There are moments, which I weather, when I feel like shite.   Tonight I went to the Vietnamese restaurant on

Bank Street

for supper and had the strongest urge to drive past old buildings just to reassure myself that they are still there.   I resisted and simply drove home but not without that sense of longing in my body.   

I loved walking in the afternoon today.  The cool sun was fabulous.  I had some fun with the Jewish ex-leftists tonight talking about nothing much in particular but it seemed to be amusing at the time. 

Taught another of my classes today and introduced the documentary hypothesis about who wrote the Tanakh (Old Testament) and when. 

 

Have had quite an interesting discussion with Olaf about Rilke and the poem I sent out as well as how to translate it.  I mentioned our discussion to a participant in my class and so got invited to a Rilke discussion group – in German!  Should be interesting.  I haven’t used my German actively in a dog’s age. 

 

In the meantime, I am having as much fun as I can with my daily routine and have started to exercise regularly again.  I am looking forward to getting into better shape this summer.  But with our weather we may have had summer already and are now into Spring.  Very confusing.