This morning's kiss

I just listened to Bernie Sanders on Meet the Press for ten minutes and it really is time for some space ambient music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTXeWIL1vhA

Saffi, Simon and I  walked to an outdoor Afghani Restaurant this evening for nice mugs of milk tea and schwarmas and I asked him questions I like to think are more or less ideas for his beleaguered nation and people.  Why don’t cities build walls around themselves anymore?  Wouldn’t Ayno Meena be ideal for moving the capital to for the winter months and the government can remain in Kabul during the summer months.  The advantage of building a new capital in this large slowly developing marked out piece is it provides a completely different environment for which the politicians have to meet.  With the clean air and night skies surely a lot more could be done to bring security back. 

There are a lot more reasons to consider moving.  A fresh start, new modern buildings, technology works, there is electricity, all is new.  Kabul is one beat up place.  Every day I get an SMS from the university reporting a blast or an explosion in some part of the city, avoid area until further notice. 

By afternoon the skies had cleared and the sun set about 5:28pm a half hour earlier than the last time I was up on the roof.  Ho hum.  Such a big sky too.  Definitely next time there is a convoy of Apaches buzzing by I’ll run up and pray no one shoots at me accidently. 

Have you thought anymore about this morning’s kiss from mother-nature?  I’m eternally grateful I did not have to teach today.  I don’t consider there to be any coincidence there, but not thinking about what I am going to do in the class let me enjoy the hours in a cool and soft lit refuge. 

What do you think will happen tomorrow morning?  Ha, I dare to ponder, if it’s clear, then it will feel weird.  If the same gray cloud cover is there then perhaps a pattern has begun, I don’t know.  The space ambient music has been a nice way to end the day. 

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/10/15/448839381/could-all-really-come-from-nothing?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2040

From within the facebook matrix a story that is enjoyable to read with space ambient music.  Ha, really.

“What seems to be needed is a new way of depicting the laws of nature not as static truths about the world but as emerging behaviors that unfold and take hold as time elapses.”

Is that what is happening?  New technology is unfolding the layers of the universe and emerging behaviors have got all the highly cognitive working 24/7 and some of them have to rewrite the books.  I hope I’m around when scientists discover the door to the fourth dimension and we’ll see all the spirits around us.  Ya, I know, a lot of heart attacks happening then. 

Revisionist space history I guess is what is happening.  Another story I read today in the cool quiet blue room, scientists have been looking at this one star that flashes oddly erratic light patterns and they believe, seriously, that aliens have installed solar panels.

And what is this time elapsing on earth stuff, it’s all relative, right?

10.17.15

7:36am—I went up for the six oh ten sunrise, nice, a few clouds for a few more minutes of taking photos.  City power remained on all night, going off just as I got up around six.  My toilet geyser is warmed up good for a few days, the juice in the fridge is actually cold as is the milk.  Goodness.  How to live in a Lukewarm world you don’t appreciate the difference if you’ve never had a really cold coke.

Today’s afternoon class will review three verb tenses, I got a handout, a speaking exercise, what the hell else can I do in the last thirty minutes.  This is where a good knowledge of games comes in handy and I have none.  Then second toefl class meets right after that, since the break the energy from this class has gone out the window.  We plod on.  I told them last week let’s try to finish on a strong note, we got three weeks to go.

A Hershey’s Kiss with almond is good really cold and the bag I’m scarfing through might have contributed to the upper left tooth throbbing and it appears to have a tad of wobble when I pull it.

And that’ll be the day, yawn, until the internet returns I pace and wobble a tooth a tad.  I started To Kill A Mockingbird, I know I’ve read it before but I only recall scenes from the movie.  And I wanted to read it again before I read the other one, perhaps when it is in paperback I’ll pick it up. 

In any case, Harper Lee’s writing puts me square in the hot Southern climate.  What a gift, eh, to write like this.  All the training, all the schooling, only grace bestowed from the beginning explains such a way of thinking. 

Characteristics of the Kandahari Afghan:  loyalty, camaraderie, honor within reason, trust, a handshake, choose words carefully, bonds are highly considered.  There is strength in numbers.  Last night I told Saffi from the Dalyrimple book I got the impression the Afghans who live in the Gazni area are fierce fighters, perhaps more loyal to themselves than to either the south or north.  Would such mountain people ever choose to move into a walled city?  Unlikely, besides, farmers cannot move into a walled city, so how do you win their loyalty simply by helping them.