Posted by Journeyman on January 10, 2004, at 22:05:48
In reply to Re: from the frozen north, posted by reluctant on January 9, 2004, at 21:49:09
A one-year-old dog...that must be a lot of energy. What kind is he?
I can understand the appeal of a cabin. I remember doing some research for a paper in a 19th-century Brit-Lit class back in college and two memories stick out in my mind. I was reading Thomas Hardy, "Far From the Madding Crowd" maybe, and at one point a guy is looking at some peasants working on the hillside. Their clothes are all earthtones and as he keeps looking at them, it becomes more and more difficult for him to discern the people from the soil, because they are so close to nature. The other one was a poem. As soon as I read it, I actually ran to the Eng. Dept. chair's office and knocked excitedly on the door. The chair of the history dept. was there too (and I was an English/history double major) and I'm blurting out about this poem which speaks of a guy who decides to just live in a little cottage in the woods. They both look at me with an "Okay, Richard...that's nice, but get a grip and go finish your paper." kind of look on their faces. I did, and that was pretty much the end of my cabin-dwelling dreams. It wouldn't have worked for me anyway. I crave and need alone time, but I crave and need to be around people just as much too. Perhaps a dinner-party throwing hermit would have been the right balance.
If you're into it, you can certainly get politics 24 hours a day and be around lots of other people who are enthralled by it too. It's very easy, however, to carve out an existence devoid of that if you want to. For the most part, I love the neighborhood I'm in. It's easy to walk to a lot of stuff (National Galleries of Art, Air & Space, Museums of Natural/American History, etc., etc.
Diverse population, good biking, yadda, yadda.Thanks for the suggestion about drinking more water. I know it's important, but I often forget to drink enough.
What kind of art do you practice? I'd like to hear about it.
There are some things I'd like to say but don't especially want to post for the whole Lexaworld to see. To avoid elec. mail trolling, I'll write somewhat cryptically, but my elec. location is gocelta at (three-letter acronym...starts with first letter of the alphabet, second letter is short for ovation, third letter is the 12th letter of the alphabet).
Hope you're staying warm.
Richard
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