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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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This month Violet and Joey learn about playing the harmonica, pairing up, and how people usually handle absurd requests.
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This month began with my installing several new programs, MailWasher, SystemWorks 2002, and BigFix. The first allows me to bounce any blacklisted spam emails automatically and decide how to handle the rest. Email processing is still a bit tricky, but I’m almost over the learning curve. The second one announces fixes to software packages and installs them automatically if I say “Go ahead.” I’ve had the usual startup problems, but it seems to be doing its job okay. When I loaded Norton SystemWorks 2002 over the 2000 version and my PC took a few steps backwards. Things that used to work don’t work, like CrashGuard, and CleanSweep comes up all the time when it’s not supposed to. Anybody got any suggestions about how to fix these two glitches, let me know.
While surfing the web, I got an interesting offer from jon@insteadlaugh.com for making comments on his “laughing therapy” website: “If something makes you happy write me a sonnet in iambic pentameter.” Since I haven’t had a chance to write a sonnet recently, I dashed off this one in keeping with the theme of his http://insteadlaugh.com website as well as my http://www.doyletics.com one:
Dear Jon,
Sonnet in iambic pentameter?
I doubt that it would make you laugh a lot,
But since you asked, I'll give you all I've got,
Since I am very big in the matter.
A researcher I am you see about
Things both animal and vegetable
And as they say, and mineral, all out,
And human beings so emotional.
So if you're feeling so depressed and blue
You want to end it all without a trace,
Cheer up, there's hope for even me and you --
Look up and even find a touch of grace
Emotions are a doylic memory
And can be erased most cognitively.
Finally finished the posting of all my “A Reader’s Journal, Volume 1” to the web this month. Take a look at the final result at: http://www.doyletics.com/arj1revs.htm. Unable to economically publish this volume in hardback anymore, I decided to make it available over the web.
Got a call from Tara and Bradford Riley saying they would be in downtown New Orleans a few days while she attended a McDonald’s convention. Met them for coffee and Bradford and I toured the city. I regaled him with sights to see and history to mull over while he regaled me with eurhythmy and tales of his years at the Goetheanum beginning at age 19. If you’ve never seen someone go through the 12 eurhythmy gestures as they precess through the zodiacal circle, you have a treat in store for you. The gesture for Aries is the right hand, perpendicular to the body placed about four inches in front of the face — the sense is sharp, direct, and to the point. Being married to an Aries, Del, I can tell you it describes her perfectly.
Our grandson, Sam, came in from Baltimore and we drove up Alexandria for a few days to bring him with us. Our offspring there had bought a new home in a nearby neighborhood and we had to take a look at it. Can’t wait to the see their two New Orleans-style patios when they have been all planted out and spruced up. While Del took three grandson, Weslee, Sam, and Thomas to Beaumont to visit their Uncle Jim, I spent time reading and writing. When my son-in-law Wes came back from his fishing trip we met at his new house to eat some boiled crabs and take a dip in the new pool. This weekend gave me lots of free time away from website design to complete my reading of the books that I reviewed for this month.
The next week we celebrated our 24th Anniversary, but since we lived together for a year before we got married, we celebrate this year our “25 years of Living and Loving.” Took my two grandsons Gabe and Sam to Cool Hand Luke’s for an ice cream stuffed snowball, but Sam wanted only snowball and Gabe only ice cream. Go figure. Naturally, I had my usual Dreamsicle flavor with vanilla ice cream inside the snowball. Talk about good! Reminds me of the old Dreamsicle ice cream bars that street vendors used to sell.
Thanks to Netflix and our DVD player, we watched three of the four episodes of “Upstairs-Downstairs”, the season when Lord Bellamy’s wife sailed off on the RMS-Titanic and didn’t return. And Hazel, the typist arrived just in time to replace the vanished mom on duty and Captain James Bellamy is smitten by her. The moment when Hazel gets Roberts newly returned from rescue on the Titanic to pry her hands off the jewelry box by telling her that her Lady would have wished her to was classic. All the Upstairs-Downstairs principals who had been unsuccessful at extracting the jewelry box watched in amazement as this middle-class secretary turned into a real lady and qualified herself to become James’ new wife and reside over the house. We’re anxiously awaiting the next DVD in the series.
For our anniversary we had a quiet, elegant dinner at Midi in the Le Meridien downtown. Our dinner was capped off by a delicious chocolate and strawberry dessert with Happy Anniversary written in chocolate on one rim of the plate and Happy Birthday on the other. My birthday was a few days later on the 33rd anniversary of man setting foot on the Moon, July 20, 1969 on my 29th birthday. For my birthday the next day, I was privileged to perform the marriage of a lovely couple, Janet and Eric Zammet. A wonderful ceremony that came off with only one hitch – the happy couple got hitched to each other!
Del and I attended a Steiner Study Group for the first time, thanks to a new friend Margaret Runyon who was introduced to us by Rob Chenoweth. One of the members of the group is Inge Elsas who studied nursing with Ita Wegman, a close associate of Rudolf Steiner. At 87, Inge is as alive as any three year old, with bright piercing eyes and a bright outlook on life. [Note: here’s a book on medicine written jointly by Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman, Extending Practical Medicine. My review of the book can be read at: http://www.doyletics.com/arj/epmrvw.htm .]
The rest of the month found us visiting our newest grandson up in Bloomington, Indiana. We left at 5:17 am and arrived there at 9:15 pm. That included two stops for an hour or so each along the way. We had dinner with Betty Chowning, a friend in Louisville, at KT’s right off I-64, a great restaurant. We promised her and ourselves a longer visit on the way home, which we enjoyed as well. A tour of Louisville and a stop for dinner at Claudia Sanders’ restaurant.
Another offspring has moved into a newer, larger house. Rob and Jami have purchased 12 acres or so off Kerr Creek Road in East Bloomington and finally have a house big enough for their three children, Sierra, Walden, and Emerson. I asked Rob if he had another son would he name him Ralph because if he did, his three boys would named, Ralph, Walden, Emerson. He laughed. I got to cut a large triangular swath of the 3 acres of front lawn the next morning on the full size John Deere tractor while Rob used the small hand mower to do some trimming. Then I got to help him add some posts for the roof railings on the tree house he was building for himself and the kids. Built on the side of a slope, the left side stairs go up about twelve feet, but the roof porch looks out into the 25 foot level of the forest, just above the first level treetops. I tested the railings on the staircase — they were rock solid — and can assure Papa Buster, my dad, that he would be proud of the carpentry and design skills of his grandson.
Del read to Sierra and Walden and we took turns rocking and holding Emerson who was born only a month earlier, but is a big healthy boy child already. We stayed on the ground floor and had a full bath, a shower, a sauna, and an indoor swimming pool at our disposal. Plus green forest and lawns filled every window. Built by a carpenter whose father was a plumber and a swimming pool man, this house has wood in places where most houses of its age, twelve years old, have aluminum or other metals. It has wood siding, wood floors, wood beams and even the double pane casement windows have wooden frames. Del and I sat on one of the outside staircases to watch the fireflies flitting across the lawn and through the trees after dusk one night.
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Hits (Watch as soon as you can. A Don't Miss Hit is one you might otherwise ignore.):
“Cider House Rules” – what can I say? Still no sitting on the roof.
“Minority Report” is set in the future when crimes are prevented by arresting criminals before they commit their foul deeds. Of course, there’s always a loophole somewhere . . . naturally — it’s a Philip K. Dick story.
“Men in Black II” was more fun than the first one, mainly due to the apparently much lower budget on this one for “alien vomit”. Frank, the Chinese Pug, who only had a bit part in MIB, pulls a Joe Pesci number and becomes a constant companion in this one. A wonder that PETA didn’t object to their putting a dog to work as a detective.
“Door to Door” with William Macy playing Bill Porter. Amazing story on TNT about a door to door salesman who was hemi-plegic due to cerebral palsy, and yet worked for over fifty years going door to door selling cleaning products. You can read all about him at: http://www.billporter.com/ Macy deserves an award for his vivid portrayal of Bill Porter in this TNT movie.
“Heist” with Gene Hackman in top form. Is there any doubt as to whether the old man will best the young upstarts in the end? Well, yes, there is, and thereupon hangs a tale. Think “The Mechanic.”
Misses (Avoid At All Costs): We attempted to watch these this month, but didn't make it all the way through on most of them. Awhile back when three AAAC horrors hit us in one night, I decided to add a sub-category to "Avoid at All Costs", namely, A DVD STOMPER. These are movies so bad, you don't want anyone else to get stuck watching them, so you want to stomp on the disks. That way, if everyone else who gets burnt by the movie does the same, soon no copies of the awful movie will be extant and the world will be better off.
Luckily none this month!
Your call on these — Your taste in movies may differ, but I liked them:
“The Waking Life” is a unique creative process: movie shot in digital video, then converted to cartoon form. Full of amazing characters and thoughts. Must be watched more than once. (2001)
“Company Man” or what happens when a Grammar school teacher becomes a spy and saves the world from bad grammar. (2000)
“Damn the Defiant” with Alec Guiness, 1962 sea adventure, very good. Breaks the mutiny cliches. Captain lost his right arm – if your right arm goes against you, cut it off. He did. His Exec Officer went against. Cut him off. Cut off both of his right arms. And survived. Occurs to me that Alec Guiness was the Tony Hopkins of his time.
“The Others” a suspense-full movie with Nicole Kidman, an obsessive mother raising two children in unusual circumstances.
“O, Pioneers” on the Hallmark Channel with Jessica Lange, a great movie of pioneers in the high plains of the West. A daughter takes over a large ranch when her father dies and supervises her younger brothers, who are less than grateful for her hard work.
“Il Postino” Another DVD we watched was “Il Postino.” Afterward I looked up Pablo Nerudo on the Net and found this poem that was used in the end credits of the movie. Great movie. Watched it intensely as this naive postman slowly discovered the inner poet in himself and became friends with the Nobel Laureate of 1971, Pablo Nerudo. Here’s the poem that graced the ending credits of the film:
And it was at that age...Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don't know how or when,
no, they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.
These early reviews will be added into a new Chapter in Volume 1 during August which is where they rightly belong.
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Here’s Klotz’s attitude towards the English translations in a nutshell:
[page 20] It’s not that these English translations are wrong; they are simply limited. They can’t hold the spiritual possibilities of the original Aramaic . . .
In an English-speaking culture that is assured every day that the “map is the territory” one can understand how Klotz might be led to believe that it is the English language in which the fault lies, not the readers of the English translations. To any student of General Semantics their steeping in the processes of the “map is not the territory,” any English translation may be understood in the fullness of any of Klotz’s Aramaic translations. The problem is not in the language, but in the unconsciousness meaning-formation of the users of the language. In fact, it is exactly for those who read blithely read the Bible in English without any spirit-infused thought and meaning-formation that Klotz’s book will be extremely helpful. It is like a crash course in General Semantics using the Bible as the textbook.
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Rightly understood, this is not a sequel nor a prequel to The Bridges of Madison County, but an epilogue. A story that relates what fell between the cracks of the first story; an almost perverse and yet poignant narration of what might have been, what almost happened and what did happen to Robert L. Kincaid that Francesca never knew about. Aging and retired from photography, he returns to the Roseman Bridge and she is there, but they never quite meet. When he gets back to Seattle from his last ride with Harry and Highway along a thousand country roads, and settles in his reserved table for two, as Nighthawk’s fingers dance over the familiar chords of Autumn Leaves on his raspy tenor sax, someone is waiting to meet Robert for the first time. An epiphany awaits Robert in the dark, just as this peregrine is ready to return home for the final flight of this life. Who is it awaits your reading of the book. If you’ve read the first book, this one will thrill you every bit as much as the first one did.
The interest in being a “re-born Christian” that exists in the new 21st Century can be understood to indicate a faintly conscious wish for the cosmos to be re-born in oneself. This re-birth is what Steiner’s spiritual science offers to each of us who are not willing to stand and wait idly by for enlightenment to fall into us unbidden by virtue of our increasing age. Here is an excerpt from the review:
Most people think the laws of science are infallible - Newton's laws hold to very close tolerances even after being updated for Einstein's relativity considerations. So too for the laws of thermodynamics, heat transfer, Maxwell's equation, etc. What about the laws promulgated by the church, are they infallible? Steiner in this passage comments on one such law.
[page 123] "And religion itself, has sunk into materialism. One of the most telling
examples of the tendency toward materialism in Roman Catholicism has been the
establishment of the dogma of infallibility, a purely materialistic measure."
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Gabe only ice cream. Go figure. Naturally, I had my usual Dreamsicle flavor with vanilla ice cream inside the snowball. Talk about good! Reminds me of the old Dreamsicle ice cream bars that street vendors used to sell.
used the small hand mower to do some trimming. Then I got to help him add some posts for the roof railings on the tree house he was building for himself and the kids. Built on the side of a slope, the left side stairs go up about twelve feet, but the roof porch looks out into the 25 foot level of the forest, just above the first level treetops. I tested the railings on the staircase — they were rock solid — and can assure Papa Buster, my dad, that he would be proud of the carpentry and design skills of his grandson.
a swimming pool man, this house has wood in places where most houses of its age, twelve years old, have aluminum or other metals. It has wood siding, wood floors, wood beams and even the double pane casement windows have wooden frames. Del and I sat on one of the outside staircases to watch the fireflies flitting across the lawn and through the trees after dusk one night.
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