Sunday afternoon. You read
another chapter from Fire and Fury. - Amorella
** **
1346 hours. Chapter Twelve
bears down on pure in house politics. It reminds me a little of how it was when
in our senior high school year Fritz Milligan and I were elected to be a part
of a mock Republican Presidential Election at Capital University in Columbus. I
was quite naive on how a mock presidential convention was conducted. Fritz
understood. Later, when Carol and I worked for Robert Kennedy for real in
Franklin County I was shocked when attending a working democratic party meeting
downtown Columbus. I had never witnessed such underlying not always polite political
passions being unleashed. After the assassination we worked for the election of
Governor Nelson Rockefeller. That was my political experience. Much older, reading
this chapter reminded me of underlying politics being somewhat dressed up for
public consumption. I can imagine the silent anger these various people must
have held, no matter what they said aloud.
** **
Such political memories, and in high school you were still a boy at heart;
not so when working for Kennedy and for Rockefeller. You remember being at the
airport meeting Robert Kennedy and you were surprised and dumbfounded by his
lack of forceful handshake. Back during the Israeli and Egyptian Six Day War
you and Carol visited Congress that first day, the day the air raid sirens had
gone off in early morning, and you saw many famous people moving about in the
halls and House. One, Senator Hubert Humphrey was coming around the corner and
he stopped to say hello to both of you. He shook hands dressed warmly and with sincerity,
glad that you were interested enough in government to come visit on such a day.
His eyes and ears listened as you told your names and where you were from. He
focused on you both in the short moment that June day, then moved on. Political
reality at a different level, but he took time to welcome you in the moment. -
Amorella
1419 hours. I wish you hadn't
reminded me, Amorella, as it is depressing on how things are . . . .. He was a
good man in my estimation. . . . There are still good men and women in the
government as in all walks of life. Thank you for giving me the momentary
reflection.
Dusk. You each had a quarter
Papa John's pizza and watched a "Blue Bloods" and the conclusion of
last year's PBS "Victoria I" season one for a refresher for
"Victoria II".
** **
1800 hours. Chapter Thirteen is titled "Bannon Agonistes". It
is all about Steve Bannon and his perceptions up to the point Kushner was
flying to Iraq in early April. Bannon was losing ground in the inner White
House struggles. Between the lines the chapter is about money and the power it
was supposed to buy. Ah, the best laid plans of mice and men. Real life is
rarely like a human being would write it, it almost never is, perhaps it never
is, that is closer to the truth. Why? Because it is unbelievable. And, that's
what makes the book so far, interesting and a page turner.
** **
1810 hours. I had my mind
to do something else here originally (not Chapter 13) --
a more personal thought/question.
You had a makeshift supper of leftovers, watched
NBC and ABC News, a "Blue Bloods" and the conclusion of last year's
"Victory" as well as "60 Minutes". After tonight you will
have a new four hours of the second season to watch. On an earlier subject, what
do these words say to you? "Real life is rarely like a human being would write it; it almost never
is; perhaps it never is; that is closer to the truth." - Amorella
2120 hours. I think on the
nonfiction I have read on the assassinations of both John and Robert Kennedy as
similar examples. Lots of facts to put in order that take on a surreal aspect
with the brain/mind looking the logic and not finding it except in the
conclusions. How the conclusions come about as they did is a wonder. The world
politics I have been conscious of in my adult life, the people of importance
historically that those of us over seventy-five have shared a world of air with
is beyond human reason to react to in one sitting. Historical items we have
seen in museums, some we have secretly touched, beyond one human beings sense
of reason, at least beyond my sense of reason. How did we who are over 75 years
old survive to be alive at this moment in the world? It is surreal to ponder
this, but here we are. We were all innocent of the future until it arrived for us to witness.
The older I become the less I consider the argument on Free Will and Fate or
Destiny and think instead on Nature and the simple physics attempting to fill a
vacuum. Our genetic nature, our environment play their parts to put us on the
Earthly Stage. After that, it appears luck and the will and determination to
grow and survive. Even if it is all accident, we all who are here and those who
were here before us lend the concept of reason and perhaps purpose. (2139)
What of the human spirit, young man, you write as though it exists? -
Amorella
2139 hours. It does. We have
all seen examples of it in our own lives. Genetically, we are built to rise up
as the higher conscious beings of this planet. This is an observation, a fact.
Perhaps then, beyond physics there is metaphysics, and the role of the
human spirit(s) after physical death. - Amorella
2144 hours. The unseen.
Observed within the inner workings of heart and soul and mind unified as
a singular human spirit among many. This is what you 'feel' or 'sense' within
yourself and you do this without words. Words allow the invisible footsteps to
be seen, at least as shadows. Do you agree? - Amorella
2148 hours. Not only do I
agree but I find it bloody reasonable.
Interesting that you agree outside of reason and also within reason and
definition is not a necessity.- Amorella
2150 hours. None of our individual
Homo sapiens can fully be defined.
Post. - Amorella
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