Mid-morning. Kroger's early for old people vitamins/minerals and a couple
extra essentials for making Grandma Schick's meatloaf for dinner. Breakfast at
First Watch near Streets of Westchester, home to read the Sunday paper which
Carol has just begun. You are changed and in the bedroom on your recliner with
Ellie at the window. No snow or rain so far, you think it is going to be a
bust. Which for you is fine and dandy are neither of you are planning on going
anywhere for the rest of the day.
1025 hours. I can
probably work on Grandma 15 today. There will be a lot of deletion, but that's
okay with me. Say the same thing (or make the same commentary) with less than
half the words. There are 2958 words and if I only use 750, I will eliminate
2208 words in the process. This ought to be a fun challenge.
Actually, orndorff, the story needs an update even though it's a
Grandma story. - Amorella
I don't remember
what it is about to begin with.
The setting and characters are the same but
the theme is different. - Amorella
Fine with me. (1034)
Early afternoon. You napped for an hour and
feel better (less tired) but arthritic conditions are not so good.
I am feeling a bit
lethargic mentally. I should probably do my exercises. Nothing else to say at
the moment.
Nothing really required, boy. Later. Post. - Amorella
1701 hours. We had
leftovers for lunch and began watching a Masterpiece Mystery "Page 8"
but it was too slow-paced. Carol went up to read and take a nap and I watched
last Friday's "Grimm".
After that I began working on Grandma 15 and just completed it or feel
that I have even though it is 698 words.
It is much more specific than the earlier
edition. - Amorella
And, you were right,
Amorella, it was connected with the Mayan prophecy for last year. Come and gone
and we are still here.
Add the story and post. - Amorella
I
almost unconsciously wrote 'Grandma' rather than your name Amorella.
When you write her stories you almost feel
the earth, boy. Post. - Amorella
***
Grandma’s Story 15
©2013, rho, draft
Old Grandma has chosen to tell a Mayan love story. Time is one of
the major characters off stage, just like real life. Timing is everything.
Solstice was and is important in Maya observances of Earth because of Zenial
passage observations that are possible only in the tropical zones.
This story takes place approximately twenty one hundred years ago
when the dark rift in the Milky Way was some thirty degrees above the dawning
winter solstice sun.
'Twenty-one hundred years ago in Central America, I was disguised
as an old woman walking, I spied two people making love under the broad-leafed
bushes and a cacao tree near both their homes.'
Grandma shook her head thinking, 'the physical passion people put
up with. People don’t normally know Grandma takes a peek every now and then
when the intensity has built up like it has with these two. I am also in
humanity’s most naked nature. People like to imagine being alone or with an
intimate companion or two in private.'
Grandma looked to the reader, 'you can be private with your
nature, honey-child, but you is never alone with your body. Heartansoulanmind,
the invisible world of the human spirit, is always with you.
Grandma continued, 'Love
puts the body to more work than it is sometimes used to. People get exhausted
being in love. Some would just rather die happy in bed I guess. That is the way
it is for Tapachula, who is hotter than a summer storm and Izapa who is
normally cold and pyramidal-like except when he is with his Tapachula. She
heats up and he cools down. He heats up and she cools down. These two were just
like the weather wildness. You just never can tell how it is going to be from
one minute to the next. A low pressure hits a high and something is going to
move. Since one is usually high when the other is low, someone is always
jiggling the other. One morning when they had already been at it several times,
trying to get the timing right, and something unforeseen took over, basic competition.
These human bodies had suddenly taken on a life of
their own and physical endurance became the goal.
What a
way to go. Who is going to die of exhaustion first? Tapachula’s brain is
reasoning, ‘Impending doom, a natural disaster is upon us I can just feel it. I
can outlast this man, and if I can’t I’ll have to hand it to him to find a way
to do me in first. I already have a plan if I outlive my Izapa. I will bed the
first one that comes down the road until one of us dies and will keep doing so
until I’m done in. What a way to go. What a way to go. What-a-way, what-a-way,
what-a-way to go.
Tapachula's logic is
not completely consistent, but logic is something you might bed on but not
sleep with. That is when I, Grandma, decided to step up from the body physics
to the mindanheart for a change of pace.
From deep within
Tapachula's mindanheart Grandma whispered as consciousness might alone, “No prophecy is really true, child. No matter what any one
or more human being utters it. Human beings can neither know their own nor
their world's future, but they can learn to understand the logic within it.”
As Tapachula and Izapa's bodies clasped tight in a holy-like
climax, Grandma heard them both think in unison: "This natural disaster is
built into me too, Grandma. What
should we do?"
“Remember what and who you really are so you can balance the
beam,” suggested Grandma.
What are the beam and the balance?" asked Izapa and
Tapachula.
“The beam is in your intelligence,” answered Grandma. “And the balance
is in your wisdom.” And with that, the once old woman with the walking stick
disappeared in the expended passions of the lovers' bodily perspiring fervor.
Arms and legs in loosening entanglement, Tapachula and Izapa
blinked and together said aloud, “We were in an enchantment.”
The sweetness in
their minds leaves but a lingering thought,
Of what the
world may become and what’s been wrought.
698 words
***
2013 hours. I
think am ready to begin Pouch 15. Maybe I'm rushing it, I don't know. The focus
in Pouch 14 after a reminding glance is about building a relationship among
Pyl, Ship and Yermey. That leaves Blake, Justin, Friendly and Hartolite. I
assume the four are more interested in learning about science rather than
social history. Maybe it is about definitions first. People have to agree on
definitions before the communication counts for anything solid.
Blake is interested in the construction and
the technology of Ship -- the navigation system -- and the metallurgy and
technology needed to build and run such a machine from point A to point B and
back again to Point A -- the overall process in closer than general terms and
explained within the physics and sciences he has some general and/or specific
knowledge about, i.e. software/hardware equivalents.
Justin is
interested in how the marsupial-humanoid species evolved and why their species
went further than the primates, i.e. early history of the species up to the
stages of survival and language development in those days. Considering the
interests Blake and Friendly have a one on one, as do Justin and Hartolite.
Each couple is in the marsupial- humanoid's private apartment. These
conversations in chapters fourteen and fifteen are being conducted more or less
simultaneously. - Amorella
If
this concept increases the reader's broader overall insight to the species, it
sounds fine with me.
Fiction or not, the concepts discussed have
to be sound and plausible for both human and marsupial. Both species will
always be treated equally, that is my rule. - Amorella
It is far better
that you are directing and writing Amorella.
You do not feel human beings can treat these
aliens as equal? - Amorella
Equal
before G---D or equal before the law? To me, this doesn't read any more
morally correct than it sounds. The question popped up out of the blue. I think
it shows prejudice on my part but I am not sure.
The problem with your bolded question above
in communicating honestly with these aliens is one of understanding and not
outright definition. Let's have Justin bring up the question to Hartolite. When
she mentions the broad social rules of the early culture before the species became
divided with early survival issues. This gives you something to think on in
terms of Pouch 15. Post. - Amorella
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