Afternoon and you are about to head to
Potbelly's for lunch. Carol has been doing housework and clothes
washings/drying all day. You suggested bringing her lunch but she just wants to
get out of the house. Meanwhile, you hate the taste of the steroid pills before
meals and at the end of the day. Your rash continues to grow like the steroids
are helping the cause. You can't take any separate medicines for the rash on
left leg up onto left hip side until you complete the steroid pack. It takes
six months to see a group dermatologist. That's where you are at the moment.
Later. - Amorella
1412 hours. I'm not even hungry.
After lunch and a Graeter's you are waiting
for Carol at Kroger's on Mason-Montgomery Road, after a stop at the bank then
home. - Amorella
1537 hours. I wonder how these descriptions of everyday life are going
to be when we move back to Westerville. We'll still be less than four miles to
Potbelly's. Maybe we won't eat out so much, or maybe we'll just have company
some of the times, mostly Kim and maybe Cathy and Tod once in a while. Lots of
people shopping today. There is hardly a time during the daylight that Kroger's
isn't busy.
After reading about the warning call to the
local Cambridge, England paper some twenty minutes ahead of the JFK assassination
released last night, conspiracy theories run back up into your head. - Amorella
1543 hours. I wasn't thinking about that consciously but you are right.
That was a surprise announcement. Ever since I read that on BBC this morning I
have been trying to remember Carol's dad's discussion after seeing the movie on
the conspiracy. Dad was at a meeting with Robert Kennedy when it happened and
there was something telling about Robert's immediate reaction that told Dad
that Cuba didn't have anything to do with it. He never went with any of the conspiracy
theories because of the reactions he saw of people in Washington that day, that
is people in the State Department where he held a high but nonpolitical post.
There had been several high officials in the room with Robert Kennedy.. The way I remember it the sense the Cuba had something to do with it
was taken as a diversion. We had the discussion after seeing JFK, the Oliver
Stone film about the investigation of the assassination.
You are at Home Depot on Tylersville for a
special furniture polish recommended for the dining room table as Kroger's did
not have it, then the bank before home. - Amorella
1614 hours. I wish I could remember Dad Hammond's story. He talked about
how it was the remainder of 1963 and 1964 in the upper halls of State. Lots of
talk about the rumors and reality of the assassination. Dad didn't go back to
an Asian post until later when he was posted in Saigon and took the family with
him. In Saigon he was also connected loosely with CIA operatives and they had
their own stories on 22 November 63; theories that had been checked out and
were discounted. (1623)
Why don't you check out the blog searching
for JFK or Dallas? Perhaps you told the story already. - Amorella
1625 hours. I have repeated so many stories over the years, I'm sure.
I'll have to do this at home. Key words of JFK or Dallas should be easy enough
for the machinery to note.
You are afraid to ask me to do this for you,
for what reasons? - Amorella
1628 hours. Number one, it would be weird and two, it would be unorthodox
and three; it would be impolite.
1753 hours. I did find something on Dad's story on JFK. I'll drop the
post in from the beginning to keep date and context.
** **
31
JULY 2012
Notes - thoughts in variety
Almost noon. Today is your father-in-law’s birthday, Dr. Grandville Harry
Sharp “Scotch” Hammond was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1917, a year before his
wife and your mother and father. Here is what you have in your ‘Reunion’
genealogical software:
**
‘Scotch’ grew up in New Philadelphia, Ohio and
worked his way through Otterbein College. He met his wife at Otterbein. He
spent the war in the Pacific Theatre in the Navy Sea Bees [the Navy Sea Bees
are similar to the Army Engineers] at island air bases. He taught at
Westerville High School and Otterbein as he worked on his Masters and Doctorate
at Ohio State. He was a principal at Plain City Schools and eventually became
superintendent at Alliance City Schools in Ohio. From there he worked for the
Agency of International Development (AID) with the State Department in
Washington. He was a professional (rather than a political) diplomat in the
Upper Education Division of State in Korea, Vietnam, India and Thailand. When
he retired he played a little golf and gave well-received lectures at Sun City
Center, Florida focusing on ‘the World Future Society social and economic
issues’ and on the workings of the Agency for International Development
programs. Dad died 25 December 1993. (Reunion 9 software)
**
It is not right not to include my
favorite mother-in-law in this. Dorothy Jean Cook Hammond was born 10 October
1918 in Westerville and died 13 January 1994 at Sun City Center. She had been a
Latin schoolteacher in the States and Overseas.
**
Mom graduated from Westerville High with my parents, then she went to Otterbein and graduated in Home Economics and Latin. She was a gracious and fun loving hostess as
well as a wonderful cook! She was the very kind and organized wife to her
husband and a fantastic mother to their four girls, Carol, Mary Lou, Gayle and
Linda. She and Scotch loved their usual many social events and affairs as well
as square dancing in their retired years, The family gathering at Christmas
always seemed to be Mom’s most special time of the year. Whether cooking for
two or for over fifty, Jean’s roast beef and potatoes and many other main and
side dishes and creative desserts were out of this world in presentation and
taste! (Reunion 9 software)
**
I miss them both. Dad had many stories about his work. One of the best was when
he and others were in a meeting with Bobby Kennedy when John was assassinated.
Later, when the film JFK came out (1991) Dad said that it was
very clear to him that no one in that room (of several very high officials) and
later through personal witnessing of officials in the Department of State that
he could ever believe there had been a government cover up as hypothesized in
the Oliver Stone film.
. . .
** **
1757
hours. That is a definite statement on Dad's part in terms of a government
cover up as shown in the Oliver Stone film. I'll continue researching the blog
later.
Upon checking the home phone Carol
discovered that Kroger's pharmacy had called because Dr. M. had sent you a new
prescription. Upon reading you have decided to wait until tomorrow after you
call Paul about the side effects, especially since you are taking the steroids
through Sunday. Tomorrow you have to have blood work (A1c +) done because you have an appointment with Dr.
B. Tuesday morning. - Amorella
2147 hours. At least I have the med to take on Monday for the fungal
rash. The only fungus I can ever remember was athlete's foot in public school
and college. How I picked up a fungus I'll never know. Well, once I did have
something of this sort but it was from being in a rain forest setting near the
Paraguay River. Probably when we flew into the Iguazu Falls region from
Argentina.
You have no idea, a better choice was in the
rain forest up on the mountains surrounding Rio de Janeiro. It was a fungus
affecting your right forefinger and right little finger. You still have minute
scars. - Amorella
2158
hours. That I do. Amazing. It was misdiagnosed once but I forget with what. It
must have been on and off active for at least twenty years. I remember I
thought it was like a curse for bringing back home a native human finger bone from
the cemetery area atop Machu Picchu. That's what I thought once in the deep of
night with a more than active imagination. I think I took the finger bone back
the second time we visited the place because I felt guilty taking it in the
first place. I didn't really know it was a finger bone until my cousin David S.
and Bob P. rather verified that it was. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I took it back
and placed it pretty much where I had dug it up. Why am I even thinking about
this? (2206)
Probably because it is nearing Halloween
which has always been a trickster for you because of all your research focus
over the years on the Druids . . . and see the stories that suddenly come to
mind. - Amorella
2220 hours. I remember one of the stories in the orndorff geneology that
goes back to a famous druid that we may have been related to. I remember that
when I read about that I was spooked out for a time. Just the idea of one of
our ancestors could have been a real druid was cool to contemplate until I began
wondering about theories of genetic memory and the spookiness picked up a
science oriented root to grow some fascination on. This is how I went on to
invent the Grandma Stories in the Merlyn books. I conjured them out of the
concept of genetic memories telling the stories. Isn't that funny. (2227)
Why don't we end tonight with one of those
'ghost-like' stories told by Grandma from the Merlyn's Mind
trilogy. - Amorella
** **
Grandma’s
Story 1
One ancestor of many of you readers, another
shaman of about seven thousand years ago, in the area of the Black Sea, stood
by the fire one cloudy dark night in summer and said, “I have a new story. This
is one about a man who can be in two places at once while he is still alive. He
can be standing here like me, telling a story, and,” he pointed to his north,
“be in the woods at the same time. How do you think he accomplishes this?”
This invited the
listener to give herorhis own plausibility and in the process the shaman
discovered he could be enormously entertaining at the same time as being
instructive. It became an unsolvable mystery that everyone in the clan and
nearby clans could not decipher. How is it possible for a person to be telling
the same story in more than one place at the same time?
This story was so
popular that shamans all over the world were soon telling it to their neighbors
wherever they were. The telephone hadn’t been invented of course, but the major
world trade routes had been set into motion because people wanted goods from
far away places. People wanted something valuable to keep for security, for
peace of mind, and also just for the pleasure of having something they did not
already have. Storytelling past the time on the journeys from Asia to Europe
and Europe to Africa and from Africa to Asia. Some of the stories even made it
to the Americas via early combinations of land and sea routes.
The storyteller had
created a mysterious set of runes or written characters that allowed the story
to be carved onto a tree. Others, like himself, could read the runes, so it was
possible for someone to be reading the story in one place at the same time it
was being told some other place entirely. No one could believe such a thing was
possible, yet it existed at the same time. Grandma sashayed and did a little
dance in her solid bare feet, threw her hands over her head, and twirled while
she clapped three times. She smiled warmly to narrow the distance between
herself and the reader then she whispered a secret, I just love this brief story because it’s real enough to be true even
in a book such as this.
***
2243
hours. It is a rather silly short story looking back on it.
Let's do the first five Grandma Stories, one
each posting through Halloween. - Amorella
2245
hours. Five silly stories.
But when they were written, boy, Grandma
did the writing not you. - Amorella
2246 hours. You, the Amorella, did the writing, this is the truth and
you know it.
The truth is, from your perspective that you
punched the keyboard but someone else did the writing. - Amorella
2249 hours. I would not have had the imagination or the guile to solidify
stores in such a marked tone.
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