Annie Q Syed

July 18th.

Paradox of stillness.  What would Kerouac say about blogging? Antidote to “Anxiety of Influence” is a quote by Alice Walker.

If you would like to know what Still Sundays is about, please take a quick gander here and just read the third paragraph. Thanks.

The Earth is awake. It is definitely not quiet. That doesn’t exactly make for a still Sunday.

I didn’t realize the magnitude of the Earth’s alert energy until this particular visit to my parents’ farm/ranch house in California. When I woke up yesterday morning, Saturday,  to the sounds of birds, critters, dogs, tractors, and the light wind rustling against the bright sunlight on tree leaves, I concluded I must take a break from writing Still Sundays because nothing is still!

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I am drooling over a new book I just bought: Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano.

You can read more about the book here. Having read only a few pages I highly recommend it. The writing is delicious and moves along easy.

He writes, “Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good soccer. I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’ And when good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”

“The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty.”

On a recent trip from Los Angles to New York my flight was complimentarily upgraded to executive business class. The airline had oversold the few economy seats. A few of the major airline carriers commuting regularly between San Francisco / Los Angeles to New York and vice versa have special planes that are specifically for business people flying frequently coast to coast, leaving very few economy seats. I walked past my newly assigned seat until I was directed to go back to the front. I did. And after a few minutes of being seated in the luxurious dark leather seat (not a fan), I said to the airline stewardess, “Um, this is a negative. Could I please sit in those other seats that equally look like first class?”

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