Re-reading Teju Cole’s “Everyday is for the Thief” brings back floods of memory of trawling The Wayback Machine for snapshots of the blog/travelouge before it became a book.
It is a tiny book - all of 163 pages - and grew from the tiny seed of a blog. I guess that counts for today’s prompt by @jasonmcfadden which is tiny.
Winter out here is slowly slipping away, the halcyon days of pleasant twenty-five degree mid-day weather replaced by mid day temperatures in the low thirties. Truth be told, these are not hot enough to be unpleasant yet, thanks to the low humidity and the wind which lingers. It thus felt like the right time to nip back home, to get a dose of wet, cold and windy for the long run coming. After the desert, nothing quite beats a run by the River Wey. Not quite house plants, but plenty of vegetation.
I suppose that counts for the March 20 prompt, houseplants by @jensands
Analog, for the March 2023 Photo Challenge Prompt by @skarjune
For better or for worse, the only place I still have an analog clock is at work, where the battery operated clock fails spectacurlarly to keep the right time, several battery changes notwithstanding. Even then, twice a day as they say, it still keeps the right time. If there is a moral to the story, I suppose it is that not everything that seems right is right…
It is never really until whatever flight I am on is hovering over Heathrow that I let myself go and begin to think of home. To my mind, the most likely reason for that is a fairly long history - now - of having lived in many places which were never really home. The current iteration of this is is a shadow of a Wadi somewhere, where one is as likely to be held up a long trail of camels crossing a road as to be in long tail backs from cars a few kilometres further in the centre of the city.
One would like to think of Home as a permanent place, a centre where one returns to from time to time as the pendulum that is the orbit of life swings to and fro. But I am learning that perhaps every pit stop on the swing of life is a little home, really
Vinyl outsells CDs for first time in decades…| www.bbc.co.uk/news/6491… Streaming perhaps beats both?
In which I return to a less cluttered place, one more in tune with quiet and reflection.. #Homecoming
