1 April 2026 Wednesday

prankster day!

e got me just now here in bed... he set our (red-lit numbered
late 1970s/early 1980s) alarm clocks to 10:35 pm, and was FM 
broadcasting (remotely from donwstairs while he lay here beside 
me reading a collection of Outlander comics) a ridiculous 
so-bad-it's-campy song he loves to bother me with. on a staticy
loop. and treated me to an enthusiastic gesticulatory dance to 
go with it.

we fought last night, but today was pretty wonderful. when i got
home from doing what i do for the m-word, he had dinner cooking. 
then we had our first evening of a four-week oil portrait painting 
class we're taking together at a community art center. 

the instructor had us start with prep-
aring grids. though there was no information provided prior to the 
class, i figured we should bring reference photos, and the hunch 
was correct. i chose a photograph of my belated maternal grandfather
holding baby-me on a beach, with ocean waves and a somewhat stormy-
looking sky behind us. my grandfather is smiling brightly. i'm 
blinking, and have a rather serene look on my face. i look to be 
around one year old, so this was probably circa 1984. 

e brought an old copy of a radio trade magazine, and is going to 
paint a portion of the cover, which pictures a woman running a 
Fairchild (523, e points out) vinyl record-cutting lathe. 

after that clas, we ran ten minutes down the street and caught
the second and last hour of an open-door art club at another
local art nonprofit (there's not that much like that around here,
so i'm super grateful to have found these places/communities, after
living here well over two years). i worked on copper metal jewelry--
started a pair of earrings from scrap, and e drew out a design for 
a pendant based on one his mother used to wear, and i cut the shape
out with a jeweler's frame.

then just now, e's surprise.

tonight is the actual full moon (phoon agrees). i saw the moon hanging
ripe and clear in the daytime sky yesterday, and thought it was full.
glad we're greeting the true full moon with much more peaceful and loving
energy.

i also saw a rabbit at a roadside farmer's market, by himself in a cage,
this morning. i wanted to bring him home and get him out of there, but i 
also worried it would be sad for him to live with us as the only rabbit. 
we are in no way prepared to care for a rabbit. but part of me thinks maybe 
we should go get him.