I paid my property taxes today. Well, not really. Being a modern fellow I have them electronically withdrawn on exactly May 10th, the day they are due. But I entered them into my accounting program today, so it was like paying them. I was grousing as I did so, “I don’t own this land, I just rent it from the government. Grumble, grumble, grumble.”
Later today I finally finished “A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold.
It’s a library book, so I couldn’t mark in it. I went through one whole pack of blue sticky notes and had to switch to pink markers.
I was reflecting on the marvels of a book that took a pack and a half of sticky notes, and then it occurred to me that the property taxes I just paid paid for this book in my hand.
I’m not feeling near so grumbly now.
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