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I drove for meals on wheels again today, after a long stretch when I couldn't because my car had a severe oil leak.
It's nice to be doing that again.
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I went to an estate sale on the way back from the meals on wheels office.
I'm feeling kind of strange, thinking about all the things I learned about the person who's estate it was just by seeing the stuff that was for sale.
She was a musician. Played jazz saxophone. She had lots of costume jewelry. She had a dog. In her last years she was bed bound or nearly so. She was born in the 30s, judging by the photograph I saw. And she had either grandchildren or nieces & nephews.
And, I think, she lived alone.
There's a strange feeling that I have, thinking about these things. The passage of time. Death, the end of connection between people. It's like sadness, but it's also like, reflection. Wistfulness, the barest hint of what it's like to watch a tragic play.
Finality, nostalgia, and a smidge of melancholy.
The old world blues.
#actually blogging on your blog#things that affect me#I got a pair of computer speakers#a bag of unused kn95 masks#a music stand#and a dave brubeck quartet CD#today I learned it's impossible to center align text in a post on the dashboard#I had to use a bunch of dashes like a fucking 6th grader#I understand why the <center> html tag is deprecated but god fucking dammit it was easy to use I don't wanna use CSS#all this because tumblr doesn't allow horizontal rules either. bitchass losers#did you know that the official terminology for a typographic mark used to separate parts of a printed work is “dinkus”#hahahah that's a funny word#dinkus#technically the characters I've used are actually fleurons#but when they're used to separate thoughts they're a dinkus#fleuron#that's a pretty word
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