[lit-ideas] Re: Cannon-Ho
- From: Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 20:59:04 EDT
In a message dated 5/15/2005 7:35:05 PM Central Daylight Time,
Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
hardly ever buy more
than one or two things (gracefully aging tablecloths being always
irresistible...I found one today dating from someone's Italian
grandmother). As a last resort, I remind myself of Socrates' words
while walking through the market at Athens, "So many things a man can do
without". So, indeed.
We went today to try to see the very last showing of the theatrical showing
of The Stinky Man Gets the Cheese and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. (traveling,
as always, with a pack of boys...truly like traveling with a pack of puppy
dogs <g>)
Since it was sold out by the time we got there, we wandered around Crown
Center, a fairly upscale mall. It always has some great exhibits, as well.
This time they were showing hundreds of "collections".
What people have collected through the years! Whether it be Harry Houdini
memorbilia, to Mr. Clean items (that collection was from the grandchild of the
person who wrote the first Mr Clean jingle--and you could press a button and
hear the original jingle. Everyone one in the area had it memorized by the
time each member of my group had pressed the button at least once. There was
Boy Scout of America memorbilia displayed--reverently gazed upon, I might
add, by many. I had not realized that BSA turns 100 in five more years. What
sort of celebration is planned, I wonder. I do know that 2007 is the World
Jamboree -- and will be in England this time. I am already planning that my
son and I will attend--and hopefully will have time to wander, besides. He
will go to Seabase next year on his first High Adventure--this one is the BSA
version of Survivor (only no one gets kicked off the island <g>). It
literally IS an island, though. They will kayak with supplies to an island
set in
the Florida Keys to a 100 acre island that has not ever been inhabited (except
for short moments in the summer by scouts). Boy Scouts is its own separate
subculture. Being independent Missourians, of course, the fellow who brought
BSA to Missouri and KC in particular started his own version of the Order of
the Arrow (and it is sanctioned by the BSA) called Mic-O-Say. There were
some pieces from that aspect of scouting in this collection, too.
The match collection, the AOL cd discs, the aprons, the Monopoly games, the
old clocks. Dogs and cats--you might imagine how many objects are Out There
with the different imprints of particular breeds.
I didn't see a collection of tablecloths, though. I don't know who put the
collection together (or if it is traveling the country) but I will now think
of Our List every time I see one.
Wondering what everyone collects and why they do so,
Marlena in Missouri
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