After noon. You just completed your forty
some minutes of exercises, forty-three exactly. Since gaining the Fitbit you
are making sure you go over the forty minutes because your clock and Fitbit’s
are not exactly on the same second though minutes are very close. Carol is on
the phone with one of her sisters. The cats are having a heyday since it snowed
an inch and the birds are in feeding at both feeders on the front and side
yard. – Amorella
1911 hours. This morning we made
plans to see Steve and Karen next Friday for lunch. Thursday morning I drop
Carol off at Kim and Paul’s to have lunch with Fritz then that evening we have
our high school gathering in Uptown Westerville. We also plan to see Patti
Pringle on the 29th for lunch. Looking forward to it. This afternoon
I worked on the Sony audio system since the subwoofer was not functioning.
While fussing with it I watch ‘Fireplace’ on Netflix – about thirty minutes to
an hour of watching a fire in the fireplace and listening to the wood pop –
just like a real fire without the heat. Since we have a fifty-inch screen it
appears lifelike in size. Cool running image of lighting a fire in the
fireplace in real time. I couldn’t get the classic music to play, which lead me
to closer inspect the audio system. Carol is talking to Linda on the phone.
Very nice for her, very relaxing – she talked to Gayle this morning.
You also watched another “X-Files” and had a
turkey-baloney and cheese sandwich for a late lunch mid-afternoon. Carol spent
most of the working on cleaning out old desk files. She handed me a certificate
of appreciation for working with DECA students at Indian Hill in 1975. Jim
Gleason was the DECA instructor and Hugh Meabon was principal. It was awarded
to me in May of that year. - Amorella
Good
feeling towards both fellow educators. I really enjoyed my years at IH in the
seventies when I feel students and faculty were treated more humanely and less
business-like. I was on a school committee with John Pepper in those days – he was
CEO of P&G – very pleasant personable man. Later though, the school board
and superintendent developed the desire to think of students as like bars of
soap, as it were, and teach accordingly. Personal writing files in English
classes for instance and the more writing in their files the better off they
should be – as if writing more essays was as important (or more so) than
writing better with fewer essays to count by the number. This was one of my
anger points at the time. People are not raw blocks of wood and should not be
measured by the numbers (alone) as trimmed pieces of lumber. Those are my feelings
still. Ironically, I don’t remember John Pepper ever saying that is what he
hoped Indian Hill would do. He showed me he had a humane attitude towards
teaching and students. (1937)
You
got carried away there boy. – Amorella
1939 hours. The words rolled out
of my mind and heart Amorella as my fingers touched the keys on the board –
that’s all. Anyway, I’m done. I’m also tired, and I haven’t done nearly so much
around the house as Carol has today.
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