#62: May The 4th (be with you)

"...Part of him, like the cottage. Only it wasn't his anymore. He was suddenly aware, after all the hurrying and adventuring and fighting and worrying, how very still the world seemed to be. 

He'd gone away, and so had the place he'd loved. It wasn't the same, though he wasn't really sure why. It had changed, or stood still while he'd changed, and he didn't fit anymore. It didn't want him...."

(From The Ring Of Allaire, by Susan Dexter)

Dignity: Of Earth and Sky
Dale Lamphere. Stainless Steel, 50'.
2016
Chamberlain, South Dakota

Last week, I went to a place I had spent a considerable amount of time at, after a considerable time away. If you've ever done this, you will understand the sense of alienness that pervades. You feel like a tourist, or someone who has just stepped onto another planet. It's strange how much of the unbelonging came to the surface; not that I really felt like I had belonged there while I lived there, but it at least should have felt more familiar than it did. Some of it, I am sure, has to do with the current covid culture. But not all of it. Quite frankly, it felt.... wrong. It didn't want me back.

See if I do THAT again, any time soon. Screw that.

I did get to visit the Megs, and got a much better reception.

Today we were allowed to come in to work and clean a little bit. The hope is that they'll be opening the doors again for the general public on Thursday, although that seems to be a play it by ear kind of thing. Not sure whether to hope it happens, or whether they get smart and leave things shuttered a little bit longer. We're expected to wear masks and gloves, as if that will make much of a difference.

The place was a bit eerie. All the machines were still off and in a couple places so were the lights.  They were in the process of moving the machines further apart when I left this afternoon. Personally, I think it would have just left every other machine turned off, rather than go through all that effort.
But I ain't the boss.

favorite photo of the bunch. Megs and the Dan.

The weather is slowly but surely improving. We're getting more rain than snow now, although it's still a bit on the chilly. Nonetheless, the trees are starting to bud out here and there and I expect there will be a few flowers poking out soon. At least I hope so.

Hoping you and yours are staying safe and healthy (was going to say "sane", but for some of you that is a lost cause!)

Stay tuned!

Kraneia

PS. Just in case you need a little surrealism....may I present Queen... on a fairground organ...