Jeff is participating! He's been keeping a journal on junk mail envelopes which he sews together on the sewing machine. This is from that:

1. The World Without Us. Someone wrote the story I've fantasized about time and time again.
2. being infintely small in such a vastness of space
3. the pines amidst the hardwoods on these 10 acres
4. the cedars too
5. walking -- wandering really without much objective -- this peninsula between bear creek and the Rocky. Doing this with Ossie and Matilda, the cats & dogs.
6. Family walks on this sam land or places nearby
7. & in FL.
8. Family. This family. One plus three is four. 4 in this family.
9. this job I just applied for. If I get it or not.
10. tick killin' frost [ed. aside: amen brother]
11. teaching and talking about William Pope L. & Matthew Barney or Ana Mendieta. Also Mark Rothko & Jasper Johns.
12. Playing soccor in the driveway with Ossie (w/ Matilda strapped on)
13. How Ossie wants things to be fair --"Mama have one!"
14. How he said, "Need help! Truck need help!" when he saw a hot rod pickup w/ busted hydraulic lifts on one side @ the Food Lion parking lot
15. Him & Gabriel running around my folks' house -- a ribbon held between them, Oz buck naked & Gabriel shouting (but politely -- unlike Oz) "He's my fish! I got a fish!" & Ossie lovin' it.
16. & the biggest. Early in the morn, the world's all quiet. baby births.