You are the welcoming back from the ocean

[sovay]

Jeff VanderMeer has a new online home: Ecstatic Days. Go; housewarm; send him squid. He is made of awesome.

My brother's godparents, a microbotanist and an engineering geologist, are in town from Arizona on their way to Iceland; on the theory that while in New England, only a fool passes up the chance to order clam chowder, they took us out to dinner at Legal Sea Foods. Inside two of the mussels in my cup of Portuguese fisherman's stew, I found three tiny pearls. One is mussel-dark, one is nacreous, one is mixed; all are a little smaller than BB shot. I am keeping them.

There has been rain and thunder all since last night.

Comments

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Pearls! I wonder who sent them. :)

[kayselkiemoon.livejournal.com]

wow - how neat is that! perhaps I should start eating mussels and so forth.

[darcydodo]

Entirely random, but do you know Will Brockliss? He seems to have ended up at Yale, I would assume for Classics but perhaps not.

[sovay]

do you know Will Brockliss? He seems to have ended up at Yale, I would assume for Classics but perhaps not.

He is in Classics; I don't know him very well, but I could probably identify him at a department party. How do you know him?

[darcydodo]

I went to college with him.

[sovay]

I went to college with him.

Cool.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

My, the stew sounds lovely in and of itself. And then to find pearls. Glad to hear such an interesting thing happened to you.

Are your brother's godparents towards Iceland for work, or only for pleasure? Sounds grand, in any event.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

It couldn't have happened to a more appropriate person.

This happened to elisem in Ireland. She was eating mussels with friends and found five pearls. She hadn't had them before so she didn't know it was unusual until they told her.

[justbeast.livejournal.com]

Pearls in your clam soup? That is incredibly cool!

[sovay]

That is incredibly cool!

It really made my day . . .

[stsisyphus.livejournal.com]

I haven't listened to Dar Williams in years. Nice of you to tip me back over there...

[larryhammer]

By some sort of mad anti-coincidence, we're back in Arizona having just returned from Iceland, and passed through Logan on the way.

Small worlds. In both directions.

---L.