The blog about things that should not be forgotten
~ Tuesday, June 2, 2026 ~
Three weeks. I have been in the Kokořínsko region for three weeks. I am writing this from a guesthouse in Mšeno that I have been using as a base since mid-May. The owner stopped asking when I was leaving after the second week.
~ Saturday, May 9, 2026 ~
I drove to Sázava on the eighth. The eighth of May is Liberation Day here and the roads were empty. Sázava is less than an hour southeast of Prague. I arrived to find the monastery closed — national holiday, no exceptions noted on the sign, opening hours listed as ten to five on days that were not the eighth of May. I sat in the car park for twenty minutes before accepting this and driving into Benešov to find somewhere to stay.
~ Tuesday, May 5, 2026 ~
I arrived in Prague on the third. I spent the first day going through the notebook again — the full notebook, not the excerpts I have published. On the morning of the fifth I went to Olšanské hřbitovy.
~ Thursday, May 1, 2025 ~
I am writing this from Honolulu, from Bishop’s kitchen, at an hour I would normally be asleep. My flight to Los Angeles leaves in two hours. I have not packed. I am writing this because I write things down before I do them, and because if I do not write this now I do not know when I will.