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Live from Perry, Kansas

9/25/2015

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Where, you ask, is Perry, Kansas? Go about 30 minutes from Topeka and you'll find it. There's a lake and a state park. Why, you ask, am I in Perry, Kansas? Well, I had about a week of vacation time I wanted to use, and I figured I could use some extra sleep. Perry is where the parents live on their farm with assorted animals (dogs, cat, chickens, I'm pushing for a llama) and where I spent the past week. It's odd to be able to go outside, sit at a table and just hear. . . well the trees are rustling, the hummingbirds are arguing over the feeder, and the chickens are squawking below me. 

Regardless what anyone tells you, it's not that the country is quiet--it's just a different kind of noisy. Out here, I won't see another human being that's not family unless I actively look for them by going down the half a mile driveway.

Back in the apartment, in Chicago, I'd hear the neighbor's shower, another banging up and down the stairs, while a siren screamed by. Different. 

Whenever I come to Kansas, I always feel a couple of layers are stripped away, and I can just take a few breaths to chill out a bit. 

Kitty and I wish you happy writing!
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Cat.

9/1/2015

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In Huè, at a mausoleum with cold, imported French stone steps that laughs
when a tourist trips, there is an orange cat who likes to lie out of the rain.
He lies sprawled, fat and unafraid: a splash of color to add to shattered
pottery in a collage of cheerfulness the paradox of a tomb
that sounded the death knell for more than a young man in traditional dress
trapped by the cumbersome customs of old. The mournful mist rolls in on cue.
 Instead of listening to the whispers in the corner I turn to the cat.
He purrs as the rain patters down slick black steps. 
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