Eight days after (big) little Whit arrived, I read for pleasure for the first time in his life. For the eight days before that, it had been nothing more than a little Bloomberg, NYT, and checking the English soccer scores, a sleep deprived brain unable to concentrate on much other than stats, financial or sporty.
But that 8th day, a Saturday, felt a little different. There was the beginning of a routine: eat, burp, sleep, and even if it was far from the three hour cycle that we aim for, it was something like that. So while The Dragon Boss slept, that left Baleen and me with the tiniest bit of free time.
Because it was within arm's reach and because it was part of a cleaning up effort, flipping through the magazine to see if there was a must read before recycling it, I chose this month's National Geographic article on a K-2 ascent. Normally, I don't read all the articles in National Geographic, despite thinking fondly of It's a Wonderful Life each time it arrives, and I rarely read any mountain climbing articles. When all the big peaks have been climbed in multiple ways from multiple approaches, another article doesn't interest this armchair climber. But this K-2 story caught my eye, probably because of the personal aspect, the Austrian mountaineering couple, the wife who didn't turn back and the husband who wanted her to, and because I'd just ordered In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods, the disastrous mountaineering story before Into Thin Air became that. Let's just hope The Dragon Boss gets his thrills from 9,000 foot peaks, not 9,000 meters.
Because it was within arm's reach and because it was part of a cleaning up effort, flipping through the magazine to see if there was a must read before recycling it, I chose this month's National Geographic article on a K-2 ascent. Normally, I don't read all the articles in National Geographic, despite thinking fondly of It's a Wonderful Life each time it arrives, and I rarely read any mountain climbing articles. When all the big peaks have been climbed in multiple ways from multiple approaches, another article doesn't interest this armchair climber. But this K-2 story caught my eye, probably because of the personal aspect, the Austrian mountaineering couple, the wife who didn't turn back and the husband who wanted her to, and because I'd just ordered In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods, the disastrous mountaineering story before Into Thin Air became that. Let's just hope The Dragon Boss gets his thrills from 9,000 foot peaks, not 9,000 meters.
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