Finding the Key to Paradise
November 8, 2005 | Filed Under Argentina |
Occasionally U.S. friends, especially women, express envy, imagining me in some Argentine Garden of Eden, lounging by the pool in gauzy summer dresses, accepting frozen strawberry daiquiris from my Latin lover.
Okay, some days are really are like that. Today could be one of them, in fact. Yes, the blooming orchids, roses, jacaranda, magnolias, bottle brush, and oleander punctuate the verdant ribbon below an endless azure sky . . . yes, it can be a Paradise, especially in Spring!
But just to keep things in perspective, let’s consider what goes wrong. . . Especially how things break. All the time. In fact, “repairs” is a regular item in my agenda book! Here’s last week’s repairs:
Auto: new windshield (broken by truck-launched flying rock) installed (the third in 18 months!). At the same time, the speaker cables were finally fixed correctly after a three attempts during various tune-ups over the course of a year. […]
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