experience

My wife Shirin’s first pregnancy was difficult. We were in Mountain View, California, and it was during the COVID lockdowns with all the isolation rules that came with it. After her Caesarean section, she had to stay in the hospital for a week because of high blood pressure, likely caused by damage to her kidney by a reaction to high dosage ibuprofen for pain management.

Murakami in his fantastic book about running “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” says that a gentleman ought never talk about what he does to stay physically fit.

There has to be a German/Japanese/Sanskrit word for that feeling you get when a particularly beautiful period of your life is over and you understand that you will never get it back.