So...I'll think about my new dinette set that I purchased last weekend from Atlantis Found in Red Hook (http://www.atlantisredhook.com/). Here's a picture of it.
One of the reasons why I like to buy old things is because of their history. It's fun to wonder who sat at this table and ate dinner...what the chairs looked like when this set was brand new. Someone obviously cared for my little grey and silver dinette set...the formica table is completely spotless.
I was never a fan of history or memorizing all of those dates and names, but I do know about all of the wonderful "stuff" that was created during that era. People back then knew a lot more suffering than we do now, but they still created art and beauty nonetheless. I would think because they couldn't just go out and buy it the way we do now.
Maybe this country could use a little sobering...maybe I could too. I think that human beings thrive in times of difficulty and perhaps a little less prosperity could force us to be more creative and thoughtful and less consuming and materialistic...myself included.
Maybe that's why for so many years we've been regurgitating the design and fashion from bygone eras...because our own lives have become so "store bought" that we don't have the experience to create our own.
It's time for me to get up off my ass and do something different...and interesting...and meaningful. Shit...I live in New York and I have no more excuses.
“The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.” - C.S. Lewis
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