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08/19/2007
Weather report
Although Autumn is a month away, it's being heralded, maybe beckoned, by the rain. It's wet out. The small patches of grass that I planted to cover the bareness of what I laughingly call "my lawn" are too green. They look like an outcrop of teenagers in a geriatric home; while they try to be respectful, they can't hide their youthful exuberance and vitality.
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I have given up on the petunias. Their roots have too. They wilt and sag and have stopped flowering. Water, though essential, in abundance, displaces the oxygen also essential for their root system. They have drowned.
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Through the window, I hear the unique sound of tires on a wet road. It sounds wet, like a slow, controlled splash.
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Last night we built a fire outdoors. There was a pile of wood nearby that had been outside for a long time, like the petunia's roots It was also partially rotted and water logged. My friend Bernie calls it punky. I threw it on the fire. It wouldn't have made good fire building material but once the fire was roaring, it cooked dry and whatever was left that the water hadn't taken, the fire did. Steam and smoke are indistinguishable as they rise, riding on the heat generated below. One distills and the other pollutes.
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People gather in yards and on decks. They discuss many things. their voices also rise, even more ethereal than the smoke and steam. We gather because we are people, we do what people do. We are chained to the laws that govern us and we go along willing, trustfully, gladly. We want this mystery of life to carry us to the end, we want to ride its heat as long as we are able.
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We will keep burning, the water will fall, the forces will always reach equilibrium, our voices will somehow, somewhere condense, maybe in our dreams. Ice and snow await, our hibernation is upon us. Gene
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I read this profound bit: "We are chained to the laws that govern us and we go along willing, trustfully, gladly." and substituted "LAWN" for "LAWS." I'm going to pretend that's what you meant, because otherwise I scare myself.
Posted by: Sue | 08/20/2007
Madam, you insult me, worse, you insult my lawn!
Posted by: Gene | 08/20/2007
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