Fainting for the first time late in life's journey

 Fainting for the first time late in life's journey

fiction

edward w pritchard

Recently I had the experience of fainting for the first time late in life's journey while sitting utterly alone at a medical test in a still darkened hospital room at 8AM and despite the half dozen or so in  panic Doctors and nurses rushing to revive me I experienced a calm serene moment or two similar to being a young child. As perhaps my temporary loss of consciousness being the spirit leaving the body I was later reminded of Saint.John's of the cross' famous poem

I abandoned and forgot myself,

...

all things ceased; I went out from myself,
leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies. 

Following Clayton Delaney

 following clayton Delaney

fiction

edward w pritchard

One day all of us must follow Clayton Delaney and pass from the Earth. As songwriter Tom T Hall says,

like Clayton, it's OK if at the end when you are suffering and dying it's fine if you finally get religion.

For me , I go out a Pantheist, in the style of Spinoza. 

More and more lately, when I wake up early in the morning, I spend a minute or two, listening through an East facing open window, for the sound of the Universe expanding in all directions. 

Men from New York in expensive hats

 Men from New York in expensive hats

fiction

edward w pritchard

When will the men from New York in expensive hats stand outside the stock exchange with grim looks on their faces? Waiting, waiting for someone to fix things.  

Over the last couple of hours the NASDAQ futures stock index took an ominous decline in over night action. Looks to me like there is a lot of hot air in the tech stocks of late.

I prefer women in hats and predict that if the stock market gets itself in a mess this October the ladies in hats will be standing worried right besides the men there in New York Manhattan this fall.