Bombs away! Sent away my first package today - a 20kg box full of books, marathon and triathlon medals (quite a heavy collection of metal), small digital video casettes and one movie burnt onto CD. Hope it arrives safety at it's destination. It's going surface mail (that means by ship) so it will take between 1 and 2 months. That's fine. Costs: W58 000. Not too bad. Only one or two of the books are worth that much, and some of those books I'd like to keep until I'm 80.
Today was another stunning day. Absolutely crystal clear skies. That was enough to get me around the park again. Nice little run, and at one point I ran past a group of schoolkids in their uniforms posing for a photo. One guy shouted, "Go running," and then all the girls made a big HOOOOOOOOO noise. Couldn't help waving and smiling.
Would like to do a run like this every Wednesday as a sort of time trial, see if I can bring the time down to close to 25 minutes.
I'm trying to eat nuts every day, and a little orange juice, and eat mostly fruit at school.
I'm trying to cut meats (excluding fish) out of my diet as much as possible. If I meat meat once a week I think that's all right.
It was very sweaty lugging that box to the post office. The first price they quoted was W250 000. If that had been the best possible price I might have hurled that box on the nearest garbage heap, digital video and all.
That box is another reminder why I need a home. I need a place to put the meaningful things in my life. Maybe though, that place doesn't have to be a real place. What's essential to the heart is invisible to the eye. Even so, the heart needs to have a home too, and another person isn't quite enough. I think a home is four walls, in a community that cares, and where the family and the community share in each others wealth and health and happiness.
Communities around the world are about to change. I'm not sure when we will see a stable period again. Possibly when the oil bell curve has run its downhill course and then evened out to almost nothing. I hope it is not too much to ask that this enormous transition will be within my lifetime. I think it will take a little longer than that.
Will our children inherit a better world than this one?
On a day like today, it seems entirely possible.
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