Dear Penny,

How do people relate through each other? Common interests breed familiarity. So
do shared spatial boundaries and histories. Thus, categorically, spatially and
chronologically.

Oma oozed ennui today at lunch. This was quickly replaced while grocery
shopping: she perked up and pottered about the aisles, offering advice on how to
pick milk - the later the expiry, the fresher - and produce - Fruits in brown
bags mature faster. All this was mixed in with anecdotal memories. I suspect
that sharing her knowledge, and through it, a bit of herself too, made her feel
relevent and connected. So it is true, Everybody needs somebody somehow.

Timbre was the venue of choice last night with Jint and Gang. 53a rocked out,
with Alv like a bruce-lee rockstar. We watched from a high table, covered by a
plastic canopy. While standing at the bar, surrounded by a cacophony of tables
covered by a claustrophobic plastic canopies wrapped over our heads.

Before it was Timbre, it existed as the Fat Frog. It was an empty concrete recepticle for a cocktail of activities under the canopy of several magnificent ficus trees whose roots burrowed between the concrete walls.

,lenn.
19/02/2012