Sat, 21 November 2009
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Expatica blogger R.W. Dooley reflects on the effort it takes to enjoy the park in silence.This is something I rarely do, sit in the park and write. It’s such a rare day however, that I’ve made an exception. Today is what we would call in New York a “Top 10 day” – cloudless soft blue sky, bright sun, almost imperceptible cooling breeze and birdsong, lots of it, from every corner of the auditory frame.
It’s one of the those days you’d like to bottle: suck up a bit of it and store it under your bed for that inevitable morning when the sound of rain is the first thing you hear and you search hopelessly in the darkness for the blanket that slipped off the bed last night during a dream of walking nude through an ice-cold pond. For that day when you wake up with that cold place on your neck, so stiff that you finally rise and rub it warm, certain that beneath it the tissues have already set in building some virus that will sack you for a few days. That’s what I was always told anyways – that cold air blowing on your skin while you sleep slows down the flow of blood just enough to let the nasties in. I still sleep with the window open, nasties notwithstanding. I’d rather die from a cool breeze than be smothered in the husky dampness of an over-warm room.
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