Notes - Frugality is the Engine

        Last night Kim and Paul made spaghetti with meat sauce for supper – you had delicious lunches at Brennans Colony pub on Lee in Cleveland Heights. This morning, excellent breakfasts at Yours Truly on Shaker’s Square in Shaker Heights. By noon you were off for Mason, you split a tuna sandwich at Potbelly’s at Polaris in north Columbus and home sandwiches for supper while watching old British comedies such as “Time Goes By” on PBS. The sun is down and the trash is out for the morning pick up.

         We had a great time. Owen is a little character, growing and developing all the time – fun to watch. And it is also fun watching Kim and Paul continuing to grow and develop (both as parents and professionally) in their thirties also. Glad I have lived long enough to see such events and we wish them well in their lives.

         Don’t you wish them success too? – Amorella.

         I don’t like the word success. I wish them (as I am sure all parents do) a good life; I wish them contentment in old age. What more?

         Money. – Amorella

         I hate money. Okay, I wish them enough money to have a good life and contentment towards the end. I would hope they would not think it takes a lot of money for wellness and contentment along the way. I would hope they would continue to be frugal in their choices of what is important along the way. I think of Ezekiel and what he considered important, and Takis and Tiresias, Mother and the rest of the characters. Ultimately, of course, I am thinking of myself and what brings contentment. I am living the contentment by observing the growing maturity and reasonableness and fun in Kim, Paul and Owen. Kim and Paul are responsible citizens as well as personally responsible. I am done with this. I hate money and its social attachment to success in this country. I wish everyone were free of debt. Paul has school loans to pay back. They have a house to pay off.

         In our day we were fortunate we did not have school debt hanging over us after graduation. We paid for our Master’s degrees as we took the classes. Our house is paid off. The cars are paid off. We have no debts. What could be freer than having no debt? It has taken us a lifetime to have no debt. I wish that for everyone. Paying it off did not come without frugality. I wonder what Ezekiel thought of frugality? I am walking into scene nine here?

         You see, orndorff, frugality is the engine that runs the invisible world. How else could the book be written and have your name attached? – Amorella.

         I like that.

         Good. Post. All for tonight, old man. -  Amorella.