Belly of the Whale

It is blowing 25 knots from the WRONG direction in Port Elizabeth. I
spent the day watching a track meet. The little girl I was there to
watch WON the 100, 400, and 4X100m. She was wicked fast, or my
animated cheers propelled her to new heights.

"if fate doesn't make you laugh, then you just don't get the joke."
... a line from Shantaram. I'm not sure how this book has escaped me
for so many years. It is a magnificent (true) story of guilt and
redemption ... or so it seems. I am just getting into it. A book to
make you laugh and cry in epic fashion. Gregory David Roberts. I am
already being changed by the book, and that, to me, is high praise,
perhaps the highest.