The sun has yet to find firm footing on the day. I’ve opened a half-dozen windows in my house and stationed fans near three of them to draw in cool air in preparation for another mid-90s summer day.
The much-anticipated Perseid meteor
shower—sparked when Earth slices into trails of debris scattered by the passing
of Comet Swift-Tuttle—was to peak last night and into this morning. I stood on
my back deck soon after waking and scanned the caerulean firmament, hoping I
might witness a flash of something extraterrestrial. Instead, a dime-sized moth
flapped into orbit around my head, seeking a mate.
The moth was not my type.
In the broader view, The Revenge
of Alice Cooper, his latest album, recently launched at the No. 6 position
on the Vinyl Albums chart, becoming Cooper’s first top 10 on the tally. And,
finally, midway between that and me standing on the deck, one of my neighbors
has released long-horned cattle onto his grazing. Their lowing calls fill the
early-morning spaces once occupied by songbirds.
End of morning report.
—Mitchell Hegman
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