As a Samarqandian, I am a Nestorian. I am a follower of Tengri. I am a Sart. I am a Dulat. I am a Mughal seeking to control the far reaches. We are one Sogdiana
Tomorrow morning I start another job I don't want. Monday to Friday 6:45 to 4:30 physical labor. I remain spiritually unemployed and that is far far worse for the soul than actual unemployment
The Korean words for hippopotamus are νλ§ (ζ²³ river 馬 / λ§ horse) and λ¬Όλ±λ±μ΄ (λ¬Ό water λ±λ± fat). Riverhorse majestic graceful lithe mythologic. Waterfatty derisive descriptive realistic vernacular
I read her Moby Dick once while we sat in the kitchen at sunset. Later we bought whale figurines, mine a cachalot, hers a bowhead. Mine sits on my bookshelf; I wonder if she still has hers
One had a lovely face,
And two or three had charm,
But charm and face were in vain
Because the mountain grass
Cannot but keep the form
Where the mountain hare has lain.
βW.B. Yeats