2319 Days since retiring July 1, 2005!
"Cast off limiting thoughts and return to true emptiness. Stand in the midst of the Great Void. This is the secret of the Way of a Warrior."
from Art of Peace
Read on and fall sound asleep
Today a small victory. I have searched my cave repeatedly looking for my other, the stylish ones, pair of reading glasses. I turned off all the lights and did a CSI with my mini maglight with no discovery. I searched and sorted through the pile of candy wrappers and magazine blow-ins under my side reading table with no glasses found. For weeks I have, with sinking heart, searched the cavernous halls of “shattered manor”. Lost, I tell you lost. I am a simple man of fierce loyalties who takes loss very poorly. I lost a 3 bladed pocket knife with wooden in 1948. I still look for it. I lost a male Siamese cat in 1964. I still look for Ruhig. I was watching the Texans Browns football game when I happened to look at the back of the lamp table beside my wife’s throne. Sakes a mercy there they were! I never sit in that area and never take my glasses off while watching TV. Yet there they were. I am a happy man. To see is one of the greatest senses.
Dr. Khawly has told me to start taking a vitamin to stave off macular degeneration. I found an article that has been used in support of the recommendation for the vitamin mix with lutein.
The Relationship of Dietary Carotenoid and Vitamin A, E, and C Intake With Age-Related Macular Degeneration in a Case-Control StudyI was especially interested in the affect of Lutein. To me the whole study is suspect because the participants were grouped according to a self administered questionnaire about food intake. People will lie and distort their answers to make them sound more rational and intelligent. I advocate never depending on a human beings statement of perceived fact. The creatures will rework any memory so that they become the hero of their own narrative.
In addition to my eyesight I appear to have lost other functionalities.
Offered without comment!
And now my eyes are going!
My body feels like it is well after midnight and that I should be sleeping. Rascal must feel the same way because he is sprawled across my feet snoring. I am going to drop in on Grannies then to the recliner I shall glide.
To Do List
Mail bill payments
Stop at Kroger and get Ranexa and Preservision with Lutein
Costco for fish oil gel caplets
Lowes for some plants
Pool Warehouse to get water tested
Church to drop check for altar flowers for November
Hopefully to VTR to pickup my repaired TV.
My reading group finished “The Taming of the Shrew” and will next read Shakespeare Sonnet # 20 then move to the bloodiest play I have ever read, “Titus Andronicus”. By S. Clarke Hulse's count, Titus Andronicus is a play with "14 killings, 9 of them on stage, 6 severed members, 1 rape (or 2 or 3, depending on how you count), 1 live burial, 1 case of insanity and 1 of cannibalism--an average of 5.2 atrocities per act, or one for every 97 lines." Reviewer Mike Gene Wallace adds, "This is a great play. We're talking fourteen dead bodies, kung-fu, sword-fu, spear-fu, dagger-fu, arrow-fu, pie-fu, animal screams on the soundtrack, heads roll, hands roll, tongues roll, nine and a half quarts of blood, and a record-breaking 94 on the vomit meter."
Hulse is one of those “big brains I thoroughly despise yet he is completely right about this play. I am not sure if I can read my way through the bloody parts and I know the rape will shatter me. I think rape of any kind, proved, should result in immediate and automatic death for the rapist up to and including in the very courthouse where tried.
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11/05: Creator of all, through your love help us to turn waves of worry and doubt into waves of love and peace. Amen. 11/06: O God, in our November may we still bloom. Amen. The prayers are from the Upper Room. For your own free E-Mail Devotional visit : http://upperroom.org/devotional/email/ and click on the link “Other Ways to Receive the Daily Devotional” | |
A good ole Mississippi boy won a bass boat in a raffle drawing. He brought it home and his wife looks at him and says, "What you gonna do with that"? There ain't no water deep enough to float a boat within a 100 miles of here.
He says, "I won it and I'm a gonna keep it."
His brother came over to visit several days later. He sees the wife and asks where is big brother?
She says, "He's out there in his bass boat," pointing to the field behind the house.
The brother heads out behind the house and sees his brother sitting in the boat with a fishing rod in his hand down the middle of a big field.
He yells out to him, "What are you doing?
His brother replies, "I'm fishin.' What does it look like I'm a doing?"
His brother yells back, "It's people like you that give people from Mississippi a bad name, makin' everybody think we is stupid. If I could swim, I'd come out there and whip your butt"!
Thank you Fay for the great laugh.
”There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.”
Mark Twain
SGGP
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