First of all: look, Ma, another byline!
Second of all, if this spate of posts is overwhelming, well then, friendos, you now have a decent sense of what it’s like to live in Austin! Complete sensory overload! And I haven’t even finished the South First Street series yet!
But “More, more, more” cried the overloaded senses, who have grown accustomed to and acquired quite a liking for their overloaded state.
“You spend too much time holed up in your room, glued to a computer screen,” they said, and there was no arguing with that.
Which is how I found myself earlier today at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden (when I could have been holed up in my room, glued to a computer screen, accomplishing ten billion—hyperbolic!—productive things, although I suppose it’s arguable that Living Life is productive as well, maybe if I put it on a list, sick, sick), a true urban oasis. Apparently sculptures and nature are what people had to look at before there was The Internet!
Fine by me. I passed a lovely couple hours ducking between poems etched in bronze and stone (among other materials) and trees swaying to the wind’s sibilant sighs. Talk about idyllic—there were even butterflies, for crying out loud!
It was a truly perfect day for an outdoor adventure (being only in the eighties!), and there haven’t been many of which I could say that since I arrived here.
And now here I am, holed up in my room, glued to a computer screen.
Ah well, baby steps.
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