Two days of not going out made me realize that not-going-out is important. It was a thing I felt strongly in the whetstone tulies down south, but it’s just as important up here. <\/p>\n
Back there, it was a mile to the rudest stop for jug water, five miles to any kind of meal ready-to-eat, and fifteen or twenty to shopping for groceries or most anything else. That made it easy to stock up and stay in for a week or more. Here, most things are available within a mile, and it’s easy to slip out for a few, especially instead of cooking and washing the extra dishes. <\/p>\n
I intend to discipline myself better on that score. <\/p>\n
During the two days, I bombed through the rather short podcast treatment of the revolution of the colonies, and began the far more involved revolution in France a few years later. Near the beginning of the French revolution, the King was forcefully invited to move from the palace of Versailles to the one called Tuileries. I had always sort of unconsciously assumed that this was where the slang of “out in the tulies\/toolies” came from. But I was wrong. Tuileries was in fact in the center of Paris, and it was Versailles that was out in the sticks.<\/p>\n
Tules is Spanish for marsh plants, the kind found, felicitously, in a cienega, and sometimes specifically means ‘bulrushes’, recalling the kind of cienega where Moses was found by an Egyptian Princess. <\/p>\n
Living in the tulies, however, is a state of mind, rather than being based on how far you have to go to buy anything.<\/p>\n
A state of mind, that is, if you let it be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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