{"id":11201,"date":"2014-07-19T08:23:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T12:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=11201"},"modified":"2014-07-19T08:41:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T12:41:04","slug":"two-kinds-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2014\/07\/19\/two-kinds-of-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Two kinds of people"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Where are you right now? Photo: Velocia<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

Weekdays most folks are pretty much the same. They get up a little too early, buzz through a set ritual of morning ablutions, then hope the go-cup of coffee and the commute will awaken them enough to put in another long day’s work. Afterwards, there’s dinner to rustle up, eat, clean up, mooch around the house for a couple hours in search of light entertainment, then back to the sack. Rinse and repeat.<\/p>\n

It’s weekend mornings that really test a person’s mettle. There are two kinds of people, and which you are is determined in this very moment–on Saturday, what do you do while waiting for the coffee water to boil?<\/p>\n

One kind is already in the shower. By the time the water boils they are in the kitchen making a list, charting out the plan. They have to sharpen the blade of the plane so they can shave the bottom of that sticky cupboard door. They need to change the oil and the air filter in the garden tractor. Visions of chain saws and come-alongs are dancing in their heads. They are the ones you find drinking coffee in the parking lot of the hardware store with one or two others of their kind, waiting for the doors to open. They have tidy outbuildings full of useful objects.<\/p>\n

The other kind of person is already back under the quilt, inhabiting a blissful zone of semi-consciouness, knowing that the whistler on the teakettle will rouse them at the proper moment. Their favorite lines of poetry (and this type has them) come from Roethke:<\/p>\n

I wake to sleep and take my waking slow.<\/em>
\n I learn by going where I have to go.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Where they have to go (in due time) is out to the kitchen to watch the water seep down through the Moondance blend in the Chemex–watch the birds and the bunnies outside the kitchen window until the brew is through–then back into bed. Maybe read a little, maybe listen to the radio. The day can wait until they’re ready. Maybe one cup of coffee–what the hell–maybe two. It’s all good.<\/p>\n

The one kind is no better than the other, but what they hold in common is the smug certainty that the other kind is nuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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