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...is having a clean paintbrush handy when the pump on the sunscreen bottle quits working:
(It is also, to be honest, kinda fun to paint my skin without having to fuss about alignment or angles.)
It has been raining all morning. (Yes -- if I'm going outside at all, I put on sunscreen, even when it's gray.) The school down the street held a field day anyway, so I passed hordes of soggy children on my walk to and from the bakery.
I was engrossed enough in the current manuscript to tune out most of the conversations around me, but what I did overhear reminded me of how lucky I am, to be living here now, where my neighbors are chatting about translations and Eurovision and filmmaking, and the older man next to me was quietly reading today's comics, and the trio of tattooed women in front of me had clearly just finished their morning swim.
(It is also, to be honest, kinda fun to paint my skin without having to fuss about alignment or angles.)
It has been raining all morning. (Yes -- if I'm going outside at all, I put on sunscreen, even when it's gray.) The school down the street held a field day anyway, so I passed hordes of soggy children on my walk to and from the bakery.
I was engrossed enough in the current manuscript to tune out most of the conversations around me, but what I did overhear reminded me of how lucky I am, to be living here now, where my neighbors are chatting about translations and Eurovision and filmmaking, and the older man next to me was quietly reading today's comics, and the trio of tattooed women in front of me had clearly just finished their morning swim.
