Notes - working on ch 33/12.bk2

       Mid-morning. You both have been doing chores, and Jill should be here shortly. As you sit you think of the irony in yesterday’s Luther quotation:

“Hier steche ich, ich kann nicht anders”

“Here I stand, I can do no other.”

You are not standing. – Amorella

       1007 hours. There have been several times in my life where I have stood for what I feel is right and just. One cannot lead a human life without such a stand at least once in one’s lifetime.

       You accomplished several errands and are presently waiting for Carol’s call at the far end of the busy community center. – Amorella

       1208 hours. It is a beautiful partly cloudy though brisk Spring day with a high in the mid-sixties.

       You are thinking about David resting in the ground on a high hill in northeast Ohio. – Amorella

       1211 hours. There are days in his life he would have enjoyed such a day to go fishing or canoeing. I appreciate the seasons and respect them enough to capitalize them as the Romantics used to do, maybe some still do. Were we always so busy? Probably, busier even – certainly the quality of life is genuinely better world wide, compared to a century or two before. I think I have little to stand for now except respect for the earth and respect for our species’ survival. I can remember being young like Owen and people would tell me I should be as good as I can be, that and along with it not to step on a crack or it would break my mother’s back. No problems until fourth grade, then reinforced by the fifth grade with the same teacher, Mrs. Spence, it was accepted that I could do no better in school than C’s with a B or a D along the way almost every grading period. I don’t know how I survived high school let alone college. In my late twenties I really enjoyed graduate school. It is very strange to think on. I don’t know how that education business all came to be. I think I would have still been happy being a driver for the Greyhound Bus Company. I could have done that for a living. (1227)

       Putting your life in perspective, boy, is one of the advantages of growing older at this point in your life. I don’t agree you would have been as content as you do because you are a concept thinker. Perhaps if you had become an artist or a writer along the way, that is, a private one, sharing with friends, you would have been no different than now. You were always a reader, no one can take that from you. Relax, enjoy the setting. Later, dude, Amorella

       Lunch at Panera/Chipotle and now you are centered at Rose Hill Cemetery sitting under a Maple’s shade facing south. – Amorella

       1349 hours. I am working on the chapter 12/33 Pouch segment. Carol is on page 247 of The Patriot Threat.

       You completed a draft of chapter thirty-three (Pouch, segment 12, book 2). – Amorella

       1740 hours. I am not ready to post it.

       Post the segments when you have completed the final three chapter Pouch segments of book two, GMG.2. Otherwise, post what you have today. - Amorella