[lit-ideas] Re: Cannon-Ho
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 18:09:33 -0700
on 5/15/05 5:32 PM, Ursula Stange at Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> A fine story, David. But all the way through, I kept thinking (with
> the corner of my mind) about how I'm forever (well...for the last five
> years or so...) trying to get rid of things.
Yes, there is a bag full of stuff by the front door, ready to go out in the
morning. I think people go through at least three stages of stuff: putting
households together, middle life's throughput, downsizing. I'd like to be
able to say that we're doing middle life about right, that we have a balance
between incoming and outgoing goods...but no. There are eddies which
collect flotsam and must be purged from time to time.
A good garden cannon, like a well-preserved dream car, is so hard to find
that it must be seized when the opportunity presents.
Good luck with your aspirations towards recipe book purging. I couldn't do
it.
I wonder if list members would like to say what the phrase, "well-preserved
dream car" evokes?
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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