Notes - I was/am silly and foolish /

         You received a quick note from Laney in reference to those three words, “Are you content?” (after you sent her a note of the yesterday’s posting). Laney adds, “I wonder what possessed me to ask you that question on that particular day. . .” – Amorella

         It is as if she said it ‘out of the blue’, an off-hand remark, yet it kindled something deep within me anyway.

         You were obviously ‘ready’ to receive the words considering what you have made of them.

         I don’t remember what my facial or vocal response was to her, and I am not sure if I was sitting beside Laney or across from her. For her to say such a thing it seems I would have been sitting on her left side rather than across. I have so little memory at times – and with no senior moment attached – my whole life has been like this. Where I was sitting is not all that important in context.

         I can still hear her voice say the words – which appeared sincere to me whether they were thought out or not. From her tone she was interested in my honest response, which strangely, I cannot remember. Obviously, I still have a ways to go from being ‘content’ in heartansoulanmind, but it seems to be a good thing to keep trying to do. Although, last night before sleep I remember thinking that my contentment had to do with our daughter as well as Laney’s children and from there stretched to all the children of the world.

         That was the reason for the science fiction future strand of Merlyn’s three-strand braided dreams, “Pouch Text” with humans being contacted by marsupial-humanoids and living a better more humane life in their own way based on their behaviors conditioned by their physical bodies, plus they are 20,000 years more advanced by civilization standards. I remember that.

         What do Sarah and Abraham have to do with this then? – Amorella

         I was searching for something biblical to reinforce my thinking of a better (more humanely civilized earth world to plausibly counterpoint the civilization of the marsupial-humanoids): Genesis 22:15-19.

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Genesis 22:15-19

New International Version - UK (NIVUK)

15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, ‘I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring[a] all nations on earth will be blessed,[b] because you have obeyed me.’

Footnotes:

a.   Genesis 22:18 Or seed

b. Genesis 22:18 Or and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings (see 48:20)

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         The key, to me, was that “all nations on earth will be blessed [with a better more humane life for your children and their children’s children].” Now, in this time period, the twenty-first century, it seemed like as good a time as any as far as the Merlyn’s Mind series is concerned for this to take place. A very idealistic dream – and I know better. Human beings are not yet ready to treat all human beings, even the children, better.

         That’s the reason I put the alternate earth in book one. A disease kills all but less than ten human beings in the world in sight of twenty minutes. Those who survive don’t know why they survived but they do know they cannot live alone so they search and find the other living and begin again.

         The secret of the disease, in my mind at the time, was that an Angel came by and took away the humans’ spiritual hearts because they weren’t being used more fully humanely for all, and shortly thereafter the majority of humans found they could not live without what potential they did not recognise they had.

         You are embarrassed to disclose this. - Amorella

         I am because it shows how silly and foolish my mind runs. It is my mind though and that is the way it is. I have to live with it – a teacher of young people for 35 years has herorhis issues and dreams for a better life for the children and their children after. Writing fiction in honesty is complicated.

         It is better that you let this go though it shows you more naked. In my book it is better to eventually die as naked as you came into the world than it is to be fully clothed within it. – Amorella

         That is a refreshing comment, Amorella. Thank you.

        Now, the difficult part, post, boy. - Amorella


         This is enough for today, Amorella.