▪ Utter Bliss (albeit Winter)

WINTER CAN BE NICE

All of a sudden, it’s Friday! The end of the week. And it’s been a quiet day at college, a lovely sunny day in winter. Not that cold. In fact, I can smell spring arriving slowly. My favourite season. And love, perhaps, as well. And I’m very excited about finally getting to learn Argentine Sign Language. I practise it every morning and now I want my thesis to be about it. And today I also helped a man find a bus stop. He was very grateful. It felt good. And I wore this shirt for the first time. New things seem to spring up everywhere. A new pair of gloves. Oh, yes, I have the feeling the future is smiling at me. I smile at people and they can't help smiling back at me; no, they can't. Out of the blue, the possibility of going to Canada for some months next year is starting to materialize. Mastering French may no longer be a dream. And now I can say that this end I've been worried about is not just an end. Now this end is starting to look like the beginning of something else, something vaster. Everything is fresh, new, flourishing (albeit winter). And I have to say I like it. I definitely do.

(2010)