October 06, 2011

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October 06, 2011/

Rich Aucoin and beloved Dance Movie at a generations-old beachside dance hall. Dirty Dancing with parachute. Love bomb, pure joy, birthday perfection. You should have been there.

Really and truly the best birthday ever. 45. Under the parachute at a Rich Aucoin show, followed by a 2 AM ocean swim and raft jumps into phosphorescents sparkling like fireworks all around us, followed by karaoke until 4 AM with some of the dearest and oldest friends in the world. A blurry joy in photos and memory. Life is but a dream. Sha-boom, sha-boom.

The quiet perfection and sentimentality of writing in a Lunenburg cafe, as horses clip-clop by along steep streets. Proper banged-up 200 year-old floors and you’ve got to wonder: my German ancestors walked by this house. They might have been in it, like I am, but without the cinnamon croissant and the Nick Drake. Lunenburg is time-travel, steeped in salt. #novascotia

I am at home after the most incredible, exhausting, fascinating three days of recording production for #notesfortheeverlost. Andrea, my producer with Penguin Random House’s #audiobook division, was in my ear from Los Angeles the whole time, indispensably. We got to this chapter and she said, “Psst. I’ve been wanting to tell you this. I couldn’t believe it when I read it—I am a Jew who loves Ganesha. I’ve sent you a text.”
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The bit—about how the shared bonds of parenthood and/or grief crosses all—and her gorgeous tattoo. Serendipity. 🐘🕉
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17 hours in: the last chapter. ✊🏻❤️#notesfortheeverlost #audiobook

Oysters and gin at an Italian spot, perched unfortunately on the same kind of non-hobbit-friendly high stool I’ve been perched on for twelve hours so far in the recording booth. Fate! The oysters helped. As did the gin.

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