I love my car and will talk to it and about it as if is a person, but I know that in reality it is just a machine. It is not a substitute for a relationship and it cannot give back emotionally.
I'm reading this and remembering that "Murder She Wrote" took place in the States, but also wondering if Angela Landsbury was American or English and what the chances would be of finding her in an English Village.
I read an article once that one of the benefits of cursive is that it can help people who have dyslexia. Since the letters are not symmetric at all and require a clear beginning and end point to the letter, it is harder for the brain to reverse the order of the letters, I think in both writing and reading. I also use it in art from time to time, and will use it at work to make lists and agendas when it has been a hard day. I find the process relaxing and calming having to slow down to make the writing neat. I can't help not thinking of the post apocalyptic scenarios (which seems more likely every day) when I think of the map, compass, and sewing skills. I can do the map and compass skills and will usually read the direction, copy them down, and memorize/draw the map instead of an app when driving. I think this comes from all my time using paper maps before electronic navigation. I want to learn how to sew though. The stick shift debate: always wanted to learn stick but haven't. No need unless you can afford a sports car or are a valet that parks cars.
I saw in an art book called "Speck" where another person would collect (but not document) whiskers that they found around their place, and had whole pages of carefully laid out whiskers. It wasn't until after reading this part of the book I started noticing the whiskers from our cats laying around, and I started collecting them in a box. Didn't have to try hard to find them, just had to know that they were there to be collected.
I cooked pasta from cold water years ago by accident because I just wasn't thinking to let the water heat up and boil first. No one died. I can't remember how I timed it but i just kept taking out a sample after awhile until the tenderness was right.
I can't help not thinking of the post apocalyptic scenarios (which seems more likely every day) when I think of the map, compass, and sewing skills. I can do the map and compass skills and will usually read the direction, copy them down, and memorize/draw the map instead of an app when driving. I think this comes from all my time using paper maps before electronic navigation. I want to learn how to sew though.
The stick shift debate: always wanted to learn stick but haven't. No need unless you can afford a sports car or are a valet that parks cars.