The little man can concentrate.

    He found a dustpan and a broom.

    And thought it would be fun to sweep up leaves in the side yard.

    At first with his sister, then by himself.

    Quietly filling the compost bin.

    ䷅

    thus in all his transactions the superior man
    carefully considers the beginning

  • Maybe this will convince them to learn how to swim next summer.

    She wanted to try Marco Polo.

    But our pool is too small.

    So we used the Master Bedroom.

    Hiding in plain sight, walking around Marco.

    Except him — he walk right towards us, eyes barely closed.

    Or should I say, barely open?

    ䷗䷾

    After writing this draft, we swam in the pool.
    With such a small pool, the rounds were short, so we played many times.
    When she was Marco, I hid behind him.
    And this time, he didn’t pretend to shut his eyes.