Disappointing news. Craig is still not
better and they are spending another day resting up at a motel near St. Louis.
Tomorrow, they hope to leave to see family in Ohio and Pennsylvania. You left
it and they agreed with a possible road trip to meet them in St. Louis on their
way home for food and conversation. Carol is at Kroger's and you are waiting.
She is still making Grandma Schick's/Cook's meatloaf which she will freeze as
well as part of the vegetable soup she made last night; you are having it for
lunch. - Amorella
1057 hours. We
hope Craig is better for Christmas in Chicago with Eric, Mary Kay and the boys.
Rather dreary day, cold and cloudy, typical near Winter day in the whole state
of Ohio. The house is clean, nothing much to do but wait for our trip to
Westerville tomorrow. (There is always stuff to do, but I'm not in the mood to
do it, i.e. working on cleaning up the basement stuff).
What are you in the mood for, boy? -
Amorella
1105 hours.
Reading the new bi-monthly Popular Science that arrived yesterday, I'm in the
mood for that, though a nap would do first. It' a rather bummer day without our
friends' expected visit.
You are back to friends. Did we ever settle
on what category of friendship your closest old friends were, those you taught
with at school? - Amorella
1109 hours. No,
I don't think so. Besides, when you added Bob he was not a school colleague.
Bob was close enough as you were talking
about soul-driven friends in education. You and Bob talked about your classes
and poetry and literature when he was teaching English at Westerville South
High School and you were at Indian Hill and then at Mason. You used some of his
notes. - Amorella
1113 hours. I
think friendship is a delicate balance among heart and soul and mind. I have
friends that's what I think when I think of my friends -- heartansoulanmind
relationships all. Friendships are an entanglement of unmeasurable forces.
Force is not the best word to use for heart,
soul or mind. - Amorella
1117 hours. I
am thinking of a force, like gravity for instance.
People being drawn to one another is not as
a gravitational force. - Amorella
1120 hours.
What is it then, Amorella?
People are drawn together for a common
cause. It is the cause, the concept, the idea, the common reason for living,
the common purpose for living, the humanity, the warmth of another beating
heart. - Amorella
1125 hours. I
cannot disagree though I would like to do so.
Why is that? Why would you like to disagree?
Is it because you cannot find the reason to disagree? - Amorella
1127 hours. I
hate being put in a corner.
Then find a way to disagree so you can be
content and perhaps even be happy. - Amorella
Mid-afternoon.
You spent a couple hours making up a new mostly single space, eleven point,
Times New Roman font phone list composed
in a two column two page format. You have been modifying this same list every
two years or so since returning from Brazil in the summer of 1972. - Amorella
1614 hours. That
is true, since 1972 -- lots of family numbers have been dropped, Aunt Ruthie's
still there though. Friends change due to family circumstances. It is easy to
become friends with people who have a child or children about your own child's
age. Some move, some drift away as children's interests change through the
years. Some die. Some drift away as you change employment and when you retire.
Those phone numbers change with the times. I used to keep home as well as cell
numbers. Now it is almost all cell phone numbers. Companies and businesses
change. I just deleted numbers to Sears for instance, Macy's is probably next.
One whole column is business, insurance and medical oriented numbers. If one
wanted a personal history of someone it would be a good idea to have an updated
copy of her or his phone numbers. I'm sure a person's cell phone has a lot more
information than the owner considers.
Post. - Amorella
1629 hours. Why
do you want me to post so often I don't really have anything to say except to
myself?
Keeps you honest, boy. You might have second
or third thoughts and go through what you consider unimportant but that I feel
is important about what your thoughts say about your life. If you were to die tonight your grandsons
would have a record of who you really were. as opposed to a generic papa, an old
man whose thoughts no one really knows. I feel these matters are important.
- Amorella
1634 hours You
are 'sounding' like the old stage manager in Thornton Wilder's Our Town.
Deep down, you feel the same as those in Wilder's OurTown setting. - Amorella
1638 hours.
Being a dyed in the wool Romantic embarrasses me. I have always been too
sensitive to Wilder's aspects of life in Our Town. I think it is the
best play ever written in terms of what simple things tell us about ourselves.
Such aspects make us appear more vulnerable to the world.
Post. - Amorella
1646 hours. Such
aspects make me appear more vulnerable.
Are you more vulnerable? - Amorella
1647 hours.
Oddly, no. I am who I am, also I am a Neoclassic.
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