Thursday, January 05, 2012

Time



It is finally time to do some of the mundane tasks that I relegate to the tomorrows which never seem to arrive. I am a collector of ephemera—which is then relegated to some drawer or the basement.

But how do I know that the ten plastic tomato boxes won't be just the items needed for a craft project?

Recently I've been scanning articles instead of cutting them out and placing them in folders. Just today I read an essay about ampersands and will scan that article for future use. & that brought up the question—how do I feel about &s ?

"The ampersand can be traced back to the first century AD. It was originally a ligature of the letters E and T (“et” is Latin for and). If you look at the modern ampersand, you’ll likely still be able to see the E and T separately."
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Last January I went through my notebooks to see if there were any that I should toss, but how do you toss the scribbled notes made while seated in a laundromat waiting for bath mats to dry. I wrote about the sounds of so many machines tumbling and the people who came in and out of the Washing Palace. The notes—written twenty years ago—might show up in a story. I didn't toss anything, but I did create a manageable stack.

Twenty-five carousels of slides are ready to be turned into digital images— but first I need to look through each carousel to slim down the number of slides. Do I really need one hundred and six slides of Paradise Valley Wildflowers? I started this task last year—but fell behind.

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
—Albert Einstein

2 Comments:

Anonymous Jan Timmons said...

Admirable, and coincidental. I just spent 20 minutes trying to file a way into my office. With help from my spouse--he knows better than I what detritus I need to keep for our taxes.

That's a lovely collage or mixed-media piece of art. Yours, I assume? And one you kept! I can't imagine why you would consider tossing one of your notebooks, L! Sure, even if we can't decipher all of the scribbles from decades ago, some kernel of wisdom exists on one of the pages.

January 07, 2012  
Blogger Linda said...

Yes, it is my piece. Thanks for liking it.

January 07, 2012  

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