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Some Things You Keep
Some things you keep.
Like good teeth. Warm coats. Bald
husbands.
They're good for you, reliable and practical and
so sublime that to throw them away would make the
garbage man a thief.
So you hang on, because
something old is sometimes
better than something new, and what you know is
often
better than a stranger.
These are my thoughts, they make me
sound old, old and
tame and dull at a time when everybody else is risky
and
racy and flashing all that's new and improved in
their
lives.
New careers, new thighs, new lips, new cars. The
world
is dizzy with trade-ins. I could keep track, but I don't
think I
want to.
I grew up in the fifties with practical parents - a
mother,
God bless her, who washed aluminum foil after
she cooked in it, then reused
it - and still does. A
father who was happier getting old shoes fixed
than
buying new ones. They weren't poor, my parents, they
were just
satisfied. Their marriage was good, their
dreams focused. Their best friends
lived barely a wave
away. I can see them now, Fifties couples in
Bermuda
shorts and Banlon sweaters, lawnmower in one hand,
tools in the
other. The tools were for fixing things - a
curtain rod, the kitchen radio,
screen door, the oven
door, the hem in a dress.
Things you keep. It
was a way of life, and sometimes it
made me crazy. All that re-fixing,
reheating, renewing,
I wanted just once to be wasteful. Waste
meant
affluence. Throwing things away meant there'd always
be
more.
But then my father died, and on that clear autumn
night,
in the chill of the hospital room, I was struck with the
pain of
learning that sometimes there isn't any 'more.'
Sometimes what you care about
most gets all used up and
goes away, never to return.
So, while you
have it, it's best to love it and care for
it and fix it when it's broken and
heal it when it's
sick. That's true for marriage and old cars and
children
with bad report cards and dogs with bad hips and aging
parents.
You keep them because they're worth it, because
you're worth it.
Some
things you keep. Like a best friend that moved away
or a classmate you grew
up with, there's just some things
that make life important ....and you KEEP
them close!
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