Rainy day here. Kitties have spent the day curled up, splayed out, or playing in the bathtub (little sigh; sorry Sara). As for me, I'm ensconced in a phase of the book dubbed 'Frankenstein's Monstering': it basically consists of shoving oodles of little touches and snippets of information into the text without a care for smoothness. For the Planing Stage shall come later :-)
Anyhoo, in other news, Thich Nhat Hanh is speaking tomorrow in the Hammersmith Apollo on 'Global Ethics for Our Future'. And so this poem of his is appropriate, before I head off to put on the (teeny tiny travel, soon to be replaced by Fullsize) kettle:
Drink Your Tea
Drink your tea slowly and reverently,
as if it is the axis
on which the world earth revolves
- slowly, evenly, without
rushing toward the future;
Live the actual moment.
Only this moment is life.
--Thich Nhat Hanh
When switched on, the teeny kettle sounds like it has emphysema. I am absurdly fond of it, and wait happily as it slowly and valiantly brings water to the boil. Go, little one!
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