#56 To shore
Thank you for the words of encouragement you’ve sent me. They’ve chipped the wall I’ve built to protect myself. I’ve yet to reply but I will.
For a few days, my husband, Yip, and I have been driving in any direction. When the weather was good, we sat in a park. When the weather was bad, we sat in the car in the parking lot. We drove home when we were too hungry to stay out.
We bought a kettle for our room.
The gap between things happened and my reaction has increased.
2 days ago, I had space to cried.
This letter is still in list form to cushion the writing from my emotions.
The last time I felt homeless was before I got married 10 years ago. Now I take comfort in our homelessness together.
We spend time each day looking at the many birds that fly over our gazebo. We stay still and let them study our faces.
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There’s a magpie in our front yard here in Australia. Some days I feel he looks at me with affection. This tells me it’s not just in my imagination.
You might have known by now that there were otters near my Singapore home. They were dexterous with their hands holding fishes and scientists are trying to find out why.
Every point is a gem in this excerpt with Sendhil Mullainathan. “… the toughest thing is that you don’t want to cast a shadow, but yet you have ego.”
A Burger joint named it’s burgers after office supplies so that customers can include them on expense reports.
Lego bike lanes. Enough said.
I’m peddling hard so I won’t be carried by the current. It will be a while before I see the edge of this pond. Let there be land, marn