He lives in a decrepit concrete bungalow in a dirt compound, surrounded by a high breeze-block wall, together with his wife and four children, and his brother's widow and her five children.
His words hover in the space above her head, a wispy cloud in a night sky, breaking and re-forming in the high atmospheric breeze.
With confidence high, Aird breezed down the right and passed inside to McCulloch, who made a quick change of direction and rifled in a shot with the nonchalance of a captain whose side were easing to victory.
I kicked it into high gear, breezing through each gallery, swerving around patrons' toes, wrangling the kids and reminding them about 20 billion times not to touch anything -- all so we could get in and out without any meltdowns from my kids (or me).
So was George HW Bush's, in 1989, when he found himself telling the children of America that "Democracy belongs to us all, and freedom is like a beautiful kite that can go higher and higher with the breeze".
The turnout was even more surprising because the march was mostly limited to fairly fit adults who felt they could withstand several hours packed together on a 95-degree day with very high humidity, no breeze and severe air pollution.
There is a breeze high up in the branches.
THERE'S something in the air besides fall leaves and a cool breeze: high levels of particulate matter and ground-level ozone.
"We got up in the morning, we sat at the pool and it was absolutely scorching, and we were up quite high, wee wind, breeze, brilliant, no problem", recalls Alex MacDonald.
There was no need to continue the analogy: That the project must progress in an assembly-line fashion was evident as the newly installed concrete walkway panels gave way to a decidedly less substantial aluminum catwalk that shimmied in the breeze high over the river.
