06 February 2014

Notes - sorting through / what we do / (final) Brothers 15 / (final) Grandma 15 /

         Mid-morning. You are concerned with your ramblings on last night’s posting. You have gotten so that when you write it is straight out of your head with no personal blockings. What bothers you is that you are normally a very quiet, almost shy person and many times in conversations you have something to say but choose not to because it is nothing is new under the sun (in my thoughts) so I’ll just shut up and let the others continue on. This morning you sent out an apology to Nancy Z. for your email ramblings from last week. Again, your thoughts were automatically sent to your fingertips, and you mentioned to her that what you should have done is edit by deletion before sending. As you see this as a problem I will help you with it. – Amorella

         1026 hours. Thank you, Amorella. Rattling on brings out both pride and arrogance, matters I dislike along with exploitation. I dislike aspects of humanity – the seven deadly sins, I suppose. I can’t believe the marsupial humanoids were bought off so easily. I think I did not have a clear concept of what the Merlyn books were really presenting. These books are going to have to be better sorted through.

         That’s the dark humor boy. You knew. Irony is what it is. Post. - Amorella


         Late mid-afternoon. You are waiting for Carol at Kroger’s on Mason-Montgomery Road and you have other errands in the area before heading home. Your inclination is to work on Brothers 15 but you are not sure how close Carol is to completing her buying. Earlier your sister Cathy called and you are meeting for lunch tomorrow at 101Beer Kitchen near the corners of Sawmill Road and Hard Street in Dublin. Joe M., your niece’s (Cathy’s daughter Jenny) husband is managing chef. You are delighted to see the restaurant earns four and one half stars on UrbanSpoon. – Amorella

         1638 hours. We are in front of Lowe’s where Carol is picking up more birdseed. The sun just arrived. Very nice. We watched two programs “NCIS LA” and “Person of Interest” while we ate leftovers for lunch, I finished up the meatloaf and had a salad as did Carol with added cheese and crackers. I am glad I write these things down because in doing so I am reminded of what is important at the time, what we do everyday is mostly who we are.

         You are home and have put out the birdseed in front and side yards. Later, dude. – Post. - Amorella

         1738 hours. I completed Brothers 15. I think it needs some transition along the way though.

         Then fix it. – Amorella

         1747 hours. It’s fixed. Partly the problem was me, I misread the segment.

         Add and post. – Amorella

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(final) The Brothers 15 ©2014, rho GMG.One

Robert and Richard walked out of the hardware store at the south end of town and took a late morning drive following road with lots of woods and farms interspersed with new crops of housing divisions interspersed among old farms and cow pastures. Interrupting the silence Robert asked, “What were we talking about early yesterday?” asked Robert.

“I don’t know. You mean end of the world scenarios?”

“Yeah.”

“I have no idea.”

Robert continued, “I think it was about the end of the world as we know it.”

“Maybe that was after dinner.”

“Could be.” Robert paused. “What do you think? What about today? If it’s not a plague it is a nuclear accident in my book.”

"I think we could stop a plague and I can't imagine it would take more than fifty nuclear weapons to wipe out almost eight billion people. It might even take fewer.”

"What about global warming?" commented Robert, "you used to think that was the most likely scenario to eventually do us in."

“Or crazed aliens,” smirked Richard.

"H. G. Well's War of the Worlds and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring; it's been said long ago, Dickie. Let's pull in here at the reservoir and watch the water." In a moment they had stopped the car and were observing the relatively quiet of nearby natural world in the park.

"I don't like to think on negative outcomes." He paused, "I mean it doesn't take much thought to come up with a whole series of natural or alien disasters."

"So, our species will continue as we have, muddling through the centuries and millenniums," snickered Robert.

Richard shrugged his shoulders while looking at the seagulls and deadpanned "most likely outcome; unless of course we are struck by a meteorite or comet."

"Yeah, like the one in Russia last year. I think they call them 'city killers'."

"The chances of a meteor hitting a city of any size is pretty slim."

Rob responded, "Somebody is probably writing for a government grant to save us." Both sniggered. Depression hovered low, drifted down and sat between them in the Jaguar.

After ten some wordless minutes Robert grumbled, "Time to head back." And in their quietest twin natures they drove Connie's classic home.


At home Connie, Cyndi, Robert and Richard were sitting at the kitchen table drinking bottled and flavored diet ice tea and munching from a medium sized common stainless steel mixing bowl more than half full of assorted finger sized carrot and celery sticks with a few ice cubes thrown in for residual crispness.

Robert began, "Richie and I were discussing how the world will survive this relatively new century and the question came up, 'Are women naturally better leaders for these days and times than men?'

Cyndi's eyes narrowed slightly, "So, Richard, what did you say to Robbie's question?"

Knowing they hadn’t brought this up at all, Richard shrugged his shoulders in resignation, "I said it would be better if we brought this up with you two."

Connie quickly responded, "First, we two get along with each other better than you two."

"You two maybe, but I've seen a couple of down and out cat fights in my time," declared Richard.

"Leaders are strong decisive individuals though, in the operating room . . ."
           
"We are talking about political leaders, Rob, where people have to work together more socially."

"Like Congress and the White House," added Connie. "You know, with the majorities of men in both camps.

"Men run empires. Look at history. Where are all the women emperors . . ."

"All this bickering," declared Robert softly. "Of the four of us who are the more reasonable day in and day out?"

Connie snapped her reply, "Cyndi and I. What a stupid question, Robert. Who runs the houses, who does the chores, which of us are more mature and responsible in our day to day living?"

"Which two of us have always been more responsible on the home front, day in and day out?"

Quiet reigned.

Robert was about to say, "What are we having for lunch?" He didn't, but a sheepish smile perked slightly.  

"Why don't we go out to lunch?" suggested Cyndi politely.

"Good idea,” responded Rob, “where do you want to go?"

"I don't know. Where do you want to go?"

"Somehow this conversation sounds very familiar," commented Richard.

"Let's sit silently until we can come to an agreement,” stated Connie.

So they did.
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            2155 hours. I tweaked Grandma 15. Honestly I don’t know what else to do with it.

            Add and post, boy. – Amorella

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( final) Grandma’s Story 15 ©2014, rho G.M.G.One

Old Grandma has chosen to tell a Mayan love story. Time is one of the major characters off stage, just like real life. Timing is everything. Solstice was and is important in Maya observances of Earth because of Zenial passage observations that are possible only in the tropical zones.

This story takes place approximately twenty one hundred years ago when the dark rift in the Milky Way was some thirty degrees above the dawning winter solstice sun.

'Twenty-one hundred years ago in Central America, I was disguised as an old woman walking, I spied two people making love under the broad-leafed bushes and a cacao tree near both their homes.'

Grandma shook her head thinking, 'the physical passion people put up with. People don’t normally know Grandma takes a peek every now and then when the intensity has built up like it has with these two. I am also in humanity’s most naked nature. People like to imagine being alone or with an intimate companion or two in private.'

Grandma looked to the reader, 'you can be private with your nature, honey-child, but you is never alone with your body. Heartansoulanmind, the invisible world of the human spirit, is always with you.

            Grandma continued, 'Love puts the body to more work than it is sometimes used to. People get exhausted being in love. Some would just rather die happy in bed I guess. That is the way it is for Tapachula, who is hotter than a summer storm and Izapa who is normally cold and pyramidal-like except when he is with his Tapachula. She heats up and he cools down. He heats up and she cools down. These two were just like the weather wildness. You just never can tell how it is going to be from one minute to the next. A low pressure hits a high and something is going to move. Since one is usually high when the other is low, someone is always jiggling the other. One morning when they had already been at it several times, trying to get the timing right, and something unforeseen took over, basic competition. These human bodies had suddenly taken on a combined personal life of physical endurance.


          What a way to go. Who is going to die of exhaustion first? Tapachula’s brain is reasoning, ‘Impending doom, a natural disaster is upon us I can just feel it. I can outlast this man, and if I can’t I’ll have to hand it to him to find a way to do me in first. I already have a plan if I outlive my Izapa. I will bed the first one that comes down the road until one of us dies and will keep doing so until I’m done in. What a way to go. What a way to go. What-a-way, what-a-way, what-a-way to go.

          Tapachula's logic is not completely consistent, but logic is something you might bed on but not sleep with. That is when I, Grandma, decided to step up from the body physics to the mindanheart for a change of pace.

          From deep within Tapachula's mindanheart Grandma whispered as consciousness might alone, “No prophecy is really true, child. No matter what any one or more human being utters it. Human beings can neither know their own nor their world's future, but they can learn to understand the logic within it.”

As Tapachula and Izapa's bodies clasped tight in a holy-like climax, Grandma heard them both think in unison: "This natural disaster is built into me too, Grandma. What should we do?"

“Remember what and who you really are so you can balance the beam,” suggested Grandma.

What are the beam and the balance?" asked Izapa and Tapachula.

“The beam is in your intelligence,” answered Grandma. “And the balance is in your wisdom.” And with that, the once old woman with the walking stick disappeared in the expended passions of the lovers' bodily perspiring fervor.

Arms and legs in loosening entanglement, Tapachula and Izapa blinked and together said aloud, “We were in an enchantment.”

The sweetness in their minds leaves but a lingering thought,
Of what the world may become and what has been wrought.


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