23 December 2016

Notes - draft 2, ch. 1 / elements of friendship / TV



       You are about to go out on errands. You wrote a note to Dennis D. on FB this morning about Arrival -- one of the points is that time is not a concept within a thought, such as jumping from present to past (in memory) back to present or to future expectation. Later. - Amorella

       Here is what I wrote to Denny after he said that the time deciphering the alien language came too quickly and thus the film was unrealistic:

"Most of the complex form was taking out the verbs, that is, thinking in tense - Using picture/art as a 'whole meaning' instead - Language as an art form. There is no 'prophecy' if time is not a factor. Well, that's my opinion."

       1058 hours. I am parked at Arby's next door to Honey Baked Ham where there is a continual line out the door; the parking is packed. I did buy a Diet Dr. Pepper so I am officially a customer.

       You are concerned that you might be misunderstood through your comment to Denny. You are seemingly forever concerned about your word choice because of misinterpretation. One can see this throughout the blog. - Amorella

       1119 hours. I am easily misunderstood. This is one of the reasons individual words mean so much alone let alone in linear context. The use of the word "intimate" in context with soulmate yesterday is a classic example. Sometimes I do not have the sufficient vocabulary to explain myself, even the dictionary and thesaurus are not enough which is strange enough in itself. Yes, this blog of more than seven years demonstrates such examples of possible misinterpretation -- even my own misinterpretation of what I think and what I write.

       Ironically, this [concern of/for possible misinterpretation] is what has brought to be a writer and a teacher of the English language in your life. - Amorella

       1159 hours. Carol was at Honey Baked Ham for about an hour. It took me fifteen to twenty minutes to find a place to park after I dropped her off. Now we are at Kroger's on Mason-Montgomery Road. Fortunately, I found a handicap spot right up front because this store's lot is packed with cars also. After we take the groceries home we still have at least one more errand, possibly more.

       Soulmate. This is the focus of Soki's Choice. Let's leave this for the moment and return to Chapter One to support the concept through character development. - Amorella

       1224 hours. I'm drawing a blank on the characters but okay.

       You are home waiting for Carol to find a recipe before going to lunch. You did complete a second draft of chapter one. Drop it in and post. - Amorella

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       This is the Soki. Three reasonable human beings are sitting in their older red striped white Cessna 421 Golden Eagle awaiting departure instructions from the Warren Detroit airport with a flight plan to Burke Lakefront in Cleveland after viewing this new year’s Detroit automobile show.

       Pyl Burroughs plunks down to the right of her brother, the pilot, Blake Williams, while Pyl’s husband, Justin, rather tensely adjusted into the seat immediately behind Blake. Pyl turns excitedly, "Justine, what'd you think of this year’s automobile show?"
       "I liked it. I liked the new plug-in hybrids the best."
       "I liked them too,” she replies. “Which ones did you like best, Blakey."
       "I like the weather sunny and mild — not bad for a third of the way through January.” Blake pauses and remarks, "We are a go on 33."
       Justin leans forward pushing himself back to sit up straight and adjusting himself to better observe the instrument needles fluttering as the worn asphalt runway began to swiftly disappear beneath the fuselage.

       Justin is not an experienced passenger in a small plane so he avoids his circumstance by instinctively watching the movements in the instrument panel like an interested cat might watch birds in a bush.

       Pyl sits in front, thinks Justin, a knowledgeable pilot in her own right. We get along very well as a couple. She has an inner strength of self-determination that I do not possess, probably because she had to put up with Blake and her father growing up. Being an only child with two giving parents, self-determination was a given.
An hour into their flight Blake and Justin were enjoying the meticulous drone of the Rolls-Royce engine in line with the darker blue above and the gray blue waters of Lake Erie ten-thousand feet below. Dusk will be around five, broods Blake as the tip of the Cessna Eagle’s left wing appeared to lightly tap onto an unseen object. He mumbles, “What the hell?”

Soki smiles, a good pilot does not like distraction.

       "Was it a bird?" asks Pyl cautiously.
       Justin comments, “It sounded like a car tire kicking up a stone."
       Blake picks up the small binoculars for a quick inspection, "There's a crack near the wing tip light." Blake’s puffed lower lip and grouching demeanor lead to another round nervous of cabin silence into a satisfactory landing at Cleveland’s Burke Lakefront Airport.

       See how quickly we arrived to the airport. This is how it is being the Soki. Travel to-and-from is but a thought away.

       While Pyl and Blake visually inspect the landing light held fiberglass wingtip of the parked Cessna more closely Blake observes a minute gray spongy substance within the slight crack. This is secondary to the reassuring fact that the crack appears easily repairable.
       "What is that gray stuff?" asks Pyl.
       Blake replies,” Probably bled out bird gut."
       "Scrape me some," says Pyl. "I'll have it analyzed. I want to see what kind of bird was flying that high."
       Justin moans, "What for? Jeez Louise, Pyl, it’s bird guts.”
       Pyl replies, “Justin, get me something to put this in. We were pretty high for this to have been a bird."

       Soki says, The stranger is Friendly she is an alien marsupial humanoid from Ship the transportation machinery that brought Friendly and her cohorts from across the galaxy. Ship machinery is on blackenot which means it is invisible to human visuals and earth instruments. Friendly is concerned because Ship acted on his own by tapping this family’s Cessna.

       At this point a stranger walks up and begins inspecting the damaged wingtip.
       Pyl politely asks, "May I help you?"

       Friendly is hesitant, worrying she may be speaking too fast. She has a problem between heart and mind

       The woman responds, "I saw you coming in. I am interested in buying an old Cessna P210N like this one."

       Human minds can be just plain suspicious. A stranger walks up asking about our plane. What's the point? Heart interacts with mind in Justin. Defensive turns to personal concern for wife Pyl, then himself, then Blake.

This woman has such an odd dialect, thinks Justin as he picks up a small plastic envelope for Pyl. Noting the stranger’s dark Mediterranean-like eyes, he first gives Pyl the envelope and then extends his hand, "I'm Justin. This is my wife, Pyl and that's her brother, Blake, standing on the stool.” Justin continues, “I’m surprised you just didn’t call the plane, the Eagle or Silver Eagle, that’s what people who know her usually say.”
      Friendly adjusts to a more warming smile, "I’m Fran.”
       "Fran who?" 
       "My given name is Francis Parker, and you are Pyl?"
       Pyl grins lightly, "As a kid Blake couldn't pronounce my real name so I have been stuck with Pyl ever since." What's your last name, she thinks.
        Friendly/Francis turns slightly to shake Justin's hand and states, "You are the husband?"
       He responds with a dumbstruck nod thinking, what do you want lady?

       Friendly wants you to know that she thinks in italics sometimes, particularly in a situation where her heart overcomes her mind. She likes to be in command of her life just like earthlings do. Italics can unconsciousness in communication with itself.
       In here, a person's unconsciousness communicates to me also. The Soki's world is between the unconscious and the spiritual world. The spiritual world within: the heartansoulanmind, a trinity of one.


       Blake quibbles business-like, "We think a bird hit the wingtip light. A slight crack, but it appears repairable."
       "I have a trace of the remains," says Pyl, "I'm going to have it analyzed to see what kind of bird it was."
Friendly wonders on why Ship clothed in blackenot would, on his own, tap the wingtip. She comments, "Well, good luck making the repair,” And quickly adds, "Blake, how much would you give for her?”
       Pyl moans, "Daddy would never want us to sell this plane, Blake. She's family."
       The alien/human lookalike concludes with an in-your-face business-like smile saying, "Upon a decent inspection and fly about, I’ll give you up three hundred thousand for this Cessna and not a dime more."
       Heartened by the price, Blake responds, "Give me your card. You can contact me tomorrow, but not before noon."
       Fine, thinks Friendly with a quick smile but she forgets to speak. Lost in thought she walks the short distance from the hanger complex to the Burke Lakefront terminal alone. What stuck in her mind like an unwelcome claw was that Ship wanted this meeting with humans to occur.

       See how it is. Friendly's heart and mind at work, winks the Soki. Winks is a misnomer. Betweeners don't have eyes. They see without distraction. 30

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       You ate at Panera/Chipotle at the VOA Centre; Carol is taking something back to Carter's and is stopping at Hallmark before coming to the car. Traffic out the wazoo today, boy. - Amorella

       1503 hours. A stop at Kroger's on Tylersville before a stop at Key Bank, and that ought to do it today. This Kroger lot is not much better than the last one. I like the way Soki thinks, always did. I assume that what I did was okay.

       You can hardly remember what you did. - Amorella

       1505 hours. I know. It all happened in-the-moment. I didn't even 'think', "well, Soki would say this here-at-a-dialogue". It is an interesting harmony of unconscious behavior. I am either conscious or not-conscious. - Amorella

       Not-conscious serves your reality better. Unconscious denotes unconsciousness. Not-conscious appears separate in this blog context. - Amorella

       1512 hours. This reminds me of my meeting with Dr. Coulter in his office at Otterbein where he said (smiling friendly and mischievously at once), "What are you doing, trying to rewrite the Bible?" I remember self-consciously laughing and shrugging my shoulders in response because it was unclear to me what he was actually saying. I loved Dr. Coulter because he accepted me as I was, something few other teachers ever did. Friendship of this sort has a timelessness to it.

       You see there are only slight differences between friendship and a soulmate. Sometimes it doesn't make any difference particularly where timelessness is concerned. - Amorella

       1544 hours. Kroger's didn't have what Carol needed (waterchessnuts) so after the bank we are back at Kroger's on Mason-Montgomery (such is our day). I need to look up qualities or elements of friendship to see which correlate with soulmate.

       Meanwhile, why don't we work on chapter two. - Amorella

       1547 hours. Okay, good idea, Amorella. First, I will put SC.ch.2 and 3,d.1 in separate documents. Once these are completed and redrafted with what we have then I will know better whether to continue this project or not. Right now it looks good. -- > We returned home. I took a rest. Here are five basic traits of friendship according to this article in Psychology Today. (1734)

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"The 13 Essential Traits of Good Friends" by Suzanne Degges-White, Ph.D.  from Psychology Today.
Posted March 23, 2015

Traits of Integrity

These qualities, represented by the first 5 traits on the list above, are related to core values held by most cultures—trustworthiness, honesty, dependability, loyalty, and, as an interrelated quality, the ability to trust others.

  • Trustworthiness is often the “make or break” element in any interpersonal relationship. Any breach, regardless of perceived magnitude, can devastate a relationship. Trustworthiness is comprised of several components, including honesty, dependability, and loyalty, and while each is important to successful relationships, honesty and dependability have been identified as the most vital in the realm of friendships.
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  • Honesty requires that we speak openly from the heart and incorporate objectivity into our words.
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  • Being dependable means that friends can count on you to be there when you say you will, to do what you say you will, and to be willing to stand up for friends, especially when they can’t stand up for themselves. If you are as likely to let friends down as come through for them, the relationship often becomes superficial, less engaging, and even resentment-provoking, if it doesn’t end altogether.
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  • Loyalty is valued early on in all of our relationships, from the time we make our first friendships. We need friends who won’t spill our secrets to others, gossip about us, or allow others to criticize us.
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  • Being able to trust another person involves being comfortable with vulnerability. If you have difficulty sharing your authentic self with a friend, it is doubtful your friend will be easily willing to do this for you.
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  • Selected and edited from - psychologytodayDOTcom/blog/lifetime-connections/201503/

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       Dusk. You are going to do your exercises shortly. Post. - Amorella

       Carol fixed you and ham and cheese rollup for supper. You watched NBC News, a "Doc Martin" and "Modern Family" then Carol went up to read and you watched the first of a six part film starring and by Woody Allen on Amazon after Carol decided she didn't want to watch the first episode of the second season of "The Man in the High Castle" tonight. - Amorella

       2128 hours. I read some BBC articles and checked emails. I'm tired. I finally realized it is important not to have exercises set wrong. Since having the new Fitbit I had the 30 minutes exercises set on "Running" since I couldn't find "Walking". Today I reset the exercises on "Workout" where they should have belonged. Now I am back up to 2 to 3 miles a day whereas before on "Running" I was 2 to 3 tenths of a mile a day in the energy expended. At least now it is reset since tomorrow will be the first day Fitbit recording for the first day of a second year of service.

       Post. - Amorella

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