Saturday, December 6, 2014

Walking by the Lake

It is damp and but not below freezing so I just walked back from campus.  Everything brown, chilly and blowing.  The Lake seems to have come in to shore at the Lake Street Beach.  Grey.  Today was Kripa's Mehendi party.  I watched part of it on YouTube.  They were joyful and looked cold in the early evening.  Gorgeous saris, lots of hugging and saw Deepak briefly, the proud papa.  I love that the wedding is at noon - so sensible!
Counting the days, trying to savor the anticipation.  Counting the days was one of the things I learned to do first in life - days until going into boarding, days until going down day, over and over each year.  I used to make calendars to mark off the days.  There weren't any bought calendars, just those white scrap books they sold at the tuck shop.  I would line off a double page and write in the dates.  Now I let Google keep track although I have to do the counting still.
Preparing for the literary festival Lori and I have read several books.  I am not impressed with most of them.  So many authors - they are saying over 200.  It will be fascinating to see what we learn out of this.  That I want to write and can't.  I just ordered 3 novels by Chetan Bhagat - never heard of him before.  This will be at least an adventure.

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