Slim Randles' Home Country
Spring: a time to let loose
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[March
16, 2013]
Do you feel that
itch coming on? It's time, you know. See the kids out flying kites?
That's a sign. See little green bladelets in the lawn. That's a
sign, too. |
It's almost full spring, and that itch tells us it's time to do
something. This is when we need to forget almost all our sensible
resolutions about self-improvement and just concentrate on fun. List
your favorite things and then take it one ridiculous step further
and there you have it -- a renewal of hope and fun and insanity to
celebrate the return of the sun. You enjoy fly fishing? OK, build
your own pirogue to fish from. Racing cars is your hobby? Go race
them across a mountain range. Are you a seamstress or a seamster?
Sew a flag the size of a circus tent and hang it from a giant
sequoia.
Spring is the trampoline of the entire year. Our thoughts and
plans are now unfettered by trying to stay warm, and we can emerge
from our caves, scratch ourselves and grunt something like, "Public
teevee good! Tell me go library. Study individual applications of
medieval chemical experiments."
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Buy some oil paints and some brushes and try to make a blank
piece of canvas look pretty. Buy some house paint and try to make
the house look pretty. Buy some makeup and try to make the dog look
pretty. This last is just for 4-year-olds, and if you tell your mom
I suggested it, I'll swear I don't know you.
The transition from winter to spring can almost be summed up by
calling it a change from "Why bother?" to "Why not?!"
Spring is the reward we get for having cut all that firewood.
[Text from file received from Slim Randles]
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