Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from it more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum. (John Updike, Self-Consciousness: Memoirs, 1989, Ch. 6)
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Farewell, Sweetheart
I gave up my sweet little stand of Highland parlor pipes for adoption today. She's going to live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with a chap named Joe Jordan. I wish her many hours of lively music, now that I've released her from mothballed captivity in an old Samsonite briefcase in the back of my now-incrementally-less-cluttered closet.
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