Five Days in Limbo

lim‧bo [lim-boh]: a place or state of oblivion to which persons or things are regarded as being relegated when cast aside, forgotten, past, or out of date

The last five days have been somewhat "lost." I have not run, or been physically active, except to say that I have been busy planning, teaching and commuting from school "Meet the Teacher Nite" to school Open Houses... mine, my son's and my daughter's. I found a few minutes each of the last few evenings to stop home for a beer, or two, before bed and to kiss my wife goodnight and good morning.

That's not to say that there haven't been the occassional "truths" observed hiding in the fuzzy margins...

Every once in a while you get a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel. Sometimes it's in the words you catch during an NPR radio interview with musicians who play "Jewish jazz," or maybe it comes at night in a twice-read quote found in the Motorcycle Diaries...

They didn't have a single miserable blanket to sleep under, so we gave them one of ours and Alberto and I wrapped the other round us as best we could. It was one of the coldest nights I've ever spent; but also one which made me feel closer to this strange, for me anyway, human species.

Breathe in, breathe out... YOU AND I ARE ALIVE!