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New (Fiscal) Year’s Resolution: Cultivate whimsy.
Apply it to everything the way you apply
spackle to a crack in the drywall, generously.
Soft scramble an egg. Mix a
Manhattan. Tabasco the egg. Eat and drink slowly. Another – scramble another
egg, mix another drink. Eat, drink, slowly. Has the globby pink turned white? (The
spackle; I’m talking about the spackle, Fuzziolio.) Mix and drink another
Manhattan. Now! sand it. Paint it.
Here is the fey, laissez-faire genius
of Aristippos of Cyrene as opposed to the puritanical, gradgrind endurance of Diogenes: his (Aristippos, the spackler’s) allowing pleasure to wander in from the
world out there rather than relying on a will-forged intestinal fortitude.
It’s the difference between giving up control one never had and trying to hold
onto it white-knuckle-hard. It’s laughing at the mess you make when you spill your drink
instead of cursing your clumsiness.
So in tomorrow’s noon-day light when you examine your work and the
wall looks like shit, mix another Manhattan, scramble an egg; go for a walk.
07.03.16
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