Mid-afternoon. You picked up lunch at
Potbelly's and just finished it at the far north end of Pine Hill Lakes Park.
You are facing south towards the woods about ten feet away on a curved
diagonal. Carol left for a walk around the north park down to the lakes. Muddy
Creek is fifteen to twenty feet down, and four feet from your car door. Autumn,
so far, has brought dingy yellow leaves. The colors aren't helped by the cloudy
weather. A few robins and downy woodpeckers are out and about. Here comes Carol
up from fording the creek and climbing trail. - Amorella
1536 hours. Carol is reading the local paper, the Journal-News Pulse
of Lebanon and Mason which you found on your driveway before heading to the
bank and lunch. We will miss local areas like the far north end of the park.
Traffic goes by behind us but otherwise we have the sunroof open and the
branches of what appears to be a gingko tree with its wider fanned green
leaves. About a mile to our south by southwest we can hear the battle of the
bands. High schools from near and far are meeting at the Mason High School
campus for competitions. Otherwise, it's quiet enough to listen to the birds
singing and crickets and others in conversation. (1548)
This reminds you of 'Conversations with the
Dead', now a title for side notes on such conversations over your lifetime. -
Amorella
1550 hours. The [others in conversation] reminded me of the phrase,
"conversations with the Dead" not a title for side notes.
I, the Amorella, was filling in your
unconscious thinking of that moment.
1555 hours. Possibly, but if so, it was bent on humor with sarcasm
attached. This does bring up a point though. In this particular circumstance I
cannot discern a sense of time passing from a consciously formed thought and an
unconsciously formed one noted by yourself. I don't know that we have a
machinery that could discern conscious thought from unconscious thought. If
science had such machinery it would be interesting to measure which is which
and more importantly to me, which was first the conscious thought or the
unconscious thought that triggered the
conscious one. It would be a slippery sloop from a case for having Free Will. -- Carol finished the paper. Time to go to the
grocery. (1604)
You are sitting in front of
Kroger's on Mason-Montgomery Road waiting for Carol. - Amorella
1620 hours. Wow. I didn't realize it takes about 15 minutes to get here
from Pine Hill Lakes. Actually, that's not too bad. I thought there would be
more traffic up by the school; however the surrounding campus lots appeared
mostly full and two bands were warming up in the front junior high lot. I just
saw someone who looks like my mother did about twenty-five or thirty years ago;
caused an odd jolt in memory. Mom dyed her hair back then, it was a kind of
orange-red, maybe strawberry and red. That's what caught my eye and her facial
shape was similar to Mom's. Sharp angular features, very German or Prussian
like -- probably because she looked like her father Henri Schick not her mother
who was a [Mae] Freeman.
Varied genetics walk the Kroger lot. People
from many parts of the world; quite different than forty or fifty years ago. -
Amorella
1635 hours. The varied genetics appeared to me as a kid when we would go
to the Ohio State University campus, and even some in Westerville at the
Otterbein Campus. I don't ever remember being taught on how to receive people
from other cultures except to be polite and as with every other adult, be
polite and quiet except when asked to speak. Being quiet attached to being
polite. That's how I remember it. When we had company at home the rules were
the same as in public. Be quiet, reserved and keep your mouth shut. I don't
know what they thought I might say, but I don't believe I was ever impolite
when among adults. I remember the first time we had a German family over for
dinner. The father had been a German scientist that dad helped relocated to
Ohio State or Battelle - someplace like that; maybe even to North American
Rockwell. Anyway, he and his family were nice and spoke English different than we did. I think there
were two kids also but they were younger than me and stayed around their mother
after supper. (1647)
After the grocery you were carrying some
things in from the car and slightly twisted your left hip which caused an
immediate sharp pain. Earlier in the day Carol mentioned a health article in
"Better Homes and Garden" on putting ice on sharp pains from the
lower back. You followed through with the ice pack and sat in the chair in the
family room and promptly fell asleep. Upon awakening forty some minutes later
you found the pain had not gone away. You had left over turkey/vegetable soup
and half a peanut butter sandwich with raisins. After watching NBC News on the
DVR you watched an episode of "Blue Bloods". After filling your pill
box for next week and taking your weekly 'pen' shot you are ready to call it a
night. - Amorella
2134 hours. I don't know why you continually put down all this trivia?
It's embarrassing.
If it were your last day of life it would be
memorable enough. - Amorella
2136 hours. I don't appreciate the everyday in living, is that what you
are implying?
Just a reminder, young man, that everyone's
days are numbered, at least in human terms. - Amorella
2138 hours. Words don't appear to be coming from my fingertips.
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