Stop the Clock

On February 20, 2020, I typed “Start the clock” when I introduced BASS 1992.

I also wrote this line: “I've written several times about the various stages of my life, and here we are at another. It'll be very interesting to see what develops”.

Here we are

4 years, 11 months, 4 days

Or

1800 days later, and I can finally close the cover on this volume, Finally.

There is simply too much to write about concerning developments in our lives over the past 1800 days, so I’ll just have to revisit this post someday and reflect on our lives from 2020 until 2025. I will say, though, that the highs (good things) vastly outweighed the lows (bad things) over the five years, and I consider us very fortunate in that sense.

Can’t say that I gave the volume a fair shake. I could have easily finished the volume in 20 days if I read and written about a story every day until completion. One month if I took the weekends off.  

No, I had to take 1800 days.

Running into some old friends – JCO, DFW, and Tobias Wolff was great. 

I’ll remember where I was in July 2024 when I read DFW. Where I was in January 2023 when I read JCO, the one story I read in 2022, Community Life by Lorrie Moore, Emergency by Denis Johnson in January 2021, and Days of Heaven by Rick Bass in June 2020 – when the world was very interesting.

So, onward with life and reading. 1993 awaits us.