"riding in a car with my brother / and drinking from a pint of Old Crow"
get your rare aimless happiness
Antiquities of Mexico, reproduction of Mayan codices by Agostino Aglio
Drinking While Driving
by Raymond Carver
It's August and I have not
read a book in six months
except something called The Retreat from Moscow
by Caulaincourt
Nevertheless, I am happy
riding in a car with my brother
and drinking from a pint of Old Crow.
We do not have any place in mind to go,
we are just driving.
If I closed my eyes for a minute
I would be lost, yet
I could gladly lie down and sleep forever
beside this road
My brother nudges me.
Any minute now, something will happen.
from All of Us by Raymond Carver, Alfred Knopf, 1988
Creative Invitation
Remember a sense of ease in aimlessness, untetheredness. Where, when, with whom do you find that? Today, find a way to be undirected, wandering. Nothing clear happening. Create from that openness.
If you have a sibling, what’s your strongest or most unresolved memory of doing something with them, just the two of you?
Just past midnight last night, I thought I might find a stairway to the Aurora. Got in my car and headed to wherever it was darkest. I didn't find the stairway or the aurora, but I loved the lure of disappearing into darkness