Summer in Jordan

Spring is here! and an unseasonably warm one at that. Time again, I suppose, to take out the patio furniture and begin my summer reading. Jordan's a great place for that, perhaps because it's so quiet. Last summer I had a swell time reading some works by Henry James (The Wings of the Dove and A Portrait of a Lady). It's times like these, when the sun is shining and I'm eating the lotus, that I feel I could stay here a long while and be very content.