Journal of a Sabbatical

May 29, 2001

humid or something

Today's Reading: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella Bird, Salt Rivers of the Massachusetts Coast by Henry Howe, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch by Henry Miller

Today's Starting Pitcher: Red Sox and Source of all Evil in the Universe have the day off

I was going to write about how the Merrimack River used to flow almost straight south to Massachusetts Bay until the glacier came down and diverted it so it makes that little elbow at Lowell and flows out to the Gulf of Maine in Salisbury/Newburyport. Oh and also about how some writers think the glacial personality of flinty old New Englanders is related to the aftermath of the actual glacier. But it is wicked humid and I am wicked tired. So you'll have to read the beginning part of Salt Rivers of the Massachusetts Coast yourselves if your public library hasn't deaccessioned it yet. Deaccessioned, what a great word.

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