For me, a close second to "being" as tiring is the exhaustive list of maintenance both personal and property. It's why as we get older many tend to join living associations to avoid the unending stream of painting, lubricating, replacing, cleaning, repairing, etc. Too bad there's not an association which, in our absence, takes care of the personal maintenance like sorting medicines, medical appointments, grooming, fitness etc. I'll keep the eating though.
The village idiot, the fool, the simpleton, the crazy. All these are, as you say, necessary guests at the community table. Shakespeare was the master of putting a fool to use, over and above their title, and showing their true value in a world that often found them valueless.
"necessary guests at the community table" is a far more succinct way of putting it! Yes, funny how these notes from a spread of decades have a similar flavor...
I spend an inordinate amount of time listening to podcasts! I work on my own outside, so they keep me company. I have binge listened to No Such Thing As A Fish, The Cryptid Factor, The Infinite Monkey Cage and I've started The Adam Buxton Podcast this week. They make me laugh and teach me stuff, so, you know, ideal for a lonely Cornish Hedger!
"Letter to someone you’re leaving behind" - Heartbreak, and beauty, laughter, and tears. Just as it should be when it comes life, and death, and memories. Plays on all the heartstrings that one.
eeeeh this batch is extra good!
I miss my younger body, before injury and bursitis and gravity struck. But youth? No. Dear heavens, no.
Yeah, nuts to that ;-)
For me, a close second to "being" as tiring is the exhaustive list of maintenance both personal and property. It's why as we get older many tend to join living associations to avoid the unending stream of painting, lubricating, replacing, cleaning, repairing, etc. Too bad there's not an association which, in our absence, takes care of the personal maintenance like sorting medicines, medical appointments, grooming, fitness etc. I'll keep the eating though.
Ha, yes — the eating and the drinking... I'll look after those, thank you ;-) But the endless other stuff... sheesh.
You seem a trifle melancholy this week...
The village idiot, the fool, the simpleton, the crazy. All these are, as you say, necessary guests at the community table. Shakespeare was the master of putting a fool to use, over and above their title, and showing their true value in a world that often found them valueless.
"necessary guests at the community table" is a far more succinct way of putting it! Yes, funny how these notes from a spread of decades have a similar flavor...
Being and LISTENING to all the voices, including the ones in your head are tiring. I may well be the only one who hates podcasts. 😬
I don't listen to them either. I need some blessed silence once in a while... ;-)
I spend an inordinate amount of time listening to podcasts! I work on my own outside, so they keep me company. I have binge listened to No Such Thing As A Fish, The Cryptid Factor, The Infinite Monkey Cage and I've started The Adam Buxton Podcast this week. They make me laugh and teach me stuff, so, you know, ideal for a lonely Cornish Hedger!
Well.. if it’s written I might read it, or if it’s a song I may listen to it at an appropriate time. 😊 I prefer the sounds of nature.
I know, I really should get into them, there's so much interesting stuff out there... I just don't seem to have a slot in my life where they'd fit!
When I’m dead …
What you said.
:-) Funny, from its position in the notes file that must have been writing a good fifteen years ago...
"Letter to someone you’re leaving behind" - Heartbreak, and beauty, laughter, and tears. Just as it should be when it comes life, and death, and memories. Plays on all the heartstrings that one.
I evidently wrote it a long time ago, too... who knows why it was on my mind. But it still seems about right.