Episode 13

Clutter

Jazzy leaves stuff out, stuff like his recorder, and his wife likes to dust and put things away. Jazzy uses clutter as a reminder, a reminder to do things. However, Jazzy's wife sees his recorder as clutter and puts it away in a drawer.

Phreddie asks, "Are tidy people, better people?" Jimmy adds that farmers move stuff around and leave stuff around because they will use it the next day. Farmers keep things in motion -- stuff can be left out if it is in motion and part of a project.

The Three-Headed man exclaims, "Mad scientists -- everything is a mess -- but it has its place."

Phreddie has been learning to put things in the same place every time, while in the background Jimmy plays guitar in the background. As he strums a chord, Jimmy says to Phreddie, "You're lovely coming out of the ditch."

The boys reach the easy conclusion that there is so much stuff in the world.

We need precious things -- appreciation of objects -- things and stuff incoming and outgoing. Movement and Motion. When things are in motion there is no clutter...clutter is slowed operations. Movement. In stasis things lose their meaning.

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Fred M Schill

I like to do. I like to make things. And, I like telling stories. I tell stories to myself and to others.

First, a short biography, which is, of course, is a story. I was born in Cleveland, played sports, and attended university. Later, after a few years in the radio business, I returned to university to study education and literature.

With a teaching certificate in my file folder, I began working in high schools, first as a strike-breaking scab substitute teacher in Cleveland's far suburbs, and then in Chicago, mostly in private high schools.

Cleveland and Chicago. My two main towns, and I escaped them both. Presently, I live in a tiny, isolated, mountain village in Spain. I am reluctant to write the name of the town because I don't like tourists. When the tourists arrive, they look at me as if I am an animal in a zoo.