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Nostalgia...
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Scrolling through old photos to put together banners for the site, there are a lot of old photos. In my Google acct. there are thousands, on my phone as well.
I come to the old photos, Son, as a child, well dressed, on my shoulders, baby photos. And the Daughter, cute as ever, and old unrecognizable photos of myself, ...
I have to stop, the time flies and just looking at the photos make years pass. I'm gone in mind for weeks, and when I get back to the present I find only a few short minutes have past.
I have a fear of Nostalgia, of old people that live forever in the "good old days". When you start looking back the void is quick to rise up in front of you...
The same with Music. I generally despise the music of my youth, not because it was bad, but because it was overplayed, hundreds, thousands of times over, stripping it of it's freshness, novelty, associations, because it's become the background music to a generation of old bikers and hippies...
That said, I've been listening to Fludd - Cousin Mary, which seems to strike a chord. From here to Led Zeppelin's "House of the Holy", - The Rain Song, followed by Over the Hills and Far Away, and finish with The Ocean, which I don't like so much as admire the way they lightly introduce the drumming and riffs to be found later in Fool in the Rain.
This is of course gold for YouTube, they begin feeding me all sorts of old music, and I hate this, living in the past, and so I switch up and listen to some Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate & Cold Little Heart, still in the past, but not so far.
I need to find some contemporary sources for music, these mixes, they're good once in a blue moon, but only once in a blue moon.
It's the same with Facebook, reinforcing what you like, dating you, any chance looks back, clicks on comics you might remember, and it's quick to reinforce it with more, keeps you mired in the old and stale times of yore, confirming all of your worst boomer prejudices...
Although I've been rather off Facebook later, I never was on it for more than the infinite scroll of inanity, and I think I've reached my limit.
But now is the time, in age, to ignore the past, keep walking away from it, ignore it or at best check it in the rearview mirror, or you'll become stalled and stagnant, this probably kills as many people as the broken hip or short falls on slight stairs..
Cleaning Up the Cherry Orchard...
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Another YouTube Channel I most definitely shouldn't subscribe to...
I love how he's working old ground, tailings that have become now an orchard, and it's just the zen walk interrupted to pick up gold nuggets...
Hiro's Nugget
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This, via "The Guardian" (and various other news sources) - the biggest gold nugget found in England, likely to be valued at over £30, 000.
Note that most of the absurdly large value is not based upon it's weight (a 'mere' 64.8grams, or 2 ounces), but rather the rarity of the find given the location. The 'Provenance'.
In England. And, while I'm certain it's not the "biggest" - merely the biggest recorded, the quality of the metal detector, the "remoteness" of the locale, all these serve to underscore and remind me that it's not the gold that's in short supply, it's the people looking for it. Now I'm off googling the geology of Shropshire...
Low Water, Flints, Nada...
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This morning, the last of the warmer days before a predicted cold snap. And so I head off bright & early to Balfour.
I'm on the 7:15 bus, and for what should be a damned fine day it sure is a damned fine cold morning.
Arrive, 8:00, the water is low. I start in the washout, a few bits of flint, one piece worked, the others debitage. Nothing worth photographing. I comb the beach, back and forth, a few unworked pieces of flint, rose quartz, what appears to be agate, nothing worth collecting, careful to keep out of the line of sight of the old restaurant.
By 9:30 I'm done. It's still a bit too early, brisk for this, and I've found nothing to spur me on to look longer & harder.
And that's that. Curiosity slaked, but no treasures.
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