And now comes the day where we try and go about our business, like normal…and wait…
Today, I slept in a little more than I have usually been able to recently.
I got a book in the mail on ancient Egypt called Ancient Egypt–the one I mentioned in this post that I so loved as a child, which is in better shape than the one my mom used to have the last time I saw it, and it cost a lot less than it would have in the 70s (I got it for $4.50!). It’s as beautiful and full of wonder as it ever has been…and, a lot of things that I thought I only “discovered” in the last five or six years, it turns out, were in that book, and I’d looked at them innumerable times since I was young. (And the full-page photo of the mummy of Rameses II’s head doesn’t scare me to look at any longer!)
I was invited unexpectedly to go to the symphony tonight, as my (gay) neighbor had his symphony date stand him up; I would have loved to have gone, but I have some duties here tonight, so I declined. But I went out to dinner with my mom and others anyway, and just returned.
And now, I go back to something else that is “my usual,” which I’ve not been able to do as much of lately as I would hope. There will be another post before midnight on that particular matter…
We who live in the present are fortunate for knowing what is to come, and what has come every year for the last nearly two thousand years; imagine what it would have been like for those who lived in late October of 130 CE, who didn’t know what was yet to come with the life and death of Antinous…
Praise to the Best of Bithynian Boys, Antinous, on this day!
