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For those of us in the USofA, it’s the day our taxes are due. I’ll keep it brief.
This is Tuesday, the day that I post some of your letters. Author’s Den recently implemented comments with each post, which made me think of abandoning this little ritual. Sadly, you have to be a member of Author’s Den to post a comment. That’s not enough to replace the weekly post of your letters, so here we are.
A century ago, work was hard and physical. People mostly worked in either factories or fields and produced something tangible at the end of the day or season. Work was all about manipulating the real world and making things.
On a grey and dreary day, nearly everyone is running a bit low. You can see it in people’s faces – they’d rather snuggle under a blanket with the cats up close and warm. Some of us, however, are even more sensitive to the weather than that. We are the human barometers.
My kids tell me just enough that I can divine things have changed. The world they are learning about will one day be theirs on their terms. But for now, it’s my job to help them make sense of it. That means I have to make some sense of it first.
It’s a gloamy day in Saint Paul, with the threat of more liquid life hanging over us as if Spring doesn’t exactly want to come yet. This is my mail day, when I answer my letters. I love doing this, because your cheery letters make blogging worthwhile for me!
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 