Revisit and review almost anything
Getting older means coming to grips with an expanding list of unfinished tasks. Remember those verbs from Latin that you were going to review? And still haven’t? Me too!
Or what about the challenge of reading ALL of Shakespeare’s plays? Like me, you have probably purchased (at some point), a bound volume of his efforts. Probably from the cheap pile at a discount bookstore. In passing, does anybody ever check such books for errors or omissions? Didn’t think so. Anyhow, I have (one or two) of the bricks in storage. I mean, it’s never too late to revisit Hamlet. Or Othello. And imagine the vocabulary boost (even though none of your friends have a clue about your allusions. Maybe I will “will” some Will to my kids. Be forewarned!
There are so many more on my list. How about movies? A marathon of James Bond, or all of the Star Wars episodes in numerical order? All possible, now that we have access to the box sets of the world. I might do that, eventually.
This morning, I came across the forty episodes of the Honeymooners. Yes, I know, B&W jokes. I didn’t see the program in the original TV run, but somewhere along the way I may have seen every one, in no particular order. Doesn’t matter. Ralph and Alice have aged well.
Maybe I should go back to the dusty archives. Highway Patrol, anyone? Or Seahunt? What about Petticoat Junction? Great locomotive footage, and a particular water tower… say no more. I must check with my siblings, to see what they’ve revisited. Perhaps I can query some old friends, should they stop by on a muggy summer afternoon.
