Logistics can be grounding

Logistics are not always annoying.

(I guess you can tell by that intro that I usually believe they are).

Sometimes, logistics can be anchoring: a buoy to hook your boat onto, trusting its solidity and steadiness even as you can’t see where it is truly attached. There is some joy in locating the right buoy, in knowing the knots to tie, in walking away with the knowledge that there is nothing more you could have done yourself: now you just have to trust someone else tested the buoy and found it sound.

In this month which for me is filled with plane-rides and train-rides and taxi pick-ups and official papers and restaurant bookings and lists of dietary restrictions, I think I know what knots to tie and I believe we are at the correct buoy. And there is something deeply satisfying about that. The rest is weather: ultimately nothing I can control.