Red's Wrap
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Hermit Life
This morning, I told my husband that I wanted to live as a hermit because going places, especially meetings requiring banter and dialogue, had become tiresome and all I really want to do is walk in the dog park, go to tiny markets to buy unusual things like smoked whitefish to make chowder and pho cubes to make chicken soup taste authentically Vietnamese and then come home and putz around, maybe pay bills or fix a story or unload the dishwasher but I already had my team t-shirt on for the public hearing in Madison and I’d told them I was coming and he said that afterward I’d be glad that I went so I did and it was interesting in a good government kind of way because sitting in the hearing room, no one would ever know that America feels like a blender on high having its way with big thick ice cubes who thought they’d find themselves enjoying life in a short glass of bourbon and not knocked to bits for no good reason, so my short yearning for the hermit life has been cut short but may revive at any time.
Here is my outfit for today’s outing.
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Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
Deb stole my entire comment! I’ll add that I’ve been having thoughts of being a hermit as well. Either life is getting busier and busier or it is just taking me longer and longer to accomplish things. That said, I’ll echo Deb again and say you do look great in red.
LOL!
“America feels like a blender on high having its way with big thick ice cubes who thought they’d find themselves enjoying life in a short glass of bourbon and not knocked to bits for no good reason” – such a great line!
I am 60, but I have looked up to many activists now in their 70s and 80s and i feel so bad that after ALL their hard work and leadership, THIS is where we are right now. You gotta know that you have planted trees under which you may never get to sit, but others will. ❤️
Thank you
There are many, many days that being a hermit would be wonderful. You look great in red btw!