{"id":45529,"date":"2017-10-04T05:32:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T11:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=45529"},"modified":"2017-10-04T05:32:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T11:32:37","slug":"legacy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=45529","title":{"rendered":"Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fall\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Harvest Moon<\/p>\n

A friend is moving and he had me going back to the entries in Ancientrails made during the seven month process of our first deciding to move, then executing the move. Here are two that struck me:<\/p>\n

From October, 2014<\/p>\n

Going to lay down the broadcast in the vegetable garden and the orchard this morning, then mulch. Kate and Anne planted next year\u2019s garlic crop while I was in Colorado. With no additional effort then, the new owners will have apples, pears, plums, cherries, currants, raspberries, gooseberries, strawberries, rhubarb, asparagus and garlic from their orchard and vegetable garden. In addition they will have daffodils, liguria, monkshood, many varieties of Asiatic lilies, iris and hemerocallis. Clematis, daffodils, tulips and fall crocus will\u00a0\"IMAG0683\"<\/a>bloom, too. Wisteria, lilac, bushy clematis and snakeroot put fragrance, delicate and sweet, in the air. They will have three different sheds in which to organize their outdoor life and a firepit for family evenings. There are, too, the separated plantings of prairie grass and wildflowers that bracket the front lawn, providing habitat for butterflies and other wildlife.<\/p>\n

In addition the property has about 1.5 acres of woods, including a morel patch that shows up in the late spring. With the inground irrigation system this is a place for a person with an interest in living closer to the earth and harvesting the literal fruits of such a lifestyle.<\/p>\n

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From June or so, 2014<\/p>\n

Today and until I\u2019m done\u00a0I will be packing\u00a0the study in which I work every day. That means the sorting will get harder, green tape boxes outnumbering red tape ones. Probably by a lot. It also means the confrontation between time remaining (in my life) and the projects (intellectual and creative) that keep me excited will come center stage. I\u2019ll try to sort out the ones I feel I can fruitfully engage over the next 20 years from the ones I can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

That means I\u2019m considering active intellectual and creative work at least into my late 80\u2019s. That feels like a stretch, maybe, but one\u00a0I believe my health and potential longevity justifies.<\/p>\n

Let me give you an idea of what I have in mind. Complete the translation of Ovid\u2019s Metamorphosis. Write at least four more novels. Write essays or a book on Reimagining My Faith. Write and read much more poetry. Write essays or a book on matters related to the Enlightenment, liberal thought, modernism. Write essays or a book on matters related to the Great Work. Include in this work considered attention to Asian literature, art and thought, especially Chinese and Indian. Continue regular art historical research and write essays about aesthetics and particular art\/artists.<\/p>\n

Why? Because I can. I\u2019ve no evidence so far that my thinking is strikingly original or unusually deep, but my intellectual maturation has taken a longer time than I imagined it would. So the best may yet be ahead. Or so it feels to me. Under any circumstances such work will keep me alert and focused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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