You and Carol took your walks at Pine Hill
Lakes this morning and are now at McD's on Kings Mill Road this quite pleasant
cool morning. Let's go to Brothers 20. - Amorella
1129
hours. I have 409 words in Brothers presently. It seems
like a lot of prep for this discussion.
Orndorff, we are not here stating philosophy,
it's a conversation; a bit of "My Dinner with Andre" in tone. -- You
are now home and once Carol goes over the mail you will probably head to
Panera/Chipotle for lunch then stop at Kroger's for bananas if nothing else. -
Amorella
1153 hours. I like the interesting developments in this segment.
Late afternoon. Carol became ill (stomach)
and you brought home food from Panera and Chipotle for lunch. You watched
Tuesday's "Rossetti and Isles" and Monday's "Major Crimes"
then sat out in the comfortable shade of the front porch and chatted. Presently
Carol is feeling better than turned from reading to working in the flower
gardens. You are thinking another night of spaghetti pie (which is fine with
you as it is one of many favorites Carol can cook up and serve.). - Amorella
Let's
go with more on Brothers 20. - Amorella
1935 hours. I completed this segment. Right now I like it, tomorrow
morning I'll probably see the shortcomings. At least I hope to so I can make
changes.
Add and post. - Amorella
***
The Brothers 20, ©2013 rho, GSG
The
morning began with Robert glancing at the low menacing dust ball-like clouds
rolling in from the southwest.
Matter of fact, like the weather, he said to Connie, "It looks like
a day of rain. Let's go to a movie."
She
nodded in agreement, saying, "I'll have to wash my hair. I'll call Cyndi
first to see if they want to go. What do you want to see?"
"Quartet"
is re-playing at the Drexel on Main, We all enjoyed the film; let's go see it
again."
Late
morning and the four are sitting in the northwest corner of Ernie's Grill,
Uptown Riverton, looking through the varied sheets of rain to the perky front
window of Patricia's Flowers pressing on the staid white marbled Citizen's Bank
directly on the other side of State Street. The sisters were finishing their
classic salads, mixed fruit cups and sharing a side of sweet potato fries while
Robert had finished his an Italian Combo and Richard his Cuban Panini. Both
were nibbling on their remaining sides of barbeque chips while waiting on Connie
and Cyndi to finish. Each had unsweetened ice tea with lemon with Richard
sipping on his second glass of caffeine free diet cola.
He
asked, "Anyone for a Graeter's for dessert?"
After
the movie," suggested Cyndi, "we can hardly finish our salads."
"That's
because you ate the sweet potato fries first."
"And,
you didn't even share them with us," grumbled Robert.
"You
could have ordered your own," quipped Connie with a smile.
"It is hard to believe that Dustin Hoffman was
born in 1937," noted Cyndi to Robert.
Smirking
contentiously from his wife's remark, Rob quickly smiled towards Cyndi,
"Not when you think back on The
Graduate, Hoffman looked pretty young when it came out."
Richard
chuckled in response and added, "We
were young back in 1967."
"You
were a quarter century," comment Connie and now we are all moving on to
three-quarters of a century."
Richard
continued, "Speaking of three-quarters of a century, how old is Maggie
Smith? She plays the grand lady Jean Horton in Quartet, and the old Dowager of Grantham in Downton Abbey."
Cyndi
corrected, "She is the Countess of Grantham."
"Whatever.
How old is Maggie?"
"She
was born 28 December 1934," said Robert Glancing down at his iPhone,
Robert said, "She was born 28 December 1934."
Connie
commented wholeheartedly, "Maggie puts her heart and soul into her work. She
is a wonderful actress." All ardently agreed.
Richard asked, "I
can understand her heart, Connie, but how does she put her soul into her work?
How does anyone put the soul into anything?"
"It's
her enthusiasm, Richard, her passion."
Cyndi
quickly followed suit, "Her quintessence."
Robert
added, "I've been looking it up and mostly all I get is references to the
song, the music. I looked up 'phrase - heart and soul' and it is still
reference to the music." He paused and tapped in more letters. "There
is "Brevity is the soul of wit,' and 'wearing one's heart on his sleeve',
but that is not what we are talking about here."
"Love
powers the heart," suggested Connie, "but what powers the soul?"
"Passion
powers the soul," stated Robert as if it were a fact.
"We
need a definition first," claimed Richard.
"No,
let's use a thesaurus, responded Robert. "Here, I have it. 'Spirit,
Embodiment or Quintessence." He sat surprised, "Cyndi's right,
quintessence."
"What's
the difference between one's spirit and a ghost?" asked Connie cynically.
Richard
was readying a sarcastic response when Cyndi swiftly connected the two,
"Like the Holy Spirit and the Holy Ghost."
"We
have argued this before," said Richard, "but let's say I agree with
you that you have a soul, but something more realistic than most everyone's
romantic fantasies. Let's say the soul is without mass but that it has energy
and carries information."
"What
kind of information?" asked Robert.
"Let's
say it is electromagnetic in some bazaar quantum mechanical way."
"Richard,"
said Cyndi, "let's don't follow Alice down the rabbit hole. We have heard
your Twilight Zone hypotheses
before."
"No,
I mean like light and radio waves can carry information. Perhaps they can store
a human self-awareness and memory. Perhaps the soul is a natural entity not a
supernatural one?
Robert
added, "Scientists can read our thoughts with signatures of the signals generated
by firing neurons. Whether this can be worked into a container or soul I don't
know."
"This
is that connection between the physics of light and thought, Rob."
"I
don't think of a person's heart and soul and physics in the same breath,"
noted Cyndi.
"Love
is not physics, is it? Do you agree with that, Rob?" asked his wife.
Richard
succinctly interrupted saying, "Do you think it is going to rain like this
all day?"
795 words
***
2018
hours. Grandma's Story 20 has 5077 words and I assume I will go about deleting
and modifying as I did for Grandma 19.
This
is so but you need to re-read Grandma 19 first before tackling this. Again, I
will help delete most of the clutter. I prefer you take a break. Re-read
Grandma 19 tonight but do not begin the cutting of Grandma 20 until tomorrow. You
asked Doug if it is okay to keep the line he wrote. Once we are done with these
stories though we have more work to do in audio drafting and the like before
you are ready to send it to a print on demand publisher. Do not feel obligated
to stick with iUniverse though it would be polite to notify them your intent to
publish. Also, you want a publisher who is willing to publish an ebook with the
agreement she/he would also publish on demand under their guidelines with a set
price on the bound book in advance of the ebook publication. - Amorella
I'm not much on the business end, Amorella. I am not ready for this
aspect in any case. I am paying them they are not paying me.
You get what you pay for boy, and I am going
to be working with you on any contract you sign. - Amorella
I appreciate that Amorella, but this was not a problem with the first
three books. Each one cost more to publish but they were published once a year.
I don't feel iUniverse did anything underhanded, in fact I am quite satisfied
with them, but it has been a few years now and they have really gone up in
price. The book length though should be less in these books than the first
Merlyn trilogy so maybe their costs will not be so bad. I am not a business man
and do not wish to become one. Besides, I have no real expectations other than
the satisfaction that comes from each book being completed and updated. I am
only half done with this chapter and there is another one after. I am not ready
for this stuff yet. Shoot, it might be November before this is ready for the
publisher. If so, and I can create GMG, Vol.2 in a year and Vol.3 the year
after, that's fine.
This is all for tonight, boy. Post. -
Amorella
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