Ah, another good day. Stopped watering the plants in the front this morning to hail Gary and Elle on their walk. Favourite neighbours, who celebrated their 50th anniversary the other day. Remarkably, they still find everyday things to laugh about, pottering in their backyard, or hanging out on our deck. Great guys.
Corky and Mal, other [...]
Archive for August, 2008
The 28th of August
Posted in Uncategorized on August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Coconut, mango & passion fruit
Posted in Uncategorized on August 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It was, simply, a box of 60 tea bags of Caribbean flavours; coconut, mango and passion fruit, brought to us by a dutiful daughter, evoking our years in Trinidad. But what immediately struck me was the illustration: five supposedly Caribbean women, in a style of rendering that made them look more like vestal virgins.
And [...]
Latin lovers
Posted in Uncategorized on August 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The line about music having charms to soothe the savage breast is not, I assure you, lost on the menfolk of San Jose, Costa Rica. Let’s say you’re in some kind of trouble, real or imagined, with your one true love. You’re so deep in trouble, in fact, she won’t even allow you a word [...]
Do unto others
Posted in Uncategorized on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You saw a lot of it in the Primaries, and now it is showing up, dramatically, in the General Elections: one arrow in the quiver to take down your opponent is to accuse him, repeatedly and righteously, of doing what in fact you are doing to him!
And even the lion in the fable knew about [...]
Morning glory
Posted in Uncategorized on August 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Talk about watching the grass grow! The Morning Glory has caught, and is thriving and I go out on the porch, at intervals, to gaze at the spectacle, not exactly hoping to spot increments in their upward twirl, but thrilled, nonetheless, at their hopefulness.
Janice couldn’t picture our home without, somewhere, a cascade of Morning Glory [...]
As the natives do
Posted in Uncategorized on August 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Americanization continues, but slowly, with Janice’s purchase on my behalf of a baseball cap (made in Vietnam, incidentalIy). I am, in this respect, blending in with my environment here in the White Mountains of Arizona.
Guys around here love caps, and pick-up trucks. Quite a few of them step out of their cabs in cowboy [...]
Conjunction
Posted in Uncategorized on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We were on the porch sharing a bowl of Bing cherries with two neighbours when the name of Larry King came up and his interview of the previous night on the powers of mind.
This prompted Janice to recall the morning in West Virginia and the extraordinary conjunction that still amazes us.
In school in Arima the [...]
