I
wonder (idly) how many of us model an idealized version of reality.
Is our weathering lighter than reality would have it, our buildings
in a little better repair or – in my case, growing up in northern
Iowa – are our automobiles a lot less rusty than they really were.
Perhaps we are recreating a revisionist version of an idealized time
gone by less as we remember it and more as we wish it had been.
That
said, right now my model railroad is suffering under a nationwide
strike of all workers; nothing is moving, no work is being done.
