A Feeling of Insignificance
I was reading the Boston Globe (on-line) today and the front page had an article about a town in Maine that will no longer exist beginning this summer. Natural disaster you say? No. Planned reservoir flooding? No. Toxic waste site? No.
This town has 25 people. TWENTY-FIVE! They’ve discovered that they can’t meet the required 7 people in attendance at town meetings. In fact, at the last meeting, they had to wake a sick person out of his bed so that the meeting could take place. The town’s records (births, deaths, marriage, etc…) are all stored in a drawer in the town clerk’s house because the town hall is made of exposed plywood and not structurally sound. Did I mention that the town clerk is also the overseer, school committee member, tax collector, treasurer, registrar and deputy fire warden? Damn – and I sometime complain that my life is too stressful.
There’s something about small town life that appeals to me, though. I like the idea that I’m part of a community. I mean, you’d have to know your neighbors in a town that small.
And then here I am in Boston. There are more than 25 people living on our floor alone in this building – yet I couldn’t tell you the name of one of them. I’m nobody here…but if I lived in Centerville, Maine – I could be the entire government. I could be the man!
Well, one thing I wouldn’t be in Karl-ville would be restaurant chef. Here’s tonight’s dinner: chicken perogi’s with asparagus.
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well, tonight’s meal looks good. …too bad I had to work late and missed out.
Hey Karl….if you are cooking Polish food, you gotta spell it correctly…its KIELBASA and PIEROGI…..Why do I feel like I am reading Cooking Light….LOL….I like the blog!
Actually, kielbasa was a typo…but the package for the chicken pierogi was spelled perogi (I even checked before updating my blog!!)
damn the bastardization of Polish food!!! Hope we can talk soon!