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Made Graceful - … things are never that simple … This is from ‘The Bestiary of Marianne Moore’ found in The Uses of Literature: Essays by Italo Calvino, translated by Patr...7 hours ago
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The Managed Heart: Emotional Labor and the Psychological Cost of Ambivalence - What are you unwilling to feel? This is one of the most brutal, most clarifying questions in life, answering which requires great courage and great vulnera...1 day ago
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The Easy Life on Cruise Control - Life is so damn easy for me. I don’t have to plan for the future because Evangelical preachers say Armageddon is coming. Until then, conservative politici...1 week ago
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Barbara Sabol and Erica Reid named 2024 Ohio Poets of the Year - The Ohio Poetry Day Association has selected *Barbara Sabol* and *Erica Reid* as our 2024 Ohio Poets of the Year. Congratulations to these two amazing wr...4 weeks ago
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Stay away from the pool - My mother & I were visiting a friend of hers who was living in an apartment complex that I regarded at the time as positively palatial, what for the commun...1 year ago
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In Memory of Ed Ochester, Poet & Editor, RIP - We have asked Ed Ochester (above) to edit our Sunday poetry pages for the next few months. Here is one of Ed's poems: March of the Penguins The editor of N...1 year ago
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Big day today with the publication of my While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems. It contains all of my books, plus a very large new section and a long memoir. You can find it at https://www.amazon.com/While-Undertaker-Sleeps-Peter-Johnson/dp/1952335590/ref=sr_1_1?crid=342C90A7P3DZE&keywords=While+the+Undertaker+Sleeps&qid=1685616911&sprefix=while+the+undertaker+sleeps%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-1 - The post Big day today with the publication of my While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems. It contains all of my books, plus a very la...1 year ago
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“In spite of all the learned have said ...” - Philip Freneau Philip Freneau (1752-1852) was a journalist and poet in the early years our country was forming. And, oh, by the way, I once wrote an under...3 years ago
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Lit Youngstown Hosts Heather Dobbins & Barbara Sabol - I closing in on scheduling Lit Youngstown's 2021 First Wednesday Readers Series, and we're soon hosting the last reading of 2020. It's one of the many...4 years ago
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Jason Tandon - Born in Hartford, CT in 1975, Jason Tandon is the author of four books of poetry, including *The Actual World*, *Quality of Life*, and *Give Over the Hec...4 years ago
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Announcing the 7th Annual Self-Published E-Book Awards Winners - Congratulations to the winners of the 6th Annual Self-Published E-Book Awards! Grand Prize Steel Hand, Cold Heart by Rachel Menard (rachelm...4 years ago
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How to Be a Tree out now - it’s here! https://zaphos.itch.io/how-to-be-a-tree Advertisements5 years ago
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the dance of conquest is going to have to wait | museum of memory - . [image: Refugee, Tzasac, Guatemala, 83 | by Marcelo Montecino] *Refugee, Tsazac, Guatemala, 83*: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 6 September 2014 [image: R...6 years ago
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Feeding therapy FINALLY!! - There is so much to catch up on and yet so little. I have noticed that the last year has felt like an inward journey and so telling a story hasn’t fe...6 years ago
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Let Yourself Be Awesome: On Overcoming Disappointment - On Saturday, I completed my first 12-mile run since 2005, and I aced it. My overall pace was 8:02 per mile, but the final two miles were in 7:44 and 7:49--...7 years ago
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Voices in Italian Americana reviews Paola Corso’s “The Laundress Catches Her Breath” - Paola Corso’s poems about women’s work and lives bring to life an intimate and fragile world without a hint of sentimentality. Take “Step by Step with the ...7 years ago
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One year gone ... - *Meeting Mark Mothersbaugh* Today marks one year as editor of *Fresh Water *for me. Man-o-man, what a ride it has been. Despite the intensity of the job, o...7 years ago
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I'm still here - Just posting here to let anyone know (whoever is still dropping by from time to time) that I still haven't disappeared, I've just been spending time away f...8 years ago
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2015 Mini Gift Guide - A mini last-minute gift guide...it's been quite some time since I've posted. But I love the holidays so much and sharing gifts that I think would be great ...8 years ago
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In a Landscape - The Playlist - John Cage, “In a Landscape” Bob Dylan, “My Back Pages” Neil Young, “Ambulance Blues” The Twilight Zone Theme Babylon 5 Theme Simon & Garfunkel, “Richard Co...10 years ago
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6 comments:
The having it sent to you part is good.
The assistance of a boy, even better.
Still... the laundry.
Though, to argue briefly on the side of laundering, I have had the occasion, over time, of observing some university work-study students folding towels, for hours at a stretch, and, repetitive as the labour obviously is/was,they actually seemed, in the course of performing it (with musical backdrop), I might almost go out on a limb and say, happy as clams.
After all, they will one day go on to perform jobs which are just as repetitive, much better paid, but a lot greater strain on the conscience.
(Conscience -- do they still have that??)
"Dainty laces and delicate embroideries"... "Never go out to do work; always have it sent to you." This stuff reminds me, for some reason, of some of Marianne Moore's poems. (I, too, dislike it.)
During the Depression of the 1930's, my grandma (my mom's mom) took in laundry to help make ends meet.
They had a coal-burning furnace in the basement of their house. My mom's two older brothers (they would have been teenagers then) would go down by the railroad tracks that ran through the town, and gather stray pieces of coal that had fallen off the trains passing through -- this to help (however slightly) cut down on the cost of coal for heating the house.
Odd image, Tom. I do enjoy folding towels. If only it were just towels. Funny image.
An odd world full of dainties--I, too, dislike it and marvel at it.
Lyle, it sounds like you have a memoir to write . . .
Fascinating.
During the Depression of Now, at our house we don't have heating or the washer/dryer apparatus. So those Other Centuries are always with us. One does accustom oneself, as in making do.
Really no task should be considered too menial or low if it is being performed, whether by girls or by boys or by women or by men, for a good purpose; not forgetting, as we were taught, that cleanliness is next to Godliness (yet at the same time not quite remembering what Godliness is... ?).
May I join the towel folding brigade? I enjoy sweater folding also. Anything, especially things like this, is worth doing well, which is more complicated than most people know.
Actually, during the years I was in high school, I was usually the one who did the laundry. Usually on Sunday. During the fall when I was watching Vikings football games on T.V., I would zip downstairs during timeouts and halftime to change loads.
I never learned any "official" ways to fold clothes or towels, etc., though I did learn to rolls socks.
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