Caught In The Middle

This boy's central positioning here on Tahrir Street, Cairo, cannot be subjugated by the photographer's rule of thirds as demonstrated by this composition, but his position in life is completely at the mercy of the unbending rule of the authoritarian regime that has dominated Egypt for all but one of the last 63 years. Will he ever escape its oppression and, if so, when and in what direction? I wonder if he's pondering the same.

My day has included proof reading, chasing up an Irishman for a review of our Edinburgh letting, connecting a Chilean lady with a Rio agency for the purchase of Carnival tickets, arranging coaching sessions between here, Berlin and London, coaching a mature man in Lisbon, attempting to coach a Generation X lady in São Paulo who was a no-show, sending our personally written city guide on Edinburgh to a lady living in Quebec, taking a blip for viewing on all five continents, delivering a box of marked assignments to Dd in her school and buying some newspapers to catch up on what's happening in our crazy-good and crazy-bad world. I think we'll treat ourselves to an Indian meal out after all that!