day twenty six ten minute recollection

Today is Halloween, the greatest holiday.

day twenty five ten minute recollection

Tonight was Beggars’ Night but I missed it.

day twenty four ten minute recollection

Today I cooked a lasagna.

day twenty three ten minute recollecction

 Today I did jack o lanterns with my kids.

day twenty two ten minute recollection

I boop my kids’ noses.

day twenty one ten minute recollection

Got me a tiny lil notebook, mini-composition book kinda look, I’m into the trappings.

day twenty ten minute recollection

 I use a flip phone.

day nineteen ten minute recollection

I remembered the thing I’d reminded myself to remember but had forgotten - cat caught a mouse.

insufficient flotsam, a second blank note to self

 This little blog's really just an exercise in working with some of the flotsam and jetsam of my day.

day eighteen ten minute recollection

 Yesterday I took the youngest on a walk, plan was just our usual mile loop around the neighborhood but it was a lovely day and she wanted to go to the playground a little further out so we did.

day seventeen ten minute recollection

 If running is the cheap coffee of exercise, what are weighted carries? I dunno yet.

day sixteen ten minute recollection

 There are bonobos here in Des Moines.

day fifteen ten minute recollection

 I was going to go for a run but I got a burrito instead.

day fourteen ten minute recollection

 I went for a walk today to get outside, move a little, enjoy the weather, and make some phone calls.

day thirteen ten minute recollection

Starting this recollection with a blank mind! Ah well.

day twelve ten minute recollection

 The ten year old and I went on a walk today.

day eleven ten minute recollection

I picked up our gro - I got that far then heard a thud upstairs so got up to check.

day ten ten minute recollection

I went for a run yesterday, challenging one for me, then didn’t sleep enough so woke up tired and a little sore. 

day nine ten minute recollection

We have a neighborhood cat that my ten year old named Little Gray.

short sad recollection

I saw someone comparing current events to 9/11 and its aftermath and that made me remember that on the morning of september 11th, 2001, I was in a meeting somewhere in downtown Chicago, I forget where or what about.

day eight ten minute recollection

I had hoped to get up early and out the door for a run before work but I woke up in the middle of the night to a weird cat meow, muffled, mrrreoooowwwww kinda thing.

day seven ten minute recollection

 Not an especially memorable day, I suppose the work week rarely has those, and I suppose the point isn’t really to capture memorably days, at least not the only point.

Day six ten minute recollection

 Long work day today.

Day five ten minute recollection

Woke up late again today, hoping to break that streak, need to get to bed earlier.

Day four ten minute recollection

 Today I woke up late, having stayed up too late and also having been ambitious exercising the day before. 

Day three ten minute recollection

It’s 2 in the afternoon so I’m recollecting mid-day, arguably pre-collecting since I haven’t finished collecting in the first place.

Day two ten minute recollection

(Full disclosure, I cheated a little - didn't stop when the ten minutes was up. I'll allow it. Gonna say ten minutes is the minimum and also when the timer goes off that's when it's also time to start making an effort to stop.) Today I woke up late and still tired, achey, some of that maybe leftovers of response to the flux and covid vax, some of that my having stayed up too late, and maybe didn’t have enough water? The day was kind of a blur, definitely ate and drank too little, got a headache.

Day one ten minute recollection

I wrote a post about what the point is, now to do the thing that is it the point.

Day one what's the point

I heard a writer say something about the value of writing for ten minutes a day just documenting the day or the previous day as you recall it so I thought I’d try that.