I live in Louisville, Kentucky, and I commute to work in southern Indiana. (We call this area Kentuckiana.) I have friends and a job and a life, but I live alone and live my life alone. My day-to-day life consists mostly of solitary pursuits. I’m already pretty contemplative and introspective by nature, and driving around by myself and just going about my business seems to intensify this state. So, basically, I see things and do things, and then I think about them and have feelings. Sometimes these things are happy, or depressing, or somewhere between happy and sad–that’s what I call the garbage and the flowers, a reference to a lyric in Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne.” That’s what this blog is about: the happy, the depressing, and the stuff in between.
This minutiae blog is inspired by the mother of all minutiae blogs: What I Ate for Lunch and Why.
Also, that image in the header is of the statue of Louis XVI (pre-decapitation, of course) in downtown Louisville, at the corner of 6th and Jefferson. Our fair city was named after him. I have a predilection for deceased royal historical personages; this statue is one of my favorite things about this city.
