things I love, vol. ii

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19. doughnuts

I have been known to eat more than my share of doughnuts. I don’t want just any doughnuts, however. I want them fresh. I want them good.

Bob’s Donut & Pastry shop was a friendly walk away from where I stayed in San Francisco, and I certainly availed myself of their fine services. Too much so, really. I liked the apple fritter and the plain glazed stick…

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Sadly, there are no excellent doughnuts within friendly walking distance of where I live now. Perhaps it is better this way.

Also see: things I love, vol. i

in which I am subsumed by art

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My friend Farrin has nearly finished the piece I modeled for (earlier draft with orientation here). Incredible, delicate intricacy in ink and watercolor. Wreathing the edge is the phrase I believe in dreams repeated in many languages. Bordered by vines and flowers and firebirds,  flanked by sphinxes and I myself a kind of hybrid womansphinx. A hybrid of a hybrid. A meta-hybrid. Love. How ideal are the proportions of these wings?

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