Notes - Touché./ machinery

         Mid-morning. Saturday brings a clear blue sunny sky but with temperatures in the upper thirties to start. Jadah got you up before eight. The paper has been read and breakfast eaten. Carol is on the phone with her sister Linda. Not a bad beginning to your weekend. – Amorella

         0915 hours. I am surprised with Yermey telling Pyl about his taking the pill. She obviously does not know about his very famous story.

         Friendly will fill her in during Pouch Ten. – Amorella

         0918 hours. This is taking the focus off Merlyn’s future-like dream story as a whole.

         It is his dream not yours, boy. – Amorella

         0920 hours. I don’t want this to turn into some mushy four segments of love stories.

         Too close to the truth, huh? – Amorella

         0922 hours. Love makes people vulnerable. Let’s keep it philosophical and otherwise thought provoking.

         Is that what you think this is? – Amorella

         Touché.

         Post. - Amorella

        You had a late lunch at Piada Street Italian and have been running errands; presently you are at Kroger’s on Mason-Montgomery, after this, more errands. – Amorella

         1527 hours. When I write these seemingly non-consequential observations down about ordinary life I take more conscious notice, perhaps this is a good thing. Individual people, individual cars, grocery workers, the variety of dressings people make themselves up in when in public. It’s interesting. The day never warmed up, still in the fifties, but the afternoon sun is bright and no clouds  -- looks like a beautiful California sky right here in southwest Ohio. Nice. Time to work on Dead 9. I’m not sure what I have. – I have nothing.

         Drop in the last paragraph of Dead Eight. – Amorella

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            I think of the heartansoulanmind as two dimensional, as I am in fact, a triangle – with three sides equal and equiangular at sixty degrees. A human spirit in the abstract is the same and two human spirits, one at rest on another are six-sided not three. This is my nature of the view, recognizing the points would be inverted into a single point and with one point resting on another cannot be view as a double – each gives unto the other the illusion of one; thus, there are seven points in a couple, in friends or lovers. But in the marsupial humanoid demonstration, the triangle of heartansoulanmind is unequal – the soul is immortal; the heart is alone root and stem; and the mind is heart’s reason and memory, an ever-unique flowering.

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         1735 hours. We are home from our errands and an ice cream at Graeter’s; Carol also picked up some jellybeans and chocolate eggs. Carol is pulling leaves away from her upcoming spring wildflowers. In the distance a tinge of green appears to lie on branches like frost. I opened the front windows for a few minutes, both cats are sitting at the north window sniffing and making other responsible feline investigations. We love our two cats; characters both. I no longer see the intended image when Merlyn says, “there are seven points in a couple, in friends or lovers.” I understand the inequality of each, the soul, the heart and the mind even though they are one unit. I assume the soul is never more than one/third but the other two have mixed percentages.

         You mean the soul can never have less than one/third not more. – Amorella

         Yes. Amazing. Sorry.

         That is the way it will work in here. It is no wonder that humanity singularly and/or collectively can be confused. This is part of what Yermey is talking about with Pyl – the Balance. Balancing one’s inner self is not so easy as physically standing and balancing on a teeter-totter. Yet, without the inner balance it is not so easy to sail through calm or stormy seas. – Amorella

         1816 hours. This is nothing knew. In general I think the Eastern philosophies and religions deal with this more than the major Western philosophies and religions.

         On ThreePlanets the settlement of such philosophies in on the good will of individuals to other individuals was well as collectively within smaller and larger community/cultures on the planets. The training of self-discipline is for the promotion of peace and welfare within one’s self and among neighbors not warfare. – Amorella

         1823 hours. Not here though. Self-defense is the way all creatures survive on Earth – individually and collectively – this is first.

         That is what machinery is for – the safety of the individual and the collective society. Later, dude. - Amorella