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A windy Thursday, but a clear blue sky. I walked around the block this morning as I had an early meeting I hope to get out again later in the day!

I made hamantaschen last night with mixed results. I suspect that I will get better at it with experience, but for now, they are the best hamentaschen on the Outer Cape. I'm sorry that I wasn't able to get poppy filling. MAYBE I will make some in Brookline.

In Brookline. A looming cloud that I'm going to slam into like a cinder block wall.

Last night I finished watching Tales from Earthsea, which was a beautiful mess. It's almost like they take the components (dragons, little girls with messy hair) and mix them around like Lego and construct something and then the story is an afterthought. The best part is the villain Cob, of indeterminate gender and pure evil.

I also watched the first part of Allen v Farrow. It's really well-made and upsetting. They tell it like a story, unfolding over time and heading in a terrible direction. I'm not sure why I'm watching, except that as a fan of his work I feel complicit in some way. I need to stay with Dylan to the end, as someone who benefited from her abuser's art. The most alarming thing I learned was that he was seeing a therapist for his inappropriate behavior toward the child. It's not rumor or misrepresentation. It's framed as a boundary issue, that he doesn't know how to act with children, but his actions go way beyond that. When I realize he was making Crimes and Misdemeanors at this time, my blood chills. And I wonder, though this doesn't exonerate him, if Allen himself was sexually molested as a child. Or if he knew he had these tendencies and avoided kids for that reason. Anyway, I'm on board, bearing witness.