people have choices
and vote with their feet
and we can't even tell you
cos we already schlepped off
before the feedback QR code appeared
but
please
have mercy
choose good speakers
who are focused and clear and
do not keep saying long story short
because their short comes from speaking veryveryfast
today i skip church to attend a course. the premise is great: each speaker gets twenty minutes to update us about the latest exciting developments in his field and then we switch to the next fellow. quickly building up a strand of lustrous pearls, as it were.
unfortunately the whole thing pivots on choosing excellent speakers. which. some. people. so. are. NOT. hence we are subjected to a couple of well-articulated verbal train wrecks during which the audience quietly scrolls social media.
at the end of the morning session i decide to schlepp off. if i have to listen to waves of words playing at double speed that make no sense whatsoever i might as well just read up the stuff at home.
if you think i feel crabby you are right.
in other news, his mercies continue to be new every morning as well, breakneck speed notwithstanding.
there is a fine mistiness to everything that looks almost wintry except for the temperature the green leaves AND THE SMELL.
yesterday's downpour was much welcomed is late lamented and barely budged the smog.
we say goodbye to J1 and Yi. as we said goodbye to J2 Ji A and E.
HOM's cystoscopy comes up next.
life marches.
amid the blessings, the weight.
amid the joys, the shadow.
God keeps.
finally starting on these, half a century after first learning her name. agatha christie was just much more easily available at the jaya supermarket bookshop back in the day.
alleyn is my kind of ultimate detective: clever but courteous compassionate generally non-dysfunctional and (so far) quite free of unnecessary angst. so that one can just enjoy the murders.
final brunch of xlb and sjb and we're off!
i hope we can do many more such trips, HOM says. yes, i agree. but lovely too to have had this one. we are thankful.
if we are ever in shanghai around, say, our anniversary date, and resources permit, i tell HOM, i want to stay at 和平饭店. HOM says ok.
