Mid-morning. You are waiting for Carol at
the community center and have been re-reading and continued to underline
psychological aspects placed in yesterday’s posting. - Amorella
1010
hours. I have gleaned and refreshed myself from material I read in later high
school, college and the university setting. Life experiences make for a
different circumstance of course – an added the age spice to the life soup if
you will.
You finished your exercises with 404
calories used in forty-three minutes, better than your usual 360 or so. –
Amorella
1143
hours. The Today Show today said Fitbit is not so accurate as compared with the
iPhone or Apple watch but it’ll do for consistency within Fitbit’s parameters.
You and Carol had a light lunch at home and
now you are waiting for Carol at TriHealth Montgomery Family Medicine on
Montgomery Road while she sees Dr. Merling for poison ivy. You both watched the
last of the season’s “Grantchester” on PBS; you were caught by surprise at the
conclusion and are happy it is renewed for a third season. – Amorella
1423
hours. Wow. This is another of the wonderful PBS/BBC productions, so well
enacted and thoughtfully written and produced. Carol and I love it.
** **
Grantchester (TV series)
Grantchester is an ITV detective drama set in a 1950s Cambridgeshire village
of Grantchester near Cambridge first broadcast in 2014. It features a local
Anglican vicar Sidney Chambers (James Norton) who develops a sideline in
sleuthing with the initially reluctant help of Detective Inspector Geordie
Keating (Robson Green). The series is based on The Grantchester Mysteries collections of short stories, written by
James Runcie. The first series was based on the six stories from the first
book, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death. A second series was
commissioned in late 2014 and broadcast in March and April 2016.
Plot
Anglican priest (and former Scots Guards officer)
Sidney Chambers and the overworked Detective Inspector Geordie Keating forge an
unlikely partnership in solving crimes. Keating's gruff, methodical approach to
policing complements Chambers' more intuitive techniques of coaxing information
from witnesses and suspects.
Selected and edited from Wikipedia
[Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes give an average critical
review of 90 percent and an average audience review of 87 percent.]
** **
1625
hours. While stopped at Kroger’s I saw and copied this from today’s Quora-dot-com.
Interesting survey to ask about anyone I suppose.
** **
These 20 (ten is too
few to be at all comprehensive) questions are meant to be asked of public
figures and would-be or current politicians, but they work well with almost
anybody.
It's best to ask them without
revealing them in advance. But even if the questions are known in advance, they
are devilishly hard to "spin" even for the most slippery interviewee
and her/his spin doctors.
They have been tested
extensively, and if they are all asked and their answers recorded IN FULL
WITH ALL ASIDES AND REMARKS ON THE RECORD (make this stipulation
crystal clear to the interviewee ahead of time: "Be careful, everything
you say is on the record") results are often quite astonishing.
Be sure to listen
carefully and faithfully record all the asides; they are often priceless.
If you are a
reporter, you can set the ground rules for the questioning, the answers
will reveal a trove of fundamental thinking that is very hard to find with the
so-called "hardball" questions many journalists think make them look
"tough" (and don't), and for which any good politician is well
prepared. Don't be fooled by the ones that sound "easy" (like the
dancing one); they often uncover the most about a personality.
1)
Besides to your God, your
family and your country and your constituents (if any), where do your loyalties
lie?
2)
In as much precise
detail as you see fit, how does your mind work?
3)
Have you ever been in
love? If so, describe the experience.
4)
If you were an animal,
what animal would you be ~ other than human?
5)
Define “generosity”.
6)
What did your father
fail at?
7)
Except for
"nothing," what or whom do you hate?
8)
In deadly peril, name
three people you want in your foxhole with you?
9)
Have you ever dealt a
death penalty? If yes, please explain.
10)
Describe your ability
to dance.
11)
What do you think your
worst enemy really thinks about you?
12)
On a scale of 0 to
250, where would you score your intelligence?
13)
In eight words or
less, please define intelligence.
14)
What is the greatest
weakness in your character?
15)
How do you verify the
truth of what you are told?
16)
Name and define your
favorite word.
17)
Of the following,
which gives you the most pleasure: a) Music; b) Money; c) Literature; d)
Science; e) Spirituality; f) Golf; g) Food & Wine; h) Films.
18)
Briefly describe your
favorite hat.
19)
Who is the best living
lawyer that you know?
20)
If you were made to
live out the rest of your days as a famous fictional or non-fictional
character, whom would you select?
Updated Apr 25
• View Up votes
About
the Author of the survey:
Barnard Law
Collier
Anthropologist,
journalist, writer, director Scanmyhandwriting.com
I had to edit the
above article slightly while correcting errors. - rho
** **
1635
hours. We are sitting in the car and the far north Pine Hill Lakes Park facing
south for a change. The leaves are really out in force and we can hear Muddy
Creek rippling while running north – very pleasant. I was checking this Barnard
Law Collier online and can’t find anything about him, but the questions are
pretty good.
Why don’t you respond to the questions, boy.
Take your time; it’ll do you good. – Amorella
1643
hours. I just read the first question and I have no idea. I guess I don’t have
any loyalties, except to my close friends. Even then I don’t know how I would
define ‘close’ in this context.
Appears to be a pretty good question to me. –
Amorella
1647
hours. I wasn’t thinking about me answering the questions. I would not make a
very good politician. First, you have to have a good memory. That rules me out.
Second, I’m not interested in running for politics – too much crap plus I’d have
to pretend to be politely honest when I didn’t want to be.
You have been home a while, resting in your
black bedroom chair with Jadah on you chest. Suddenly it dawned on you who the
author of “Grantchester” reminded you of, Graham Greene. - Amorella
** **
Henry
Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April
1991) was an English novelist and author regarded by some as one of the great
writers of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread
popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major
writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or
"entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted, in 1967, for
the Nobel Prize for Literature. Through 67 years of writings, which included
over 25 novels, he explored the ambivalent moral and political issues of the
modern world, often through a Catholic perspective.
Although Greene objected strongly to being described
as a Roman Catholic novelist, rather than as a novelist who happened to be
Catholic, Catholic religious themes are at the root of much of his writing,
especially the four major Catholic novels: Brighton
Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, and The End of the Affair, which are
regarded as "the gold standard" of the Catholic novel. Several works, such as The Confidential Agent, The Third Man, The
Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, and The
Human Factor, also show Greene's avid interest in the workings and
intrigues of international politics and espionage.
Selected and edited from Wikipedia
** **
1955
hours. I remember I taped “The Potting Shed” (1981) described below on our Sony
BetaMax (like VHS) and used it at the end of twentieth century lit classes for
a writing assignment and discussion. Most of my students had never heard of
Graham Greene. A short quiet play (well acted) helped to stimulate some minds
into private thought they would not have suspected from a typical English
class.
** **
The Potting Shed is a play in
three acts by Graham Greene. The psychological drama centers on a secret held
by the Callifer family for nearly thirty years.
The patriarch of the family is dying and James, his
estranged son, appears unexpectedly. He can remember nothing about a mysterious
moment that occurred in the family's potting shed when he was 14 years old.
Family members who recall the event are unwilling to describe it to him. With
the help of a psychoanalyst, James tries to recall just what happened that day
that left him rejected by his father, alienated from his family, and alone in
the world.
A 1981 television production of the play was written
by Pat Sandys and produced by Yorkshire Television for the London Weekend
Television series Celebrity Playhouse. The cast, directed by David
Cunliffe, included Paul Scofield as James Callifer and Anna Massey, Maurice
Denham, Celia Johnson, David Swift, Allan Cuthbertson, and Cyril Luckham in
supporting roles.
Selected and edited from Wikipedia
** **
2008
hours. I remember that most of the characters were older, but many related them
to older people they knew such as grandparents and/or great aunts and uncles.
The plot has a Twilight Zone theme, something students did not expect. I found
it interesting that over those 37 some years I could ruffle them into thought
through the visuals – plays and films when it suited my purpose. Students lived
in the rabbit hole of adolescence and sometime they just needed a quiet jolt to
see another perspective of the reality living in other rabbit holes like Graham
Green, Jonathon Swift, Shakespeare and Chaucer. Sometimes living in the rabbit
hole of the classroom brought me pure joy. To see a quick blink at a student’s
eyes and a look that told me she or he just discovered something about her or
himself or other human beings that she or he had never suspected. No matter how
many students I had I suspect that all of them whether I witnessed it or not,
still had a part of their childhood mind in the present. People are
interesting. I got a paycheck as well as to witness such events. I feel
well-blessed to have had such a lifetime already. (2022)
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