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WIND TURTLE

Very drowsy now because kept awake last night by the broadly sweeping skirts of the typhoon (typhoon #15, no Isabels or Andrews for Japan) that wasn't supposed to be here at all, but brought big eminently factual gusts of wind and torrents of rain, and in the dawn made arrows of the morning air, then rained and winded unpredictably all day long. Now it's late the next night and the big bluster is still hanging around. That never happens, two days of a typhoon, even a slow one like this wind turtle, but especially of a typhoon that isn't even supposed to be here, that no one was expecting really, it went straight over Okinawa and we thought that was it, it would head north a few hundred km off the east coast, give us some nice clouds and glowing sunsets, maybe, but instead got us all wet and took away our breath, umbrellas, hats, bicycle covers, poured on us all the way to the excellent Irish music concert by friends we went to see in Gulliver Hall, part of Gulliver Village up there in the small mountain town up North that has a special relationship with Ireland, Irish shops, Irish pubs, huge pair of Gulliver's glasses, shoes and other personal belongings of the great man. Clearly a lot of Swift fans up there. Surprise to see such a thing in such a place. Kaya loved it too, with its giant sliding boards and telescope tunnels, even in the dawdling typhoon.