31 October 2023

I had high hopes for malls being a future place that people can congregate in the post smartphone world. Those hope were destroyed today when I went to walk around the mall this morning with baby only to find out the mall doesn’t open until 11 AM. Back in my day I remember the mall being packed with people at 6 AM using it as an indoor track. Real world congregations, that’s what people need. People are quick to poke holes in any plan they didn’t create, when it comes time to create their own they’re out of ideas. To me that means I addressed a problem as lack of meeting places, I better get to work fixing it. Don’t worry, I am, it’s on my to do list. I have to fix a broken sliding door first. Not long ago I shot a rock from the lawn mower and broke the glass on a door, today I had someone come out for a quote to replace it. I’ll save your hearts the stress from what they’re charging, but it looks like I’m going to be learning how to replace the door. Another big item on my to do list is building a back yard privacy fence. Then there will be one continues fence around my house and I’ll be able to take down a lot of ugly fence in the middle of things. Today I also started reading Othello to the baby, we had just finished Much ado about Nothing. An interesting note about Othello is that on the first page of that play is the first writing of the phrase wearing one’s “heart on your sleeve”. Shakespeare is important because the language we speak today was in a large part written by him. There is depth to the human spirit that people are losing touch with because they’ve stopped reading the right words.