Ice
Only seventy days, perhaps by now it's sixty-eight, until spring training. It's not that I'm a fanatic baseball fan, but I am anxious to greet spring. Spring, the season of no ice dams, no leaks in the closet. Today the electrician dismantled the fixture in the closet, capped the wires and left us to our drip. The steady drip came through two of the screw holes that once held the fixture in place. Arranged in a disorganized manner, the plastic buckets on top of plastic garbage bags caught the accumulation of drops.
"Do you think the steady drip drip slowed down?"
How do you measure the number of drips per minute? How to quantify the number? Staring at a drop making its way from the ceiling to a clothing rod and then to the bucket , a mesmerizing trek for a small droplet, does not qualify as a measurement of increase or decrease of a leak.
I've timed many things so I simply set the timer for one minute, turned it on and began counting drops. After two run throughs I established a procedure—only count a drop when I heard the ping. The advantage of this procedure is that it promises the possibility of success—even if that success means one drop less. But in this world one must deal with duality. Suppose my counting resulted in an increase of drops?
Duality, pairings. Good, evil, Short, tall. The yoke, the dyad. "Two points determine a line" and "Two lines determine a point."
Dry, wet. Believer, nonbeliever. What are all the permutations in between? Damp, wet, sopping, dry, arid, drought.
For the moment I want to stand on the side of believer—
Gideon asked for a sign ...he spread fleece on the ground and when he examined it —after it remained in that spot for an entire evening — the fleece was to be wet, but the ground dry. Then when that happened he asked for another sign. Now he wanted the fleece to be dry and the ground wet. Granted Gideon wanted an answer to a weighty question.
Our local meteorologist indicates two more "snow happenings". The last one left us with twelve inches. How about a little dryness on the interior?
We've had enough of the wet part of the duality. I know in the scheme of things ice dams and leaks are minor variations on the theme of persnickety annoyances.
Look at the world in crisis, look at ice bergs melting—
Look at the loss of floating ice—
"Do you think the steady drip drip slowed down?"
How do you measure the number of drips per minute? How to quantify the number? Staring at a drop making its way from the ceiling to a clothing rod and then to the bucket , a mesmerizing trek for a small droplet, does not qualify as a measurement of increase or decrease of a leak.
I've timed many things so I simply set the timer for one minute, turned it on and began counting drops. After two run throughs I established a procedure—only count a drop when I heard the ping. The advantage of this procedure is that it promises the possibility of success—even if that success means one drop less. But in this world one must deal with duality. Suppose my counting resulted in an increase of drops?
Duality, pairings. Good, evil, Short, tall. The yoke, the dyad. "Two points determine a line" and "Two lines determine a point."
Dry, wet. Believer, nonbeliever. What are all the permutations in between? Damp, wet, sopping, dry, arid, drought.
For the moment I want to stand on the side of believer—
Gideon asked for a sign ...he spread fleece on the ground and when he examined it —after it remained in that spot for an entire evening — the fleece was to be wet, but the ground dry. Then when that happened he asked for another sign. Now he wanted the fleece to be dry and the ground wet. Granted Gideon wanted an answer to a weighty question.
Our local meteorologist indicates two more "snow happenings". The last one left us with twelve inches. How about a little dryness on the interior?
We've had enough of the wet part of the duality. I know in the scheme of things ice dams and leaks are minor variations on the theme of persnickety annoyances.
Look at the world in crisis, look at ice bergs melting—
Look at the loss of floating ice—
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