When Believing in Transience Is Misguided
Jul. 13th, 2023 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraMy go-to garden store has decided planting season is over. (Unless you want to plant broccoli, cabbage, or cauliflower. Which I don’t.)
Not a squash seedling to be had.
So in a little while, I’ll trek on over to the Most Fabulous Garden Store in All of Dutchess County to see if they have any spaghetti squash seedlings.
And if they don’t, I’ll give up on the Spaghetti Squash Project for this year.
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Also, Newport, Rhode Island, is definitely out so far as upcoming road trips are concerned.
I priced lodging: Three nights comes to $1,200. For an Airbnb or a hotel.
I like old mansions.
But I don’t like them that much.
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This puts a return trip to the Bread & Puppets Theater at the top of my road trip list.
Assuming there still is a Bread & Puppets Theater.
The torrential rains that washed out Highland Falls in the Hudson Valley stalled over Vermont. The photos are crazy. This was Montpelier two days ago:
Glover, home of the Bread & Puppets Theater, is 50 miles north of Montpelier.
Who knows whether its thousands upon thousands of magnificent puppets survived, housed as they were in an ancient ramshackle barn?
Peter Schumann, the Theater’s creator, doesn’t approve of art as a commodity and therefore doesn’t care whether or not the puppets survive.
I care whether or not the puppets survive.
I’ve been combing the Internet for any crumbs of info.
But, of course, there aren’t any. It’s the type of human interest story that makes it into the second section of The New York Times maybe three weeks afterward: One of the casualties of the recent storm…
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Even if the puppets did survive this time, they won't next time. (Or maybe the time after that.)
These rains are the New Normal. Climate change, doncha know.
Plus, their creator believes in transience.
A philosophy I admire when it comes to sand mandalas.
But not when it comes to puppets.
Not a squash seedling to be had.
So in a little while, I’ll trek on over to the Most Fabulous Garden Store in All of Dutchess County to see if they have any spaghetti squash seedlings.
And if they don’t, I’ll give up on the Spaghetti Squash Project for this year.
###
Also, Newport, Rhode Island, is definitely out so far as upcoming road trips are concerned.
I priced lodging: Three nights comes to $1,200. For an Airbnb or a hotel.
I like old mansions.
But I don’t like them that much.
###
This puts a return trip to the Bread & Puppets Theater at the top of my road trip list.
Assuming there still is a Bread & Puppets Theater.
The torrential rains that washed out Highland Falls in the Hudson Valley stalled over Vermont. The photos are crazy. This was Montpelier two days ago:
Glover, home of the Bread & Puppets Theater, is 50 miles north of Montpelier.
Who knows whether its thousands upon thousands of magnificent puppets survived, housed as they were in an ancient ramshackle barn?
Peter Schumann, the Theater’s creator, doesn’t approve of art as a commodity and therefore doesn’t care whether or not the puppets survive.
I care whether or not the puppets survive.
I’ve been combing the Internet for any crumbs of info.
But, of course, there aren’t any. It’s the type of human interest story that makes it into the second section of The New York Times maybe three weeks afterward: One of the casualties of the recent storm…
###
Even if the puppets did survive this time, they won't next time. (Or maybe the time after that.)
These rains are the New Normal. Climate change, doncha know.
Plus, their creator believes in transience.
A philosophy I admire when it comes to sand mandalas.
But not when it comes to puppets.
