Notes

         Mid-afternoon. A walk in the park this morning, and for the first time this year around the lake and through the woods. A stop for cookies and tea. Home. Out again for late lunch at Five Guys and a stop at Kroger’s on Tylersville while you wait in the parking lot. Making a batch of homemade potato salad (following your Grandma Schick’s and Carol’s Grandma Cook’s family recipe) for tonight and tomorrow.

         You say that Amorella but I am not positive it is also Grandma Cook’s. They did share secret family recipes but I am not positive this was one of them.

         Why didn’t you stop me then?

         Because it ‘sounded’ right; but doubts raise themselves then I become more unsure of just about everything. Which reminds me, yesterday you suggested I had a timid soul. Is that just a figure of speech or can souls be described at timid or strong or middle of the road or whatever? I would think it was just a figure of speech but relative to the books, I have no idea. I can’t remember if a character had a strongly charged soul or what. I don’t even know what that means. I think when people say timid soul they don’t really mean ‘soul’; “timid personality” would probably be a better word choice. This has always caused me a great deal of inner confusion. I hardly ever speak about it, but people use words and I think they don’t always realize what they are saying, either that or I am misunderstanding what they are really saying. I don’t think people give words the credit they are due. Anyway, it seems better to be polite and not mention it, but since it’s you I am trying to be polite about it.

         I guess it would depend on whether the person in question was dead or not. If sheorhe has herorhis own identical personality while dead then in would have a kind of immortality or at least a time after death. Then it would be harder for me to distinguish the two words, soul and personality.

         Sometimes you can appear intelligent and stupid both in the same sentence, orndorff.

         I think ‘appear’ is being polite. I can feel both intelligent and stupid at the same time several times a day. What else is new? This brings up another topic. In the story do the newly dead, like Ezekiel for example, care what the other Dead think of him?  I haven’t thought about it before but one might feel self-conscious, since that is all she or he has going for herorhimself. Personally, I think I would just want to climb in a side window or back door or something and start mingling somewhere in a corner rather than walk in the front door where there might be a lot of greeters.

         That sounds like a timid soul to me.

         Okay, well that’s resolved then. I am a timid soul from within the perimeters of the books in any case, but I don’t know about Ezekiel. When among the Dead he may or may not be so strong minded or strong willed, especially since he has lowered his head that he did/does not have in an automatic response.

         You are not a character in the books, old man, so don’t think of yourself as one. You are the legal writer of the books. Post. – Amorella.