I think that all my life I’ve viewed these Projects as final solutions to every problem. <\/p>\n
Which is dumb. <\/p>\n
Once, I wanted to own a home instead of rent. I did it. It fixed a lot of problems. It created others. Quite naturally. <\/p>\n
Once I wanted to buy a new car. I did it. It felt good. It fixed a lot of problems. And … well, I don’t even have to say it. <\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
The odds are reasonably good that one way or another, I’ll have an ALiner someday. Even a brand-new one, even a custom job straight from the factory. With a hitch that can pull it installed on the Subaru as well as having the existing one on the truck.<\/p>\n
It will not be the end of my problems, but an introduction to new (and maybe) interesting ones. <\/p>\n
The odds are quite a bit longer that I’ll ever live permanently on my lot in Silver City in a paid-for home (75K minimum for a doublewide is the cheapest\/easiest path). <\/p>\n
But if I do, there will still be problems and some of them will be intractable. <\/p>\n
I was reminded of this by spending a couple of nights in a Silver place even more beautiful than mine will ever be, a few miles north up the road from town and only a couple more past it to the right and proper wilderness. <\/p>\n
In the peaceful night, in the echoing canyon, there were people’s idiot dogs going off loud and insistent and annoying for hours, screaming at each other in domesticated mad rage, a mile away and then answered by one from half a mile away … <\/p>\n
There is no such thing as perfection, not in this world we’ve made. <\/p>\n
On the bright side, we also heard bobcat mating calls, even closer and louder … why oh why is that a blessing, and the dog sound such a curse?<\/p>\n
Why is birdsong a delight and the sound of some dipshit’s chain saw so vile?<\/p>\n
I don’t know why, but I am certain that these are so; that the answer has something to do with the difference between the domesticated and the wild, and that my knowing of them are honest sooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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