I’ve been better, began Colin standing behind his gate, leaning on it. It’s my knees, they do not carry my weight anymore. And they tell me I’ve been a heavy smoker. I gave up what more than 50 years ago, and I was never a big smoker. It was the welding work. Between the ages of 16 and 20, I worked as a welder repairing tractors. that’s what’s done for my lungs.
We spoke of Tinks father father, her grandfather, who returned from china, with his new bride, Greetle, 10 years older than john. They settled I Sussex, and began growing herbs, which they eventually and successfully exported to china, so making the fundament of his business. JRLittle, import export. We invite our ancestors to return, we bring them alive again with our shared memories, often the same, sometimes different moments.
I read the Oak Papers, that ultra Thoreau: by my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon in the morning and the evening compels me to solitude.
The tendency to withdraw, in this period of mass connection.
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