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Falling into the fall energy vortex
Are you feeling that “back to school” energy (whatever “school” means for you)? I am. My air conditioning unit got replaced just in time for the weather to cool (timing is everything) and I’m starting a fresh Mnemosyne dot grid notebook. Let the wild writing begin!
 This morning I took my blue Lands End polartec bathrobe off the hook and put it on again. After 25+ years of hard living, it shows absolutely zero signs of wear. So despite my occasional fits of boredom with it, when I consider buying one that’s new and different, I realize that it too will bore me in due time. Hence old faithful and I are in it for the long haul.
Among its many cozy virtues, my bathrobe has big pockets. Pockets have a fascinating history, which you can learn about on the Articles of Interest podcast (the whole series about various articles of clothing is fantastic—you’ll never look at plaid or jeans or Hawaiian shirt or corduroy the same way again.). One reason women have to carry purses is our garments rarely have useable pockets, whereas men have pockets everywhere. [Another instance of women's legal inequality: the stuff in your pocket is protected by privacy laws, but not what’s in your purse.]
The Illusive Perfect Purse
Roz Chast nailed it this week in the New Yorker:
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My best friend and I went for a perfect walk near downtown Vancouver yesterday morning. Like me, she brakes for beauty. Fall color stopped us on every block. When I got home I made several loose collages of my findings. Here’s one:
Today I’m heading for a week in Nashville and Washington DC. So pissed that once again the GOP will be shutting down the government (their fifth time in the past thirty years), meanwhile holding sham hearings about impeaching President Biden without any factual evidence—which their own Republican witnesses admit. And they refuse to acknowledge that their front-running presidential candidate is a career criminal with 91 felony counts so far. As P.J. O’Rourke famously said, “Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work. Then they get elected and prove it.” Vote the bums out. Every last one of them.
Low voter turn out for the primaries!!! That's how we get these congressional clowns. Only 17-23% of registered GOP voters showed up to vote in the primaries where these current extremists hail from. Then, if the district is red, the nut-jobs win. I'm gifting you this WaPo article describing the problem. Another reason it's important to VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION, at every level.
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