Notes from the Dishwasher Café

Notes from the Dishwasher Café

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Notes from the Dishwasher Café
Notes from the Dishwasher Café
A READING FROM THE BOOK OF DOLPHIN

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF DOLPHIN

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Caroline Manring
May 04, 2023
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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF DOLPHIN
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If you are looking at something and you find that you’re starting to drool, here is an opportunity to learn.

What we’re drawn to speaks of both our fullness and our deprivations at once:

CHOCOLATE, NOW:

I have a lush sense of the world and a discerning palate / I have a magnesium deficiency

BOOK BOOK BOOK:

I have a lively mind / Please take me anywhere other than here

VACATION:

I am adventurous, capable, and curious / the only place I’ve been in half a decade is Pennsylvania

MASSAGE:

I am a sensuous creature capable of mortal luxuriation / I am going to fall over and die if someone doesn’t poke my back with a yard rake

NEW CAR:

I’d like to be a better citizen of the planet and create fewer emissions / vroom vroom

SILENCE:

I am capable of stillness and light / My brain resembles road-kill after a very salty winter

Or, in the case of my husband:

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