gray

My eyes are burny, my ears are tunnely, my throat hurts, I keep sneezing and blowing my nose.

I'm sick.

I'm tired.

I watched the movie "earth".....the one about the polar bears and all the rest.

What impressed me is how difficult everything is. I think they were trying to drive that point home, but really, all these creatures are all struggling. Not because of global warming or human exploitation or pollution. Just because we were all built for struggle. Our bodies and intelligence, from little insects and fishes to humans and dolphins and elephants, are all evolved to endure.

And the reason of course, is that the endurance race never ends.

That's the perspective for today. But I am in north Wellington in mid-may. Which means that it's gray and cloudy and that it's likely to stay this way for a while. The mountains are beautiful in the mist, the sea is ever lovely, but gray is gray.

I would kiss you, but I'm sick.