1431 hours. This morning we signed for a
carpet from Rich at McSwain, cheaper than Buddy's Carpet. Who would have
thought; about two hundred dollars cheaper. It's snowing, big flakes. We are at
Kroger's on Mason-Montgomery Road after a take home Subway and kids' cups
dessert at Graeter's after. We are still loading boxes of stuff and putting
them in the basement for storage. It has to be done anyway, so why not? We are
both tired by the end of the day. Last night we watched NBC and ABC News as
well as Sunday's "NCIS.LA". Hedi was finally rescued from a
'kidnapping' in Vietnam. The bad guys were either killed outright or left to be
eaten by a tiger.
You
didn't use the first person singular pronoun once. - Amorella
1439 hours. Good. It is much overused.
You
are reading the new Spring edition of Popular Science and are enjoying
it very much because of it new focus, this issue is 'intelligence'. - Amorella
1443 hours. Basically, I think it is hard to
measure because the word is broadly encompassing.
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intelligence - noun. 1 the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and
skills: an eminent man of great intelligence | they
underestimated her intelligence. • a person or
being with the ability to acquire and apply knowledge: extraterrestrial
intelligences. 2 the
collection of information of military or political value: the chief of
military intelligence | [as modifier] : the
intelligence department. • people
employed in the collection of military
or political information: French intelligence has been able to
secure numerous local informers. • military or
political information: the gathering of intelligence. • archaic information
in general; news.
ORIGIN late Middle
English: via Old French from Latin intelligentia,
from intelligere ‘understand'.
Selected
and edited from the Oxford/American Apple Software
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1450 hours. I like that the origin of the
word is 'to understand'. That, to me, makes 'intelligence' broader than 'having
knowledge'. Also, understanding should include 'wisdom' in context. Wisdom implies
a 'moral sense' in my mind and it is also very important in context. (1455)
You
are home. Intelligence is broader than having knowledge because understanding
implies using wisdom to discern a moral context in applying knowledge and
skills. Do you agree? - Amorella
1519 hours. I do. Why, because it focuses on
the 'centeredness' of being human, the centeredness of heartansoulanmind; it is
the base of what being human is at a personal level.
You are arrogant for thinking I was going
to suggest you are arrogant; but not for your previous statement. You could
swear the 1519 hour statement as factual from your perspective. Why is it
factual, because it is as factual as you are. Existential, yes, but you are
factual as a person, you are legally a reality and your existential qualities
shine in the 1519. - Amorella
1825 hours. Carol made Alta's turkey soup
for supper. The news will be coming on. We have been talking about the next
couple of weeks and how things will work out. The carpet will not go in until
next Tuesday. Kim and the boys will be down around suppertime on Friday. I am
really tired.
Post.
- Amorella
Post.
- Amorella
2235 hours. Yesterday I read an article
that said doing something new helps your brain stay younger. While this may be
true there is a low grained stress in packing to move into another house,
particularly when it most probably be for the last time for such house moving.
If we live long enough we may move into a small condo or eventually live with
Kim and Paul or move to a hospital and/or hospice facility for final days. No
more houses with lawns in a house for 55 year olds preferred. Legally, in Ohio,
you cannot create a home community that requires every owner to be above the
age of 55. This is something I did not know until recently. We are much better
putting office boxes together from flat cardboard, we are much better using
shipping tape to seal regular cardboard boxes. We are much better at wrapping
smaller objects that might easily break. It is so pleasant to walk down the
basement steps and see all four corners, walls and floor of the main room with
nearly nothing near or on them. We are talking 27 by 27 something feet with
three clear side windows of 12 by 34 inches and a back door. So much possible living space
we underutilized. It was even built for a
toilet, tub and shower mirror and wash basin and we never took advantage
of it. Every closet has been over-utilized. Most every room has had too much
furniture. Too many piles of varieties of paper and magazines and books. Most
newspapers thrown out daily. We are not packrats but there is clutter with
living. Showing a house to sell with living people in it appears to me to be an
impossibility. Trash cans, garbage cans, recycle cans. A garage with two cars
and all three walls are used for one kind of storage or another. We had it
painted with the rest of the interior but we dare not use or move too much or
the wall will be struck with one mark or another. Caution everywhere, except on
the carpeted living and dining room floors and thirteen steps up and the
hallway to beds and bathrooms. Careful in bedrooms and baths not to mar
anything. Make sure there are not burnt out light bulbs. We take the cats and
their belongings to Kim and Paul's on Sunday or Monday, a reprieve since the
carpet will not be installed until Tuesday. Fans must be out of sight or in the
basement, nothing to be on the bathroom granite, toilet paper allowed. No
bottles, no spray cans, nothing much that shows life once existed in the
showplace. Extraordinarily clean and neat everything -- in other words, a fiction
you set up a fiction to sell someone a plausible dream of life in the suburb
with excellent schools and low taxes (thank you Procter and Gamble and many
other local businesses).
Are
you about done? - Amorella
2312 hours. I am grateful for our life in
Mason, Ohio but I am tired. I am tired to stay and I am tired to leave. That's
the way it is tonight.
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