Friday, January 28, 2005

The new is wearing off

Robert Frost once wrote, "Nothing gold can stay...." That is true of houses as well as autumn. I am finding some paint flecking off and tiny cracks in corners, etc. Nothing big, just a reminder that life goes on and so does wear. Yet we are so enamoured by things new and shiny. My new car no longer shines or smells good--it is in great need of a car wash. Somebody said that cars drive better when they are washed. It will not stop raining, sleeting or snowing here long enough to get that done.

At any rate, I am celebrating today the things that do last--friendships, God's love, my family's devotion, the laughter of children, good books and movies, moving scriptural passages, family stories, grandma's recipes, (by the way Maya Angelou has a new cookbook which is accompanied by the story of each recipe--HALLELUJAH, THE WELCOME TABLE, or something similar)fine paintings, good poetry (like Frost and Dickinson)and..........As Susan O'Hanion wrote, the pleasures of these things linger
"like the smell of strawberries or the sound of a home run."

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