Faith and Luck

The walls on the second floor are being prepared for a layer of insulation and drywall which will cover the old plaster and wallpaper, and the stains from rain and soot. Before that happens, I want to be sure the apartments are as snug as they can be, so …



… I rolled out my yellow fiberglas and began to stuff the gaps between the window frames and the bricks.



I was itching to finish (if you have used fiberglas insulation, you know what I mean!)
Refocusing away from the task for a moment, I found an inscription on the bare plaster next to one of the front windows.



It must have been written before the first wallpaper was pasted up, and before the second and third layers were added, and long before the wallpaper was painted, and longer ago than the rain began to stain and loosen the wallpaper layers. Was the writer thinking about this unnamed day, sometime in the future, when some unnamed person might find the message and wonder why it was written and who had had such faith in luck?