Visa

Earlier I wrote about a visit to the consulate. My second visit was for “pick-up”. The consulate officer told me my visa would be ready in 4 days. That is the “no-rush” regular service. Speedy.

On Monday I applied. On Friday I returned to 1 East Erie for pick up, paid the $140 fee and was handed my passport with a work visa to China newly affixed.

A new (to us) chrome refrigerator was delivered the day before that. The China consulate took my fingerprints. The new chrome refrigerator did too. As I mull over the events of last week I see how things gone awry made way for things of beauty. So glad to have a working fridge. So glad to have the working visa. So glad things are working out.

“On how one orients himself to the moment,” Henry Miller wrote in reflecting on the art of living, “depends the failure or fruitfulness of it.”