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Cycles, dreams
Having been back about ten days, and having done only administration, plus many chores; and lying around a lot the past few days, sleeping; I start thinking… cycles: the hours that make up a day, and how we move through them; the days of a week, a month; the school year, with its enormous contrasts…
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Fragments from traveling
Air France (I) I hate Air France. I mean really: they have screwed up every flight, everywhere; and of course they are associated with the dreadful De Gaulle airport, which I think is actually worse than Heathrow (if such a thing is possible). And they really don’t care… [6/25/07] ••• Getting it wrong Getting it…
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A beautiful light
The light, not yet dusk but getting there slowly in this far northern clime, is beautiful. It’s been a real summer for weeks on end, which is rare here. I’m not completely incapacitated, at least not for blog-writing, but have been in a sort of reactionary hibernation after traveling – although I’ve been back for…
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… plugged in…
Okay, this is basically way too cool for me to get away with it, but I’ll go with the flow… After two weeks of too much travel and stress, intermittently interrupted by enjoyable things with people I like (and love), and even too-brief fragments of relaxation, I’m on the last night of the conference in…
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… away…
Mexico City, via Paris. Conference. Washington, D.C. Family, and major U.S. holiday. York. (No, not the New one, just York.) Conference. And then back. Perhaps I shall have interesting things to write about at that point….
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Wrong mountain
David Hirson has written two plays – and only two: La Bête (1991), an extraordinarily peculiar tour de force in rhyming verse that actually reached Broadway before flopping and is often done by the braver regional theaters, and Wrong Mountain (2000), a bitter but brilliant piece on devoting your life to the wrong goals (i.e.…
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Paul Attinello 