Notes - compromise, everyone loses something / if time permits /

        Mid-morning. Breakfast had and the Sunday paper read. Carol is watering the neighbor's flower boxes. You have driveway trimming to do so why not get to it. Later, dude. - Amorella

         1138 hours. The trimming took a bit longer than I anticipated, plus it is much warmer in the sun even though the temperature is not that high. I still have to clear off the driveway with the lawnmower or blower. I am mostly packed but want to clean the car windows before we go; beautiful summer day for a Delaware drive. We are having Chinese tonight, Kim says it's good but I have my doubts it is as good as Happy Buddha on Green. I would like to get started on Dead 21.

         Merlyn is going to have a discussion with Mother (the eight ball) and her grandfather Panagiotakis (cue ball). The table has a pocket to the heart, the soul and the mind, the other pockets are existential nightmares. When Merlyn taps grandpa to hit mother he better watch out climbing into business through the back door. - Amorella

         Intriguing set up as Merlyn is the cue stick. What's his business?

         He is looking for a way, an opportunity, to get word to the conscious living that the Second Rebellion is over and that there is no choice but to accept it.- Amorella

         But why do the Living care? Whatever the dead do it is sometimes five hundred years before this has filtered its way to the Living. For instance, the first rebellion was in the 800 BCE and change did not take place (the questioning and subsequent reasoning) reach its height until the time of Aristotle and Plato and they still echo in the present.

         This is the problem. Merlyn wants to get the word out that a change in thinking is coming caused by circumstance, i.e. a Seldon style crisis. - Amorella

         1203 hours. The readers aren't going to relate to this. It reminds me of Ezekiel, he had a lot to say too, but no one listened.

         In here Ezekiel is also an echo similar to Aristotle and Plato.

         I like it but this is old stuff, reminds me of any number of disaster books and movies. I just had a flash -- a book, one of my favorites in the late seventies or early eighties. I was just checking online. I couldn't find the book but all this has been said and done before, Worlds Collide, Childhood's End, Foundation and many others, at least a thousand books I'm sure. I don't want a prophecy though I had thought to use it in earlier unpublished works. I'm too old for that kind of stuff.

         You finished your chores and even did a few more like trimming the front bushes. The trash needs to go out and that's about it since you will be back by tomorrow night. And, as for disaster books all you have to do is read the headlines. In here it is how the Dead ended the Second Rebellion is what is important. The First Rebellion of the Dead lost, but questioning authority is what filtered down in these books. It is still going on. Paradise Lost could not have been written without it. Why always is their hesitation to rebel against authority? In here it is because the First Rebellion lost against the Supervisor. In the Second Rebellion the compromise was because of the outside of human Dead, the Marsupial Humanoid Dead, you follow? - Amorella

         Yes, this is interesting though it takes a lot of audacity, to insinuate this in a story. I don't know if audacity is a strong enough word here; I can add impertinence, presumption, 

temerity, grit, mettle and intrepidity. I am not afraid to do this, I don't give a damn to be honest.

         On a few levels this is so. Compromise is an effrontery to many human beings because everyone loses something of themselves in the process. - Amorella

         Oh. I get it; they lose a part of or combinations of their hearts and souls and minds.

         Time for lunch. Post. - Amorella

         1628 hours. We arrived about 45 minutes ago; the only stop we made was at McD's on Kings Mills Road before the freeway northbound. We each had dollar drinks and a Deluxe Quarter Pounder, a pretty good meal for 10 dollars and 11 cents. Lots of traffic and only one highway patrolman in a new Ford Fusion, either that or it was a Mustang. I didn't get a good look but it was pretty snazzy for an Ohio Highway Patrol car. Carol, Kim and the boys are outside playing. Owen has his jeep out giving people rides or letting the neighbor girls drive themselves. One of the little boys next door is adopted from Kenya and he is learning English. After Owen and Brennan got their hugs he wanted one too and called me Grandpa just as they call me Papa which is most awesome to be accepted. The ice cream truck just arrived. I'm sure they'll want something. It certainly reminds me of growing up but more the age of 7 than 3. This is a nice neighborhood, complete with little kids. There are six or seven (including Owen and Brennan) playing in and around the front yard. (1642)

         This brings you to ask yourself what happened in English history between 1628 and 1642.

         Charles had been king three years. Lots of problems with Parliament not wanting to pay for his adventures, then the Civil War. After the king lost his head, Cromwell took over. I stretched the time but that is pretty much the headlines. I feel like I should remember a lot more but I don't have my notes in front of me. It was at least an hour lecture with notes required and eventually inspected and graded, both in college prep and AP classes.

         I have been thinking about this 'compromise' business that Merlyn is up to. It might happen in these fictions but not in real life. On the way up Carol was telling me about an economist she was reading who was relatively negative as to the national economy in the next thirty years. With this more social and economical  problems with the Haves and Have Nots. Not everyone is negative but the near future is iffy economically and socially.

         You had Chinese for supper which was very good. Owen is watching 'nick jr. on demand' and Brennan and Kim are in the bedroom for story time. Quieter time is spreading through the house. You and Carol have been looking at house plans and newer lots at the Olentangy Falls subdivision off Hyatt Road less than a mile from the Olentangy River and Rt.  315. In the new Consumer Report article on best hospitals the Ohio Health Marion General Hospital's surgery rating is better than average. Paul is excited because they have ordered new robotics like Riverside Methodist Hospital has. All the surgery machinery is the same brand and type that the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus has, i.e. surgery machinery he has already worked with for several years. Tomorrow Paul has his first two operations on his own (as far as anesthesiology is concerned).

         2043 hours. We are excited for Kim and Paul and we hope like millions of other parents that they will continue to have a long, productive and pleasant life together. They have worked hard and made a lot of sacrifices to be at this point in their lives.

         Let's call it a night boy, though, if time permit, we can begin work on Dead 21. Post. - Amorella