Author: Lee Axelrad
Date: 07-21-03 00:00
Replying to Randy, I'm up in Davis, CA, near Sacramento. I'm happy to make a trip to Southern Cal., if the event hasn't happened. I'm just checking out the site for the first time, now, and leisurely enjoying catching up on the thread.
As a general note to all, by coincidence, I got a book out of the library last week that has a bunch of essays in it, including one by E.B. White, written in 1941, which I read for the first time tonight. The essay is called "Once More to the Lake." He writes of returning to the place he'd spent the summers as a child, and of bringing along now his own son to revisit the place. Reflecting on the summers of his own childhood, he writes: "It seemed to me, as kept remembering all this, that those times and those summers had been infinitely precious and worth saving. There had been jollity and peace and goodness. The arriving . . . had been so big a business in itself . . . catching the first view of the lake after eleven months of not seeing this cherished body of water."
Even if I'm not really sure whether "jollity" is, technically speaking, a word, I wholeheartedly concur in the sentiment. Infinitely precious and worth saving. This site is a goddamn miracle!
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