So, I just asked my kids what I should write about, not because I ever actually take their advice, just to put the question out loud, try to communicate with the little aliens from a distant generation, and Sam said “Write about how people shop more in shops and not so much on the internet?”
The Sazava River
I’m not going to write about that because
a) I’m not sure it’s true any more
b) If it is, I don’t know why
c) I don’t care
but give him another year or two and he’ll be director of marketing for this blog.
Anyway, we are off for two days, as the Czechs say, “in the nature.” We’ll camp out tonight and tomorrow do a 20k canoe trip on the Sazava River. I’m looking forward to it. It will be a bit of a break from the computer and the stream of news and that means today and tomorrow I get to write nice blogs about rivers and trees.
Here’s a sonnet I wrote while walking across the Pont D’Arve in Geneva a couple of weeks ago:
The View From Le Pont D’Arve
The river winds, as rivers tend to do
(a pattern that is generally thanks
To gradual erosion of their banks)
In nature, straight is not the same as true
I wonder what is just around the bend
What rocks, what flowers, what houses and what trees?
The void is full of possibilities
I’m curious, although I know they tend
To be in some particulars the same
A house must be a house, a tree a tree
There are some limits to what things can be
The picture never goes outside the frame
But then, there is the bend around the bend
And then, and then, and still…it never ends
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