you know it's been a long day when...
...you look at the dog pooping on the concrete floor in the dark and think to yourself what a strange place to poop at and the little boy stands up from his squatting posture.
you know it's been a long day when...
...you look at the dog pooping on the concrete floor in the dark and think to yourself what a strange place to poop at and the little boy stands up from his squatting posture.
today i do a load of laundry in the machines. because O is home on her vacation and we are dangerously low on undies. here are some life reflections:
it's been a good series of really pleasant reads by east asian writers translated in to english. starting with private detective kindaichi and discovering the hyunam-dong bookshop and then the kamogawa detectives. not to mention the hen who is trying to fly, which i am halfway through.
what i like so much, i think, is the light touch with the language. the sentences are not heavy and convoluted even when the ideas are. indeed, as with the most artful asian discourse, there is much that is imagined within an essay that is pitched at middle school reading level.
and also the innate restraint and courtesy of the current selections. very much more persuasion* than bridgertons!
*still my all-time favorite novel
when we have exhausted our store of endurance - when our strength has failed ere the day is half done - when we reach the end of our hoarded resources...
slowly emerging from the recent distress* and today i gingerly test my memories and find they are less painful. the toothache is less sharply tender.
*relating to HOM's trip
the shunamite woman rebukes me with her generosity of spirit and purse even as i am supremely unimpressed by her husband who, when his son is taken desperately ill, only has this to say, take him to his mother.
how is it that a (seemingly) discerning gracious and contented person is shackled with a clod like that?
how does a woman become/remain discerning gracious and contented living with a clod like this?
what pain she must endure to be so much and to live with so little.