Annie Q Syed

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.”

June 27th.

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

Do all cities hold the same silence early on a Sunday morning? Yes. Is the stillness which reverberates from each city indistinguishable?  No. No two cities are alike no matter how similar. People often tend to lump the metropolises together: London, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc. They are not the same. If they appear the same it is often because no exploration beyond airports and corporate buildings takes place. If you limit yourself to doing the same things in all cities you will only see the same things: plays, movies, malls, shopping, restaurants, clubs, etc.

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From the December 21st and 28th New Yorker Issue.