Notes - one thought to another /

       Early afternoon. You have been helping clean up the house for Craig and Alta’s visit tomorrow and Monday AM. After visiting Craig’s sister, Kim and her husband Jeff in upper Warren County between Dayton and Springfield; they stop here before moving up to Chicago as Eric and Mary Kay’s boys have Spring Break this next week. You are excited as usual two see your old friends. You just had a flash memory of Dave Short, Craig Brelsford, Bob Clawson and you playing football for old Westerville in the Fall of 1958. The Ohio Athletic Association would not allow you to play your senior football season, 1959, because you were staying at your Grandparents’ Orndorff after your parents had moved to Middleburg Heights in Cleveland. – Amorella

       1256 hours. I did not want to string those two memories together Amorella.

       You didn’t, I did. One memory followed the other because you missed playing football your senior year, Don Landis and friends were also on that Westerville team you had played on since you were a Freshman on Head Coach, Jim Scarfpin’s team in 1956. – Amorella

       1303 hours. That just brings up more good as well as sad memories. We freshmen had to wear those old leather helmets out of the early fifties and even forties. What a motley crew we were. The showers and dressing rooms under the old stadium were the same ones my dad dressed in when he and mom were in school (Westerville Class 1936). Flood of many more memories roll out and down the river.

       So it is with everyone, boy. Where do you think those memories, yours and everyone else go to boy since you’re all in the same river, so to speak? – Amorella

       1311 hours. I have no idea Amorella. I don’t believe I have ever thought the concept before – millions, billions of peoples’ memories floating down a seemingly endless genetic river. This is like a Greek or Roman myth – what about the forgotten memories (while I am on the concept)?

       In here some are best forgotten, don’t you think? – Amorella

       1316 hours. That sounds pretty unrealistic, Amorella. Those memories also make us who we are and who we become.

       The fruit is more important than the seeds, boy. – Amorella

       1319 hours. I think of one’s character as the fruit not her or his memories.

       I am talking about one and not the other am I not? This is an example of how humans mix things up intentionally or not. It is no wonder truths are seen through the glass darkly. If scholars want to study something with refreshed approach, that would be a way to do it. – Amorella

       1324 hours. They do, Amorella. I think of the many scholarly approaches to Holy Scriptures such as the Bible – to look back in an attempt to see the original intent . . . like we do with the Constitution.

       And what is your observation on these attempts? – Amorella

       1327 hours. More controversy, it’s endless really, all rather depressing.

       People, grouped and individual, pretending to be scholarly cats. – Amorella

       1329 hours. That’s one way to put it. That wrestles up the dogs of demagoguery and war (in my mind). Alas, it appears there is no cheerful way out of such mental processes.

       Later, young man. Post. - Amorella