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 Thoughts destined to be washed away by the tides of life. |
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I've been studying my cover photo for a while now, and it seems to me that it is more than just a photo of what is there that can be seen, more than just three white rocks stacked on a beach. It contains an important question about the future, about what happens long after the photographer has gone. What will happen to our pile of stones when the tide comes in? Will it topple or has the architect built this structure at a safe distance? I don't know what will happen to these words that I stack here on the sand. They may prove safely distant, or they may be swallowed up by a rush of self-doubt. They may be here for a season. They may lose their balance and be scattered by the shoreline, or be hidden away under shifting sands. Perhaps someday, the tides of life will reclaim them. Or maybe that's just a bunch of poetic, romantic nonsense. After all, this is just a blog. |
| I don't know about you, but I'm getting a little tired of being told that I'm doing everything the wrong way. You know what I mean, all those videos on TikTok and X and Facebook that show you how to do everyday things in these new and inventive ways that you never thought of because you've been doing it wrong all your life. Now, these videos usually have titles like: “My mother taught me this”, or "My grandmother showed me this", or “I learned this from an expert”. This is to make you think that it's some secret knowledge that you never were taught because your mother, grandmother or chosen expert were total morons like you. Today, I watched a reel on Facebook of a woman showing me how to fold a towel. Apparently I've been doing it all wrong all my life. See, I just hold the towel in my hands and fold it up, first in half then into a rectangle or a square or whatever shape fits my closet best. I have in fact folded towels many different ways through the years depending on where I was storing them. However, it seems that the right way to fold a towel is to lay it down on the floor. Then you get down on your knees on the floor. Fold up one end about five inches or so. And then go to the other end of the towel and roll it up until you get to the folded bit, which you then wrap over the rolled towel. That holds it in place, like a cover, so to speak. Now you have a cylindrical towel. Now, my mother didn't teach me to do it this way. She definitely didn't. Neither did my grandmother or any expert that I've ever met before. All of the aforementioned taught me the wrong way. And for a very good reason. It works. In fact, I'm pretty sure that my old fashioned and very wrong method of folding towels is easier and quicker than getting down on the floor on my hands and knees, laying a fresh clean towel on the floor and then rolling it up into a tube that isn’t going to hang very nicely on my towel rack. Maybe it's me, but I don't think these mothers, grandmothers and experts with all these fancy new ways of putting garbage bags in your cans, straining your pasta, opening cans in the apocalypse or rolling up your towels on the floor ever actually existed. Because all the mothers and grandmothers and experts that I know taught me to do things all the wrong ways. All the wrong ways that these videos attempt to correct. Funny thing is, these wrong ways have worked perfectly well all my life and continue to do so. And I don't have to get down on my hands and knees on the floor to do any of them. |
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