Random : My Untitled Documents

 

I have a folder on my desktop labeled “Random” in which none of the documents were given titles and instead were automatically “titled” by Microsoft with the first line of document.  Here are the “titles”:

 

• We saw a farmhouse burning down  5/4/21

 

• Hiking into Eklutna Canyon we were passed on the trail by a couple  2/28/21

 

• So many of us come to Glacier Bay to be overwhelmed by mountains  1/22/21[1]

 

• Last September I had a single day at the Chicago Art Museum and chanced into a small theater showing Les Goddesses  8/25/20

 

• I came in from out of state with a brief window in which to find  3/11/20

 

• I believe that cornices are dangerous  2/18/20

 

• Kanchenjungma in the Himalaya is widely known as a sacred peak to the Nepalese  8/3/19

 

•  Twelve years later I saw Julio Cortazar in from of a crowd in a park in Managua  2/12/19[2]

 

• The temperature was eerily warm for late January  1/28/19

 

• In 1500 the world population is approaching 400 million  11/24/19

 

• On Sunday walking Powerline Pass I see a couloir on the north side of Peak 2 that looks really skiable 5/12/17

 

• At the end of 2016 the photographer Mitch Epstein visited the work spaces of artists who passed the previous year  5/12/17

 

• One wants to tell a story like Scheherazade in order not to die  7/8/16[3]

 

•  A Reader’s Guide to Warnings Against Myself as a book about Macklin  4/1/16

 

• I was driving the two-lane  9/29/15

 

• What does this look like? 9/25 15

 

• Transcription of a hand-written letter from Jeff Long accompanying a copy of  5/14/15

 

• First sentence of Larry McMurtry’s Walter Benjamin and the Dairy Queen 8/14/14

 

• I am late to fly fishing and rushing to set up my line 7/30/14

 

• For the most part we are not where we are  7/10/14[4]

 

• When Jamie thought back to the neighborhood picnic he couldn’t remember if it had been a yearly event or a one 7/2/14

 

• The first night I dreamt of orcas  4/8/14

 

• This was my first trip back to Michigan since my father died 2/15/14

 

• Last week I saw the Werner Herzog film, Happy People, a Year in the Taiga  4/20/13

 

• From the train window I could see my father walking up a stairway expose to the wind and snow 1/24/13

 

•  Could my earliest memory be right?  7/20/10

 

• I’m in the backcountry above Turnagain Arm skiing with my sons 3/4/10

 

 

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[1] Sherry Simpson

[2] Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

[3] ibid

[4] Thoreau