Winter\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 Waning Moon of Long Nights<\/p>\n
I went on the great errand run this morning.\u00a0 To the pharmacy for drugs.\u00a0 To the jewelers for two watch batteries and to leave a pocket watch for repair.\u00a0 Then over to the Spectacle Shoppe to have them repair the glasses that Vega bit.\u00a0 Mildly unsatisfactory, but workable.\u00a0 After that spectacle, all the way over to Lights on Broadway to buy unusually sized bulbs for this and that.\u00a0 A completed circle then brought me back home.\u00a0 Maybe 40 miles or so.\u00a0 Strange.<\/p>\n
There were the small oblong pills, tan in color, containing a chemical the somehow regulates the uptake of serotonin in my brain, a pill that I read recently doesn’t help me.\u00a0 Not sure about that, so I’ll keep on taking them.\u00a0 Tiny batteries, smaller than the nail on my little finger, power watches for years, a triumph of miniaturization; yet, the watch I sent off for repair, made a hundred years ago or so, works, as watches had for centuries by quick tweaks of the thumb and forefinger.\u00a0 These glasses, plastic frames and round, cost almost as much as the lenses within them, lenses that correct my vision so I can read highway signs before I’m on top of them.\u00a0 Then the small lamps that light my workspace, halogen bulbs, but special and difficult to find, fan lights also difficult to find.\u00a0 These items replace the candles or gas light or kerosene lanterns of not that long ago.<\/p>\n
The length of the journey seemed outsized to me until I began to realize the stunning technological distance each separate product represented.\u00a0 That they are available to me in so small an ambit is the amazing thing.\u00a0 That they are available at all depends on the brain and its mysterious companion, consciousness.\u00a0 Every day is a wonder, even the mundane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Winter\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 Waning Moon of Long Nights I went on the great errand run this morning.\u00a0 To the pharmacy for drugs.\u00a0 To the jewelers for two watch batteries and to leave a pocket watch for repair.\u00a0 Then over to the Spectacle Shoppe to have them repair the glasses that Vega bit.\u00a0 Mildly unsatisfactory, but workable.\u00a0 After … Continue reading The Ordinary Is Extraordinary<\/span>