Some people choose fluff books for summer beach reads. This year, I'm watching "Twinkie tv," or tv with no redeeming "nutritional" value. In the last few weeks, I've watched episodes of "My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding," which provides insight into the over-the-top wedding ceremonies of the UK's Travelers, as well as details of their relatively closed, very patriarchal and misogynist culture. At the same time, I'm catching up on just the opposite--American single women having lots of sex with few weddings in reruns of "Sex and the City." And right now? I have "IRT Deadliest Road," which follows Arctic Ice Road Truckers (IRT) through mountainous roads of the Himalayas which claim the equivalent of one life every four minutes. And of course, there is always "Hoarders!"
I should go back to watching "Hoarders." It caused me to look around and do lots of cleaning last year. This year has been devoted to dieting. Maybe next year I'll exercise. Evidently I'm only capable of one project at a time!
ReplyDeleteA lot of to-day's junk is the stuff of antiques in 100 years time. Try to keep something for the next generations, even if to show them what we look upon as junk. All I have from my parents is a few of my father's tools and a dozen or so photographs. My grand children will find a reel to reel tape recorder but no wind up gramophone.
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