You and Carol enjoyed babysitting last
night, a two and four year old are mostly fun. Paul had Papa John pizza
delivered – half cheese and half pepperoni and mushroom. Mary Lou and Carol
took the boys to the park afterwards while you read a new issue of Automobile. They
returned home about ten-thirty and you four chatted until almost midnight.
Carol awoke early but you slept in until about eight-thirty and developed your
papa relationships during most of the morning after Kim and Carol brought them
back from the park. Easter dinner at twelve-thirty and within the hour you were
heading home. Carol and Kim came in and said they have been talking about Paul
buying a new car but he and Kim also want to buy a Highlander or Pilot for her
and he will gladly take the CRV for work travel; he likes the four-wheel drive.
Meanwhile while you and Paul were home he tried to talk you into a 2015 Camry
Hybrid, which he likes the looks of and would get himself if it were four-wheel
drive. He says it looks like a mini-Avalon. Owen’s big talk this time was
saying, “I used to be cute when I was little but now I am awesome. I am fast.”
– Amorella
1638 hours. We are at Pine Hill Lakes Park and Carol is walking. Owen
did show how he could run. His mother, Kim, used to run in junior high and high
school, and when she was in the upper elementary school at Western Row she won
the class award every year for being healthy and having less body fat then
anyone in her class. She loved gymnastics at Owen’s age and took classes at a
real gymnastics school for three or four years. Even in high school she weighed
around a hundred pounds. I don’t think she weighs much more now. Amazing. She
is a clone of Carol only shorter, thinner and wirier. Paul’s wirier too. They
make an athletic tough combination. They started Owen in gymnastics this last
week; so far he likes it.
You and Carol had nonfat cottage cheese with
orange pieces mixed for supper. You watched NBC and ABC News, last week’s NCIS
LA and Surviving Jack. You are pretty much done for the evening. Post. –
Amorella
2152 hours. I didn’t even bring up the Merlyn books. How does any of
this relate to them or the blog for that matter?
You have been wondering how this
conversation with Yermey and Pyl is going to go. – Amorella
2155 hours. Wondering and doing are two different things. I read a new
Time magazine article about a woman preacher who writes books about finding
religion in the darkness. Some think of her as a witchy woman who has strayed
and other think of her as too much crystals and the like. She talks about
Mohammad meeting an Angel in a cave and Moses receiving the Ten Commandments at
night and Jesus being resurrected in a cave, that in order to be religious one
has to meet the darkness as well as the light, that sort of thing. It seems to
me that In the beginning was the light, but before that was darkness and before
that was G---D. As an agnostic I have looked at the world like this for much of
my life. That is the reason I do not want to directly use the concept of G---D
to make a point. It is not respectful even in concept. I thought it would be a
better article. Distance is a sign of respect. Without respect one cannot love
or be loved. This is my point, and as such, respect is more important than
love. (2207) I don’t know why this rolled out but it did. These are my thoughts
though and I cannot deny them.
They are your thoughts transcribed boy,
right from the sticking place as Shakespeare might word it. – Amorella
2211 hours. I don’t really know where this comes from it is completely
unrehearsed. It just popped into mind. – I just looked back. It was triggered
by words or actions. People always say actions are more important than words
and in our culture this is basically true. Another article in this week’s Time
is on making tests to show which colleges are better than others like they do
with public schools. How do you measure such things as ‘education’? I don’t understand
how this can be done by words or actions. It is the matter of spirit, of
learning what is to be learned that is important in one’s life. How do people
measure such things? We are missing something here, that is, our culture is
missing something that is neither words nor actions. We are missing something
spiritual within ourselves, respect. Without it we don’t have friends or
enemies.
Don’t erase this though you feel confused by
adding enemies. – Amorella
2225 hours. I am missing something Amorella. This is not about others it
is about myself. I must be tired. I have nothing more to say than I need to
learn to respect my friends and my enemies.
Do you respect friends and enemies more or
better? – Amorella
You have such a way to take my serious-to-myself tone and put a slight smile on my face at the same time. Obviously
here, respect like many other human attributes cannot be measured humanely.
Now,
post. (And, let this be a lesson to you.) – Amorella
Thank you for smiling, Amorella.
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