color my world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJXZYlUwR2w

I think I’ll use this in a class somehow.  I showed Said Wali and Fezel the colouring for mindfulness and coloring for calm books and showed them the small illustration I spent thirty minutes on just using an orange pencil. 

Today is just an introduction so we’re gonna do an exercise in concentration.              

Give everyone a sharpener because some of the spaces are so small your lime greens are going to have to be very sharp.

I stopped before leaving Kabul’s international terminal and wondered if I should wait and see if my bag was going to come out or if it was it going to be taken directly to my next and last flight to Kandahar.  The merciful man in Dubai didn’t say anything when the new Swiss 28x22 four wheeler tipped the scales at 46 pounds thank God because just about every Afghan with things wrapped up smaller were being forwarded elsewhere or somewhere else, he did tell me I needed to get a boarding pass in Kabul’s domestic terminal and that my bag would be checked all the way through to Kandahar and it wasn’t.  Arianna Airlines and Kam Airlines have been working together and they haven’t worked together well at all if you ask me.  This holiday the struggling companies cost me a lot of money.   

Before the old year is completely forgotten my favorite reads are below.  I failed to reach 20 books this year, falling short one.  This year's first was Euphoria, may I enjoy books like this all year on faux beaches everywhere.  

Without my luggage I can’t count how many books I’ve brought back but in my man purse and blue day pack were seven including a still in the wrap ‘A brief  history of seven killings’.  I can think of five.  Anyways, it’ll be enough until there is a chance to leave once again and as a preview to what is spinning in your noggin John what do you got in mind?   Well, it’s early but by 22 may I’ll have accrued seventeen and a half days.  Patmos Island?  Tajikstan?  A Nepal-Thailand combo?  Beach and mountains together like they should be. 

5.  Bleeding Edge-Thomas Pynchon.  Literally I was holding on to the fastest prose I’ve ever read. 

4.  Colorless Tsukuru Tazak-Haruki Murakami.  The only other book I’ve read of his was the oral history of survivors of the Tokyo subway gas attacks.  It's wonderful when a good story transports me to a desired place.   

3.  No Ordinary Time-Doris Goodwin Kearns.  The second book I’ve read of Kearns (Lincoln) and I feel as if I don’t need to read any more on FDR and Eleanor. 

2.  All the light we cannot see-Anthony Doerr.  I didn’t like the way the boy's life ended other than that it was breathless.

1. Return of a King—William Dalrymple.  

Am in the coffee shop or outside the coffee shop?  I don't remember.

These men are building your city.  Always look up to each other.

Taking photos out of planes with a good camera isn't that bad at all.