Reading the world ...
Image from Saving Chupie by Amparo Ortiz; and book cover Reading .. "I find it difficult to read.. so hard to focus sometimes' the woman who used to read more than me tells me. We are the same age, and I know, reading, moving, living, sleeping, eating.. all need some focus and attention these days as they don't seem to happen as easily as before. But as the experts keep shouting that movement is medicine for the body, mind also gotta move and so 3am. I wake up, stomach feeling queasy. I breathe and so, relax.. yeah okay, I will sort you out later. Anxiety about health issues. Feeling the kind of awakeness and sleepiness. Get up and turn on light and go back under the bed.. and move away from my belly and body to New Amsterdam and Berbice and Guyana in Maggie Harris' childhood in Kiskadee Days.. and then I finish the book, and realise it is dawn. and mind back to belly and body and moving out of the bed to Guyana in 2025. Grateful though that focus was found so that the...