I just spent the previous evening at my father and stepmom's place with the ambassador from Iceland Jon Baldvin Hannibalsson, to say goodbye to him and his awesome, but dramatic wife, Brindis, as they are leaving Washington, DC and are among my parents very best friends. There were perhaps 100 people at my parent's house in Georgetown. What an unusually great couple Jon and Brindis are, they are really in love with one another after all of these years (they are grandparents yet)! Jon is a really good storyteller, like my father, he is also a true "Man of the People" who cares deeply about the common man, unlike many other political people in DC. Well, his wife Brindis reminds me very much of my Siberian girlfriend (especially her cheekbones), and after many, many shots of Brennivin "Black Death", the national alcohol drink of Iceland, I ran home and composed her a poem, "Starlight" (to Nadia)

the skies are crystal clear tonight

a cold wind comes from the east

the light from a flickering star, many many light years away

reaches my eyes as I look up towards the heavens

I am so lucky

to know you

is what I think

as the starlight floods my body

and bathes me in its white celestial light