I miss feeling the presence of women. I don't even think I mean sexually. I mean being able to form myself in response to them. (Blogging makes you write too fast, so I am amending this sentence). The thing about this nearly visible, literally written (but also tacit) distinction between public/private is that it forces you to organize your life into two categories. It is tempting, this sort of dualism, I said I liked it earlier, and I do, but thinking about it this way makes it a problem. Given the choice of public or private, the tendency, I think, is [View Full Entry]

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Comes on every night in the old medina at 8 pm. I have not heard "jugs" in a long time. Some regression is blissful. Not Dally Partion, I mean. Jugs. Why do they like her here? You can't say it takes time for culture to travel anymore, can you? Can I use this: "She was good American."? [View Full Entry]

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Amendment: I miss feeling the presence of women. I don't even think I mean sexually. I mean being able to form myself in response to them. You can feel women here, more even, but don't see them. It is kind of dramatic. (Blogging makes you write too fast, so I am amending this sentence). More importantly, I just met my brother, my mother, and my other little brother. Like my younger blood brother, this is one is taller than me and ambivalent about everyone else's appreciation (in the sense of commodities) of me. He is a volleyball player and wants to [View Full Entry]

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Salaam loved ones, In fact, I wrote a whole first post the night before last, focused, emptied my self, went out ready to send it this morning (when I was to get my internet set-up, finally)...but (of course?) I lost it, didn't save it correctly...so here I am, oh, so frustrated. It's not important enough to really complain about; just annoying enough to hijack a good part of my daily imagination. You know how I get. But so to put aside the obvious...it's too impossible trying to recreate that serious unleashing of impressions, emotions, brilliant apercus without feeling in bad faith. [View Full Entry]

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