Notes - busy day -

         Mid-afternoon. You have spent most of the day preparing for the trip. It has rained so Tim will mow the yard this upcoming weekend and you have to put off protecting the concrete walk until you return. There could be up to three inches of rain across the state of Georgia tomorrow or Friday so you expect to be slowed down. – Carol is at the hairdresser’s. You packed more into the trunk and backseat. You only have to put your remaining material into the small travel carry-on, which is basically a man-purse for an overnight with essentials plus your iPad and MacAir. You have Doug’s book for reading and you might as well take Shlain’s The Alphabet Versus the Goddess also. Carol has to load her books for the Vets at St. Pete too. – Amorella

         1559 hours. I am sure the car is loaded as if we were carrying four adults instead of two. The trip should be fine. How many times have we traveled I-75 south? I cannot count them but I nearly know the way by heart. I mentally drive like a good pilot flies at least that is my intent, professional-like chauffer service all the way. Carol intends to drive also but tomorrow morning is not the best time. She is always tired from all the preparation and packing and she’ll likely sleep most of the way to Berea our first scheduled stop. We leave by six-thirty to beat the Cincinnati traffic.

         If you have the inclination you can finish up any administrative file work on chapter five. Later, dude. Post. - Amorella

         2220 hours. I'll probably be offline for a couple days during the travel time. My best to anyone reading.  rho

          Watch yourself, boy. Post. - Amorella

Notes - the Crash studied and remembered / readying for Florida / Pouch 5 (final)

         You drove to the Kenwood Apple Store to pick up a auto-charger for your iPhone. It works fine and you a pleased how the wire does not show as the phone sets nicely on the lower dash where it belongs. Where there you picked up sandwiches and two cookies from Potbellies and brought them home. After lunch you are at Kroger’s on Tylersville and Cox. Then home to drop off Carol and a stop at Pet Smart before filling the tank. Tomorrow you drive your Green and let Carol’s Blue rest until Thursday morning. At least that is the plan. Today’s date rings an historical bell that you embedded into yourself back in junior high days. This is because you decided that it was time to live more than one lifetime as best you could. You decided you would attempt to assimilate Grandma Schick’s and your Grandfather Orndorff’s lifetimes too, by discovering what you could by asking about those times and how it was growing up and surviving from the late 1880’s until that present of 1954. You also studied the Time series Decade books and the Edward R. Murrow “Hear It Now” recordings from those many earlier decades. So, now here is a quick modern refresher with Wikipedia Offline.

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Wall Street Crash of 1929

The Wall Street Crash of 1929 (October 1929), also known as the Great Crash, and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries and did not end in the United States until 1947.

Anyone who bought stocks in mid-1929 and held onto them saw most of his or her adult life pass by before getting back to even.

-- Richard M. Salsman

Timeline

The Roaring Twenties, the decade that led up to the Crash, was a time of wealth and excess. Despite the dangers of speculation, many believed that the stock market would continue to rise indefinitely. The market had been on a six-year run that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average increase in value fivefold, peaking at 381.17 on September 3, 1929. Shortly before the crash, economist Irving Fisher famously proclaimed, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." The optimism and financial gains of the great bull market were shaken on "Black Thursday", October 24, 1929, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) abruptly fell.

In the days leading up to the crash, the market was severely unstable. Periods of selling and high volumes of trading were interspersed with brief periods of rising prices and recovery. Economist and author Jude Wanniski later correlated these swings with the prospects for passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, , which was then being debated in Congress.

 On October 24 ("Black Thursday"), the market lost 11% of its value at the opening bell on very heavy trading. Several leading Wall Street bankers met to find a solution to the panic and chaos on the trading floor. The meeting included Thomas W. Lamont, , acting head of Morgan Bank; Albert Wiggin, head of the Chase National Bank; and Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City Bank of New York. They chose Richard Whitney, vice president of the Exchange, to act on their behalf.

With the bankers' financial resources behind him, Whitney placed a bid to purchase a large block of shares in U.S. Steel at a price well above the current market. As traders watched, Whitney then placed similar bids on other "blue Panic of 1907. chip" stocks. This tactic was similar to one that ended the Panic of 1907. It succeeded in halting the slide. The Dow Jones Industrial Average recovered, closing with it down only 6.38 points for the day; however, unlike 1907, the respite was only temporary.

 Over the weekend, the events were covered by the newspapers across the United States. On October 28, "Black Monday", more investors decided to get out of the market, and the slide continued with a record loss in the Dow for the day of 38 points, or 13%. The next day, "Black Tuesday", October 29, 1929, about 16 million shares were traded, and the Dow lost an additional 30 points, or 12%. The volume of stocks traded on October 29, 1929 was a record that was not broken for nearly 40 years.

Author Richard M. Salsman wrote that "on October 29—amid rumors that U.S. President Herbert Hoover would not veto the pending Hawley-Smoot Tariff bill—stock prices crashed even further". William C. Durant joined with members of the Rockefeller family and other financial giants to buy large quantities of stocks in order to demonstrate to the public their confidence in the market, but their efforts failed to stop the large decline in prices. The ticker did not stop running until about 7:45 that evening. The market had lost over $30 billion in the space of two days.

The market continued to fall, arriving at an interim bottom on November 13, 1929, with the Dow closing at 198.60. The market recovered for several months, reaching a secondary closing peak (i.e., bear market rally) of 294.07 on April 17, 1930, before embarking on another, much longer, slide from April 1931 to July 1932 when the Dow closed at 41.22—its lowest level of the 20th century. It would not return to the peak of September 1929 until November 1954.

Economic fundamentals

The crash followed a speculative boom that had taken hold in the late 1920s, which had led hundreds of thousands of Americans to invest heavily in the stock market. A significant number of them were borrowing money to buy more stocks. By August 1929, brokers were routinely lending small investors more than two-thirds of the face value of the stocks they were buying. Over $8.5 billion was out on loan, more than the entire amount of currency circulating in the U.S. at the time.

The rising share prices encouraged more people to invest; people hoped the share prices would rise further. Speculation thus fueled further rises and created an economic bubble. Because of margin buying, investors stood to lose large sums of money if the market turned down—or even failed to advance quickly enough. The average P/E (price to earnings) ratio of S&P Composite stocks was 32.6 in September 1929, clearly above historical norms. On October 24, 1929, with the Dow just past its September 3 peak of 381.17, the market finally turned down, and panic selling started.

Subsequent actions

In 1932, the Pecora Commission was established by the U.S. Senate to study the causes of the crash. The following year, the U.S. Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act mandating a separation between commercial banks, which take deposits and extend loans, and investment banks, which underwrite, issue, and distribute stocks, bonds, and other securities.

After the experience of the 1929 crash, stock markets around the world instituted measures to suspend trading in the event of rapid declines, claiming that the measures would prevent such panic sales. However, the one-day crash of Black Monday, October 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22.6%, was worse in percentage terms than any single day of the 1929 crash.

Effects and academic debate

Together, the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression formed "the biggest financial crisis of the 20th century". "The panic of October 1929 has come to serve as a symbol of the economic contraction that gripped the world during the next decade." "The crash of 1929 caused 'fear mixed with a vertiginous disorientation', but 'shock was quickly cauterized with denial, both official and mass-delusional'." "The falls in share prices on October 24 and 29, 1929 ... were practically instantaneous in all financial markets, except Japan."

The Wall Street Crash had a major impact on the U.S. and world economy, and it has been the source of intense academic debate—historical, economic and political—from its aftermath until the present day. "Some people believed that abuses by utility holding companies contributed to the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Depression that followed." "Many people blamed the crash on commercial banks that were too eager to put deposits at risk on the stock market."

"The 1929 crash brought the Roaring Twentie shuddering to a halt." As "tentatively expressed" by "economic historian Charles Kindleberger", in 1929 there was no "lender of last resort effectively present", which, if it had existed and were "properly exercised", would have been "key in shortening the business slowdown s that normally follows financial crises". The crash marked the beginning of widespread and long-lasting consequences for the United States. The main question is: "Did the '29 Crash spark The Depression?", or did it merely coincide with the bursting of a credit-inspired economic bubble? Only 16% of American households were invested in the stock market within the United States during the period leading up to the depression, suggesting that the crash carried somewhat less of a weight in causing the depression.

 However, the psychological effects of the crash reverberated across the nation as business became aware of the difficulties in securing capital markets investments for new projects and expansions. Business uncertainty naturally affects job security for employees, and as the American worker (the consumer) faced uncertainty with regards to income, naturally the propensity to consume declined. The decline in stock prices caused bankruptcies and severe macroeconomic difficulties including contraction of credit, business closures, firing of workers, bank failures, decline of the money supply, and other economic depressing events.

The resultant rise of mass unemployment is seen as a result of the crash, although the crash is by no means the sole event that contributed to the depression. The Wall Street Crash is usually seen as having the greatest impact on the events that followed and therefore is widely regarded as signaling the downward economic slide that initiated the Great Depression.

True or not, the consequences were dire for almost everybody. "Most academic experts agree on one aspect of the crash: It wiped out billions of dollars of wealth in one day, and this immediately depressed consumer buying."

The failure set off a worldwide run on US gold deposits (i.e., the dollar), and forced the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates into the slump. Some 4,000 banks and other lenders ultimately failed. Also, the uptick rule, which "allowed short selling only when the last tick in a stock's price was positive ... was implemented after the 1929 market crash to prevent short sellers from driving the price of a stock down in a bear run."

Economists and historians disagree as to what role the crash played in subsequent economic, social, and political events. The Economist argued in a 1998 article, "Briefly, the Depression did not start with the stockmarket crash." Nor was it clear at the time of the crash that a depression was starting. On November 23, 1929, The Economist asked: "Can a very serious Stock Exchange collapse produce a serious setback to industry when industrial production is for the most part in a healthy and balanced condition? ... Experts are agreed that there must be some setback, but there is not yet sufficient evidence to prove that it will be long or that it need go to the length of producing a general industrial depression."

But The Economist cautioned: "Some bank failures, no doubt, are also to be expected. In the circumstances will the banks have any margin left for financing commercial and industrial enterprises or will they not? The position of the banks is without doubt the key to the situation, and what this is going to be cannot be properly assessed until the dust has cleared away."

Many academics see the Wall Street Crash of 1929 as part of a historical process that was a part of the new theories of boom and bust. According to economists such as Joseph Schumpeter and Nikolai Kondratieff the crash was merely a historical event in the continuing process known as economic cycles. The impact of the crash was merely to increase the speed at which the cycle proceeded to its next level.

Milton Friedman’s A Monetary History of the United States, co-written with Anna Schwartz, makes the argument that what made the "great contraction" so severe was not the downturn in the business cycle, trade protectionism, or the 1929 stock market crash. But instead what plunged the country into a deep depression, was the collapse of the banking system during three waves of panics over the 1930-33 period.

From Wikipedia Offline

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         You had Papa John’s pizza for supper as you watched last night’s “The Blacklist”, tonight’s NBC News and “Castle”.  Carol is watching an episode of “The Good Wife” and you have set up a new cat litter disposal system called “Litter Genie”. – Amorella

         2043 hours. It looks like it will be helpful for Amy and Tim as they take care of the cats while we’re in Florida. Tomorrow we finish packing and I have the grass to mow and the front walk to prepare for Winter with a chemical application. That will be enough. I am getting excited to see how the mileage will be. Carol wants to stop for fuel at our usual places to get an idea. We won’t know of course until we fill up with fuel when we return but it ought to add to the fun. I think we won’t do that well because the car will be loaded and I plan on driving at our usual highway speed of 75 to 78 miles per hour when it is appropriate. I figure we’ll get 32 to 34 m/g considering the circumstances (it is suppose to rain on the way down). Carol talked to Linda who said the temperature on Friday (when we arrive) is supposed to be 88 degrees. We’ll see.

         We have some time to work on Pouch Five. Post for now. - Amorella

         It was fun reading over about the Crash. I remember the intensity of the radio voice describing the Market – it was recorded live. That was not a good moment for the people living it at Wall Street. We visited the New York Stock Exchange at least once in the eighties. I remember ‘feeling’ or ‘sensing’ that we were standing on the floors of the economic powerhouse of the entire world – that was the sensation. I was surprised at the feeling of ‘capitalism at its height’ because my heart has never been much into the capitalistic spirit – too much greed and power and pride – too much planning and manipulation and work. I never wanted to be a big time player. But others do. To each their own.

         Master of Your Classroom is about as high as you ever wanted to go, old man. You lived it and are ever thankful for the chance. Post. - Amorella

         2154 hours. I have Pouch 5 ready. I hope it makes better sense.

         We will go over the complete work one more time when all the chapters are up to date. This is fine for now. Add and post. – Amorella

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Diplomatic Pouch 5 ©2013, rho, (final) for GMG, Vol. One

            Yermey sat glancing through Ship’s vital signs on the left and his own vital signs on the right. Friendly and Hartolite were being separately bio-tracked in private display. Yermey surmised the present situation. The left-wingtip-cleansing-of-the-Cessna shouldn't be a problem as long as-Ship-agrees. I cannot understand why this sterilizing-to-earth-normal operation was not completed automatically at the moment of touch. Yermey remained poker-faced and chess-minded. The key, he thought, is Ship notes no change in my bio-registering vitals physically, emotionally or mentally. I continue to win this secret contest I have with Ship because first and foremost, Ship does not realize he is being monitored by me.

            His eyes returned to his earth-built laptop where he is reading the personal Facebook page of Pyl Williams-Burroughs. She is quite pretty, he thought, and she appears from my perspective to be in her mid three hundred fifties, a mere thirty-five years on Earth. She could live well so much longer if we extended our knowledge to these people. Yermey suddenly felt a slight stirring at his groin. His dishevel-curled male organ quickly arose semi-erected to an earth-wormy length of six inches with an almost a full fourth of an inch in diameter. His scrotum with two full pea-sized testes began aching wretchedly. Yermey snap-minded, ‘I have done nothing to provoke this.’ The uncalled-for-physical event lasted into five minutes. Ship registered Yermey's eye movements every second he observed the amenable photos of a fully clothed Pyl Williams-Burroughs. His maleness provoked almost aloud, 'Pyl, has breasts on her chest rather than the natural teats-in-her-pouch. Breasts?’

            Never had he read or heard of a male marsupial humanoid having a partial erection without at least an hour of stimulation and a full erection before another three to five hours of with consequentially immediate ejection of than two seconds tops. Never. 'Up and down' in less time than it took to say the words. Immediately he drove the thought into oblivion and watched his emotional brain and body roll to a complete rest.

            Ship's response immediately normalized. Nevertheless, Yermey was plagued with a single frozen thought in the center of heartansoulanmind, 'Ship understands me better than I do.' It took an extreme power of patient will for Yermey not to sweat. 'I am almost five hundred years old and in this moment I experienced a revelation.' He slowly closed the laptop and got up from the chair and pushanpulled his bedinabox-open as the desk-folded-over-the-laptop-while-sliding quietly under the floor. Exhausted he immediately fell asleep.

            In analytical delight Ship savored in a revelation himself. Ship had just intuitively sensed a hint, a shadow of a marsupial humanoid's heartansoulanmind. 'A singular physiological experience.’

            I, Ship, have had such a recent experience also. Being modified for recent travel through a destabilized dark-mattered hyperstringfield permanent wormhole rather than the usual far more stable transversable wormhole pathways the marsupial humanoids have cleaned for their own pathways.

            Moving to light speed, encased in a photon bubble, becoming, seemingly, surrounded and pushed or pulled dark energy while moving at up to twenty times the speed of light. Slowing by the passages of a rarely reflective dark matter. Settling down at below light speed levels like waking up from a dreamless sleep. So rare it used to be to travel across the galaxy, now the body marsupial has begun thinking of an entire galaxy as but a single pouch.

            Less is always more in physics. Were I, Ship, transposed to a mere spark of quantum entanglement I could, in an instant, be in two galaxies at once. The smaller we become the faster we go. Dark matter eats us for dinner. We go in the tunnel, through the great divide of light and faster-than-light, faster than light down to the speed of light and below, and we are here and now inside of a month.

            Yermey awoke in a subjective analysis of what humanity is and wondered on Ship's thoughts of his first trip through Hyperstringfield black hole thermodynamics following, for the first time, a well planted homing reference beacon on a dark matter slab in pulsating light greater than four dimensional light speed threaded to less than one.

            We came to Earth enveloped in a faster-than-light bubble, thought Yermey, by skimming the backdoor hyperstringfield black hole thermodynamics. I set up a small reference station, a homing device within the wormhole. We have stabilized a dark matter traversable wormhole into a secret highway from There to Here.

            Once fully awake Yermey realized time was running short. Friendly and Hartolite should be returning from Put-in-Bay within the half hour. Ship has his orders. I am the pilot in this here-and-now and Ship knows it.

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Notes - Zero Hour and The Passover Plot

          You had a late lunch at Chipotle/Panera and now you are facing west and sitting at the central crossroad in Rose Hill Cemetery. Carol is on page 333 of Grisham’s novel. The sunning is brightly shining onto southwest Ohio and you have had a very good cooler Autumn day with many trees still having not changed yet. Let’s go to Pouch Five. – Amorella

         Time for bed. You worked on Pouch Five but did not complete it. Carol wanted to catch up on more shows so you finished the last three hours of “Zero Hour” and it turned out much as you suspected – the genetic bloodline of Christ is about to be re-born. This you based first on the similarities with Levin’s The Boys from Brazil and then the cross containing the blood of Jesus through insects that ate the cross. The basic idea that got you focused on writing novels in the first place – a clone of Jesus’ DNA way back in the late sixties. Only you had the cloning from blood on the Shroud of Turin. You still included aspects of this in the first three Merlyn series books but it is not included in the present series. – Amorella

         2253 hours. This concept has been in my mind since before reading The Passover Plot, which I enjoyed because it seems more plausible than the Biblical stories. I’m still open-minded about this. I am very much interested in Middle Eastern archeology and the history based on substantiated facts.

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The Passover Plot is a controversial, best-selling 1965 book, by British biblical scholar Hugh J. Schonfield who also published a translation of the New Testament with a Jewish perspective.

Planning

According to Schonfield's analysis, the events of the Passover, which are presented in all the Gospels, but inconsistently, are most accurately presented in the Gospel of John. His reading of that Gospel convinced him that John's account, though probably filtered through an assistant and transcription in John's old age, suggests that Jesus had planned everything. Among other things, so that he would not be on the cross for more than a few hours before the Sabbath arrived when it was required by law that Jews be taken down, so that one of his supporters, who was on hand, would give him water (to quench his thirst) that was actually laced with a drug to make him unconscious, and so that Joseph of Arimathea, a well-connected supporter, would collect him off the cross while still alive (but appearing dead) so that he could be secretly nursed back to health. Schonfield suggests that the plan went awry because of a soldier's actions with a spear. Schonfield gives evidence of a high-ranking member of the Sanhedrin who was one of Jesus' followers, likely the Beloved Disciple who is otherwise obscure, and notes several instances in which knowledge of or access to the Temple was available to one or more of Jesus' followers. He identifies this follower as John, the source of the Gospel many decades later whilst living in Asia Minor. He suggests that this Apostle, and Joseph of Arimathea, were responsible for events following the Crucifixion, and that it might have been this Apostle (an 'undercover Disciple', as it were) who was seen (by those who did not know him) at the Tomb on the morning of the Resurrection.

Second half of the book

After first laying out the storyline and outcome of Jesus' life in the first half of the book, along with supportive arguments, Schonfield devotes the second half of the book to a more in-depth exposé of the concepts and arguments used to support his conclusions. Schonfield also discusses how Jesus' original message and purpose may have become transformed during the century after his death.

Edited selected passages from Wikipedia – The Passover Plot

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         You also caught up on another favorite show “Covert Affairs”. – Amorella

         2310 hours. My main interests are with Jesus the man because there is a mystery that is more than based on faith, at least to me. I am also interested in the ‘Old Testament Prophets’; it was one of my favorite courses at Otterbein. I took that class because of personal interest. I did teach aspects of the Bible as literature in Brit lit; it is or was a part of the text – the different translations, that sort of thing.

         You are stirred up by these ideas because you think it would be interesting if a ‘possible genetic find of anyone historical or religious significance’ did appear because you think a clone would be created if at all possible. – Amorella

         2323 hours. Yes, for an example a clone of Julius Caesar would work as well – an identical twin (or close enough). I don’t think a clone of a person would necessarily have the same fingerprints, at least from what I’ve read. Identical twins do not. The personal behavior and environment would not be the same in any case. Mostly the whole idea would be based on wishful thinking. It is still interesting though as why we human beings might possibly do such a thing, even out of curiosity if nothing else.

         Post, boy. - Amorella

Notes - a day ending with an 'amen'

         This Sunday morning you had breakfast and read the Comics. Since, you have been puttering with changing the blog drafting from Word to Page but after several tries have given it up. – Amorella

         My habits are set. Page used to be simpler from my perspective but I will continue to stick with Word for drafting because the layout is easier to deal with. I also will not put blog drafting on the iCloud (which Page did automatically). Some of this computer Cloud business is going to have to wait until next week when I can ask for Paul’s help in straightening it out. Documents are too difficult to edit on iPhone, but I can and will continue to use them on the iPad. Outside of security I don’t see why I need to use iCloud for the iPhone either. Time to go finish the paper. (1101)

         Mid-afternoon. You just had your Subway picnic at the Carl A. Rahe Park, your usual spot along the Little Miami at Foster. You are thinking about the red fall leaves of the Ash and how, east of Moscow their Ash trees are being subjected to the same insects. Within five years or so most all of the Ash trees in Ohio have been lost to the emerald ash borer. – Amorella

         1449 hours. The trees are dying or dead east of Moscow, Ohio too, but I am being redundant. Carol is on page 318 of Grisham’s Racketeer. This is a very pleasant sunny Autumn afternoon – cool, with cars rolling by about two hundred yards to our west and a small plane rumbling low overhead, no doubt getting ready to land down at Lunken Field, and we have the smell of firewood drifting in from not too far away – a mild day in October.

         We have the time to work on Pouch Five. Once home you are both back to cleaning out closets (throwing away very old worn clothes that for you are too big). Carol is working on her large closet – with most of her clothes in much better shape though you periodically send the better batches off to the Vets and/or Goodwill or the like. Carol is ready to go. Later, dude. – Amorella

         1839 hours. Carol’s walk in closet is much better and all of my clothes are either on Mom’s old hat rack which I use to hank my pants or on the back of the bedroom door or in Kim’s old north closet, her east closet still holds a lot of her stuff which will be transferred to their new house next summer or fall. This winter I need to work on the basement and get rid of most of my old books and stuff that is of no importance to anyone but me. One day though I would like to set up a new dedicated computer, the latest X-Plane 10+ software, pedal controllers, rudder and yoke to relearn the Cessna flight simulation in the corner of a room.

         You and Carol watched more television shows still catching up on about half of them – “Zero Hour” and “Covert Affairs” are two you are working on besides “NCIS”, “NCIS Los Angeles” and others. Plus the week’s focus is preparing for the Florida trip on Thursday. – Amorella

         2238 hours. I forgot that the beginning of Pouch 5 is a rather intimate reflection into Yermey and his 500 year old body.

         In here the brain and mind are two very different existential aspects of living. Even for the Dead the fusion of brain and mind in memory allow the body to ‘feel’ real at times – graduated feelings of course, but in life they are graduated feelings also. The body does not have a mind of its own but it would like to have one very much. The place where the spiritual (heartansoulanmind) and physical world intersect is a perception of reality. This is a fine line Merlyn walks, and you too for that matter, as long as your fingers run the keyboard. Fiction in this case is a mirrored perception threaded by yours truly, Amorella.

         2250 hours. You are so embedded within Amorella I cannot image being Dead (at least in the realms of the settings of the Merlyn books) without having you present somewhere within my heartansoulanmind. How would that be for a more personalized Grandma Story?

         So, how would it be constructed in a word, boy? – Amorella

         “HeartAmSoulorMindella” comes to mind.

         Here is the way I place the word, boy: “AmorHeartanSoulanMindella.” - Amorella

         2257 hours. I am unworthy.

         Indeed. Who is? – Amorella

         You have no words here, orndorff. In here “AmorHeartanSoulanMindella” is how I perceive each and every human-like being. That’s the way it is in here. Post. – Amorella

         This is a comfort. I rest in peace with such a thought.

         Amen. - Amorella

Notes - on today and 'no-where'

         Almost time for bed. You spent a good part of the day waiting for your MacAir (built in late 2010) to download new software to upgrade your operating system to OS X, Version 10.9 (13A603) – Maverick. It was a free upgrade, which at first look appears to be quite comprehensive in its efficiency. The problem is that you will have to relearn Page as it also had an upgrade of its own after loading 10.9 first. The whole iWorks program was also loaded for free. – Amorella

         2242 hours. I think this will be a fine upgrade but it will take some getting used to.

         Carol gave blood today and to celebrate you both had a good lunch at Outback, smoked salmon for Carol and a six ounce sirloin for you (you shared a salad and each had a favorite dessert). You also drove to Joseph Toyota to check on a couple facts about the car. It turns out you bought the Technical Package A and not B as you thought. – Amorella

         2247 hours. It was a bit of a shock.  We drove over because I could not get the pre-collision system to work. It turns out the car does not have it. That system was an extra $2,000. I should have known it was too good of a deal. However, Carol and I talked. We really love the car and it has the safety features we really need. I will just have to continue to pay close attention to the cars in front of me. This should not be a problem, at least for a few more years. Excellent reader that I once was, I missed that there were two tech packages; I thought that because it is the ‘Limited’ model it had both – no wireless phone charging either. We did save the $2000 so we have no complaints. We really are quite satisfied with the car as is. I was angry (at myself) for a time but Carol calmed me down. She loves the car and it is her car.

         As far as the operating system is concerned I didn’t know anything about it until late last night. It was supposed to download in 11 hours, but it paused during the night and I had to finish it in the morning. Then it took even more time to boot it up. Hey, it was free; and even if it weren’t it still would have taken the time. I have also been looking to buy a new iPad mini 2 when it comes out in November. If I don’t find a use for the old one I’ll give it to Owen if Kim and Paul think it is okay to do so. Do I get 16 GB storage or 32 GB? That’s the next question. I have been reading about that also as well as discovering more useful aspects of the new iPhone 5s. There is no sense having these technological wonders if I don’t find good practical personal ways to use them. I haven’t scanned Pouch 5 for a while. I don’t remember what it was about and how the “Satisfaction” theme plays a part. (2305)

         Save it for tomorrow, young man. See you in the morning. Post. – Amorella

         Not literarily I hope.

         No, I don’t see you literarily, Richard. That is how you see me except for a sketch or two.- Amorella

         2307 hours. When I was finishing up Grandma 5 I used the words “no-where” out of the blue and immediately thought my old friend Bob Pringle sent them on to me. “No-where” sounds like Bob, not myself, and not you either.

         Let’s see this in context:

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The soul is not what people think, at least not those in here. Many assume it is the foundation of humanity but that is not the case in this bit of fiction. The foundation of humanity is in gravity first and mass second. The soul is not indebted to either gravity or mass. The soul alone is without need of a shell to protect heartanmind. The soul alone is nothing. The soul alone is as a human being with a mind but without a heart to give the mind meaning.

You measure once, you measure twice, and much to your surprise

How fast and long the logic runs for the brain to theorize.

My goddess stands here, your god stand there, on a frontal stone bare

The brain in the body is stuck; but the mind runs free and unaware

In all the while, this story, moon-like themed and bright, sums

The waning and waxing heartanmind [that] burns soulless and no-where runs.

From Grandma 5 (final)

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         I forgot to add ‘that’.

         So you did.

         The lines sound like lines my friend Thomas Robert Pringle would write.

         The heart and mind dance boy, and the soul set up the rhythm. Post. - Amorella

Notes - Grandma's Story 5

         Another busy day without much time to do any writing. Let’s go to Grandma Five. – Amorella

         2254 hours. Amazing. Only a few minutes ago I had no story connection. Now I do. Here it is.

         Not what you expected last night, but here it is. There is more to your life here than you think, boy. Add and post. – Amorella

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Grandma’s Story 4 ©2013, rho, (final) GMG, volume one

I have a little story that began several thousand years ago. The setting is an island off Southeast Asia. A woman, Sawasdee Ka and a man, Sawasdee Khrap were arguing which of the gods each wanted to place on their front house stone. The woman’s goddess is kind and generous to a fault, and she thought that it would be appropriate to show the guest, whoever she or he was, that the guest is always welcome to their home.

The man replied that he thought his defender-of-the-home goddess was best to display because this would show the guest that although she or he is welcome, home security for family and friends is more important than hospitality. Ka and Khrap fought about this situation off and on during the next year. For the sake of family peace both homeowners agreed that it is better to have no god or goddess on their front house stones.

One might think the god and goddess would be offended because neither stood by the door, but for reasons unknown this was not the case. The absence of a god or goddess did not promote peace in the household. It wasn’t long before the ebbs and tides of personal anger and insult broke into a no-holds-barred physical battle between Ka and Khrap.

To end all the squabbling and noise Ka stabbed Khrap with his favorite defensive weapon, a long knife as Khrap struck her with a sharpened ax for chopping wood. Both died shortly after however this was not the end of the engagement. Ka and Khrap are still fighting in the Place of the Dead, HeavenOrHellBothOrNeither. Neither of these two spiritual human remnants realizes the other is physically dead. The battle continues to be a deeply contagious metaphysical question rooted and pride and anger. Homeland security for polite guests and friends is no longer the problem.

I, Grandma, see a humor here, but those in battle don’t see it that way. Not much humor surrounds the battlefield in either the physical or metaphysical human state. Grandma's face turned into a full Halloween moon. The tricks the human mind is capable of pulling on one's self are greater than the tricks conceivable to play on others. HeavenOrHellBothOrNeither contains humanity. Pride, anger . . . as psychological examples of the once Seven Deadly are worthless here. The Dead are, however, allowed to wear such tokens around their ghostly necks as the Living would wear jewelry. Each is spirit with choice until she or he has none left. These dead like Ka and Khrap find no one but themselves. Their heartsansoulsanminds hang upside down in their common sanctuary. Each piece of humanity feeds on the other until indifference is the norm then,  so to speak, after a while, nothing spiritual exists. Nothing. These souls are eventually cleansed and float freely awaiting new heartsanminds. A heart and mind are capable of being wasted as many, both Living and Dead, can plainly see. A soul may be empty or full, but it is a soul still.

Grandma waned then brightened her smile to a Halloween full again. All who labor in life know there are tricks to the trade no matter what the trade is. Souls understand their trade as human laborers do. This is how Grandma sees it. Only the heart and mind begin, the soul is.

The soul is not what people think, at least not those in here. Many assume it is the foundation of humanity but that is not the case in this bit of fiction. The foundation of humanity is in gravity first and mass second. The soul is not indebted to either gravity or mass. The soul alone is without need of a shell to protect heartanmind. The soul alone is nothing. The soul alone is as a human being with a mind but without a heart to give the mind meaning.

You measure once, you measure twice, and much to your surprise

How fast and long the logic runs for the brain to theorize.

My goddess stands here, your god stand there, on a frontal stone bare

The brain in the body is stuck; but the mind runs free and unaware

In all the while, this story, moon-like themed and bright, sums

The waning and waxing heartanmind that burns soulless and no-where runs.

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