Keeping things for a rainy day.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by garinda

I sometimes think I'm a bit daft.

(A bit? Who am I kidding?)

I bought a book before Christmas, and still haven't read it, even though I'm aching to. It's the last book in the Tales of the City series by Armistead Maupin.

He said there would be no updates, and his much loved characters would be left suspended in the liberated environment of San Francisco in the nineteen seventies. So this is a real unexpected treat for his fans.

I might read it on holiday, or I might savour the anticipation for a bit longer. I don't know.

But what if I drop down dead?

I'll never get to experience the joy this book would give me.

Perhaps I should read it today, and re-read it on some future 'rainy day'.

I have a dear friend who once gave me some good advice. Telling me never have anything 'for best', but use things everyday, be that clothes, glasses, or dinner plates.

Anyone else keep things unused, waiting for that rainy day...that might never come?

Isn't every day a rainy day in your neck of the woods

However, I do remember having a similar experience with a book. I had read, and re-read "Canticle for Liebowitz" for years. After Miller's death, the only other novel he ever wrote ("Saint Liebowitz and the Wild Horse Woman") was published. I bought it and held on to it. The anticipation! To cut it short, the book sucked. I was as disappointed as Swift's persona when he discovers that Celia, his ideal of womanhood, defecates. I did, however, have several days of excited anticipation. And, I suppose, if I had read it right away, I wouldn't have had that.

Maybe the only thing that should be kept for a rainy day is brass. Shoot, starting to sound like my grand dad

By the way, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be in Ottawa to help us colonials celebrate our birthday on July 1. I'm sure you must be thinking of attending, to join the crowds in cheering you future King
If you do, feel free to drop over for a brew, I'll be home all day