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 reading was a kind of rest when sleep might come later.

 the world..

"when you traveling'.. people ask and I explain that I have not been able to get the focus and mindfulness yet to face the PPP's passport office yet. 

But in the intentional reading through Book club and elsewhere, find myself in China in the 1970s, and Czechoslovakia in the 1960 and Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and Nigeria in the future, and in the present; and Barbados in the 1980s and Morocco and in the Pacific.

And also in places which not on any map but which might exist.

And in the year planned ahead there will be Jamaica, India, Sweden, Finland  and other places which I have not downloaded as yet or picked up from free books.

Where do you plan to go in your reading next?

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