Mid-morning.
Carol is on the phone with her sister, Linda, in Florida. You are sitting on
the back deck enjoying the trees and sun peeking from between the clouds. No
wind and the temperature is about seventy degrees, very pleasant. Also, church
bells are playing (from the Methodist or Presbyterian church; you suppose to
mark the 0930 hours, as they just stopped. Sometimes in cooler mornings than
this you can hear the hum of traffic on I-75 some three miles to the west and
also the hum of traffic on I-71 some two miles to the east. Mason is gearing up
for the big tennis tournament that begins this coming weekend. - Amorella
Back
in the 1980's and 90's Mason teachers used to volunteer to help with traffic
and shuttles at the Cincinnati ATP. I think I volunteered for three or four
years. It was fun, more fun when driving the parking shuttle to the court. The
people who arrived for the games had a passion for tennis, that's for sure,
more individual excitement than for the Ohio State Fair in Columbus another fan
pleaser in August, at least that's my observation.
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The Western & Southern Open is the nation's oldest
professional tennis tournament player in its city of origin.
First played in 1899 on the site of current day Xavier
University, the Open has been a fixture in the Queen City for more than a
century. The champions list reads like a who's who of tennis greats, with more
than 100 International Tennis Hall of Famers having played in Cincinnati over
the years.
The comprehensive history of professional tennis in Cincinnati
is back again with the 2013 edition. This fantastic resource includes a
narrative through the years, photographs and complete player statistics for the
event.
Center
Court - ATP World Tour
From online Cincinnati Tennis source
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Strangely, to me, it makes you softly
excited just thinking about it. - Amorella
I
like to see the inner joy flow from people's faces when they are doing what the
love (in their hearts, I would imagine). It is the same for a Jimmy Buffet
Concert in Cincinnati down by the river every year. Local fans are pumped. Kim
and I went to a number of those; Carol too, once or twice. I wish I could
describe that sort of existential joy emanating from the faces of fans but I
don't know the words, if there are any.
Existential joy? - Amorella
It
seems that way to me, a highlight in life-at-the-moment. Joy appears to be the
right word in context.
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Existentialism
Sources
of Notes from The Discovery of Being by Rollo May and Existentialism from
Dostoevsky to Sarte by Walter Kaufman.
1.
immediacy of experience
2.
unity of thought and action
3.
importance of decision and commitment
Subjective
Reality – how you feel
Objective
Reality – what everyone else sees
(From Orndorff's Logic and Existential Notes)
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Using
the following definition from above I would say 'existential' works. I don't
know if it is a life fulfilling moment like getting married, but I suppose it
is similar (for some) when buying a car of their choice, new or old. You know
how you feel and you can see similar pleasure from those around you. I go with
"existential joy".
You have softer blue sky overhead. Sitting
and writing semi-surrounded by trees on the back deck (with doves 'cooing' in
the distance and birds chirping nearer by) is an existential joy in itself. -
Amorella
It is. I hadn't thought of
it that way, but it is.
I received a note from
Doug on yesterday's post. He is positive on whatever I choose to do. I'll feel
better when I have internalized this concept. I have over 850 words from the
postings on what and how this concept is. It is interesting. What I
first have to do is condense these 850 into about half (saying the same thing)
then find a way to assimilate this into dialogue among Mother (Glevema),
Panagiotakis (grandfather of mother) and Merlyn.
Mother/Glevema
Panagiotakis (First Shaman) Mother's Grandfather
Vivian and Merlin
Early afternoon. You and Carol had an
enjoyable and satisfying lunch at the Old Bag of Nails on Kings Mill Road for
the first time. Presently you are facing west with the windows down and top
open at the far north parking lot of Pine Hill Lakes Park. You added the photos
above to put yourself into the characters. You tried to find the original of
Takis online but could not. He is a real shaman, you think from Tibet and you
believe the photograph was in National Geographic. Mother is your ideal
"mother figure" Sophia Loren, but you cannot remember the film of
this scene. You love the Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" and your
favorite image of Merlyn is Gustave Dore's illustration: "Vivien and
Merlin".
One of my favorite stories
of Merlyn is Mary Stewart's The Last Enchantment:
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Plot
summary
This novel covers the time from when
Arthur Pendragon first becomes king to the time Merlin, now getting on in
years, begins to lose his powers and becomes a sort of master spy to assist
King Arthur as he begins the task of uniting all of Britain.
Arthur is now King and hard at work establishing
Camelot as the center of government and authority. A few ambitious lords from
other parts of Britain have designs on Arthur's throne, and Merlin is kept busy
preventing them from doing so. Having unwisely taken Morgause (his half-sister)
to his bed as a very young man after his first battle and victory, Arthur is
now the father of Mordred. Merlin foresees that Mordred will be the cause of
Arthur's death, but doesn't understand how it will happen. He spends a great
deal of time traveling in disguise and observing Morgause's scheming and
intrigue.
Somewhere along the line, Merlin takes on a
female apprentice, Niniane. When she first appears she is disguised as a boy,
and Merlin initially takes her for the reincarnation of a child he had seen
some years before whom he would have chosen as apprentice, but who died
unexpectedly. Niniane is not quite as gifted as Merlin himself, but he teaches
her everything he knows, and they fall in love despite their age difference. As
he gives her the secrets of his psychic abilities and how to control them, he
seems to lose them himself. In a depleted, weakened condition, he takes ill and
falls into a coma, and is believed to be dead. Niniane has him buried within
the crystal cave, where he awakes some time later. He escapes after a few
weeks, through a combination of chance luck and ingenious planning, and travels
incognito to let Arthur know he is still alive. Niniane takes Merlin's place as
the court wizard-seer, while Merlin retires to the crystal cave and lives a quiet
and happy life as a hermit, much like his old master in the first volume of the
series.
From Wikipedia - The Last Enchantment
[Niniane is the Lady of the Lake. Two other
names she goes by in legend are Vivien and Morgan la Fay.]
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You have mentioned most of these pieces
earlier but the focus here is on Dead 21. Most of this information is mind
oriented; however the illustration and a flash memory of The Last
Enchantment moves the material further into your heart. Merlyn the
character dances in your soul as a shaman, boy. Post. - Amorella
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