Glasgow Weekend -Friday April 28 -part 2
Continued from Glasgow Weekend - Friday April 28 - part 1 We went out to dinner last night at a “world buffet” - including Indian, Chinese, Italian and Scottish food and Sushi bar and I suspect others. It was the biggest buffet I have ever seen. Maybe this photo gives a hint of the scale and how many choices. I was and am amazed that I could experience it with childlike wonder and awe rather than my usual sense in cities (when I’ve just come down from the quiet and solitude of the trail) that it’s all too much - too many people, too much noise and confusion. I attribute the ease of transition in part to beginning my visit with a glass of good Scottish beer (to be followed after dinner with Prosecco). For all the villain using I have done of alcohol in my life, I now admit that as Leonard Cohen sings “When I turned my back on the devil, I turned my back on the angel too.” Yes. Alcohol is both muse and monster as I realized listening to Robby Burns. But it wasn’t just de...
Oh, hooray. Uploading worked. Listening with a sleeping 8 week old baby on my lap. The stream is as relaxing as baby breathing. Nancy
ReplyDeleteIsn’t it amazing how soothing the presence of a baby is - that wee warm weight and breathing and heartbeat? I wonder if that is why I sigh so deeply when a kitty settles herself on my body at night - that deep sigh of everything is as it should be. I love how we humans keep having babies even as life grows more uncertain. It makes me so want our earth-home to manage to survive in some kind of peaceful and livable state for them. I consider Chris and my new electric car a kind of prayer that our small fallible efforts will be enough …
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