Notes - starting out / LBJ at rest /

         0918 hours. Everyone has had breakfast the women are talking in the kitchen and the men are scattered about doing who knows what (though Craig, I notice, is sitting in the chair next to me on his small computer similar to the iPad.

         Within an hour or two you are off to the LBJ ranch and home for a tour then lunch. Tonight supper is makeshift with what's available since tomorrow after breakfast you are off heading west and Jim, Jeanne, Bill and Sharon are to the south and Gulf Coast. Last night you finished up a game of dominoes, which you had begun in the early afternoon. As usual you came in last. Also, there were at least twelve deer in the backyard last night; you did take a photo.

         I would like to work on Dead 17 but I don't see where this 'presence' aspect is going. It appears that Merlyn (being dead) has two observers or feels that he has two.

         Post, boy. - Amorella

         You are up from your nap and the others just finished watching the first day of Masters golf. The girls are out for a walk and the guys are reading.

         You drove to the LBJ Ranch and took the ranch and an enjoyable house tour then ate lunch at Pecan Street Brewing before heading back to the house.

         I wish I could articulate how I felt during the tour but mostly I was someplace else, back in the sixties I suppose. It was a shock to be reminded that President Johnson died at 64 from a third heart attack. He tried to do good by the people through education and civil rights. He felt that at the ranch he was a westerner not a southerner, but the south never forgave him for the civil rights bill and have voted mostly Republican ever since. He tried to make the nation a better place amidst Vietnam. What a time. Then when he decided not to run (a television moment I will not soon forget) the party wanted nothing more to do with him. It is just sad to think on.

         That's not too bad for an articulation old man, and from your perspective things have gotten worse.

Aerial View of Ranch 1971

Lady Bird and Lyndon at rest

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         You use the three stars to separate the Dead from the Living as if Lady Bird and Lyndon were here. This is a strange perspective but it is your heartansoulanmind at work. Post. - Amorella