Do not drink milk after a thunderstorm, for it will certainly be sour. Always leave out seed for the birds when the first snow falls. Wash your hair with Rosemary. Drink Lavender tea when you cannot sleep. Know that the only remedy for love is to love more.

Alice Hoffman (Rules of Magic)

This car service car being towed despite the desperate protests of it’s driver made me think of a Ramin Bahrani’s movie.

L watched everything with fascination, but of course he was interested in the technicalities of the flatbed truck and the flashing lights of the police cruiser. I wished I had the capacity to go talk to the driver and give him a ride to wherever. His afternoon sucked.

Dreaming of looking out the window and seeing buildings on fire and two tornadoes. The word, fire tornado, floated up into consciousness. Then another gust picked up an entire half constructed building and started to carry it in the wind. I was calculating probabilities that it would hit our building, and thinking how that there is not much we could do if it did. Then it fell into a cloud of white dust and missed us. The sky was red.