Musical interlude of the day

Summer is here. Ahh, it is beautiful outside, with the sound of the birds and the crowing of the nearby roosters greeting the dawn.

Five dogs greet me happily (happy happy happy...food food FOOOOD) and three cats come out of their hiding places to meow (food Food FOOD).

I usually get up at 5:30 am when the dawn light comes in my window.

I get myself a cup of coffee, and the watch dogs who have been outside all night guarding our home know it is time to feed them, and the cats, and the koi in our fish pond.

The cook comes at 6:30 to cook us an egg each, and get money to go to the palenke to buy food for the day, and the secretary on the other side (she lives in the business side of the compound) also gets up to make breakfast for her husband and kids.

Since Joy doesn't have to get up at 4 am to go to Manila with a delivery etc., she is still sleeping, as is Chano, who won't go to the farm until later in the day. So it is quiet.

The traffic is light: We live on the edge of town, but the city plaza and palenke (market) is nearby. On Monday, when outside vendors come for palenke day, the traffic usually starts at about 4 am so they can put up their wares but on regular days, traffic is light until about 8 am, so it is quiet.




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i thank You God for most this amazing day:
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;
and for everything which is natural 
which is infinite 
which is yes 

 (i who have died am alive again today, 
and this is the sun's birthday; 
this is the birth day of life and love and wings 
and of the gay great happening illimitably earth)

 how should tasting touching hearing seeing 
breathing any-lifted 
from the no of all nothing-human 
merely being doubt unimaginable You? 
 (now the ears of my ears awake 
and now the eyes of my eyes are opened) 

 e e cummings