Wednesday, February 2, 2022

New Things to Love

 Puhg looked out over the balcony. "Sometimes I feel guilty I'll never get to all of it." He meant all the books he'd never read and all the places he'd never go and all the movies he'd never see.

I've never felt this way. Every time I like something I think, "Well there it went, the last place I ever liked going, the last book I ever enjoyed, the last movie ever made for me." My taste is so specific. I know what I'll like and what I don't, I really don't. And yet last week I read a fifteen book comic series in one night and reveled in it all day. I started Yellowjackets in November and this morning I voted it best drama at the WGA Awards. I'm afraid to go on a new vacation, but when I went to the redwoods in December, I adored every mushroom on the trail.