Troubled waters

Everyone I speak to these days is getting wisdom teeth out, going to a funeral, getting double knee-surgery, or going on sabbatical with exhaustion. Or off in the hinterlands of humanity with one finger on the telegraph line, lien, whatever.

On the other hand, had a wonderful meal with Z today after years of not seeing each other. Some people do not age or change much, which is quite beautiful. I have been made wiser and warmer by the experience.

Meanwhile, the mean gods of cold have descended and the streets are full of their testimony--this rubbing of outer arms on the cobbled corner whilst saying an extended goodbye--how long it has been. Maybe I am a Californian girl at heart, after all. (Give me boardwalks and sunny train station platforms in January...)