{"id":4055,"date":"2015-12-02T08:07:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2015-12-02T08:07:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T16:07:16","slug":"parchment-farewells-at-sea-11272015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4055","title":{"rendered":"Parchment Farewells \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [11\/27\/2015]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/fa8f0df1-a380-485f-9390-a72b40169f5b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4056\" src=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/fa8f0df1-a380-485f-9390-a72b40169f5b.jpg\" alt=\"fa8f0df1-a380-485f-9390-a72b40169f5b\" width=\"408\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/fa8f0df1-a380-485f-9390-a72b40169f5b.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/fa8f0df1-a380-485f-9390-a72b40169f5b-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a>Me and books, once I acquire them I find it difficult to set them back into the world and let them be adopted by someone else. Over the course of every contract I acquire dozens of books. They fill up my desk cubbyholes and take up residence on the shelves of the cabin, I even have book ends at \u2018home\u2019 for specifically that reason. I never end up reading them all. And at the end of every contract I have to do what I dislike the most \u2013 I have to give them back.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s less difficult if I do it quickly, like taking off a band-aid. Write down the names and authors of the ones I didn\u2019t have time to delve into, and put them carefully into the book orphanage that lives next to my desk. I just don\u2019t have enough room in my suitcase to take them all home with me. Not when there are over a dozen of them.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s just what I <em>haven\u2019t<\/em> read. My list of \u2018finished\u2019 or \u2018almost finished\u2019 is above 20.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been an interesting contract.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s amazing how difficult it was to go through them all and figure out which ones were going home with me (three in total I think), and which one was being set aside for the plane (a guest gave me Ginger Rogers\u2019 biography, I suspect that\u2019s a given for the flight home), and which are heading back to the orphanage to be taken on other planes to other places.<\/p>\n<p>If I ever do move into a place of my own, there is apparently no question that I have to have room for an <em>awful<\/em> lot of book shelves!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me and books, once I acquire them I find it difficult to set them back into the world and let them be adopted by someone else. Over the course of every contract I acquire dozens of books. 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