“Apophenia is the tendency to find patterns. It can be a disorder but, for me, finding patterns is sustaining. Unbidden, certain objects glow with relevance.” … and more!! — Opening Photo: Marek Piwnicki via Unsplash. DK Photo of Black Brant @ 5:56 am, May 13, 2022 @ Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More photos from this morning’s walk here.
56° F. Heavy fog.
Daybreak walk at Cove Island Park. 723 consecutive (almost) days. Like in a row.
I’ve finished Amy Liptrot’s book “The Instant.” A book where I wasn’t feeling it, not feeling it, nothing here, time to put this down, wait now, here’s a line, and now two, and then down the chute we go on the luge track. Reminds me of a tweet by Tracie Collier after reading “Bomb Shelter” by Mary Laura Philpott: “She writes in a way that makes me want to hurl my laptop over a cliff.”
Back to Liptrot. Who knew that I had Apophenia. Well, hold on. It’s not even clear that I’m adept at Apophenia. I’m probably better assessed by a psychologist (if I had one), as a lame, half-assed Apopheniac. But we digress. Here’s Liptrot:
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