dudemanflab's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 48 hours at Hallockville Pond and I’ve seen a near-full moon over and on the frozen water passed through the town of Hawley and didn’t miss the post office—a side room of someone’s house trekked through the woods and began to read the forest learned to identify tree species—spruce, fir and hemlock, white and red pine, diseased beech, white, grey, and gold birch (sweet as A&W), and diamond-barked ash remembered the joy of a late night conversation considered the possibility that there may be less than, say, twenty personality types in American twenty-somethings... from the sheer uncanny resemblance several people have to my friends. considered that each person, twenty-something or not, is a volume of persons. heard about Buber’s “I” and “Thou” felt my colon work out all the animal protein I’d been saving for later defined “intentional community” as license to use someone else’s mouthwash played and sang Beatle’s tunes for the first time remained unimpressed with local nicknaming. realized the daddy-long-leg above the urinal hadn’t moved in two days and was likely dead. walked over half of a mile using the bathroom four times followed the yellow snow to find the “intentional community’s” short-distance urinal station, north side of the bunkhouse. realized walking on snow and ice is preferable to the mud loved my woolen blankets eaten eggplant lasagna, ginger curry, and burritos made by one of the kindest cooks figured out the song everyone sings on the way to food at dinner time heard the f-word without all the aftertaste of social taboos. wished I could go back 70 years to join the CCC come to believe what we’re doing here, who we are being here, is of utmost value been persuaded that things happen, pass by, live and die every day beyond my comprehension been grateful. 10:14 p.m. - March 31, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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