It is almost the end of the year. My Karen, my wife, and I are in Honduras on the Island of Utila visiting with Daniel, Kim, Max, and the newborn, as of Dec. 14, Dylan Einar. We are here to help as family and I guess we are doing that. We distract Max, we run errands, we change diapers (I have only done two and that is enough but there is always more!), we play with Max, we hold Dylan, etc, etc.... Karen is a great Mom and now Grandmom. She does it! She is good at it and she is meaningful and mindful as she does it. Quite wonderful to behold!
Utila is something else again. I have been very comprehensively bitten by sandflys and for a little while really suffered. I think I have it under control. I am not keen on going to the beaches but whenever snorkling is possible that is good. Karen and I went snorkling a couple of days ago off a boat which had some training divers. The snorkling was very good. There is a reef and we saw many fish. If we go out again soon we may see a whale shark and maybe dolphins, too. That would be really great!
Will I get scuba certification? It depends. I have a little congestion and that kept me from beginning today. Maybe soon. That would be pretty good!
We have been celebrating CHanukah with Max and with Daniel, Kim, and Dylan. Max is REALLY into it. The presents! and the candles! Each night he is quite excited and he like the clay dreidle song. All in all - time with Max is very good. He can be a handful at 3 and a half. But is he very good natured, really, and adverturesome. It is a big job and I do what I can when I can. Parents are really great and involved and good. They can use a break and Karen and I do provide that. So... all is good.
We have been away from home for about 2 weeks and have another week here and then we get home. I look forward to being away from the Utila bugs and in my own bed and I really look forward to LIGHT. Things are dark and dim here, mostly. This is to save power and to keep away bugs. I don't think I would do too well in the far north/south for long without light-therapy (as in that episode of Northern Exporsure). It is driving me nuts! And it is keeping me from reading. I did finish Plot Agains America by Roth the other day and now I am into Call It Sleep by another Roth. Call It Sleep is very engrossing. Sad, dreary, poignant, and more. I want to know what will happen to poor David and his mother and all. (I tried to read Doctorow's City Of G0d but it's style put me off). I look forward to reading more, soon, of Call It Sleep and then I also have Neuromancer by Gibson which, as Call It Sleep, is a 20th century classic. They are both different, I suppose - but will report on that later. Suffice it to say - I like READING!... And - remember, Karen and I read to each other early in our relationship and we will hopefully do that again.
Tomorrow is New Years Eve. Each of the years that Karen and I have celebrated New Years has been different. It has been with her friend Kim, at the end of 2003, then with her sister, Linda, in Santa Fe, at the end of 2004. Now we are in Honduras with her son at the end of 2005. All different and ok, was and to be.
This is/has been quite a trip. Perhaps I can characterize it as a family working vacation. COOL.
Next year ---- Maybe NYC with my daughters and some of my old friends and family. That could be something. Hmmm.... But - let me not seem complaining. I am noticing and as always - I want to contribute. Really.
More.... soon (note - there is at least one draft message - which I should review and publish).
LOVE!!!!!
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