hopefully feeling better tomorrow

[incandescens]

Was feeling a bit off at work today. Not sure whether to blame clogged-up nose (and not sure whether that's due to an oncoming cold (has anyone ever referred to the Doctor as The Oncoming Light Shower With A Chance Of Thunder?) or hayfever, or the rather heavy cakes that were being sold for charity today and which I ate a couple of, or the fact that they're painting the whole area in the evenings and you can smell it faintly the next day.

Went home half an hour early, anyhow. Pity: had been planning to donate blood. Oh well, maybe next week.

---

Farewell to a Japanese Buddhist Priest Bound Homeward

You were foreordained to find the source.
Now, tracing your way as in a dream
There where the sea floats up the sky,
You wane from the world in your fragile boat.
The water and the moon are as calm as your faith,
Fishes and dragons follow your chanting,
And the eye still watches beyond the horizon
The holy light of your single lantern.

-- Ch'ien Chi

Comments

[amethyst-hunter.livejournal.com]

Paint will clog your nose something fierce, and I say this as a weirdo who actually likes passing by the scent of fresh paint. (Breathing it in all day though? No.)

Lots of people I know have problems with sinuses/allergies too. 'Tis not a good year for the noses, methinks.

[incandescens]

Agreed.