will try to come back to the keyboard here, for the color of the day, a form of “public service”.
run in a bit, a little before daylight. just the third of the week, the first of a series in a long while, or since March. Then back here. It’s M’s birthday, i have to run a lot earlier, and light the incense earlier, to be able to head out of the metro early.
Every morning, shortly after sunrise, we open all the blinds in the department, the windows face south east so all the morning sunbeams come in, in soft translucent diagonal planks.
After the windows — the doors; we open wide all the doors of the department leading to the corridor. R, the assistant (she’s more than that, she’s the fulcrum that holds the day-to-day operation of the department but i try not to spoil her) then works quietly, playing soft jazz music from her computer in her station at the center of the department, with multiple Korean telenovela actors transitioning in a slideshow as screensaver.
Then, we light an incense in Chit’s room.
Then, “walk” the incense through the length of the office and all the corners .
R continues typing and going through the chart of a site, i’m sure she sees me from her peripheral vision.
I wonder what she’s thinking, i cannot read minds, but she’s probably saying in her head — “why does she do that every morning……. is she Catholic — or Buddhist….? Rosaries in the car given by Ricci several Christmases ago and incense and scents given by Khrysta. or maybe Incan!? Seems to worship the streaming light… And the rushing wind.”
Running in the morning till your lungs feel like bursting is good for your soul.
This is a freeze-frame of the featured video here, original, see upload below.
There’s only one known existing video of our poledancing (see previous blog posts for background — we won first place in the dance contest with that): the audience was positioned around the stage, two dancers in front (or up-stage) and Chit and Khrysta were at the back (down-stage). Guess what – the only known existing video of that dance was taken by someone who was seated nearest where Chit was dancing. And so therefore, Chit is in the foreground of the frame of that video — the most prominent, Khrysta in the background, and Lou and i were hardly within the frame — our backs shown for only about two seconds. What are the odds? We were surprised to see the video this January, and laughed until we were red in the face but Chit didn’t want anyone to see it…. (so i haven’t uploaded it, without permission from the family). —
BUT … here’s another unknown video (see the “dancers” in the freeze-frame or photo above, with the graphics) of the first dance rehearsal with the choreographer and two unidentified “dancers” from two Christmases ago. The choreographer had a hectic schedule because it was Christmas, and was available for only two or three rehearsals, so Chit, Ricci, and Khrysta had the brilliant idea of asking the staff to put a camera on a tripod, and filming the choreographer with the two unknown “dancers”, so they could follow later.
Here it is: (Credits: Music from last Wednesday’s riveting rendition by the “Top 2” American Idol (apologies), finalist Lauren Alaina, made available by the American Idol website for free download: She sang “Wild One”, “If i Die Young” and “I Hope You Dance”….guess which i chose?)
