A moment

I had a beautiful moment on my drive to work this morning. As I was waiting at a stand-still on Dhiyafa in the leftmost lane next to the grassy median, I noticed a bird very close to me. It was a small bird, brown and black with bright yellow rings around the eyes and a yellow beak and legs. It was quite a slick little bird… until it chirped, when it would puff up like a pufferfish with feathers fluffed up in all directions!

I watched him for a while, totally entranced, with my mind rather numbed by the previous night’s work on infrastructure asset operating models until 3am, with the window open in the mild morning heat, with the sun on my face, with Willie Nelson on the iPod.

I think that was one of the only times thattime stood still for a moment while the Dubai traffic stood still.