Notes - working the day / DNA space /

       Late afternoon. Carol and Linda are off on a walk about the neighborhood. You are feeling better but weary as you have had two lower back spasm attacks; one this morning and one this afternoon. - Amorella

       1731 hours. This morning I had just sat down on the side of the bed and was putting my legs up to lie down -- the lightning hit. This afternoon I was getting up from the bedroom chair when the same happened. The pain focus just out from the lower back as in a circle about eight inches in diameter. Arrggg. I am better though and would like to bring my mind back into editing and creating. We had lunch at Two Cities Pizza uptown; delicious then while running an errand to the Tri-County (I-275 and Rt. 747) area we had Graeter's once again for dessert. Then more errands and home.

       Post. - Amorella

              1743 hours. I saw a note from my old friend and one time colleague, Bob F. He had a picture of him playing tennis at the British Club in Sao Paulo back in the very early seventies. Reminded me of Carol and my playing on the same clay courts. What days we had. I asked him if we played doubles with him and his wife Ann. He couldn't remember but he did say I taught him how to play chess. I liked the classy style and tone of the old British Club. I have long been an Anglophile -- I am not sure why.

       It is your love of British history and literature, in that order. It connects you first to the British Empire and ancient Europe, classical Greece, Rome and Egypt as well as India, China and Peru; all places the United States is not. Places that were or are more real than the United States to you; that is to say their cultural histories are older and that you feel that in a romantic way that your ancient DNA covers most of those histories one way or another. - Amorella

       1756 hours. I feel most all our DNA histories cover all of the world. It make the world more personal to me. Homo sapiens are the higher consciousness of the Earth. We are the nature of the Earth. The United States or any one country looks pretty small in such a large field of time and DNA space.

       Now post. - Amorella