It Ain’t Bad to Keep Still
“It ain’t a bad plan to keep still,” says Kin Hubbard, and I’d have to agree with him. No, it’s not a bad plan at all. If anything, keeping still opens the mind and nourishes the soul.
This trip has been an exercise in keeping still. True, we had to hustle and bustle, and lug Samsonite luggage, the kids, the nebulizer, a quarter of the house’s contents — or what seems like it, a camera-scared nanny, and my brother to Mindanao; and there were moments when we were simply overwhelmed by the sheer chaos a vacation of this magnitude — and gasp! length — entails BUT…
at the end of day one, just when we felt like our feet, arms, and mental health would come undone…
it was a moment of stillness that re-charged our tired bodies, hearts, and minds. We wound down, over sparking reds and whites and kids’ play, and listened to the personal sounds that made us feel — to quote Andre Kostelanetz — “exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm”.
Family time in the TV den
A-shape-playing we go!
Raising a generation of readers
Hi! My name is Chin, and this is where, to quote Jane Austen, I "run mad and as often as I choose."