woke up around 9. made coffee. put on deerhunter playlist. washed dishes. thought about how deerhunter was from marietta. felt like i wasn’t fully awake. worked on the computer some. remembered lau told me to wake her up at 9:15. went to wake her up and saw her in bed nursing layla. went back to the kitchen and started toasting bread. looked at the computer. looked outside. felt like i wasn’t ‘anywhere.’ talked to lau about the visitors that were supposed to come over. told her i’d set up the tent in the backyard for the kids to play in but i needed to find a stick for it. went outside wearing flip flops and carrying a machete. walked down the road towards our land. looked at the ridgeline and felt like i was ‘walking on the earth.’ nodded to a gaucho driving a tractor. passed a place where the tractor had just mowed. looked at the roads cut into the valley and thought ‘i hate how cities are formed.’ picked up a willow branch that had been trimmed under the power lines. hacked off the knots and extra branches with the machete and started walking back. stopped at the field and looked at hawks waiting for mice and thought different things. started walking again. thought about an email conversation i had with a friend from high school and how we were both from marietta but now i was in argentina and he was in uganda. went back down our street and saw our neighbor’s dog sam had come home. listened to lau talk about how an earthquake had hit last night and sam had come back just after the earthquake. thought ‘how could we have slept through it?’ remembered then how i’d had strange dreams.