25 November

Daily Potholders. Shipping Out

by Jon Katz

  November 25, 2009 – Maria isn’t promising any more potholders for Christmas, but she was surprised to get more than a score of orders for 2010. She is accepting them. Each night, she brings a fresh stack into the house to ship out, and I am a potholder widow, keeping dinner warm until she staggers in, tired but happy. Soon, we are going to have to venture out and find the discarded old fabrics that make up her potholders and quilts. She isn’t into anything new, and she’s taken most of my shirts. We are planning a quiet Thanksgiving with her mother and family, and hopefully, will get to a movie Friday.
  I like to do my share of shopping, but I refuse to make holiday shopping the barometer of our national well being. The country might be better off – me too – if there were less shopping and new kinds of good jobs for people to have.

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