Author: Claire
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Packing
Still weeks away from leaving and a bureaucracy-ridden distance from confirmation, and at the risk of tempting “the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing“, I’ve decided to be unusually optimistic and start the packing process. I almost had a magical packing moment this morning, when I thought I’d managed to fit all…
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Still cruising after all of these years
“I watched the coast. Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you – smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, Come and find out” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness A friend and I once…
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In other words
The previous post got me thinking about this: THOUGHTHAWK she’s learned the winds in order to betray the winds. today she drifts less frugally, this unknoxed, disencalvined, no-god’s-prey whose spirals widen centrifugally… Which far more effectively expresses what I was trying to say.