View from the balcony

Not a lot to do, "working from home", I was left with my own thoughts. The heat here has a silent breath. There is a kind of portentous stillness to this heat, almost like a bull's breathing. Even the sun rises earlier. In Hyderabad, the sun eases you into the day, first shining in orange then gradually growing into a ball of pale white heat. It is languorous and takes its own time. Here, even before 7 AM, the sun is all high and mighty radiating in all its glory. No time seems to be lost in transition, where beauty happens. It's hard to believe it's the same sun that rises everywhere else.

Also made a bit of time to watch a couple of movies on DVD these last two days, Avatar and a Dutch movie based on the second World War called The Black Book. Enjoyed them both, though of course in different ways.