Many things can be true, at once. My brown flip flops dart between the hardscrabble red dirt and dried brush as the sun beats down. Each step meticulous, geared to avoiding pokes and stickers. Who am I It can be true that colleagues and educators, around the planet, are giving their all, all day, managing …
Author Archives: Radutti
Not today
I’m starting to feel the lactic acid build up. The wind, previously a boon, is now in my way. We’re some 27 km into our ride as we crest the border of the town. A subtle shift, mostly green to now mostly shops. A row of stores, all metal, corrugation, Shuttered. When Vietnam locks down, …
Ebb
* The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythm * When crossing the street in Vietnam, you do it with rhythm Two, four, six lanes of traffic, steady. Cadent. Like how you pass days in quarantine. We’re stuck here For the first …
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i didn’t know
Treasure waits patiently at the base of the tree for the seven-year old to discover cracked open, stained. all hardened amber spoils long gone, lunch, for a peckish gecko or maybe it’s instead a gecko’s egg It has Elephant wondering what kind of mammals are birds? We’re quick to respond birds aren’t mammals, mammals don’t …
a degree of concern
new levels win the day there are some things to consider but the orange and black-winged flutter by alights and investigates a branch and lifts off again she announces little apart from I am unconcerned
precaution
I really love to gamble. At first, the mask is uncomfortable as it rings my ears and defines the lower half of my face, all tiny checkerboard, black dancing with white. My nose whistles gently as hot breath filters through. I get used to it though, and forget that I have the mask on. Until …
it’s the little things, today
pip pip fizzzzzzz pip pip The clear glass lid doesn’t quite fit the pot we’re using, but it doesn’t matter. I grasp the handle and hold it in place as I shake the pot. be sure the kernels are coated in oil I remind myself. I sneak a peek, and confirm that they are. A …
7
Feeling a bit of the non sequitur tonight make the most of this I remind myself. Apropos of nothing a buddy just shared that Boris Johnson has COVID. Despite disagreeing with much of the man, and what he stands for, I don’t, and won’t, wish it on anyone. I’m hopeful he will, thru his experience, …
poorly lit
nights as a boy often went like this I remember sprinting home from school, throwing my backpack down and bundling up in my toque and jacket. A flurry of boots and mitts, I sprinted back across the street to the parking lot. Where, on the daily, magic happened. Usually me and a buddy or two, …
Get Up Eight 