Relative

RELATIVE

Life in the nineteenth century likely was challenging and interesting enough without seeking entertainment in the newspaper serial stories of Charles Dickens and others. But reading The Pickwick Papers while traveling on the treadmill keeps the eye off the clock’s creeping second hand. So far, The Pickwick Papers with Samuel Weller and the Pickwickians, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, maybe another freebie. Also MacBeth and Hamlet and Walden free online and enlarged on the iPad screen for easy reading enroute. To where? Are we there yet? How much longer?

The three-week dining room adventure was finished Thursday morning, with new plumbing in the bathroom above it, a new ceiling, new paint in dining room and adjacent living room, cleanup (the dust throughout the house may never all be), ceiling lamps replaced, furniture back. Pictures rearranged. Dining room rug could not be cleaned, a permanent casualty. 

Life goes on. And whether it does or not, earth will spin and revolve, sun and moon will rise and set, the solar system will do whatever it has been doing since Genesis 1:1, and our Milky Way galaxy will collide with Andromeda as the universe continues to expand. 

Earthshaking to worry about: will my property insurance policy with Lloyd’s of London cover any damage to my house when the earth collides with an Andromeda sun, how much will my deductible be, and will that claim cause my premium to rise?

The cold wind in the winter,

The pleasant summer sun,

The ripe fruits in the garden,

He made them every one;

All things bright and beautiful,

All creatures great and small,

All things wise and wonderful,

The Lord God made them all

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