Samhain\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice<\/p>\n
One story from the MIA storage tour.\u00a0 On a February morning, after days of below zero weather, the registrar for the permanent collection comes to work.\u00a0 Blam!\u00a0 Blam!\u00a0 Blam!\u00a0 Vibrations pound the main storage facility.\u00a0 He hears clinking as Chinese ceramics move in their storage cabinets.\u00a0 The phone.\u00a0 “Tell them to stop!”\u00a0 A burly contractor comes down, a scowl on his face, “Finally we’ve got warm enough weather to compact the soil.\u00a0 We have to do it to protect the curtain wall of the Target Wing we’re building. What’s the problem?”<\/p>\n
“Oh,”\u00a0 the registrar says, “Let me show you.”\u00a0 They walk over to the Chinese ceramics.\u00a0 “That one, $750,000.\u00a0 That one, $250,000.”\u00a0\u00a0 “Fine.\u00a0 You have 45 minutes.”<\/p>\n
The registrar calls all registration staff, “We have an actual art emergency.\u00a0 Drop what you’re doing and come down here.”\u00a0 45 minutes the T’ang, Song and Ming dynasty ceramics had a location safe from the pounding and the brutal world of building construction continued its work.<\/p>\n
Yet one more meeting designed to get our retirement finances in order before Kate’s retirement.\u00a0 We’ve got everything lined up, just need to cross ts and dot is.<\/p>\n
A lot to it, but really a lot less than starting, say, a career.\u00a0 An interesting comparison since the possible 25 to thirty years of life left is a good chunk of a career.\u00a0 Now our career is to stay alive and not go broke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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