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A River Flows Through a House
Mar. 8th, 2023 07:24 amI pumped that exercise bike for an hour last night and finally slept—and had the most fabulous dream—
I was visiting D and R in London. We were all in our 20s, traipsing about, having fabulous adventures. All their friends ❤️LUV❤️ed me and wanted to be pen pals.
Then D and R came to visit me at my house in Arizona (!)—which was just the most fabulous house ever! Half of it was an ordinary house, but half of it was a rainforest, incorporating a small forest of fern-like trees and a river.
The whole house was crammed with people and friendly animals—dogs (I spied Sandinista in her prime!) and tame hedgehogs. Also, there were make-up stations strategically located throughout, so you could touch up your eyeliner and mascara as needed.
I’d prepared D and R’s guest room in the forested part of the house but was explaining to them that if they didn’t like the forest, I could put them up in the more ordinary part of the house—when a federal agent entered the house and explained to me the government wanted me for questioning—
The government wanted to know how I’d managed to create the forested part of the house.
Which, of course, I’d done through personal magic.
Which I was not about to share with the government.
“Yes, yes, I’ll go with you to your headquarters,” I said. “But not today. Tomorrow. Come back then.”
They left, and I thought, Well, I’m gonna have to dismantle the forest part of the house. It’s the only way I can make it so the government leaves me alone.
The prospect didn't make me particularly sad.
Because I knew I could magic it back into being—and thousands of other wonderful things as well—whenever I wanted.
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Yesterday was most remarkable because I did taxes for a man whose wife was murdered in 2022.
The man was pleasant and polite. But deeply sorrowful as one might imagine. And not quite all there—as though one of the hinges that held him to this world had disintegrated, and he was floating in space.
No, I didn’t Google when I got home.
Though I thought about it.
But I figured I owed him that respect.
I was visiting D and R in London. We were all in our 20s, traipsing about, having fabulous adventures. All their friends ❤️LUV❤️ed me and wanted to be pen pals.
Then D and R came to visit me at my house in Arizona (!)—which was just the most fabulous house ever! Half of it was an ordinary house, but half of it was a rainforest, incorporating a small forest of fern-like trees and a river.
The whole house was crammed with people and friendly animals—dogs (I spied Sandinista in her prime!) and tame hedgehogs. Also, there were make-up stations strategically located throughout, so you could touch up your eyeliner and mascara as needed.
I’d prepared D and R’s guest room in the forested part of the house but was explaining to them that if they didn’t like the forest, I could put them up in the more ordinary part of the house—when a federal agent entered the house and explained to me the government wanted me for questioning—
The government wanted to know how I’d managed to create the forested part of the house.
Which, of course, I’d done through personal magic.
Which I was not about to share with the government.
“Yes, yes, I’ll go with you to your headquarters,” I said. “But not today. Tomorrow. Come back then.”
They left, and I thought, Well, I’m gonna have to dismantle the forest part of the house. It’s the only way I can make it so the government leaves me alone.
The prospect didn't make me particularly sad.
Because I knew I could magic it back into being—and thousands of other wonderful things as well—whenever I wanted.
###
Yesterday was most remarkable because I did taxes for a man whose wife was murdered in 2022.
The man was pleasant and polite. But deeply sorrowful as one might imagine. And not quite all there—as though one of the hinges that held him to this world had disintegrated, and he was floating in space.
No, I didn’t Google when I got home.
Though I thought about it.
But I figured I owed him that respect.
