ACROSS TWO TABLES

Dear Wife is spending a day at the spa.
Dear Sophie and I have The Study to ourselves.
And yes, the house is quiet.

Since the last election, some home improvement decisions and actions have been made and taken and the TV has been removed from the dining/kitchen area. Radio remains, but its voice is muted.
The talking heads  intrude less forcefully, less often, less disturbingly.

TVs remain in library and family room….but my goodness, distractions are minimized.
We think less of the disappointments of the day.

And so, at this moment I occupy a work room newly brought from disorder into some degree of order and find it desirable, even important to report a thought or two on this Dear Site, after over two months of expressing thoughts and such to people across occupied tables.

Go figure.

In the last few days a number of influences have come to bear, simultaneously:

Visited a superb Faberge exhibit which came to town. Four hours was not too long to spend viewing and attending lecture.
Read a journal [with pictures] documenting hiking along Hadrian’s Wall in the north high country of England.
Came across a collection of pictures of 1930’s foggy London.
Awoke this morning to a winter day of thick fog and rain.

Now, could any four developments be more closely related?

Any one of them could occupy pleasant discussions across an occupied table or fill a page on an empty table.

Right now ‘tis fun writing about their confluence here prior to speaking about them tonight.
Perhaps that is the important thing…to be able to do both.

Finally, I am recalling that fifty years ago this at the time young grad student found that researching threats against Queen Elizabeth I was a relief from worrying about WW III and missile crises.

It is occurring to me more forcefully these days that such distractions as the four listed above might be a similar way to reduce the depression of the problems facing our people and the world in 2013.

Such will make good fodder for discussion tonight at the pub.

Perhaps more here as well in a day or two.