Every January my old friend Robin and his wife Marline leave the snows of Canada for a sojourn in Hawaii, in the little village where Robin proposed – and Robin uses the time to smile, laugh, reflect, pause, think, read and write. He’s reading Pulitzer Prize winner Kay Ryan’s new collection ‘Erratic Facts’ and he sent me something I wanted to share with you.
Fool’s Errands:
A thing
cannot be
delivered
enough times:
this is the
rule of dogs
for whom there
are no fool’s
errands. To
loop out and
come back is
good all alone.
It’s gravy to
carry a ball
or a bone.
Thank you Kay. Thank you Robin.
We’re all still carrying the ball.
It’s gravy.
KR.
