In true Facebook parlance, today I am feeling . . . Lucky!

Because my good and true friend from Georgia (again — the country, not the state) has sent me what I asked for . . . no, actually much more than I had even hoped for . . . about his country’s political situation. And I have designated today a Learning Day, to be dedicated to reading and — yes — learning.

And when I’ve absorbed as much of that subject as my humble brain will handle at one sitting, I will take a walk in the lovely October sunshine, come back to my easy chair, and open the cover and flyleaf of the newest book in my collection: Patriot. It’s the just-released, posthumous autobiography of Alexei Navalny, started in a hospital in Germany while recuperating from an attempt on his life by means of poisoning, and completed during his incarceration in a Russian penal colony.

I have a feeling it’s going to be one of those page-turning, no-time-to-eat, “go-away-dog-get-someone-else-to-scratch-you” days. I’m not even sure about that walk now.

So, see you tomorrow . . . assuming I’ve been able to put the book down tonight. It’s nearly 500 pages, so it may take a while.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
10/28/24