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August
22 - Reading In The Sun Feeling only slightly better. Still weak, with a bad cough but I guess that's a slight improvement. But. Today was a glorious spring day; cloudless, windless, verging on hot outside. In August! I sat outside our front door this morning in the sun. Looking west out over the sleepy, sunny suburb, then across to the hills over the harbour. Letting the sun hit my body and warm me. I've just started reading Cold Mountain by Charles Fraiser. It's a stunning book. Deb walked down the road to the shops, so I had a little bit of time to myself, checking in on Matthew occasionally. This afternoon my best friend from college, and best man at my wedding popped around unexpectedly with his wife and two children. I haven't talked to him since Matthew was born, something that's been on my mind that I needed to do, so it was great he made the effort to come over. We've drifted apart some since college - I went to University and he worked in a bank before becoming a policeman. So in lots of ways we've formed fairly different world views. But there's such a shared history and genuine friendship that that's never been a problem for us. In has meant that we haven't done a lot together though since I got back to New Zealand. We parted today making plans, as always, to get together, do some tramping. I hope we do. It's been a tough week for me and Debbie with me being at home. I've been here, but haven't really been able to help out much. It's taken all my energy to take care of myself, let alone help her with Matthew. So that, combined with the physical fact of being confined to the house together has lead to a few niggles. I think we need a small break from each other, and, more importantly, I think Deb needs a break from Matthew, from being a mother. So tomorrow I'll try and either send her away for a couple hours, or take Matthew myself and go somewhere to give her a break. I've been thinking about adding more to the Soundtrack to a Life section of my writings. I don't quite have the songs or things I want to write about clear in my head yet. I'm getting there though. I wanna write some more soon.
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