Riverbend has a great new post up on her blog. She says she hasn’t felt much like blogging recently. The new post is a great little reflection on cleaning the family’s roof ready for summer-time sleepouts there.
She notes that sleeping out on the roof used to be just a tradition that her parents told her about… from the “olden days”:
- They used to tell us endless stories about how, as children, they used to put out mats and low beds on the roof to sleep. There were no air-conditioners back then… sometimes not even ceiling fans. People had to be content with the hot Baghdad air and the energetic Baghdad mosquitos. Now my parents get to relive their childhood memories like never before because we’ve gone back a good fifty years. It’s impossible to sleep inside of the house while the electricity is off.
She promised that “tomorrow” (i.e., today?) she’d write more about the new government.
Great, River! Thanks so much for coming back up. I am really eager to hear what-all you think of what’s been going on.