An old locomotive engineer drinking deeply from the boulevardier of broken dreams, if not drinking really good coffee. Remember the miraculous absurdly of being alive. “It’s a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal”.https://bsky.app/profile/danawroe.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/danawroe.bsky.social/post/3mz3ekusk3223Me? It’ll be a cigar. Haven’t had one in 10 years. Don’t smoke. Got the good bottle, though. And I’ll order a cake from our fine local bakery. Whole string-o-firecrackers. Eat a piece after each day after every good meal. 🙂 https://youtube.com/shorts/MxNHtdtcRgA?si=TwZb6ifGk-geOQ7u30 Oct 2026 08:32 +0000at://did:plc:46kbd5cnoefjb2f66dynmp62/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz3ekusk3223https://bsky.app/profile/danawroe.bsky.social/post/3myjkciofck22“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”23 Oct 2026 06:26 +0000at://did:plc:46kbd5cnoefjb2f66dynmp62/app.bsky.feed.post/3myjkciofck22