Late evening. You had your annual eye exam
today and do not have to buy new glasses since you can still see 20/20 with
them on. Monday, you drove to Westerville and saw they had dug the basement
out. Tuesday, to your surprise when you checked the lot in the afternoon,
construction had framed and were pouring the last of the footers. Four lots had
active construction people working. Three lots were having basement walls
poured, one lot had carpenters building the frame. - Amorella
2205 hours. It was exciting to see so much work being done.
The small subdivision (within the larger subdivision) might be filled by the
end of summer. Monday afternoon Carol, Kim and I drove to Capital Lighting to
pick out our fixtures. Unofficially we have the done. We are buying five
ceiling fans from Home Depot and two major lights from Capital but we are
paying for them so it won't go on the price of the house. Carol and Kim had
picked out the fans Tuesday morning. It was a very productive two days. Owen
and Brennan are still in school but excited for Christmas -- to add to the
excitement Paul bought us all tickets to see the new Star Wars late Christmas
morning. I think we boys are much more excited than the girls. Gayle, Carol's
sister, is coming over later for Christmas supper.
For all of the above you are personally
pleased and happy; the passing of the tax bill this morning, however, is leaving
you and Carol upset and depressive for the future of this great democracy loaded
with many social and economic faults. According to recent statistics eighty
percent of the wealth is held by the rich, you feel, (like some others) thirty
percent of the wealth 'should' be held by the rich, forty percent by the middle
class, twenty percent by the lower middle to poor class and ten percent by the
poor to extremely poor economic class. This to you would be more equitable
though not necessarily fair. You would prefer no poor class at all. In fact, if
you had your druthers, the economic system would be similar to those of your
fictional marsupial humanoid aliens. Everyone contributes to the public good
and every adult is paid equally. - Amorella
2234 hours. This is fiction. I do not believe human beings
are capable of social/economic living like my fictional aliens. We don't have
the heartansoulanmind, the humanity for it. I can't help but still smile
quietly at the irony. What would it be for human beings to run into an alien
species, twenty thousand years in advance of our own and if that wasn't enough,
are more humane than we are? That would be one of the great ironies and the
greatest humbling experiences we human beings have ever faced. I wrote three
books about it and other subjects. I'm still interested in revising my present
project, specifically with my aliens. I should get back to work on it.
Post. - Amorella
2244 hours. One day within this century I believe, we will
learn another terrible lesson not from human history but from the future
instead.
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