Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.

What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and tricky the universe is than we think in our daily lives.

Dear me, how I love a library.

The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.

In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite.

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)