January 13

Rain on snow then snow on rain… I wonder if we will have a week of decent winter this year.

It is good to see old friends and remember that no matter how old and how long ago, they are still friends and they keep a part of you.

Conjugating the Mohawk word – nòn:we’s (like) with person-to-person pronouns. I like you, you two like me, she likes you all, they like all of us, you and I like him. I imagine what it might be like to be a fluent Mohawk speaker. To place every action, feeling and intention in the web of closely knit relationships. Pronouns are not external, independent words – they change the verb. I like you is not the same verb as she likes them. It is not the same feeling either.

Coming back home in the evening to Leonard Cohen’s concert playing on TV. I wonder what he would have thought of it all.

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