fragments. on ways of living.

1.  (i realize now) not being able to write for a week while traveling is like closing the dam, letting the waters rise.

2.  at least three languages involved.  and how do we float through the surface of understanding and communication?  the language of the empire.  no matter how much we may have our own reasons to abhor it.

3.  like every thing else, the socialbook is part illusion.  there are more stories when distant friends are actually met.  no matter the short notice, no matter the so short a time.  such as:  V now doing kabbalah and learning Aramaic.

4.  a gift of turmeric roots that still need to be planted.

5.  a visit at the sequestered home-museum of a fallen dictator's wife: palpable opulence, palpable greed. 

6.   an attempt to make a red paper doily to impress a girl.  and failing.  the beautiful woman who makes it look so easy, smiling at the effort.

7.  Louis Theroux's Extreme Love: Autism. 

8.  On ways of living, what is love then?  what is love?  a reservoir.