More Delights and Disdains . . .
of a diminutive nature of late . . . Number 13
Disdains:
Recovering (again) from some type of flu. Served up with the usual side dishes - congestion, headache, sore muscles, etc. Unlike my son who had the same symptoms but with a 103 degree fever. My winter’s tale is one of discontent.
Imagining punishments for those evil little runts who create email viruses.
Delights:
Debating in my mind about replacing my old MacBook. We have been in a long term relationship since 2013 and I have nothing but fondness for it. We have had no issues other than one battery replacement, so I hesitate to banish it while ignoring the inevitable decline.
Reading William Faulkner’s non-Yoknapatawpha County centered books starting with Pylon and then on to The Wild Palms. Just finished re-reading his book Sanctuary about the abduction and rape of Temple Drake, a Mississippi sorority girl and how the old defeated Southern patriarchy failed her. If I were a literary sort, I could compare and contrast the college life experienced by Temple Drake to that of Tom Wolfe’s more modern Charlotte Simmons, but I won’t.
Comparing my current voice quality to recordings of some favorite poems that I made four years ago and discovering that the decline is not as severe as I feared though I have lost more of the timing of my word delivery necessary for good conversation or comedic effect. So much for small talk.
Watching the latest rocket launch to the Moon. The unmanned spacecraft, called Odysseus, will attempt a soft moon landing in a few days and if successful will be the first moon landing accomplished by a private company. Having been born in 1966, my first exposure to big media events were the Apollo missions and the Watergate hearings - each event representing something profound about America to a young child. The Apollo missions showing courage and the hearings showing the shame of political scandal - courage and shame - two attributes missing from politics these days.