On the holy clean and the October urge to shake the dust and start again. On John Wesley's 'cleanliness is next to godliness,' and a gratitude for this absurd life that no gift can be repaid. On waking as daily rebirth, Marcus Aurelius leaving his warm blankets, and existence as a freefall kicked off a precipice. On thanking the bus driver—Peter Rukavina's 2009 question, and the Calgary custom Chuck McKinnon watched diminish. On John Wells counting some 400 daily growth-ridges per year in Devonian coral, the Moon's tides stretching the day by 1.78 milliseconds a century, and Alberta Time holding...