A kinetic collage

Being here is like living inside one of those films that fast forward, with images flashing and merging, changing to other scenes. People come in, you meet them, they recede into their routines. People burst on the scene, to fill a new job position, bomb out, go back home. Some finish contracts and leave. Families stop thru on their way to other places. some vacation. The elevator goes up and down, up and down dutifully hauling people to eat dinner, or up to deposit them on the level where they are stored, after a brilliant day. Banquets, building, moving in, moving out, private cars, tuktuk taxis, dogs, cats, children, tennis, booming music, quiet birdsong at sunrise. mosquitoes at sunset. The staff are a constant recognizable pillar around the knees of which, all this swirling winds.

Conversations are funny sometimes. Person one,"The sunshine is nice here." second person..."Well, it's going to start raining in July, and it will be constant, never ends until a few months are gone. By then you are gone mad." third person, "It's not THAT bad. It rains and stops.. rains and stops." second person..."No, it's constant, miserable, you will hate it." hmm. probably not from the rain, though.

Time must be fluid. It flows, ebbs, eddies, streams .....and sluggishly sloshes.

I think my fever-whatever-thing, is receding. I feel much better today. It lent itself to horror stories abounding my way about the level of health care available, and how many ways you can die. not to mention your dog. She's in the same boat it seems, with vet care. :D ..... and Dentists? don't ask.

Cynicism is alive and well in India today. oh, and Mickey Mouse conducts business HERE too. That guy is prolific in his entrepreneurist spirit.