Help keep me alive and working! My only income comes from my writing and having adventures; so help keep me going even at 74 and with Parkinson’s.
“Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?”
–Federico Calboli
h/t American Digest
I have a copy of this framed in my living room.
This reminds me of when I worked on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville. N.C.(most people in the servant/working class in and around Asheville eventually end up doing time at the Biltmore Estate! I lasted a whole 9 months before I got canned–when I was fired, I was told in a very haughty tone, that I was NOT "Biltmore material"-my reply was, "Dang, it took you guys 9 months to figger that out? I knew that in a week!")–anyway, it IS a neato place(despite poor treatment of employees) built at the turn of the (old fart) century(1900), with an amazing collection of all sorts of fancy gew-gaws. In the indoor swimming pool, they had installed some of EDISON's ORIGINAL electric bulbs to light the area–THEY WERE STILL BURNING in 1985, when I was there(briefly)–in fact, they NEVER turned them off, afraid that being so old, they wouldn't come back on! They may still be burning, as far as I know. I guess to make a proper go at a business, Edison needed to come up with a "less durable" product! Real truth in the geezer statement, "they don't make 'em like they used tah!"…..L.B.