I only had two students today, spaced quite far apart. At 8 a.m. I had Tereza, which is a pleasant way to start the day. Coffee, with little chocolates, and her office always has promotional supplies lying around so, in addition to employing me as a teacher, they also supply me with pens and notebooks.
My plan then was to spend the rest of the morning working on the book, and I more or less succeeded in that, despite a few computer breakdowns. I finished one chapter, which might be the longest one in the book, started another, and went through changing a lot of names. I haven’t been doing too well on my resolve to complete a chapter a day in November, but I’m still confident that I’ll finish it in November.
Then, it was time to pick up Isabel and take her to ballet. My plan, in the hour I was waiting for her to finish, was to complete a poem I’ve had on my mind for about two weeks. I had 3 places in my notebooks where I’d got started with it, and floundered so, in the end, it was a question of putting them together and tweaking a bit so it all fit. Here it is:
The sun, so very far away
is visible most every day
it lights up everything we see
and dominates in every way
We can observe the stately trees
whose leaves are rustling in the breeze
everything is seen so clear
we pick out the details with ease
and then it all just disappears
come the night, the dark, the fear
it’s the antithesis of light
but in that void, new sights appear
and when we close our eyes at night
when all the world is blocked from sight
our dreams, like distant stars, shine bright
our dreams, like distant stars, shine bright
I’m pretty pleased with that one, so it sort of makes up for all the writing I didn’t get done today.
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