This morning as I was taking the pumpkins to the "Pumpkin Hole" I was thinking that I wish we still had the Sunday Comics page. While it is highly likely this bit of nostalgic reflection is fueled by a combination of incoming seasonal depression triggered the idiocy of daylight savings fall back (fu**k you Mitch Daniels), post election dread, and a number of career related factors, it may also be something to consider as we move forward into 2025. Maybe there is just too much of everything? At this moment I can go online and read almost every Sunday comic from every artist ever, probably for free but I won't , I don't even really want to what I was thinking that want to do on this rainy Sunday morning is eat a couple cinnamon rolls while reading the comics page. As a kid, wrapping up in a blanket soaking up all the heat from the register that was supposed to heat the living room (that no one really went in much) with comics pages and sometimes the ad pages on a Sunday morning was peak weekend, probably even better than Saturday morning cartoons. These sort of small regular events that, from a kids perspective, the paper just arrives, are mostly gone. We do cinnamon rolls and I suppose our parents in a way facilitated all the things but even as an adult it seems that there is just too much. Access to information was supposed to free us all but it has instead flooded us with nonsense. There's no opportunity to not know and have to make an effort to learn. It appears that the access to all the information may have devalued it. The effort needed to know things is mostly gone so it seems that the need to know things and remember them may also be gone. Yesterday we were looking for animals whose names started with "Q" and it just took a second to find Queensland Legless Lizard . This morning while writing this I had to go back and look because I couldn't remember. I would wager that had we had to go look in a book with all the tactile sensations associated, I would remember today. Maybe the solution is to intentionally bring these sort of small activities back. I need to subscribe to the small local paper. I wonder if they have home delivery? I'll Google that and find out...
Oh, there's an old hollow tree stump at the front of our yard that I always put the Halloween pumpkins and other garden vegetables in with the hopes that giant pumpkin vines will spill out of the next year and give pumpkins, it hasn't been a success and I'm not putting any effort more than tossing them in so... I want it to happen organically or something like that.
