{"id":70,"date":"2009-12-31T10:58:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisabravermoss.wordpress.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2022-06-10T17:05:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T17:05:05","slug":"but-sometimes-i-am-five-underrated-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisabravermoss.com\/but-sometimes-i-am-five-underrated-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Underrated Things"},"content":{"rendered":"
I don’t want to be known only as that cranky person who spends her writing life finding fault.\u00a0 So here are a few things I think we don’t celebrate enough.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The autumn<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Truly underrated; the best time of year by far.\u00a0 There’s something about the angle of the sun that makes the ordinary look magical.\u00a0 And the shortening, too-hot days, punctuated by crisp evenings, inspire a delightful sense of urgency.\u00a0 No need to make a special trip to the east coast to view the foliage, either.\u00a0 Take Wildwood from Grand Avenue up toward Wildwood Elementary: each day, a slightly different combination of colors in the Chinese pistache trees.\u00a0 In a few weeks, pause after that first block of Wildwood to look up Nova, to the left, at that huge liquidambar and all the ones behind it.\u00a0 Astonishing, week after week.<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span>Roasted peanuts<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 I have four criteria for perfect food–yummy, nutritious, inexpensive and quick.\u00a0 How many edibles meet all four?\u00a0 I buy those snack-sized packages of Planter’s and stash them in the trunk of my car.\u00a0 I can’t tell you the number of times they’ve come in handy because I forgot lunch or need something to give to a homeless person.
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\n<\/span>The postal service<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 That letters are still arriving in my box six days a week seems somehow shocking in this day and age.\u00a0 U.S. mail remains reliable, and a bargain despite rate hikes.\u00a0 There are some things you just can’t do over the phone or via e-mail, like sending a pair of earrings to your mother-in-law in Detroit and knowing the package will get there, undamaged and untampered-with, in two days.\u00a0 Incredibly civilized.
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\n<\/span><\/strong>Cotton clothing with a little spandex in it<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Just a few percent of the stretchy stuff in a mostly cotton garment makes it uniquely comfy.<\/span> I know, I know, spandex is pure petroleum.\u00a0 You could probably wad it up and put it in your gas tank and get 31 miles to the square yard.\u00a0 Still, there’s nothing more inviting than natural fabric with just a touch of give to it.\u00a0 A terrific invention, these blends.
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\nGetting older<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Of course I have all the usual complaints in that department.\u00a0 But aside from the fact that it beats the alternative, there are some great advantages.\u00a0 Say, for example, you’ve always had trouble retaining geographical data, and find the Scandinavian countries wholly indistinguishable from one another.\u00a0 Well, people will now assume you’ve forgotten which is which, or that you’re momentarily hormonally impaired.<\/span> Or say you’ve never gotten through Ulysses<\/em>.\u00a0 N<\/span>o one holds it against you, because no one remembers or cares anymore that you were an English major.<\/span><\/span>Or say you were an overly earnest young person, a person tediously short on vices.\u00a0 Well, you can now develop them without too much worry about their long-term effects.For instance, since you can’t fix your crankiness, you can feature it.<\/div>\n
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Published in the Piedmont Post, September 9, 2009\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t want to be known only as that cranky person who spends her writing life finding fault.\u00a0 So here are a few things I think we don’t celebrate enough. 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