Maxxing

 April 10 Word of the Day: Maxxing

 

eyewearmaxxing to position glasses in each room of the house, memorably, thus obviating the need to search the house top to bottom each time a pair of your glasses is misplaced or ‘goes missing’, thus also inspiring a growing appreciation of the art and science of glasses-making, optometry as it were, frames, tints, dependability

 hairmaxxing to comb the remaining white locks into waves providing room for air to flounce and sun to dry them into a respectable and resilient shape, without counting each hair knowing there are less than this time last year and who is counting, streaming from under a tweed cap

 monographmaxxing to surround the reader with eight, nine, ten books of current interest their contents leading at the very least to interest if not next level contentment, available for attention over the short term such as a suspended haiku, medium term the essay as it should be, awe long term the Russian or similar who just talks like that, truly, leading even to satisfaction, thrills, revelation, awe again

 napmaxxing to rest shuteye as advised ideally twenty minutes before rems rev-up, thus restoring the zizzy or dizzy or tired mind with a while, else a longer siesta fifty minutes say after hard work in the hot sun and beating rain, then to jettison that tiresome dream for a new touch of reality

 silentmaxxing to maximise the times of available quiet away from the noise of the world demanding our hearing with its mindless intrusions of leaf blower hours and supermarket thrash and hormuz buzz and endless ads and helicopters overhead

 slowmaxxing to reduce the speed with which anything is done, not running to catch a train but slowing down to catch the next one, moving from one task to the next with an eye to every detail of the task and an enjoyment of these small details known from a lifetime’s experience

 vinylmaxxing to pack the stack of tracks wax appeal for hours, recordings both new, platters of fluoro wizardry, and old, a scratch on track three and undulations still keeping intact the thirties première, until day turns the turntable into even and the needle drops one more time to a moving voice from another age