Highest Happiness

Finally swam today, went down to the pool where a 16 year old kid did not mind having to escort his mom everywhere – the boy is a treasure; went down the slide and thought I would flip over the side while going around the S-curves, especially when turning nearly 180 degrees trying to sit up from laying on my back which increased the speed much to my chagrin because it made the whole experience terribly scary, this Russian Babuschka no longer minds who runs away when she appears like a docking whale Watched a Swedish horror movie with English subtitles and a suitably gory red-mouthed vampire protagonist, stark in its total lack of joie de vivre; finished reading “Good Omens” by Pratchett and enjoyed Adam, the loving antichrist, so much as he reordered the world to keep it alive and give him time to enjoy his eleven-year-old joy in being a young boy in the English countryside and everything around me appeared as magical as it appears to Adam, soon I shall reread the ending again, it is so charming – how marvellous to read wonderful stuff; it is the highest happiness there is!