3/8
“Reading the sidewalk”
is nothing less than scanning
for small miracles.
3/6
Dragon litter must
mean something auspicious like
“Obstacles melting.”
Two of these photos are from walking to the dentist yesterday. Monday I go back for — wait for it — MY NEW Front TOOTH!
This is one of three jackhammering sites within a block of my house. It’s been pretty much continuous from mid-summer til now. Here, they’re making a hole for an underground parking garage. Twelve unit building on top — or is it only nine? None will be “affordable” by any common sense meaning of the word.
The only blessing here? This project is not audible from inside the house. I only hope they’re done before I want to sit out on the deck again.
PS. I got the Bernina going again. Maybe it was because I adjusted the tension. Top and bottom. Who knows?
I would love to get a fortune cookie reading “dragons will melt your obstacles”
I’ve been reading In Kiltumper about a year in an Irish garden whilst two wind turbines are being constructed on a nearby hill (500m away) … the head-shaking realities about the costs of such developments, as with the construction down the street from you, are staggering (the authors are Niall Williams, who also wrote This is Happiness, and his wife Christine Breen, also an author)
Wouldn’t that be great? I need to read something else by Williams. I loved This is Happiness.
I’m guessing this is Marti based on reading?
Oy with the noise already!! And of course the fact that regular folks can’t even afford to get by. Grrr.
I could sure used that dragon. For reals.
Yay for a new tooth!!
It if picked up that dragon, if mail it to you but I didn’t.
Haha I meant more the lyrical powers of the dragon melting things, as in wishful thinking…I’m fairly good on actual “things” 😁
Well and that’s why I didn’t pick it up. It was enough to see it. To capture it in a picture.
I didn’t realize I was anonymous when I wrote about Niall Williams’ book … love his writing …
P.S. I love being mistaken for Marti
Oops. Sorry! She’s all about Ireland these days so it was an understandable error.
Well me darling, I’ve been all about Ireland since 1987 when I stumbled across a book written by Niall Williams and his wife, Christine Breen, titled, O Come Ye Back to Ireland. Our First Year in County Clare. I’ve pretty much read everything by Niall and Christine. Niall has a new book coming out this year, Time of the Child. I’ve sent this before but here is the link to his website for further info on books, articles about Niall and Christine and info on the writing workshops that they offer. Their collaborative book, In Kiltumper, A year in an Irish Garden, was a poignant read given that Christine was dealing with a cancer diagnosis and the garden was more than her salvation.
https://www.niallwilliams.com/
The other three books that formed the basis of my everlasting love of Ireland, the books that followed O Come Ye Back to Ireland, lit a spark in me that brought to the forefront the possibility that I had lived in Ireland many years ago, in a past life, for the spirit was calling and calling loudly as no other place in the world has called me, not even the place of my roots, Spain… The other books are:
The Luck of the Irish, Our Life in County Clare
When Summers in the Meadow
The Pipes are Calling, Our Jaunts through Ireland.
I also very much enjoyed Christine’s novel of taking a nine month trip with Niall and their children around the word, titled, So Many Miles to Paradise. From Clare to There.
I had no idea your interest dates back decades! I am in a reading slump these days but I always appreciate your links and recommendations.
Also? When did we “meet” here? 2017 or 18 is a guess.
I’m very sympathetic about your noise issues. I would come unraveled, I think. I have This is Happiness but not yet read; perhaps this is a good time. Just finished Claire Keegan’s So Late in the Day. She is amazing.
I recently read FOSTER and SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE and agree — she’s amazing.