Excellent weather lately. Its been dry and cool (highs in the lower 70s) and the bugs have finally given it a break. I found a cheap bass guitar amp in Houghton last week and I took it out on the porch and plucked some bass riffs to the birds and beasts. My old 1966 Silvertone bass lives at the cottage on Otter Lake now and it gets more use than it has in years. I'm glad it survived all these years. I had held it as a relic or sorts and seldom played it after I got a Fender. But after I set the "action" properly I re-discovered that it is amazingly easy to play.
Sometimes the simple pleasures are the coolest.
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I think this is a St. Francis of Assissi kind of moment. I love the picture of you.
I'm thinking attaining the simpler life is easier than you think, but you have to do the St. Francis thing - give away everything you own. He even gave away all his clothes, and stood naked in the town square!! Boy, was his dad pissed!
But, I guess he was making an important point. All the stuff you own, also owns you, so make sure it's stuff you really want to hang around with or you're signing on to work for somebody you don't even like!
Thanks for the reply. Stuff can be a terrible burden. When I moved from our last house we got tired of taking so many trips to good will and squeezing tiny amounts of things into the garbage. We rented a 40 yard dumpster (thats really big) and nearly filled it with crap....most of which I have never missed. We also got into something called "FreeCycle" where you could post online stuff you wanted and people would come and pick it up. I gave away not only old vaculm cleaners but also an old lawn mower and even cans of used paint and weed killer to people who REALLY wanted that stuff.
I kept the guitar (and the old non working amp) because they had such important attachments to my youth. Some things need to be saved--but most stuff needs to go.
More on attaining a simpler life. I find your dumpster story an inspiration. Part of my problem is other people's crap that they ask me to store. I probably have 30 boxes of stuff that actually belongs to other people. The garage has about 15 of those boxes, and the rest is 'stored' throughout the house. Frankly, it's just oppressive. Years ago, when I was making frequent long distance moves from BC and back, I'd shed all that stuff. Literally couldn't take it with me. But stayin in one place and accumulating relations really adds to the burden.
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