Nighthawks… love that painting.

The heat must be responsible for the general malaise that seems to have engulfed everyone. That, or perhaps the earth is passing through an energy field that has affected our collective minds…

Hope a relaxation in the weather gets us both on the road again.

And, as an example of my heat-addled brain, the title I meant for Hopper was Nighthawks; >Boulevard, of course, was Gottfried Helnwein’s much-later riff on Hopper’s famous work. Time for sleep…

I’m having creative and general cognitive dysfunction the last few weeks, an extension of the last few months which have found me and Sig. Other momentarily displaced from our house as major renovations have continued apace. The intense heat of the last week and a half certainly hasn’t helped, and I still have to make a twice-to-thrice-weekly foray up to NYC for my tech gigs. Haven’t been on Melody for some days, although I’m going to do the Ride-park-ride routine to catch the train to Gotham tomorrow…and I still have to reschedule the re-taking of my road test.

‘Tis been a helluva Summer…but somehow I’m managing to enjoy most of it. When life pitches a curve ball, swing for the fences anyway.

Consider it added to my to do list.

Please do!

Ennui — exactly right. The heat and I don’t do well together in terms of action and accomplishment. Reaches out to riding as well. Was on the road today and it was hot. Most of the time I was wishing I was home in the AC…

John — the dog days are definitely chewing on my riding and writing soul. Granddaughter has been away on vacation and the dogs have been too energetic. Or something. Have a couple of posts in the works though…

Art is consuming — time just being one of the meals. Thanks for sharing the images Gjon Mili made with Picasso. They took me back to the early 1970s when I first saw one in an Andreas Feininger book titled “The Photojournalist”. Mili’s portraits of Picasso was an example.

Good luck with your writing project. It’s more challenging than people appreciate and usually can’t until they undertake one themselves. I have three books in my head I want to write. I keep saying I’ll start when I retire but that’s just crazy. What if I never retire? I think I’m just resisting the hard work ahead.