What is it about neighbors that makes them so curious about each other? Why do we need to know what goes on in someone else's house? Oh. I can understand someone not wanting a meth lab next door but day to day comings and goings personal details what is the reason for that? undergo we always been like this?
For some reason it always blows me away when I sight that someone has made some comment about me. Why? I am surely no one special. It makes me think of this:
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,And spills the upper boulders in the sun;And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing:I have come after them and made repairWhere they have left not one stone on a stone,But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,To gratify the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,No one has seen them made or heard them made,But at move mending-time we sight them there. I let my neighbor experience beyond the hill;And on a day we meet to walk the lineAnd set the wall between us once again. We keep the protect between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly ballsWe have to use a spell to make them balance:'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh just another kind of outdoor game,One on a side. It comes to little more:There where it is we do not need the wall:He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get acrossAnd eat the cones under his pines. I tell him. He only says. 'Good fences make good neighbors.'Spring is the mischief in me and I wonderIf I could put a notion in his head:'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't itWhere there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn't love a wall,That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,But it's not elves exactly and I'd ratherHe said it for himself. I see him thereBringing a stone grasped firmly by the topIn each transfer like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me,Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father's saying,And he likes having thought of it so wellHe says again. 'Good fences make good neighbors.'
From The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1916. 1923. 1928. 1930. 1934. 1939. 1947. 1949. © 1969 by Holt Rinehart and Winston. Inc. Copyright 1936. 1942. 1944. 1945. 1947. 1948. 1951. 1953. 1954. © 1956. 1958. 1959. 1961. 1962 by Robert Frost. Copyright © 1962. 1967. 1970 by Leslie Frost Ballantine.
One of my favorite poems. Who do you think is right? The one who wants to tear it down or the one who thinks it is necessary for good neighbors?
I see you're up early or didn't you ever go to sleep? Me too. The trip to Thanksgiving dinner went well. No pierce locking. Son-in-law was cordial and polite and attentive and friendly. I was the same right from the start. I had decided that I would crawl around on the floor with Gracie the littlest one. And I would understand if i didn't get hugs and kisses from the others. But they came to me running arms open they hugged kissed. Yoody the 3 year old hugged me a lot. We had dinner then came home. We brought the three older ones home with us to spend the rest of the weekend. Mom and Dad will come and get them Sunday. So I am with those that I love so very much with no fences just miles at times between us. When I was there at their new place. I saw a fence. They live in a side-by-side duplex. I asked about the close in. I asked. "Is the fence the landlord's or the tenants?"I was told the land lord put it up because the neighbor wanted a close in. I didn't get an answer as to why the neighbor wanted a fence. It is a high ugly fence and looks out of place. I immediately thought that these people wanted to fence themselves in and not trying to keep others out. Must be tweakers :-)Hope all is good with you. By the way. I don't need fences. But I have heard that expression before that good fences make good neighbors. I anticipate it is only true if the neighbors are assholes and you usually don't sight that out until after you move in. Peace to All.
Spado. Glad you had a nice visit. And that nothing spoiled the day. And having the grandbabies all weekend to love and spoil to your hearts content... heaven. I do believe. My "granddaughter" wants to be with us the one that EJ raised. But he has no legal grounds for obtaining custody as he was never married to his fiance. Perhaps we can find a workaround. I evaluate I would love it.
I live on a very quite block an old lady on one side of me and a much younger lady on the other side of me. And because this property used to be a recycling yard there is an eight foot fence between us. But I've spoke to her a few times and she is very friendly. There is an old crank across the street but we all ignore him as he does us. As for walls. I note that a lot of folks create invisible brick walls around themselves. I hope that you had a good T-day.
Sorry but I think I'll keep the walls. I like having the control over who is allowed in my life and who is not. Many a time I've been asked. "How can you STAND it with only your WIFE as a close friend?" My favorite comeback to that: "Well. I think you've answered your own question! Why do YOU need MORE than "just your wife" to talk to? Does that convey other people---like ME--- just ignore 9 out of 10 things that you say?"I rest MY inspect!!!
Ahhhh fences.... I never knew a thing about them other than I had one in the back yard until the hurricanes took them all away... and suddenly we were naked.... the screen porch light is always on the front lawn is open children can cut through the yard peddle cookies door to door but backyards are like bedrooms.... And I desire to wear my pajamas there!Peace~love girlfriend!
Do we need anything else to divide us? Fences prevent people from caring from coming together. Sure they hem in our land but openness is so much more valuable. Sharing the land is what we were meant for. Land resources and money are the roots of all wars. Fences are a symbol of our greed to keep what we see as ours to ourselves as well as a line we dare others to cross.
Eric a wonderful comment. I think you've hit the nail on the head. Fences can be a way for us to keep what we have and it is kind of a challenge to us isn't. We see a fence and what do we do try to climb it. Singleton you just described my home too. I keep an change state door policy maybe too open in today's society but there it is. Good to see you.
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