I started off Saturday with a date with a woman who’s Latinx and Palestinian. She’s a double Gemini so she can talk. (She has a Scorpio Ascendent.) However, she’s really, really interesting and there was an initial pull as soon as we started talking. We looped a park in a community walk and then the group went over to a vegan restaurant wherein we ate banana bread, seitan sandwiches with spicy pesto, and tofu tacos with carrots and daikon. YUM. She had also baked for me so after an hour-and-a-half together I walked her back to her car and she gave me cookies. I told her thank you, hugged her, and she gave me her schedule for the coming weeks. I’m a little busy for a couple of weeks, and will have to decide what our second date will be.

I don’t usually go for dark girls.

I have a weird height thing.

She’s tiny, fit, and can probably give me a run for my money getting tan this summer. She manages a high rise in one of our park districts here and called herself the summer “Pool Boy.” She’s really feminine so that was a funny and slightly inaccurate analogy. I loved it. I’m looking forward to seeing her again.

I bought two pairs of hiking pants and two pairs of shorts at my favorite used outfittter and went home.

Brooklyn has not been doing well. She’s been “going to karaoke” with me for about 4-years. I was doing laundry and making psilocybin capsules by hand so I left her a VM. She called back awhile later and my son answered our landline and talked to her a little bit. She also cried on the phone when we spoke. I asked her if she’d like to meet Scorpio because we could come over. I also asked her if she’d like to buy one of my graphic novels.

Scorpio asked me to pick her up and I did. I told her the general area that we were going to, and later told her that it was Brooklyn’s house. I knew that they’d get along. We had Greek salads with grilled chicken, the two of them smoked half a joint, and we all walked over to Brooklyn’s neighborhood block party. We also ate my date’s cookies. They were soooooo good. They were soft, gluten and dairy free so Scorpio could also eat them, and had cherry chocolate chips and dragon fruit pieces in them. We hadn’t been there long when Brooklyn got in charge of dumping shots into the ice luge. (I thought that it was an ice sculpture.) Then all the drunk men started noticing Scorpio.

I call this phenomenon, “Man Swarm.” It happens a lot.

Brooklyn is also super cute, so she wound up dancing–the band was good–with a guy from Louisiana. Not ten-minutes before he had loomed into Scorpio’s bubble although she was holding my hand and after talking to her a minute froze and then said, “You have beautiful eyes.” I agreed with him. The whole interaction was hilarious; however, he was a good dancer who could lead and Brooklyn had fun. It was time to go back to my house.

I made tea for Scorpio and I and then we adjourned to bed.

The following morning Scorpio had a brunch to attend so I took her home.

I had a date at 1:30 via Meet.

As soon as she popped in the Meet I was drawn to her. I’m a sucker for redheads generally (Scorpio was one until her hair turned gray so she highlights it expertly and presents like a blond.). She has great eyes, bold energy, wore a green shirt, had light and excellent makeup on and I liked her earrings. We both liked each other. She begrudgingly gave me her phone number because she liked me so much. She told me that my Matchmaker was persistent about just having a conversation with me and before we hung up our Meet she told me that she is uninterested in a long distance relationship. I told her that was understandable and that I could come see her in July. I love Portland. We’ll see. I’m just going to text back and forth with her and see if she’s open to a friendship. Those connections can absolutely grow.

I’m ready to embrace a fun summer.