Yesterday you saw Dr. B., your
endocrinologist, and enjoyed the chat. Health-wise, you appear to be okay
although you both have to wait for the results of your A1c and thyroid which
you had taken at the office. The rest of the day was rather laid back because
you strained a muscle getting out of the tub. By evening though it appeared to
be less painful. You actually rested in bed for a half hour before moving back
to the chair to sleep in the more confined space -- no tossing and turning
allowed.
Carol was up this early morning
washing clothes and watching "Morning Joe". You got up at
seven-thirty and hour earlier than usually because Carol got you up. - Amorella
0916 hours. She thinks I should be up earlier and go to bed earlier. I
don't know that it makes a lot of difference but today is bright and sunny so I
was fine (after five minutes or so) with it. This is ridiculous of course when
you listen/watch "Morning Joe" and see the political problems in our
nation and around the world. I was reading a BBC article on the Cadbury Easter
Egg and how the National Trust has taken the 'Easter' out of the National Trust
Cadbury Egg Hunt. The Prime Minister even had to put in her two shillings
worth. What the great satirist Jonathan Swift might have written in today's
world. On our side of the pond he could have written a lengthy political essay
or two since this last January.
Orndorff you have a tendency to lean towards
politics when this isn't your intent in Soki's Choice. - Amorella
0936 hours. I can erase it.
Of course you can. - Amorella
0937 hours. I don't want to.
Really? - Amorella
0938 hours. Where are you going with this Amorella? Never mind. Politics
and religion need to be kept out of my/our works because I've lived long enough
to know better.
Passions run high on both scores. - Amorella
0940 hours. We have conversed about passions before.
Politics and religion run the gamut of
heartansoulanmind -- it is as though lightning strikes a cord within, and anger/hate
or love/humility roars out in a concord or chaos of words, depending on whether
the soul is echoing one's heart or mind or both at the moment. - Amorella
0948 hours. Your "anger/hate or love/humility" strikes me in
that pride is missing.
No need to bring up something you already recognize,
boy. - Amorella
0950 hours. This is only because of 'humility' (as a virtue) and pride
(as a sin) automatically follows.
Not everyone thinks this way, young man. -
Amorella
0953 hours. I know that Amorella.
Do I detect anger in your written voice? -
Amorella
Yes, of course. You set me up.
You are no stranger to anger/hate and
love/humility, that is my point. - Amorella
0957 hours. Why? Being human requires humility first, when this is not
so I am less fully human.
Who told you this? - Amorella
Nobody. I just made it up.
Out of anger at being a Homo sapiens, am I
right, boy? - Amorella
1000 hours. I am arrogant.
You are indeed. Post. - Amorella
1001 hours. This conversation did not go well.
You drove over to the DLX to
pick up your two pair of altered pants. Both fit very well. You are still
excited that you are now wearing 3X rather than 4X but you are surprised at you
pants' inseam. It was thirty inches in your high school and college days and
twenty-nine inches in the seventies and eighties. In the nineties it was
twenty-eight inches and now it is twenty-five and a half inches. Carol said you
have really shrunk and you were thinking again of Eliot's lines about having "trousers
rolled". - Amorella
1215 hours. It was a shock. Holy crap. What happened to my legs? I know
I don't stand as straight as I used to. Mom used to yell at me all the time to
stand up straight up from junior high through high school. Once I joined the
Air Force ROTC and the Drill Team
(1961-1963) I stood straight without being told. I was six feet tall with no inches.
Now I am either five foot ten and a half inches or five foot eleven inches. Bummer.
You have no real recollection of what you and
Carol did this afternoon. - Amorella
1904 hours. We ate lunch at Smashburgers which was a surprise because I
thought Carol wanted to go to Two Cities pizza. I cleaned up a bag of birdseed
and put it in an empty plastic cat litter bucket because a critter had gotten
into the garage and chewed a couple of holes in one end of good sized sack from
Lowe's. We ran a weekly errand to the bank. That's it. I'm missing a few hours.
You spent time reading material Kim had sent
you about homes and condos in the greater Westerville area. - Amorella
1910 hours. I did. I forgot. What I am discovering is that we may have
to spend more than we want to for a home or condo in north Franklin or lower
Delaware County. Real estate taxes are literally twice and sometimes more than
what we pay in Mason. I'm talking about a two or three bedroom home with a
first floor master; one built sometime
this century, preferably ten or less years old and in a development much like
what we live in; a home pretty much like our own but with a first floor master.
We had ours built in 1991, a MI home which we bumped out two feet on the north
and west sides. I think we kicked up the first floor ceiling a foot and the
basement also up a foot but we never finished the basement, rough in for a full
bath down there though. I feel we are too old to build new again. We won't do
anything unless we can sell this house for a reasonable price. So, this is what
I did -- consider buying a newer home or condo. Some told us that we should
sell and move once we retired but we like it here. Enough of this. This doesn't
have anything to do with Soki's Choice either.
No, it doesn't, but it does have something
to do with Soki's Choice being written by a contentedly married
seventy-four year old male whose daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren are
living a little over a hundred miles away and who are planning on staying in
that area for some time. - Amorella
1932 hours. Life is what it is. This theme is reminding me of my
favorite play, Wilder's "Our Town". I'm not a baby boomer but Carol
is. A lot more people in this country are moving into her age, seventy.
Late evening. Post. - Amorella
2221 hours. I am getting hooked on watching Rachel Maddow just like the
right are hooked on Fox News. Why is this so addictive? I think it is because
Rachel says things I like to hear. My inner voice says, 'orndorff, this is too
much distorting of what political reality is'. I'm sure the voice is right but
I listen anyway. I need to listen to a Fox News Rachel Maddow. As soon as I do
listen to Fox that same voice inside says, 'Fox does not tell the whole truth
and you know this for a fact'. 'Neither side has my heart, both sides are in my
mind alone.' That's what I, my conscious voice says.
You are not listening, boy. Heart is more
involved than you think, and so is your soul for that matter. - Amorella
2231 hours. I cannot see how this is so.
Your heart is not as far to the left as you
would like. You are middle of the road because you don't want the government to
collapse either way, left or right. You love the basic concepts of the United
States, to old fashion virtuous concepts, but as an existentialist you don't
feel anyone living is as free as the Constitution would strive for. Your answer
for this, the one you gave to your Texas cousin on Facebook yesterday, is that
nothing is free; everyone pays the Piper. In the Romantic period the Great
Democracy in Nature was Death. No one buys their way out. That as close to
democracy as we'll get. No nonsense, that what your heart says whether you
believe it or not. - Amorella
2239 hours. That's not very reassuring.
Too bad. Post. - Amorella
2240 hours. Hangman's humor. Cheer up things are bound to get worse.
You don't believe that either, not deep
down. That the crux of your problem. The esoteric problems, that's what you
love. Escape into reason, and from there into imagination. That's who you are. -
Amorella
2245 hours. I don't agree that it is that simple.
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