“You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.” Kurt Vonnegut I started to feel better Monday. On Tuesday I was back in the gym. I have defeated AIDS. I am invincible. Thursday “Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information…
Category: the grind
When it Rains it Floods
“The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I’m drenched but I can’t move.” Paulo Coelho Thursday We only had one day at school. Storms hit Monday night and Dubai has been flooded all week. Two days after the rain has stopped, there is still flooding….
Dubai Grinding
“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.” Susan Sontag It is Thursday morning and I smell of melancholy. I let Shell sleep and I read before we head to the gym. It is good to be back in the gym. Like a strange omen, Shell comes down with the runs. As she returns from the toilet,…
Arrivals – Budapest
“But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower. Herman Melville Thursday Long terms are not much fun, but they are satisfying to conclude. Di is visiting for a few days before she…
Wanderess
“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. ‘Time’ for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.” Roman Payne We don’t celebrate birthdays. Today Rachelle turns 40. People…
Countdown
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” Charles Darwin Thursday and I am finally feeling better. I didn’t get to the gym until Wednesday morning. We head home and have an early dinner and an early wine. “If you desire healing,let yourself fall illlet yourself…
Fatigue
“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.” Chuck Palahniuk The international term is long. Three semesters, not four. 13 week stints. It wears you down. Teachers walk a tightrope of health. Surrounded by disease infected, snotty nosed, virus collecting children that…
Weather Warning
“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.” Murray Bookchin It is Friday morning and we are skipping a morning paddle so I head to the gym. I finished The Ecology of Freedom last night. It was heavy going. The sort of book you read a…
Under the Weather
Thursday and another challenging week at work. “The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward.” Henry David Thoreau We open a bottle of wine. Our last bottle of wine. Barolo. A pang of concern after we finish a single glass and decide not to drink any more. Is there underlying…