Enjoy the Ride... While it Lasts

So, wheels are in motion.  Things are happening, Babu.  Calls with family, bachelor party intimations, virus testing requests, printing of forms, invented affidavits emailed, letters to be drafted, Zambian resident rates, pro flight and venue options, requests for and offering up of pearls passing each other, unaware.  References to pimps and grandchildren.  Ancient certificates signed by a loftsman and a spinster.  An old ring to rule them all.  Even the somethings old, new, borrowed, and blue all seemingly accounted for...

Quite the immigration consultant you’ve found.  He’s a keeper.  The internet once again as oracle, swami, etc.  Haircut to come, with a tie back to Rogues and the old days.  United v Arsenal, because it always comes full circle.

Get some sleep.  The fortune cookie at the end of the cousins’ dinner said “You’ll accomplish more if you start now.” And isn’t that the truth?  Go on, my son.  Life is for the living.  The Yacoub cynical quote that tops this post is just tremendous.  Remember this high-point, says Kath, years later on the day, to see how the optimism for the future pans out.  

I’ll say something that might surprise a younger version of myself.  Faith.

That combined with the old familiar... etchings of Moby Dick and Ishmael, “tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.”