Phillip Wilson

Amazingly, I survived my Life
2011-09-30 00:06:10 (UTC)

2005 REVIEW (PART TEN)

March- Childersburg/Sylacauga, AL (continues)

(acerca de 10:57 A.M.) One afternoon or early evening, Anita Matlow (and I) saw Karren Laughlin, the instructor of Modern Humanities in 1998, directing a Thi Chi (?) class in a building on West Tennessee Avenue in Tallahassee, FL. Anita was impressed that Dr. Laughlin did so much.
But Karren Laughlin was - is? - not a good teacher of Modern Humanities (normally, Dr. Laughlin was - is? - an English professor), which proves that the quanity of things one can do is of no importance if the quality doesn’t accompany the undertaking.
From about 7:25 until 9:00, I watch IN THE WOMB on the National Geographic Channel, including what I didn’t see last Sunday.
As with most programs, that first “part” is of more importance. In fact, the second part is almost anti-climatic!

(acerca de 12:41 P.M.) Joyce must have been reading the “newspaper” put out by the Alabama Education Association (AEA) yesterday evening: For all of a sudden, with no fanfare, she looked straight at me - I was sitting in the rocking arm chair - and declared that insurance rates at work will go up twenty dollars for smokers in September or October.
If true - Joyce has been know to make-up “things,” or mis-interpret something - then there will be lawsuits! Smoking is for from the worse health risk “practiced” by PEEHIP-covered people! Hell, a low-carb diet if pernicious to health!
Why do “you” think blood is rejected if a potential donor has injested asperin?
The only way one can claim, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that smoking is a high health risk is to test the effect of smoking without the subject being violated by air pollution, water pollution, coffee, over-the-counter medication, obesity, etc.
Going seat belt-less is bad for one’s health.
Smoking tobacco - chewing tobacco as does Eric - is as bad as smoking!
PEEHIP can’t pick on smokers and leave fat people alone!
Monday Glenda Bland contacted by telephone Hazel, telling her that there were boxes of give-away “stuff” in her (Glenda’s) office. Apparently Hazel told her (Glenda) that I had left the building (I had gone to see if Upward Bound was available for a package): An inmate was about to take the boxes back to the book store (that’s right, I had deliver them earlier in the previous week) to the bookstore.
Body Spray is one of the gifts. After spraying my left wrist, I told Glenda that I would only use it on my dog.
The inmate was amazed and envious that I had a dog.
Earlier the inmate had asked me to confirm the “rumor” that I had been a circus clown. I confirmed it, telling the inmate I was one for about fifteen years.
Kayla was back by 5:20 yesterday evening: She, Joyce, and granny were at the kitchen table with KFC food before them.
I had been summons, but my ears didn’t register Kayla’s voice.
Leslie had Kayla away from here by about 12:15.

(acerca de 4:30 P.M.) About time! No doubt Deanna cursed me as she groomed Deah!
The first thing she told me when I went for Deah was that she had used flea shampoo on her. That was a hint, right?
Maybe the upper-70⁰’s (F) will remain for the next 7-8 weeks, preparing the way for the 80⁰’s!
But just my luck Cold will come back to inspect Deah’s hair!
Once again, Wind bonds with Month III, to satisfy the expectations that we each hold of It!
Phoebus has been more than kind to the day!
$30 to give Deah’s hair to Deanna. Will she (Deanna) turn around and sell the hair for pillow stuffing?

(13th, About 8:02 A.M.) One day last week Doug Stearns came into the book store with Hazel, in the midst of a discussion on “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy of the military. I wouldn’t have been included if I hadn’t “forcibly” intervened.
The prohibition against “gays” in the military is a repeat of sorts of the prohibition of African Americans in the military, until President Truman integrated the armed services in 1947.
Then Doug Stearns told me of the military’s rule against adultery, and the policy of officiers-enlisted personnal dating.
As expected, Doug “relived” his own military career, when he was at Fort McClellan near AL.
I have never understood Milt’s phobia against watering plants: He told me, when I asked him, that azealas only need watering once a week or so.
Eric informed me that azealas thrive in damp ground: He and I were “discussing,” Thursday, the rectangle of land outside Leisa’s and Andy’s offices.
This is one of those “rare” cases in which I am on the side of Eric: Although he was most likely only agreeing with me to get me gone from there, azealas do, indeed, prefer damp ground.
Wouldn’t it be nice if that vacant lot mentioned above was no longer vacant, that Milt and the inmates had filled it with azealas on Friday?
Remember late last Spring, when Milt and the inmates established a colony of lantanas in the south-southeast “apron” while I was in the bookstore, displacing flowers I had put in the ground earlier? Well, Milt was unaware that lantanas “lived” there: I had “pruned” the hibernating lantanas so that the unattractive “skeletons” were not visible to passers-by, something that Milt “bragged” he never did.
Don’t be surprise if that “apron” house azealas as w___ as lantanas!

(acerca de 9:01 A.M.) The character “Danny” was shot by his Iraqi captor. In all appearances he is dead.
However, the “director” of MI- 5 (9-10:00 P.M., A & E) hinted that it may have been a mock execution.
Was the “death” a way out for the actor playing “Danny”? Maybe he didn’t want to do that job anymore, for whatever reason.
Next week should clear up that point. I can’t wait!
Danny Coleman was in the book store last week: Among the topics discussed was the 1993 blizzard in Childersburg (as well as other parts of Alabama).
I - sitting on a chair/stool south of the book room door - asked if he remembers the 1962 (or 1963) blizzard? He was still in Chicago. he said.
Danny and I then “discussed” Chicago: The Institute of Art, the Field Museum, and other cultural/educational places were on “penisulars,” my own word to describe the relationship to Lake Michigan. Danny confirmed that the Art Institute, the Field Museum, etc, are on “penisulars” of Lake Michigan.

(acerca de 9:5_ A.M.) Most likely Milt directed the inmates to take-over the “aprons” in order to keep me from putting down flowers: There were many compliments, and Milt felt they (the compliments) should be his and not mine!
Way back on the second ot this month, the contractors working _n Building “H” - Professional Builders - received another long box of supplies.
I had it on my right shoulder as I passed “through” the main back door of the administration building.
Milt and the inmates were in back, doing something. Milt complained “Another package?”(He had taken one via the pick-up, to the contractors, the day before). But this package was laid in the back of the truck.
Milt drove the shipment to Building “H.” I happened to arrive by foot at the same time that he came by truck.
The supervisor of the crew expressed his appreciation, and was willing to turn over his cell phone number. However, Milt stated that “we” were glad to do it (deliver).
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason things haven’t been done! Milt nor Eric is willing to take a risk!
If Ronnie is having Leisa type his legal “briefs,” it “fits” the pattern of Ronnie not dealing with C.A.C.C. as if it is an office space to be taken seriously!
What’s wrong with me, Doc? I was unable to tolerate SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (10:30-midnight, N.B.C.) for even ten minutes yesterday evening.
Is it me, or is it the show? If the latter, don’t expect the show to last until the double digits of this century!

(acerca de 12:0_ P.M.) I continue to hold the opinion that there is a direct relationship to the shape of the media and political outputs, and people’s professed connection to organized religion! It is as if “God” is a “variable” in popular culture!
Each - “God” and popular culture - are desperately clung to, to avoid real reality, and to arrange “reality” as people want it to be.
One goes with the reality one has, not the reality one wants or think ought to be!
There should be no doubt that “God is created in the image of humankind,” and not the nonsense of “God creating humankind, or man, in His own image”! As soon as that is understood and accepted, “God” will be able to get the respect S/He deserves!
Let’s see: Between 5:30 and 6:00 yesterday, NBC NIGHTLY NEWS, ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT SATURDAY, a news program on CNN, C-Span, and some other channels that I have forgotten filled me in on the details of the world’s explosive condition, made worse, I sincerely believe, by our own George W. Bush!

(acerca de 3:17 P.M.) Deah has an instinctive fear of Robert Burdick’s grandson and air rifles! She was reluctant to go on a walk when the teen-ager was roaming Princeton Drive in search of targets!
I can’t say that I blame her. Only I should be more understanding! Smoking must never be of more importance than Deah!
Deah also has an instinctive fear of Colton Veazy and his playmates, especially when they are loud, which is usually all the time!
Deah shouldn’t be force to suffer that environment, just so I can “enjoy” a cigarette!
One of the elements of granny’s past that is occassionally reviewed verbally is the time granny, in a temper tantrum, threw an “arm load” of clothes on the floor, about twenty-five years ago.
Well, the event repeated itself, as do most things: Friday, in trying to transport soiled clothes - and hangers - to the laundry room, the single “armload” wouldn’t hold all the items. So “you” know what I did? Yep, I threw the clothes on the floor, along with the hangers! For two trips had to be made, and I thought that most unfair!
Just as calling Deah a “mother fucker” when she wanted back in the house to avoid the Burdick grand-son was pathetic!
I must work on anger-control! Which is why I am thankful that I don’t have children!
I “explained” to Hazel that one can always “throw” a messed up apple pie in the trash, but a messed-up child is another matter!
The upper-70⁰’s (F) with day-care provided by Phoebus. Wind is frisky. But as I told Joyce during one of the trips to or from the groomer’s yesterday, this final week of Winter may see a desperate attempt by Cold to review the past!
Boredom seems to trigger a temper display! Boredom is more stressful to me than an overload of stuff to do!

(acerca de 5:56 P.M.) The “teaser” to SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE yesterday evening consists of a parody of Martha Stewart addressing her staff, Stewart only recently getting out of prison.
The so-called “comedy” sketch includes a remark, implying that the major of converting to Islam is to be in prison.
The remark is uncalled for, and offensive! I realize the SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE is only “comedy,” but comedy can exert a stronger, longer-lasting influence than facts!
How dare it!
While awaiting MI5, I saw, among other things, a portion of the replay of ‘50’s pop music on P.B.S.
It would be interesting to watch “updated” ‘50’s, ‘60’s, and ‘70’s pop and rock and roll, and compare the three styles.
Although the ‘50’s are at a disadvantage: The ‘50’s were halfway through before rock ‘n roll was even formally “born”!

(14th, About 6:16 A.M.) I ‘ve been meaning to tell “you” about this for 2-3 weeks: From “The Daily Home” of 20 February 2005; page 2; an article titled “Talibama dreaming” by Hardy Jackson.
The article is a it-could-be-this-way if Roy Moore got his way about publicly posting the Ten Commandments on government property.
If “you” think that there are disagreements now among churches, there would be much more if the Ten Commandments were law! Which version or translation is to be used?
The reason Iraq has decided to leave Islam out of the government is more to do with the United States’ interference than it does with the wishes of the Iraqi people!
It only stand to reason that if Christianity has a would-be theocrat like Roy Moore, there is a substantial minority that wants theocracy for Iraq.
If indeed, this declaration of democracy and freedom from the White House was true! Although we all know it isn’t!
What an internicine “ war” in the heavens yesterday evening! Was Winter trying to dislodge Spring, angry that Spring is intruding on Winter’s final week?
“Rain” came out of me as well as coming out of Clouds. Is this the reason for my horrible bonding with Sleep?
Or was it the heat?
I know: The chocolate syrup-laced milk I had yesterday evening! Joyce had turned over a quarter-full jug of milk, yesterday that the expiration date has come and gone (the 10th?).
Well, the expiration date is the final day the milk can be sold legally, not the date that the milk sours.

(acerca de 6:48 A.M.) Due to the rain, I didn’t make Deah leave the front yard. Because of this, I didn’t have a late evening cigarette.
Does nicotine in my system make for a more restful sleep? If so that would explain my wakefulness over night!
For years older people have advocated finding guilt without the “trouble” of a trial. If a person has even been accused, then s/he is automatically guilty.
How undemocratic!
But now the majority of American citizens, especially the young, believe the government has the right to censor the news.
Democracy must be imposed on the United States: Why not Iraq?
When women “won” the right to vote, that was imposing democracy on the country.
When African Americans received the right to vote, that was imposing democracy on people that didn’t want it!
Integrating the military: Some actually thought that democracy interfered with their freedom!
That’s a good point: Freedom and democracy are not the same thing! Of course, people want freedom! But that doesn’t mean only democracy can deliver it!

(acerca de 1:31 P.M.) “You” would think that a person like Donna would be a supporter of George W. Bush! Well, I was surprised when she informed me that she didn’t like Bush, or his father!
Condoleezza Rice? It seems that I’m not the only one that feels uncomfortable seeing the woman speak!
Brian Lamb interviewed a female reporter on a program aired by C-Span 2 (?): Yesterday afternoon or early evening from 7:00 to 8:00. The woman stated that Rashfajani (?), the son of the Iranian leader, doesn’t think much of Dr. Rice as Secretary of State.
The woman felt that remark by Rasfanjani (?) sexism. But it is sexism to think that, just because she’s female, Condoleezza is a valuable access to the United States!
I had been watching THE SIMPSONS (7-7:30 P.M., FOX), but Fox 6 inter-rupted the program about half-way, with a severe weather report. So I failed to see the final quarter or so of the C-Span 2 (?) interview.
There were two azealas, in pots, “hidden” in the shop. When I asked Milt about them, he said Eric was still deciding where they would be planted.
However, I asked Eric, as I was weeding the lower courtyard planter, late this morning, and he knew nothing about them.
Was Milt trying to appropriate two more azeala plants, in addition to the two he supposively bought (which are still in the shop, incidentally)?
The azealas went: “You” know where! Don’t act like “you” don’t!
The plot of land outside Leisa’s office!
A tall plant was set aside for “Boots” last summer of Fall, in the shop. It is still in the shop.
But it won’t be for long!
The Bush administration claims that Faith-Based Initiative “levels the playing field,” allowing churches and religious organizations to apply for federal funding.
But the “playing field” will never be “level” as long as churches and religious organizations are given tax-free status! Churches and religious organizations have the advantage: Only if non-religious organizations are exempt from taxes can the “playing field” be “level”!
BOSTON LEGAL (9-10:00 P.M., A.B.C.): Apparently, women make up the overwhelming majority of the viewership. For the character played by Candice Bergman treats males in a way that females would be up in arms about if a man displayed that kind of behavior towards women.
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS, A.B.C. WORLD NEWS TONIGHT SUNDAY, C.N.N.: I’m sorry to say that I really didn’t find a worthwhile news source!

(acerca de 2:32 P.M.) Most people aren’t allowed to use taxpayer’s money to further her or his career: S/he must do it the hard way (Yea, right).
But not so with members of the United States House of Representatives! Spencer Bachus, a “choosen” representative for the Pell City area, secretly manuvered through Congress $250,000 for construction and improvements of sidewalks in Pell City.
Granted, sidewalks are important: Many the time I cursed a city for its failure to include a sidewalk, forcing me to face danger in a street via walking.
But $250,000? Damn! Sidewalks paved with gold?
And that’s not all Pell City will get over six years!
In other words, Spencer Bachus has a job for six more years!
Shouldn’t sidewalks be a local concern? After all, sidewalks only benefit locally! Why must the people of Oregon buy Pell City, AL, sidewalks?
The above is reported in “The Daily Home” for March 12, 2005.
A beautiful pre-Spring day: The low-60⁰’s (F), heavy dose of “Yellow.”
How blue the sky! Very few Clouds.
Wind makes the leaves and limbs of trees and bushes sway and gambol around.

(acerca de 3:04 P.M.) I returned “Candide” to the book store. Now, I am planning on “borrowing” a Western Literature text, which carries the second
Part of “Faust.” my newest project. And there are other books that I may use!
Eric and Company finally put a “front” on the counter of the book store! I expressed by dis-like of it, this morning: I fail to see the improvement from the way it was before the plywood was applied!
I recall thinking of the way my name has been tarnished by Joyce as I told Hazel about other gossip that no doubt is rampant on campus!
Especially among Milt and the inmates, although Hazel agreed with me that those are bad examples.
Speaking of the inmates: When I returned to the closet of the carport of the shop, around 10:30, after some duty in the bookstore, I was almost floored by the aroma of “pot.” Which inmates, then, would be the next to go?
Another inmate asked me about my circus connection, this morning. He inquired how he could work for a circus.
An inmate on a circus? What a novel idea!
As I told the inmate, travelling the country is the only thing I miss about circus!

(acerca de 4:57 P.M.) i asked Donna to tell me things about azealas, after pointing out to her where I had planted two (she noticed the mud on my knees, mud that stayed with me when I arose from providing permanent housing for the azealas.
Once again her total ignorance of floral science gave her away: She, without a doubt, “ran” her mother’s flower shop out of business!
However, she did agree with me that the person that made the planter his own (Milt), after I had received compliments on my floral design, is, indeed, jealous.
If all goes according to plan, the lot outside Leisa’s office should be taken from my control. And I hope it is!
The southeastern “apron” flower “bed” is filled with gravel. I asked Milt about it early this afternoon: He was sitting on the loading dock.
The below-the-surface area is “soft.” Which I think is an untruth: The gravel looks to me an awful lot like bits of asphalt!
I wonder if the azealas will grow in the shallow ground? It is as if that “apron” was placed directly on the street to serve as the “book end” on the east for angle parking!

(acerca de 6:04 P.M.) “If I was that good-looking and had that much money . . .!” Donna and I briefly “discussed” Bill Clinton. Supposively, Donna’s husband had said what I said.
Donna stated that a person’s personal life should remain personal.
I had instigated the presidential discussion by asking Donna if any of the senior citizens that made the trip to Montgomery to see and hear George W. Bush, were arrested?
Of course I was joking!

(15th, About 6:10 A.M.) Andy Jordan is the other extreme from Ronnie Harkins: Whereas the latter never took C.A.C.C. seriously, the former takes his position much too seriously! Correction: Andy doesn’t take the job seriously, but as a child he loves playing “king”!
No one can doubt that I have “improved” myself before their eyes. And I did it without religion! In fact, resigning from the Methodist Church in town was probably one of the better things I have ever done!
Leslie and Bill, among others, are no doubt envious that I have manage to “travel” a long way without organized religion.
I am just writing what comes to mind: It would take several writing sessions to get use to once again “real” paper. My thoughts will probably suffer.
Yesterday’s 3-ball juggling session included extended periods of “Fountain”/”circle” juggling. Yesterday evening, my body was paying for the “success”!
How pathetic that a single 20-minute practice leaves me in such agony! Although my body was probably reacting to the planting and other strenous labor of yesterday!

(acerca de 6:38 A.M.) On March 11, 2005, THE NEWSHOUR “announced” that the S.A.T. has been “renovated.” Whether the S.A.T. is valid or not is not being discussed at the moment. But watching the “package” made me realize that I was deprived of a “workable” education.
Of course I’m not the only one!
The day before (unless the above was also the tenth, and the “zero” favors a “one”): Most likely I am meglomanical, but am I “responsible” for the “additions” to the book store? It has already been established that I am directly responsible for upgrading the front of the administration building.
Joyce was wrong about Talent Search and Upward Bound closing: Joyce and Hazel, then Hazel and I, “discussed” the possible jobs for Patsy Grey at C.A.C.C.
I am reluctant to take action against Ronnie Harkins for his “use” of Leisa McGaha as his legal secretary while she is on company time, due to the fact that I have only Joyce’s word. And I would be a fool to file a complaint with only Joyce’s word as support!

(acerca de 1:23 P.M.) Why am I not surprised? It’s going to happen!i
Joyce “asked” me, this morning, if I had “permission” to help in the book store. What could I say: To shut her up, I said I did!
Relating to her the situation with the azaleas, I informed her that I had talked with Eric about the two. She stated she did not know why Eric was in charge of planting.
Eric isn’t! But the point is, Joyce has “harped” over and over that I should “obey” Eric.
There it is, folks: One of the many contradictory declarations Joyce makes!
And another thing: Joyce has been critical of Milt being in the book store more than he should. But how about all the times she comes and talks to Hazel, especially on Tuesday, when Hazel and Joyce compare notes on the television show 24!
I finally figured out what Joyce is doing: She comes to the book store to see if I’m down there! I left the book store about 10:15, having gave up that Joyce would leave off her conversation with Hazel! No doubt she (Joyce) was there solely to “push” me out!
There’s no reason to ask “why?” Joyce is more “granny-ish” than granny! And Joyce won’t change any time soon! Not that she can’t: She probably doesn’t know that what she does is a pathetic behavior-pattern! In order to recreate oneself, one first has to be aware of the problem!
And that’s something Joyce will never admit!
As everybody else does, the only thing I can do is to ignore Joyce and do my own business!
Between 5:30 and 6:00 yesterday evening, I used THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER and LOU DOBBS TONIGHT to study contempary history.
The former, as “you” should know by ednow, is on P.B.S., the latter an offering of C.N.N.

(acerca de 2:16 P.M.) As “you” may recall, Joyce claimed that Leisa (and Ronnie) “promised” me benefits.
It wasn’t happening!
No doubt she (Joyce) was surprised when I was finally “awarded” benefits!
It was an example of Joyce manipulating my thinking (or trying to): She no more discussed benefits with Leisa (or Ronnie) than Deah did!
From a chilly morning, made uncomfortable by Wind, the upper-50⁰’s (F) -or higher - invaded. Although Phoebus ruled the morning, Chill was exchanged for Overcast (which is the cynosure of the afternoon, including as I write).
LAS VEGAS (8-9:00 P.M., N.B.C.): The tertiary movement that “presents” events that the different characters do throughout the work shift undoubtedly sells the series.
The final scene is of one of the characters - a male - called up for deployment to Iraq with his reserve unit. The non sequitur will bring in viewers, no one can deny.
Try though I did, nothing beyond VEGAS was of interest to me yesterday evening. Which was good: My body needed attention from Sleep!
“Laney” Blackeby (?) is one of those people - and there are way too many - that expects Natre to “kow tow” to the Christian holiday of Easter: Laney asked Milt - I was talking with him near the southeast “apron,” and “Laney” passed by going east - if the azaleas would be ready for Easter.
Although there is a co-incidence: Easter is based upon Passover week, which is, in turn, calculated according to the 15th day of Nisan, whenever that comes in the Hebrew year.
Actually, Nisan is here at the same time each year: It’s only that the Hebrew calender and the “Christian” calender don’t always correspond.
So “you” see, Laney, Nature doesn’t kow tow to the Christians: The Christians kow tow to Nisan!

(acerca de 6:37 P.M.) Water regularly,
as needed.
I don’t know about “you,” but this instruction that came with each azalea plant - Rhododendron “Formosa” azalea, $8.97 - confesses the hell out of me! Either one waters regularly, or as needed, but not one and both at the same time!
I don’t know if each plant grows to 8 feet tall and four feet wide, but if it does, those that the inmates put in the ground are in trouble: Milt thought the “warning” “3-4’ from tall structures and power lines” meant each plant should be three feet from its neighbor!
Those azaleas that were planted across from the courtyards: I don’t “see” them making it!
I suggested - in the book store last week - that only three azaleas in the southeast “apron.” Instead, Milt had twelve or so moved in!
Speaking of overcrowded conditions!
The lantanas are “__tching”: To my dismay and chagrin, I told Donna. I watered the “beds” in front of the administration building: Pruning the “dead” stalks may improve the “weedy” appearance that the lantanas had last year. It can only be hoped!
When Hazel realized yesterday that it was the 14th, she declared that the month is going by quickly!

(acerca de 7:41 P.M.) I remember telling Hazel and Burt Yarborough that I will publish my journal “through” Vantage Press, out of New York City, when Burt asked me about the journal.
I want to know something: Why was the cottle (?) key for the sides of the wagon - 74 keys - on the sidewalk across from the stump of the upper courtyard? As I was watering the azaleas in the sidewalk planters, there it was on the sidewalk, although at first I didn’t know the cottle (?) key was meant for the wagon. But sure enough, the “rear,” right (while holding the handle) hinge was missing a key!
I sure don’t remember pulling the wagon that particular way! Which is not to say I didn’t: I do many things non-thinkingly!
Granny was busy preparing dinner when I arrived home a little before 1:00: I damn near didn’t have the chance to eat lunch, sweep, and wash dishes.
Kayla was here by 3:45: This is what granny centered her day around! I suppose that’s only natural: At 87, what else is there to life?
Kayla was gone by 7:40.

(16th, About 6:10 A.M.) Yesterday, as I was watering the azaleas housed in the “upper” planter on the right as “you” come from the back door of the administration building, an inmate, passing me on his way to Building “C” or the shop, stated smark-assly that it would rain later in the day.
He was right: Yesterday evening was surrounded by Rain’s forces! The “sentry” was still on duty this morning.
It’s that time of year when my “assistant” will help me with the flowers and plant if I want “it” to or not!
As I told Donna yesterday, I believe in Nature taking care of Its own business: I am only Nature’s assistant. Except in the case of lantanas: Maybe by pruning after they had hibernated for the winter will make them less weed-like in appearance!
The limbs from the trees of the courtyard neighborhood, that Milt and the inmates pruned, were still in the field between the lower courtyard and Building “C.” Yesterday I hauled some away with “my” wagon.
Marvin “caught” me loading, and said that, as soon as the ground had dried, Milt will drive the pick-up and get the trees out of there.
Well, yesterday was his last chance for several days! No telling how much longer the limbs will be in the neighborhood!
I was sitting in the non-rocking arm chair yesterday. Kayla wished to ride the stationary bicycle, but i reminded her of the “injury” to one of her heels that she sustained last time she pedalled bare-footed.
The child laid in the other arm chair and cried horribly. The tennis shoes were left at her house.
I told Kayla to go ahead and ride, but don’t cry when she hurts her “heel.” It was a childish thing to say, but I didn’t know how else to silence her.
Granny, all this time, wasn’t sure what had gone “wrong.”
Kayla “escaped” to Joyce’s room, still crying. I “suggested” that she telephone her house, if nothing else “leaving” a message on the answering machine.
Leslie was home, but she refused to make another trip over here just to bring Kayla tennis shoes! And that made Kayla cry the more.
Although about ten minutes past 4:00, I “advised” Kayla to call Joyce (“Nana”), who leaves work at 4:00: I was desperate by now to end Kayla’s crying.
However Joyce had left CACC already.

(acerca de 6:50 A.M.) I was desperately hoping that Joyce could go by Kayla’shouse to get the tennis shoes.
I stood by the open door (kitchen) until I saw Joyce coming north on Princeton Drive. I was there to meet her when she drove “into” the driveway.
How relieved I was when Kayla’s mind was diverted to a blue foam stress ball from C.A.C.C. (Joyce came into the bookstore with the ball yesterday morning)!
Later, while playing with the ball outside, I explained to Kayla what “stress” is, that she had experienced stress earlier.
Kayla, unbeknown to me, was right behind me when I met Joyce at the car.
Talking with “Boots” yesterday - he was in uniform sitting behind the wheel of the unmarked “police car” he drives, parked at south entrance to campus,facing east - I was informed that there would be a meeting with Ms. Salotto concerning parking on campus. We then discussed the illegal parking on campus.
Just a few minutes before, I had “pointed out” to Milt that “Boots” had parked in a space that has been designated “no parking”: The south end of the faculty parking on the west side of Building “E.”

(acerca de 2:14 P.M.) Kayla so-called “stress” yesterday : Was it caused by a sub-conscious memory of the pain? When I asked her if she had napped, she told me she had.
It must be an association of no-shoes-on-the-bicycle-can-result-in-injury that was behind Kayl!a’s panic attack!
A hearing aid doesn’t help “you” hear: A hearing aid helps “you” hear.
I mean by this that a hearing aid can’t cure deafness or restore a hearing loss: The best a hearing aid can do is to collect more of the sound waves for the ear.
This in response to a “discussion” Donna and I had yesterday concerning Mr. Lawrence, whose hearing aid or aids was/were “whistling” when he boarded the bus earlier in the day.
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.), as well as LOU DOBBS TONIGHT (5-6:00 P.M., C.N.N.), provided historical data yesterday afternoon.
Donna and I also talked about students: I had “announced” my “fantasies” of incorporating catuses in the rock garden behind the administration building (on either side of the sidewalk to Building “C”). I may have a naivé belief, but surely students won’t try and “pet” the Catuses! Surely kids as old as C.A.C.C. students - 18, 19, 20 - have better sense than that!
Then I let it slip that I attended graduate school as a “non-traditional” student (no longer a kid).
Why would a person withdraw from school with only three or four weeks remaining? If s/he must withdraw, isn’t that! what “God” invented February for?
The older man from Sylacauga did just that today!
An ownership society: That’s what the country had during slavery!
I’m sure there are slaves still in this country! This man was critical of China and African countries, and refused to even consider the possible that slavery is still practiced in the United States!

(acerca de 3:05 P.M.) Did “you” ever think that many men can’t get a “hard-on” because their wives or partners no longer make it possible? And here “we” have Viagra being funded by medicaid and a lot of insurance!
As for medicaid and or medicare, if what I hear is true, why should the taxpayers have to pay to force a man into sex with his wife?
The inability to have an erection may be Nature’s way of preventing certain people from setting their D.N.A. “free”!
Rain is making this day miserable! A pesky mist is doing the job!
I thought for a moment the Rain had stopped, so I left the book store to do things outside. As pulling weeds between sidewalk sections: Wet dirt makes that duty so much easier.
But mist became drizzle! And the mid-40⁰’s (F) is telling us that Winter still remains in charge until Sunday!
Remember what I wrote about THE SHIELD (9-10:00 P.M.. FX)? Well, “you” can forget it: The program is widely-watched (for a cable series)! And the substance of the show isn’t to bad!
Hazel wonders why I don’t watch AMERICAN IDOL: Shouldn’t it be obvious?
The final 10-11 minutes of SOUTH PARK (8:30-9:00 P.M., Comedy Central) also came my way.

(acerca de 6:29 P.M.) I was probably the first person to voice my dislike of the “upgraded” front of the counter in the book store! But I am far from the last! In fact I don’t know anybody that think the mis-matched 4’ X 8’ sheets of plywood (?) heightens that appearance of the counter!
The front still looks as if it is missing something: I suggest Formica. Two sheets of 4’ X 8’ Formica. Just that simple.
Eric or Mike or Michael, soon after the plywood was installed Friday, applied a staining compound to the two sheets. The stench drove Hazel to the business office: The former office of Mandy Rollins.
In “response” to my comment that Andy was in Leisa’s office every thing I deliver a box or boxes to the business office, Hazel exclaimed that Andy was in Leisa’s office the entire day Friday! If “you” were aware of the situation at C.A.C.C. that would come as no surprise to “you”! However, I doubt all eight hours was Andy in Leisa’s office!
Was it yesterday morning? Joyce stated that Andy had a nice-looking wife. I told Joyce, “After you have steak a long time, beans taste fine.”
Amy Rodgers was telling Hazel and me that she (Amy) is forced to continue her work load after hours, at home. It is not overtime.
I may plan ahead and arrange for the next day, but I hope things never get so bad that I confuse work and home!
Yesterday evening granny twice asked me about my planting duties at C.A.C.C. Was she patronizing or sincere?
Why is Joyce so critical of Tara? Several times Joyce has “complained” that Tara also spends hours in Leisa’s office!
As far as I can tell, Tara knows her stuff! It’s not out of character for Joyce to be jealous of Tara actual independent woman status!
As much time that Joyce spends in the book store, she is critical of Tara?

(17th, About 6:13 A.M.) Kayla was here yesterday evening for a short visit, and nobody told me! The only way I fould out was that I heard the child’s voice in Joyce’s room around 6:55.
Kayla was preparing to leave.
Bill was sitting in the rocking arm chair in conversation with granny when I went to the Family Room.
Although I don’t think Kayla got here before 5:30: Joyce was “late” arriving home, and when I “enclosed” myself in my room around 5:20, Joyce had yer to get home.
I have learned to survive the Joyce/granny syndrome! It won’t improve with granny’s death: If anything, the behavior will worsen! Leslie is showing signs of “JGS” at a dangerously high level!
I wish that there was away to prevent Kayla from “catching” the syndrome, but the only way Kayla can bee “JGS”-free is to be kept away from Joyce! Contact with Leslie should be limited if the child __ __ escape with her life!
As for Bill . . .
Kayla was gone by 6:55.
I had left the book store temporarily. As I was walking away, Ty Harkins was about to enter the book store.
When I returned 2-3 minutes later, Hazel, sitting before a computer at the south end of the counter, exclaimed that she “resents” (what was her word exactly?) the authoritarian atitude of someone that is not qualified to authoritarian!
Ty Harkins has no degree from a university or college, yet he is full-time with the FIT program, and receives full benefits.
J.J. Jackson, Hazel’s son, is a part-time staff member of F.I.T., but with a college degree, according to Hazel.
J.J. works without health insurance and benefits.
Hazel is absolutely correct: Ty Harkins has no business being where he. But isn’t Hazel just a little bit prejudice towards J.J.?
C.A.C.C. wouldn’t allow Nathan Brackeen to teach Speech one semester due to the fact that he doesn’t have the eighteen hours of graduate-level Speech courses.
That was done to impress SACS.
However, Nathan is back teaching Speech. Go figure!

(acerca de 6:51 A.M.) I hope you’re sitting down when I tell you this: I was in the chair/stool at the north end of the counter, back to the wall.
Milt, in the book store, claimed that he use to do more until he realized that the business office was only taking advantage of him.
A comment is not necessary! React to Milt’s claim as “you” feel inclined!
Down at the shop, Milt - standing by the “front” (east) door, 5-6 feet northwest - told me - facing him, to the southeast - that he and his family, years ago, use to visit his uncle in Detroit, MI, during the summers. There he witness the deployable conditions that bagged potato chips are subjected to: Rats, rat “___” (feces), etc.
I don’t think so, Milt!
During the same conversation, Milt talked about the soft drink Fesco (?) that was taken off the market when it was discovered to contain cocaine.
Of course, an inmate was close by, and Milt could have been feeding me nonsense in order to impress the inmate!
Milt and I began the discussion with Spring Break and alcohol, and that Spring Break is too much apart of the economic mainstay of Panama City and Fort Lauderdale, FL.

(acerca de _:16 P.M.) If the truth be known, the abolition of slavery as a justification for the Civil War was analogous to the Bush administration swearing that the “war” in Iraq is to brid democracy to the Middle East!
As the non-traditional former C.A.C.C. student was leaving the book store, yesterday, after withdrawing from school, he stated that slavery was not the real reason the Civil War was fought.
The man is, no doubt, a nationistic Southerner, and will never admit that slavery was wrong! Hell, he refuses to acknowledge that forms of slavery exist to this day, in the United States! He thinks only China and ____ incorporate slavery into their “way of life”!
This man “reminded” me of the flooding in 1993 that came about when the Mississippi River overflowed. That, in turn, was caused by the huge quantity of snow melt.
Please remind me to tell “you” that I bought a pack of cigarettes from Allen’s Food Mart for $2.15! But wait: Forget about reminding me!
Donna was very xenophobic yesterday, “demanding” that people who come across the border should learn English. She also made remarks about tax-payer support of illegal immigrants from Mexico.
Donna told me that a lot of Americans live in Mexico, and I explained how United States currency goes a long way down there.
Eric installed solar-powered lighting in front every other azalea bush in the sidewalk planter. As if the azaleas were not crowded out already!
This is what happens when Eric tries to be “creative”! Hell, the azaleas shouldn’t be in those planters in the first place!
I “discussed” the new additions, with Milt and Marvin in the office of the shop.
The shipment of computers came yesterday around 2:30, the inmates having just enough time to unload them to the storage area in back of the book store! For as I told Hazel, the inmates have no choice when to be back at the prison camp: There is a set time!
KING OF QUEENS (8-8:30 P.M., C.B.S.) presented “Black History” yesterday evening. Well, in a way: For KING OF QUEENS is a comedy, and both black and white satirized Black History.
A necessary perspective for all scholars of Black History, including Dr. McGregor (?), the female that “led” the class in revisionist Black Literature at F.S.U. in the Fall of 1997! Especially Dr. McGregor!

(acerca de 2:17 P.M.) If Hazel hadn’t “hunted me down” in the bookstore (I was in the book room) and check for green on my clothing, I would never have realized that today is St. Patrick’s Day!
“You” be surprised how much “you” can learn in 9-10 minutes: I turned into the History Channel around 8;50, in the midst of a “lecture” on fuses in rockets. The subject matter alone makes me glad that I wasn’t at the lecture from the start!
The LAW & ORDER episode (9-10:00 P.M., N.B..C.) was one that i saw earlier, maybe last year.
Today has an uncanny resemblance to yesterday: Cold and wet. The upper-40⁰’s (F). A pesky mist.
Winter is picking on us! Even though Spring is sworn-in in seventy-two hours or so, I doubt if Winter will go away that easily!
Joyce analyzed Amy Rodgers this morning, saying that Amy’s pathological need for acceptance because of what her father supposively did, makes Amy vulnerable to being taken advantage of byan Eric, Andy, etc.
Joyce doesn’t realize it, but she provided an excellent “excuse” for marriage!
I wonder if George W. Bush understands that the pre-Civil War South was an ownership society?

(acerca de 3:17 P.M.) I have been told that Amy Rodgers suffers from multiple sclerous (MS): I have deliv__ several boxes of medication to her (she told me it was) so I don’t doubt my source this time.
Why doesn’t Amy retire with disability, I asked Joyce this morning: According to Joyce, Amy is becoming forgetful and careless.
Amy’s husband is retired with disability: Maybe Amy is afraid that she would become as bored, with low self-esteem, as he is.
Amy wants to work as long as she can.
This morning Hazel was telling Joyce, in the book store - Joyce was opposite Hazel at the south end of the counter - that Amy had overlooked or misplaced a shipping order or invoice that Hazel stated she and I had collected.
If Hazel is correct, and Joyce is right, Amy should, indeed,be encouraged to retire with disability!
I mustn’t forget THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:22 P.M., P.B.S.) yesterday evening! A note: Since the fundraiser has been in progress, the NEWSHOUR has “ended” each evening at 6:22, even though I haven’t “said” so!
During my conversation with Milt yesterday in the shop, Milt stated something about an African American male pretending to be a preacher in order to receive free transportation, food, and lodging.
I have read that such schemes are common in some social “classes” of the Black community. Although many white people that “shout” their religion - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc - are hiding something or planning something “evil”!

(acerca de 6:30 P.M.) If I’m lying, I’m dying!
Even though I have no record exactly when this happened - sometimes within the last 3-4 weeks - I remember telling Hazel that, in spite of what the pundits may claim, most jobs in the country are from national “chains” such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, or McDonald’s. and not small businesses!
Expect more belated recordings such as the above: For some reason it seems easier to remember weeks and years after the fact than it does to remember what happened today!
Most likely I am deluding myself, but as far as I am concern, the only reason I am in Childersburg, AL, is to provide a residence for Deah. Many is the times that I map out a life after Deah. And I feel guilty for doing that!
Deah is ten years old. There may be five more years in her. I will only be 60, still a lot of life left!

(18th, About 7:34 A.M.) Yesterday morning, Hazel asked me about the book “Metamorphoses.” When I stated that “Metamorphoses” is by Ovid, she said “whatever!”.
But it is the long short story by Franz Kafka “The Metamorphosis” that is on the shelf: They - all three copies - were on the shelf in the storage room, but on Hazel’s instructions, I transferred them to the English 102 section in the book room.
Hazel, sitting on a chair/stool before a computer, commented on the brevity of the story, that most of the Critical Edition is commentary and examples from Kafka’s diary.
“The Metamorphoses” is translated from the German. I was wondering why the novel is being used in an American or English literature course, but ENG 102 is all literature!
It was Wednesday when Milt stood in the book store, on “that” side of the counter, and declared that I am dedicated to my work when I attend to business in the rain! For on Wednesday I scraped the spaces between sidewalk sections free of weeds!
That potted plant that Marivn told me last summer belonged to “Boots”? I think I told “you” that it is still in the shop. According to Milt, there are many plants that belong to “Laney” Blackeby and Dr. Terrall. Assuming that the plants down at the shop are possessions of the aforesaid people, the shop is not a warehouse! Technically, I can replant any of those flowers, especially the ones that have been in the Collection for over a year!

(acerca de 8:13 A.M.) When Hazel asked me, yesterday, to guess how much it is costing to renovate Building “H,” I replied “at least $100,000.’
That figure is too low, according to Hazel!
Hazel and I agreed that a Wellness Center, in which the public would be able to buy membership, would recoup the monetary outlay. Although Hazel though CACC should “turn” a profit, but I reminded her that C.A.C.C. is a non-profit, tax-exempt institution.
Several of the instructors have complained to Ms. Sallatto about lack of classroom space, which is why the original plans for Building “H” changed in mid-stream!

(acerca de 12:52 P.M.) When I “reported” to the book store yesterday morning, Hazel and Glenda Bland were in conversation. The part I managed to hear was something about the dysfunctional work environment at C.A.C.C.
Hazel voiced that C.A.C.C. is not her first priority, that she has a life outside work. Glenda made mention of the fact that she has a child.
Hazel announced her top priority was “God.”
Of course “God” exist! Correction: The concept of “God” exist! There wouldn’t be a word for it, otherwise!
Whatever “God” is “Goffery Otis Denton” or a “Grand Poopa” in the sky, the word “God” (or Dios, or Deux, or Allah, etc) is there!
I was telling Joyce yesterday morning - we were coming from the credit union near the “paper mill,” where Joyce banks, by night depository in this case - that many places advertise for “help wanted” by including “team player” in the qualifications for the job. As Joyce stated, in a perfect world, a “team player” would be a great access for the business. But, before this, Joyce declared that a “team player” is only a cover and a scapegoat for incompetent superiors!
Hooked on audio books, I “borrowed” the Study Guide to “Othello” by William Shakespeare, from the library downtown. It’s really an insult to the high-level literature, but I promise to treat “Othello” better, as soon as I get a grip on “Faust,” which could be awhile!
At the most, I “studied” thirty minutes of THE NEWSHO(UR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:22 P.M., P.B.S.).

(acerca de 1:40 P.M.) It was Wednesday or Tuesday when I told Donna my “theory”: If the United States military can train recruits in 7-8 weeks, why can’t it do likewise with Iraqis?
I remember standing outside the bus before this house when I told her that.
As I told “you,” Hazel spends a lot of time “researching” news items on the internet. Before the woman was interviewed on THE TODAY SHOW, Hazel related to me - Monday? Tuesday? - of a couple that visited their former pet chimp at a sanctuary, in order to help celebrate his birthday anniversary. The couple presented the former pet with a cake.
Two chimps that either shared the cage with the former pet, or the cage adjoining, attacked the couple.
The man managed to push the woman to safety. But he was torn up pretty badly, including having his testes ripped from his body.
The attackers were shot and killed: Was that the only way the care taker was able to save the man?
This incident happened in California. Danny Coleman told Hazel she was making the story up, so Hazel e-mailed Danny the details.
Did the attackers want some cake? That’s what most of the people Hazel told the story to believed.
However, I have another theory: The attackers were male. From experience and study I am aware that male apes are sexually aroused by female humans. So the male human had to be eliminated.
Although chimps are mean: Maybe the attackers were only doing what “God” designed them to do!
The episode of RIDDLES AND RITUALS (8-9:00 P.M., National Geographic Channel) yesterday evening presented a detailed account of “Stonehenge” and other pre-historical architecture. I did the best I could, but I sincerely hope that I am around to see the episode again!

(acerca de 2:27 P.M.) Leslie may have reached the conclusion that the only way to stop granny from “stuffing” Kayla with “junk food” is to tell her (granny) that Kayla can’t have dairy products any more!
Or it may be that Leslie was feeding Kayla pizza too much!
That reminds me: I prepared a pizza for lunch last Saturday and, not thinking, I asked Kayla if she wanted some of it. Joyce reminded me that Kayla can’t have cheese.
Then Joyce accidentally mentioned cheese to Kayla later in the day.
It was Friday, not Saturday.
I also withdrew via check ten dollars from The Bank, this morning.
A lovely day for a walk: The mid-50⁰’s (F), “medium” sunshine, gentle breeze.
Maybe this is how Spring 2005 will start off!
I lucked out: THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (10-10:30 P.M.; 10:30-11:00 P.M., Comedy Central) - both episodes - inspired me to laugh, especially when Lewis Black (“Back in Black”) takes to the airways.
I suppose that’s the price one must pay - having to sit through silliness and the unfunny - for the ocassional “fire preventive medicine”!

(acerca de 4:06 P.M.) Hazel “has” an 18-year old son, a student at C.A.C.C. Earlier Tuesday or Wednesday - hell, maye even Thursday! - “I suggested” that he could be drafted, if the draft is re-instated, a probable possibly.
Hazel was non-commital in her half-answer. Given the “ownership” society George W. Bush wants, Hazel is not the only parent that will turn against the Bush administration (or turn “more”) if conscription threatens!
Marvin and I were talking one day at or outside the shop: if the draft is, indeed, re-activated, the Bush twin daughters must also be available!
In addition to political “suicide” for the Republicans, maybe this is another reason for rejecting the draft by Bush!
Donna and I decided one day that it is only fair that females register, as do males, currently!
Is it more important to keep “smot”away from children, or to get them to respect the First Amendment?
I refer to V-chips, those things that block televisions and the internet from delivering “pornography” to the homes of pre-18-year olds.
Are V-chips a form of censorship? Is this why the majority of young people (so polls suggest) are in favor of government-approval of news?
“The Birmingham Post-Herald” (?) announced yesterday that obesity is unhealthy. Which is PEEHIP will never be able to single out cigarette-smokers as risky insurees, subject to increase premiums!

(acerca de 6:10 P.M.) When Milt found out from Eric via radio that the lamps highlighting the azalea bushes operated on solar power - Milt was in the office of the shop, along with Marvin, who was sitting with his back to the western wall - Marvin informed me that there are calculators that are powered by solar batteries: Fluorescence lighting only, most likely, which makes one wonder if Florescence lightning is secretly harmful to living things, in spite of the fact that many greenhouses and conservatories use florescence lighting to “trick” flowers and plants into growing!

(19th, About 8:34 A.M.) Everyone seems to think that is so great that Karen Hughes will be speaking for the president as she tries to repair the damage George W. Bush did to the reputation of this country the first four years he was in the White House. Shouldn’t it be obvious that that’s the problem: The country needs someone that has no connection what so ever to the White House - maybe even an opponent - that could tell the world that the United States is a great country in spite of George W. Bush! _o please not judge this country by what Bush has done!
When I was about fifty feet from Forest Hills Drive yesterday morning as I was going to town, I became aware of a lump of fur in the road.
The “lump” soon gave rise to a head.
A Yorkshire terrier, and it allowed me to pick it up and move it to the lawn of the eastside corner house of Princeton Drive.
In the event the “Yorkie” was a stray: A playmate for Deah? Would Deah even accept another canine; After all, she has been an only “child” for nine years (it was in March 1996 that she became my partner)!
But I needn't had "worried": The dog, if I'm not mistaken, "belongs" with Leisa McGaha's sister.
The “doily” was awful dirty. And why was a dog that small “loose” in the first place?

(acerca de 9:15 A.M.) Think about it: Do we really want a Congress that only “rubber stamps” the dictates put forth by the presidency? There is criticism of China for doing just that: A recent “warning’ to Taiwan was given unanimous “approval” by the Chinese legislative body.
A permanent Republican majority would do that.
The “question” asked something like the following: “A mute had to ‘sign’ the object s/he wanted; how does a blind person ask for something?”
The answer, of course, is the blind person, who wanted a pair of sunglasses, just ask for them.
The answer is hiding in plain sight in the question. That’s the way it is with all questions that are nicely-constructed.
Which is why taking tests measures one test-taking ability, and not one’s knowledge of a specific discipline!

(acerca de 9:55 A.M.) If my student loan will be “cancelled” upon my death, then I would advise all middle-age people to flock to school: Undergraduate or graduate! But first of all borrow the money!
Even if “you’ live to 90, “you” will have 25-30 years of lessen debt!
I didn’t say what I meant! But I’m trying to state that borrowing money for school in my mid-40’s, is no where near the financial debt that is incurred if I had borrowed in my late-teens!
Please say “you” know what I mean!
Maybe I’m taking the accusation too far, but is Joyce spying on me in the late evenings when I take Deah on a walk? A lot of times the light in her room is “on’ when I go out.
Is Joyce watching, keeping track, of my smoking?
Or is it coincidental that Joyce often stay up until I return from the walk?
Although if Joyce is, indeed, spying on me, then wouldn’t it make more sense to extingush the light?
Joyce cannot function properly if she can’t “Mother Hen” somebody! I suppose I can tolerate it: As long as I am aware of what Joyce is doing!
As I told Hazel, the important things I deal with personally! All other interference is only a annoyance!
Around forty-two minutes of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:22 P.M., P.B.S.) yesterday evening included the highlight of my week: The analysis of Shields and Brook (or Brooks).
Plus WASHINGTON WEEK (7-7:25 P.M., P.B.S.), a good way to end the week!

(acerca de 11:40 A.M.) is it true, as many “experts” will tell “you,” that language - written and/or spoken - is a barometer for “your” maturity, “your” mind-set? If so, my grasp of grammer and syntax thirty years ago, using my journal as an indicator, was vastly different than my writing (and speaking) at this stage of development!
A typed copy of my journal will show the evolution of my mental/emotional growth.
However, a person’s handwriting changes moment-to-moment.
Reviewing even journal-entries from 2002 - I am in the process of upgrading the “housing” of several volumes - and my penmanship, along with grammer and sentence construction, has progress dramatically!
A typed transcription could never reveal the change in handwriting, which is why any potential researcher must study the evolution of my handwriting, as well as the grammer and syntax. The penmanship is hard to read in many places, but I found it hard to “read” life!
NIGHTLINE (10:35-11:05 P.M., A.B.C.) presented a survey of a “Muslim Comic” yesterday evening. The former attorney expresses concern that his jokes about Muslims in American society don’t go over with non-Muslims.
But the jokes are too real to laugh about!

(acerca de 12:48 P.M.) No one disputes the fact that the Bush administration is good government! Only it isn’t democracy!
In theory, Milt is correct: Nature should be left alone to take care of Her own clothing! Maybe I shouldn’t have pruned the left-over lantanas stems from the Winter Break the lantanas took! Milt said that he wouldn’t have!
Although that may be because he is lazy more than his working relationship with Nature! (continued)




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