72 hours or more...

This is all loosely based on my last 72 hours… All or some of which deserve a blog piece of their own but I wanted to note them here for now anyway.

1 – Gardening, it’s great. I NEVER thought I’d type those words. But it’s whole new experience – putting plants in pots on our tiny 3m x 3m terrace – looking out the window the whole time at them, willing them to grow, checking their ok, and so on. Amazing.

2 – i-Pods. Specifically the 30G i-Pod Photo that arrived this week for me and mine to play with. Yum. Listening to U2 last night in the kitchen for the first time, I burnt the dinner. That’s how wow.

3 – For those who have asked… no, my walk to work is no more spiritually loaded now than when I wrote that piece. I thought that writing it would make me look more for stuff and thus it would become meaningful (good link with Ecclesiastes that we were looking at last night). I can see the superficial stuff but it doesn’t catch me the same way – a bar called The Font, a piece of graffiti that reads “Respect as a religion”. But for now, it’s just not clicking...

4 – Three brilliant films. Etre et Avoir – can’t really just be about kids going to school in rural France, right? American Beauty - all those reds in every scene, and Kevin Spacey. Billy Elliot – grabs me, gets me hooked, and makes me weep every time.

5 – The resurrection. My response? Incredulity.

6 - Martha Wainwright. Just great.

So that’s my tiny update. But right now, it’s back to work… (sigh)