Sunday, January 04, 2009

2009 - a time for sole searching

Suffering from the greatest Depression and in need of redemp-
tion, yet 137 miles from the spirtual center of Chimayo, NM,
Dorothy considers the
offer of a local heeler: to opt for a new
sole or salvage the old soul she sold for pennies on the dollar.


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8 comments:

Dada said...

I'm not sure what the hell this blog is intended to mean, but I think it might have something to do with taking 'the cheap path' Americans, collectively as a nation, may have chosen years ago; a path that now finds us at this place we are (again, collectively) all experiencing, if not necessarily enjoying.

Redemption will not be cheap. I sense it will take a lot of blood, sweat and tears (a group I never really cared for) to get our boots back up and running.

Of course, that's assuming it's not already too late? 2009 should tell us much about where 'we really stand' as a nation, as a people.

Fran said...

I thought it was about one stop shopping for redemption & salvation. We will be needing that service in bulk!

Maybe a cryptic message too- in our heyday of consumerism, we'd throw away shoes in need of repair. I did hear a news clip that shoe repair stores have seen business soar-- people are having things fixed instead of discarding them.

One friend described the coming fallout in the economy as being a long overdue shift, a necessary realignment & regrouping. Well, at least for those of us on the lower end of the economic food chain.

I do think we've only seen the tip of the iceberg.

D.K. Raed said...

I think it reflects the lengths to which a small business will have to go to be viable in this new world. One thing about bad business climates, customer service becomes king ... you want it, you got it! You couldn't even find someone to heel, restore soles & even dye previously; it was a lost art (now refound).

Soon the public garbage removers will be saying, "we'll bend over for you" (now they will only do that if you weigh less than 50-lbs). Well, maybe not, because we as consumers don't have much say-so in who picks up our garbage ... garbage that is becoming less bulky now that people are not so quick to discard things. My town made the national news a couple days ago because our garbage service is in financial trouble for just that reason, i.e., less trash = lay offs. Support your local garbage collectors! Make a mound of trash large enough to enable you to walk up it to heaven!

Redemption will certainly not be cheap or easy. The trash salvagers (recyclers) are scavenging beyond curbsides now. Soon the most valuable thing a burglar can steal from your home will not be jewelry or plasma tv's or even your car, but clothes & food & medicine (if they open the child-proof tops).

Wow, Dorothy sure has a gift for provocative photo ops!

Fran said...

DK~ if you cared about the economy & your country--, you'd produce more garbage. Unpatriotic Slackers!

Dada said...

Deke: Fran has a point there. Besides, as we've learned locally, after responding positively to encouragement by our local water utility to conserve, we learned of our punishment: Higher water rates! Because we were using less, they had to make up the difference somehow, right?

I expect the same will hold true of recycling more and more stuff we used to throw away.

It's a pleasant little *green* conundrum, huh?

(Thanks for the clarifications of potential meaning of Dorothy's Dilemma here.)

enigma4ever said...

poor dorothy....

I did enjoy eavesdropping on this converstation...lurking to the side....hmm, redemption....I hope that includes my foul mouth thoughts on all of this....because I do think some Fuckers are to blame...it is not me- 2nd hand rose that caused this mess....

I believe in "Heeling"....but I also think there are some rich greedy fuckers that need to learn some REEL lessons....( like Maddoff...Who even went to great trouble to fuck charities...)

okay back to peeling potatoes and Darning my damn socks...

Dada said...

Enigma: I suppose the next step (later this year) will become "damning my darned socks!"

All seriousness aside, thanks for the great laugh. It's wonderful to see you still "back slide" on occasion and contribute to that 'foul mouth' jar.

You know how you're sometimes just reading along on cruise control when, ""WHAM!" you're totally, and unsuspectingly broadsided? Well, that's how I felt reading your comment when suddenly your "F"ers just popped up out of the blue at me.

Good job! (Ah, you're not still angry about these gangsters by any chance, are you?! LOL!)

enigma4ever said...

damning the darn socks.....LOL...

I try hard to not call them fuckers.....every minute of the day...and have my head explode...BUT....that being said...sometimes it just has to come out ...

Here they had a story on the local news- reminded me of your post about how RICH people are learning how to be frugal and shop at the local 2nd hand stores , geeeez - you would have thought that they learned how to do brain surgery in Chinese- SUCH a BIG deal...unreal....

I have tried to maintain Manners and Dignity these past 8 years...but ....I am not a nun...so sigh.....

of course I lose all patience at times...

and yes, the Foul Mouth Jar prospers....and thrives...

LOL..