Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for March 26, 2024

There no such thing as solitude anymore, or rarely. Oh, well…..

I am the queen of the wor… oh rats.

Holy Jean-Paul Sartre! Other beings are distorting our solitude.

American culture treats the wish (need) for solitude as if it were a medical condition of the direst kind. . .

To be alone with others (around) is challenging.

On our first date I brought future wife to a place that I’d seen on a state map of Connecticut called Castle Craig. It turned out to be a graffiti-covered stone tower full of broken beer bottles and used condoms. It’s a wonder I ever got a second date.

She does seem to be hogging the overlook.

it’s like you bought a condo or worse live in an apartment

Or people who are just lost…..

The problem is people are so dumb they tell all their friends about their “special place”. They tell their friends …

Solitude is further away for city dwellers. But there are places to to go. There’s a small park between two more popular destinations. I have only seen others there only a few times. A perfect place to pull yourself together. A dense grove of old pine trees at it’s heart and a river on one side.

I live in a humongous city, Mexico City, but I can still find places in my neighborhood where I can indulge my occasional need for solitude, in particular, a tiny park two blocks from my apartment.

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