Notes - where is something solid? / a construct / a flash of a basket /

         Mid-morning. You had breakfast, read the Sunday paper and set up the weekly programs on the DVR. Carol is reading the paper.

         1013 hours. I’m drawing a blank, Amorella. Where is my mind when it isn’t here?  

         You had a two-hour nap and are about to go to Penn Station for lunch. After lunch and you are at Kroger’s on Mason-Montgomery for a few items like eggs and a bakery wheat bread.

         1437 hours. I was going to mow but it is supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow so I’ll wait until Tuesday that way if it needs mowing next week Tim can mow it while we are at Kim and Paul’s for the week.

         Check Braided Dreams for an example of weather analogy description of heart, soul and mind. – Amorella

         You dropped off groceries and Carol is now walking the northern trails below the dam at Pine Hill Lakes Park. You are waiting in the far north lot. As you are skimming through Running Through you found more on the nearly human dead Earth in Pouch Text nine and wonder at its use. Let’s save it until later.

         1511 hours. I have not found what I am looking for but will continue through RT and also Merlyn’s Mind. The only regular reference is to a ‘whirlwind’. But ‘cold front’ might be a key also. There is no ‘cold front’. I cannot find what I was searching for.

         You are home, Carol is trimming flowers and you made two row cuts on the parameter of the front yard to keep the edges trimmed. It looks better from the street and will do until Tuesday when you do mow the grass. It is cloudy but very hot and humid.

         1549 hours. The “Direct TV” dirigible is up and slowly moving above the Western and Southern Cincinnati Masters Tennis Tournament at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason today – big doings about two miles directly east of our house. I went free to one men’s finals match once. The doctor on duty for the day was our neighbor (nice guy). We had the best seats in the house, center, right off court. I forget his name as well as who was playing but I do remember the sound of the ball fired across the court from one side to the other. The sound of the ball on the racket was impressive also. I have never heard anything like it since.

         Are you sure that’s the way it was orndorff? – Amorella

         1605 hours. That’s the way I recollect it. I have that problem when I am telling a story. People are not sure whether it is spruced up fiction or just the facts. People like to hear my stories but I think they only half believe them even when they are true. Long ago I learned that it is easier just to tell a story than to try to tell what I actually thought I observed. Everybody has some good stories in them and many are probably true or mostly so. It is not worth the energy to defend the truth as one sees it. A hundred years from now there are no first hand witnesses left anyway to argue one way or another. A lot of war stories from a lot of wars are probably like that. You were there, read a book about being there and realize the writer was not there where you were in any case because whatever is written is not true from your perspective. The storytellers and scholars too are not just-the-facts. Why would anyone expect a story to be completely true anyway? People lie to themselves all the time. Perspective means ‘not all here’, that’s how I see it. Getting at the whole truth and nothing but the truth is not a waste of time but I cannot imagine anything being the whole truth unless it is without an alphabet of sorts and numbers or symbols of numbers. There is too much bullshit in the world and I am as much an example of it as is anyone else.

         Once in a while you may hit a nail on its head boy, but it does little good unless you are driving it into something solid. Post. - Amorella

         1803 hours. I just awoke from another nap. This time I was sitting in the chair in the living room. I don’t know why I am so tired today but I am. Serena Williams won the tournament today according to AOL. The wind is picking up. The air was deathly still this afternoon. Good sign of rain I hope. Carol is working on her word games from the Sunday paper. I assume the cats have been fed. I cannot think on how this Dead 3 is set up. When I awoke a minute or so ago the only thing in my mind was ‘a wheel in a wheel in a wheel’ but it seems to me that the heart, soul and mind would all be under their own separate weather systems, at least the heart and mind would be.

         Close but no cigar boy. Here’s the way it will be – the ‘earth’ is the personality and passion of the individual, the mind is the atmosphere and the temperature is the heart. The soul is the gravity that holds everything together. – Amorella

         1814 hours. Some time earlier today or last night I had a flash inkling of a planet but that was all. I was thinking of Mercury though, not a very hospitable place.

         See, a construct was in there. Post. - Amorella

         Evening. You both had a light supper and watched NBC News, “Covert Affairs”, “Motive” and “Legends” before taking out the trash for the early morning pickup. – Amorella

         2205 hours. I was going upstairs to gather trash and realized there is a connection between planets, atmospheres and gravity. Each person contains a solar system of friends, so to speak but gravity stretches throughout the universe and it is the soul that draws connections with other bodies, humans and other humanoids. This can be stretched also to multiple souls or twin souls, like the twin Earths in the story. Connects the over and under lap, weaving a Board like multi-dimensional chess, i.e. a chaos setting for the Living and the Dead with a greater Determiner bringing things together through a seeming outer and inner randomness. That’s what I am seeing at the moment. (2214)

         This shows nine minutes of speculation orndorff. Now, how can this be adapted to Merlyn himself? He is the main character in these books. What insight does this allow him? – Amorella

         2216 hours. I don’t know, but if I can show deductively examples of these events, systematic or not, then the story can become a much, much broader setting encasing the human condition than we presently think; it doesn’t have to be real only a reasonable explanation that Merlyn can come up with, basically a basket that holds the ingredients of physics and metaphysics as well as a Before and a possible Beyond, the whole gamut of private and community consciousness – of dreams and reality and imagination’s extension. I don’t know what imagination’s extension means but I am done for now. (2223)

         This is enough on your plate for now. We take this and that and put it together for Merlyn himself to have an intuitive flash to give this a definition, a Board, on which to build a new construct into a story. – Amorella

         2226 hours. This is one of those rare mental moments where a 'Form is being constructed from Nothing' in my head; this is my intuitive sense. This is a seed of an idea. Merlyn develops a purpose for being in his present human circumstance and it has to do with projection and ?. 

         Sleep on it orndorff. The word will come. Post. - Amorella