The Sunday supplement: #84
Frank O’Hara resources, favorite old and new records, a change to my luggage setup (i.e., a new weekend bag)
We’ll start with a story that ran this weekend for Veterans Day, about me doing disaster relief recently in Florida with Team Rubicon.
As the Quarterly sums it up:
Founded by two ex-marines and run by a former Top Gun flight instructor, Team Rubicon has become one of the country’s most elite and effective crisis-response groups. Some volunteers are also responding to a crisis within themselves.
You can find it over here. Not related in the story: the moment when I stepped away from the job site to piss in the woods, and a big brown widow spider fell out of a tree and crawled down my chest.
Florida will Florida.
From there to music: a current favorite, some Jennifer Lara songs. “Close to You,” “Consider Me,” “A Woman,” all gorgeous.
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