In which travel is broadening... a bit...
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flexagonTrying to take note of the small perspective-openers that I encounter on this trip. All of them are tiny, but better to focus on these than on the annoyances.
1) From a book I read here: I always liked Vaclav Havel's definition of hope, which is not that something will come out well but that something will make sense.
2) When I had temporarily lost track of my husband, my MIL pointed out that she heard plumbing and that indicated that maybe he'd had to take care of something. I realized that in a single-famiy home, hearing water in the pipes DOES tell you something about where someone is. I'm so used to multi-families that I'm not attuned to little things like that; water in a pipe could be coming from someone in any unit, anywhere.
3) Some people turn off the wifi at night because the router uses electricity. This is foreign to me (wifi should be like air -- gah, don't turn off the air!), but they're right. The router does use electricity and I guess they're not always using it.
4) Several different thoughts about sitting on the floor (I love sitting on the floor). I read on this vacation that having someone sit on the floor is one way to portray youthfulness in theater. And my mother also told me a story about sitting on the floor once in front of her own parents, and having an insight about how they'd have pulled over a chair for anyone else; seeing it as a politeness thing. We had a nice conversation about both these things while I stretched.
5) Mama Leone's chicken soup. Nom.
6) House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss. The last verse is great.
1) From a book I read here: I always liked Vaclav Havel's definition of hope, which is not that something will come out well but that something will make sense.
2) When I had temporarily lost track of my husband, my MIL pointed out that she heard plumbing and that indicated that maybe he'd had to take care of something. I realized that in a single-famiy home, hearing water in the pipes DOES tell you something about where someone is. I'm so used to multi-families that I'm not attuned to little things like that; water in a pipe could be coming from someone in any unit, anywhere.
3) Some people turn off the wifi at night because the router uses electricity. This is foreign to me (wifi should be like air -- gah, don't turn off the air!), but they're right. The router does use electricity and I guess they're not always using it.
4) Several different thoughts about sitting on the floor (I love sitting on the floor). I read on this vacation that having someone sit on the floor is one way to portray youthfulness in theater. And my mother also told me a story about sitting on the floor once in front of her own parents, and having an insight about how they'd have pulled over a chair for anyone else; seeing it as a politeness thing. We had a nice conversation about both these things while I stretched.
5) Mama Leone's chicken soup. Nom.
6) House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss. The last verse is great.
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Date: 2012-12-29 10:18 pm (UTC)Highest electricity bills in the country, so damn right everything gets shut off!
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Date: 2012-12-30 12:18 am (UTC)Or express submissiveness in...uh, leisure. If you're into that sort of thing. Which I'm not saying I'm not, occasionally.
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Date: 2012-12-30 12:27 am (UTC)I am into that kind of thing. And also, one more way of thinking about sitting on the floor! I could totally write a prose poem. Awesome.
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Date: 2012-12-30 12:37 am (UTC)no subject
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