Considering my husband’s pack-ratting tendencies, the day we
ever have to move from this house will truly be enlightening.
One day he’ll emerge
from some dark corner of the basement with a belt buckle from his grandfather’s
time during WWI in the Canadian army. Or he’ll lift a box in the garage and
find a treasure (?) trove of every single one of his father’s license plates. And
here they'll stay, with the thread-bare beach towel from his fraternity’s
initiation weekend and our 42 year-old’s plastic Star Wars Tie fighter.
Today he
handed me a small paperback of 45 pages that he’s had squirreled away for well
over 12 years. I know this because the store where he bought it was torn down
in 2004. It’s escaped our notice all
this time, but its time has finally come.
The author is Newt Scamander, and the title is Fantastic
Beasts & Where to Find Them, a textbook for use not only at Hogworts,
but essential to all well-informed wizarding households.
We saw the
movie last night and I recommend it highly if you’re looking for another world
to inhabit for a while.
And I’m sure there’s no connection
whatsoever between the fact that we keep embracing escapism by way of a
darkened movie theater (Dr. Strange last week) and the outcome of the
election.
They do say one of the best things for stress is to read or watch fiction.
ReplyDeleteI share my life with a packrat too. Sadly. And have some tendencies that way too.
ReplyDeleteEscapism and darkened rooms sound pretty good to me.
I've been watching The Crown on Netflix as my escapist balm. It's wonderful, but I guess I'll go to see that latest movie. Sounds good to enter another world for awhile. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm quite sure Bob has a tunnel dug under the closet in his room. That's the only place I can figure he stashes all the old items he brings me from time to time. I am not a pack rat.
ReplyDeleteAha! That could explain a lot here.
DeleteI also live with somebody who has a fair degree of obsessive disorder so things are kept. Heaven help us when we move.
ReplyDeleteIt's showing in our theatres now and my kids are seeing it tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteWe all need a place to just relax and forget for a while. No theaters here but maybe I can find it on DVD.
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