Notes - there's irony / basement

Mid-morning. You had an excellent time with old friends, Jim and Jeanne Shu. up from Atlanta who are heading north into near Upper Michigan for a family gathering (to the same cabin on a lake that your four couples had a gathering several years ago). Last night you ate uptown at Two Cities Pizza (you split a medium New York style and a medium Chicago style) and stopped at Graeter's for ice cream before they headed on north on I-75 for an overnight in Dayton before moving on. - Amorella

       0913 hours. Today should be a quiet but busy one as we prepare for Kim, Paul, the boys and Linda to arrive tomorrow afternoon. Linda and Carol will babysit while we three go to the nearby Class of 1997, Wm. Mason High School Twentieth Year Reunion Dinner. Right now I'm tired and need a nap before exercises.

       Later, Dude. - Amorella

       You had your needed nap then you did your exercises and feel better as you spent time beyond your thirty minutes strengthening your lower back and legs. Carol has been working in the yard and washing/drying clothes. - Amorella

       1234 hours. We are creatures of habit no question about it.

       Do you consider war a habit? - Amorella

       1235 hours. What a strange question and out of the blue at that. I don't know if it is a habit but it is something most nations condition themselves for, Switzerland being an exception I suppose. Since some practice for it; others feel they have to practice also. Some wars have been provoked and others people fell into through no fault of their own. Lord Acton comes to mind: "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." I better look it up. How about that, I had it right. The WH quote of the day is "Locked and loaded" at least on BBC. I don't want to think any more about it. Nothing can be done on this string of thought anyway. We'll either have some semblance of a war with North Korea or we won't. Then again, maybe China or Russia will bring forth a peacemaker. What irony that would be, and in the process the U.S. will continue to fall from grace, so to speak. American will not be so great again, but there would be no war. In any case, we lose merit on the world stage. Our actions speak louder than our words. By 'our' I mean humanities' words.

       Not always, boy. Post. - Amorella

       1253 hours. You appear to have more faith in us than we do, Amorella.

       Now, there's irony for you boy, if you are looking for it. - Amorella

      You spent a very good part of the afternoon cleaning up your main basement desk and going through all the files that focus on the mid to late eighties that would relate of an angelic event. - Amorella

       So far the stack is a bit over six inches high. I threw out one kitchen trash bag worth of manuscripts and junk and have begun filling another. I found a copy of the material I sent to Dr. Payne that shows all these eventual letter characters like 'bb' and 'ab'. It is several hundred pages typed, double spaced between conversations. I put notes in some folders, poems created in another two, and Romela notes not in the spiral notebooks, just freehand notes. I have to continue separating and sorting. Some material I want to keep until my death. Kim will do with them what she may. I want to keep them because I see them as a part of my living identity. (1718)

       Post. - Amorella