Oooh! This reminds me of a song I’ve seen in one of my books of songs for sopranos. It’s called The Housewife’s Lament. It’s civil war era and it was from the diary of Mrs Sara A Price. One of the lines is “There’s nothing that lasts us but trouble and dirt.” http://folksongcollector.com/housewife.html Peggy Seeger sang it and so did Patty Duke. And what’s sad to me is that almost 200 years after it was written, American women still feel like it’s a good description of their lives. Even if they are no longer housewives. We’ve made so little progress.
I HATE dusting. It's my most hated housekeeping task. I resent its futility and that I have to walk around the house touching all the things I thought were important enough to acquire. So many things that I thought I needed that I do not. The fruits of capitalism. I hate dusting enough that I've hired housekeepers in the past with the primary goal of them doing the dusting. I've fired housekeepers for not dusting well enough.
One of my fascination is the American Dust Bowl. If ever I get a chance, I recommend the book, The Worst Hard Time ... https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-worst-hard-time-the-untold-story-of-those-who-survived-the-great-american-dust-bowl-timothy-egan/15546508
It is a time period I cannot ever look away from! (I have not read this book! Thank you!)
I can’t help thinking about “from dust you came, and unto dust you will return”—and the great Mazzy Star song “Into Dust.”
Oooh! This reminds me of a song I’ve seen in one of my books of songs for sopranos. It’s called The Housewife’s Lament. It’s civil war era and it was from the diary of Mrs Sara A Price. One of the lines is “There’s nothing that lasts us but trouble and dirt.” http://folksongcollector.com/housewife.html Peggy Seeger sang it and so did Patty Duke. And what’s sad to me is that almost 200 years after it was written, American women still feel like it’s a good description of their lives. Even if they are no longer housewives. We’ve made so little progress.
“Their sorting done, the refuse refused, they build a new world with the dust of the old one.” 👏🏽 👏🏽
I HATE dusting. It's my most hated housekeeping task. I resent its futility and that I have to walk around the house touching all the things I thought were important enough to acquire. So many things that I thought I needed that I do not. The fruits of capitalism. I hate dusting enough that I've hired housekeepers in the past with the primary goal of them doing the dusting. I've fired housekeepers for not dusting well enough.