I bought a one way ticket last week and this evening I
bought another one. Yesterday I watched
a young man with downs syndrome speak to a man driving a white Land cruiser and
then the young man removed his sandal and threw it at the car as it pulled
away. The man picked up his sandal and
threw it again with more force and did it one more time. Throw it harder, Sadiq, harder. Then the angry man pushed the gas station
attendant and threw a swing, another attendant got in between the two when the
police arrived and escorted the troubled soul.
"Doomsday predictions can no longer be
met with irony or disdain." Pope
Francis
Climate change burns the planet up, an asteroid hits
earth knocking it off its axis, Jesus returns and leaves again, my car died 200
meters from the flat. I am glad it
didn’t die when I took Rool and his wife and daughter to Lulus after they fed
me a Ramadan-lite lunch. How can I eat
in front of you, please take some grapes.
The man from Dhaka is going to buy the car if it doesn’t die for good before
then. It’s ok, you make me strong, have
more noodles?
Tilling and keeping the garden is the postscript to
dominion over the garden and we haven’t done that too well, have we, though in
very civilized nations the garden has been kept, at least, in parts.
Psalm 130:
out of the depths of hell on earth, O Lord, hear our cry. Why don’t you end evil, why can’t you end
evil.
I didn’t see life outside until eight this morning, a
dusty desolate city on the first day of fasting and as the minute comes to
break the fast the neighborhood is empty again.
Come now Lord, Come now. Yell it out, yell it out, keep cooler heads,
confront evil and end it, right, and tomorrow hate rises again from the tears
of sorrow that mutes our cries in vain.
“The heart of South Carolina is
broken.”
And yet, and yet, America can’t give up her guns. When will the 2nd Amendment ever
be reinterpreted to the way it was intended.
I don’t know. Nine humans die
praying. Oh, Jesus doesn’t it touch you
how loyal these innocent humans were, a Pastor included, wow, God, you must be
touched, perhaps not touched enough to bring heaven to all and end evil. I don’t understand you. Who has to be shamed, isn’t that what people
are doing now to change bad behavior?
Oh, right, God can’t be blamed for bad behavior, man kills man, God
doesn’t condone it, no, but it didn’t have to happen.
I looked at these modems that could connect me to the
internet but the man at Omantel said they were out of stock. I looked at one in Lulu’s and balked because
I wanted a 4G and not a 3G and that’s all they had and I made it home and
turned on the laptop and lo! I had a connection again. I don’t know why but I am glad I had it, so
glad I didn’t want to shut down the computer again so it’s been on for seven
hours but once again I have lost it. Is
it my sadness which disconnects I don’t know.
I told a colleague even if I don’t use the internet all the time I want
access to the outside world. The BBC and
CNN went single minded today and everything else was overshadowed. I downloaded the Pope’s encyclical, I booked
a room for three nights in Amsterdam, I can’t do these things if I am under
house arrest.
A question, Jack.
When did your grotto become a dump? My soul hurts.
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