Cool today

It's a breezy, overcast day on campus, cooler than most.  Palm trees sway and the groundskeepers have no need for keffiyehs to protect their heads from the sun.  I take the long way to the language building where I have a midday meeting for all those teaching English 204 this term so I can walk through the well-tended groves of palms.  The air as clean as the polished marble-like sidewalks.  The morning was writing, doing laundry, cooking eggs.  The afternoon is this meeting followed by research in the library.  But I'll take the long way to the library...