SYNOPSIS: Because in extreme climates it is adaptive to be obsessed by weather. ENGLISH We have had three grey days in a row: sometimes the sun peeks from behind a cloud with it face sand washed by all that floating atmospheric dust; most of the time a glowing general grey permeates everything, even my […]
I have been very distracted by the rain. Basically, what I want to do is move around the house with my cell phone on hand taking videos and photos of the storm, watching the improbable rain in the desert fall, and fall, and fall from an oddly-luminous grey sky. That’s it, that is all. So […]
Disponible también en español. Por favor, sigue hasta el final de la página. SYNOPSIS: He is aptly named Maj, his majesty, the cat, and he owns his name as much as he owns his new humans and almost everything else that he fancies in the house. ENGLISH I have mentioned before this stray cat […]
¿Cómo se vive un día en un país desértico? En éste post: la descripción corta de un día común en mi vida de Qatar, donde las temperaturas promedio del verano puede alcanzar entre 96 y 116 °F. Estuve en el comedor con la puerta de cristal abierta y la botella amarilla llena de agua. Rocié […]
En éste post: culebras, escorpiones y una fogata en el desierto./In this post: snakes, scorpions and a bonfire in the desert. THIS POST IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH. Please, scroll down. Una vez, alguien que conocí hace mucho tiempo me dijo que sólo le gustaban los viajes a sitios donde ella pudiera estar cómoda. Estábamos […]
“There is no knowledge that is not power.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Society and Solitude” (1870). Another week starts; it feels as if it is suspended in time. There are so many things that are going to change and that are going to happen, just at the tipping point, but nothing happens. The job hunt is […]
El Palito de Limón Sitting in our garden like a survivor of an unknown cataclysm, el palito de limón, barely clings to life. Under the desert’s sun it holds its little-tree secrets tight, unable or unwilling to share them with us. ❦ El palito was one of the potted plants that AWESOME HUSBAND (AwHus) […]
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