It's a curious day. No one quite knows how to act on it. There are bike messengers sprawling in the park, being admired by gramdmothers herding their duckling charges along the path to the French Church. Or one of the many celtic priests who operated here may have been overcome by the midnight sun and the natural born blondes. Or maybe it was somebody in the next room, coughing.
Diwali time is also firecracker bursting time.
The louder, the better. The most popular are ground-crackers and bombs, followed by the light producing ones such as rockets and fountains. I am a member of a new, world-wide community that is entered and enjoyed via my little antique Macintosh. They're the months when baseball talk focuses on signings, trades, and managerial changes - the administration rather than the game. Today I talked with one girl.