You work on Saturdays and Sundays, so Thursday and Friday have become the weekend, which has already succeeded in confusing things. On this un-weekend we wrote a list and did most of the things on it except for cutting your hair which seems to get put off mainly because I’m cyclically worried about not doing a good job after that small incident in the east of France two years ago when I forgot to put the black plastic trimming piece back on halfway through.
“It is feeling different now, yes, now that the days are longer and the light is more, now that the moods of people are noticeably improved by the warmth and the way the sea glitters twice a day.” I very much relate to this bit. Where I am, instead of the glittering sea, there are spring blossoms flying in the wind. It is lovely and life giving. I just ordered the Spring issue of Orion, and I can’t wait to read your contribution. Thank you for bringing my attention to that lovely publication!
"But I think still, a lot, about all this time we’ve been stopped inside of, over a year now of caution and anxiety and trying not to spend too much time reading the news—it all feels a bit like the bumblebees that intermittently thump into the windows."
How do you always find the perfect analogies? This is it, this is exactly it. Bumblebees.
“It is feeling different now, yes, now that the days are longer and the light is more, now that the moods of people are noticeably improved by the warmth and the way the sea glitters twice a day.” I very much relate to this bit. Where I am, instead of the glittering sea, there are spring blossoms flying in the wind. It is lovely and life giving. I just ordered the Spring issue of Orion, and I can’t wait to read your contribution. Thank you for bringing my attention to that lovely publication!
"But I think still, a lot, about all this time we’ve been stopped inside of, over a year now of caution and anxiety and trying not to spend too much time reading the news—it all feels a bit like the bumblebees that intermittently thump into the windows."
How do you always find the perfect analogies? This is it, this is exactly it. Bumblebees.