tales from an ordinary world

2001-06-23

"It's only 40 miles to Saturday night."
Paul Kelly.

The way she keeps saying on the phone how "every day's a bonus" for this person, and that person. Deterioration, oxygen machines, job relocations and rehiring. The feeling that time's running out in different ways for each of them. I've got a headache, and feel so far away.

But that's how it's going to be elsewhere in my life, too - distance, in increasing quantities. I can't fight the way people drift in and out of my life. I can only quietly accept the way things go.