Took the day off to be around and have lunch ready for when the girls arrived back, tired and jet-lagged from their first day of the new school year. I also wanted to tidy my desk and have a bit of an admin day, at which I only partially succeeded. At least the piles on the floor are pretty well sorted: what to do with them - finished books, partially read books, notebooks, letters and assorted pens - remains an open issue, which will no doubt resolve itself by procrastinating.
The desk feels nice and open again, a blank, undistracting area of light wood between me and the screen. I’ll have to see if it makes any difference tomorrow at work, leaping straight into a meeting at 08:30
Read some more views and opinions about Israel-Palestine (an intractable situation, completely lacking in empathy or brotherhood), and about the recent far-right marches in London, full of drunkards completely lacking in empathy or brotherhood - but at least closely monitored and enclosed by the police.
The AfD had its strongest showing in the NRW election, but still reached only 15%, which is heartening when you think about the centrist-left-green mix of parties who at least continue to show respect for democracy and internationalism without descending into pure grievance and simplistic solutions.
