Alzheimer's disease

 Alzheimer's disease

fiction

edward w pritchard

There are none of the minor actors in Shakespeare or other playwrights except Death who waits backstage clear till act five to give his few lines on the death of Kings. In real life when Death sits at the bedside of the poor soul with Alzheimer's disease does Death wait and wait months and years indifferently to finish his lines until after a short eternity Death mumbles his final denouement. Only then does the audience shuffle off, heads hung down, with confused emotions.  

choose your psychological make up

 choose your psychological make up

fiction

edward w pritchard

Should you base your behavior and psychological makeup on Neitzche's writings and similar philosophies   or the Good Summarian? That seems to be the confrontation facing ordinary Americans and wrong choices among many can lead to 

an unhealthy breakdown in the social order. Which seems to be happening now. 

Help others, harm no one, and force yourself if necessary to be cordial with strangers. If your moods lead you to be two faced like Janus keep the cynic in yourself and display in public your positive proclivities the best you can. 

I am starting today. Join me.

1859 slave memories pre juneteenth

 1859 slave memories pre juneteenth

fiction

edward w pritchard

five minutes from freedom

fiction
edward w pritchard

Usually a hazy swirl surrounds our recollections of the past. But to this day I can vividly remember the slave auction house there on tenth street in Wheeling Wv [ then called Wheeling Virginia] one rainy Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the afternoon back in 1859. My Mother's great grand Mother rode in a wagon by the large auction house building as a little girl and her Mother ordered her to close her eyes so she couldn't see
the chained slaves waiting to be taken to be sold.

Of course my Mother's relatives were too poor to own slaves but by circumstances they found themselves in a slave owning country and state. 

To this day I recall my Mother's great grandmother thinking as she peeked at the chained slaves back in 1859 that they were only five minutes from freedom. Up over the roof of the slave auction building on tenth street in Wheeling Wv and ten miles North across the River to Martin's Ferry Ohio and a colored person could be free.

Today I live in Ohio, north of the Ohio River about ten miles south of some all black neighborhoods. The fact that we had slavery in the United States saddens me. If I had lived back in civil war times I suppose I might have been killed as a soldier fighting in an Ohio regiment. Many people in America sacrificed to end slavery in the past of our Country's history.  Me, today I enjoy black blues music; scrapper blackwell, tampa red, lead belly, elmore james, muddy waters and many others. The music is the memory of the suffering of the past.

be glad you are poor

 be glad your poor

fiction

edward w pritchard

Be glad you are poor. You have never screwed a friend  over money and you are not fretting over the stock markets eating up your hard earned savings . 

You are star dust you are golden. We have got to get ourselves back to the garden. [ Crosby, Stills and Young.]

the future lives in the past

 the future lives in the past

fiction

edward w pritchard

The future lives in the past. 

Rather than electric, hydrogen or gasoline being the future of the auto industry and peoples preferences of perpetual locomotion economic and environmental  circumstances will dictate  trains as the new source of locomotion for Americans. 

Heed the future. Look for trains as the next best thing. 

all the news that's fit to print

 all the news that's fit to print

fiction

edward w pritchard

Everybody at some time in their life finds themselves working in some kind of a job to support themselves. In my case I sit in a very small space capsule traveling very fast at the edge of the solar system and transmit the stock market action across the universe as far as humans have settled to investors millions and millions of miles from home. What I do is routine but of great importance because I am the last link in the mother economy stretching from earth to the next galaxy. Still sometimes I get exasperated being involved with persons obsessed so much with money and I sometimes get in trouble for the  sarcasm that I sneak into my financial reports

As example during the worse crash in the stock indexes in twenty years I began to sing during my broadcast the Kinks song " celluloid heroes" between my commentary on the DJ Industrial 11% fall this morning.

I remember myself singing " everybody's  a dreamer, everybody's a star, and everybody's in movies, it doesn't matter where you are". I like to think that the writer of the song Ray Davies of the Kinks would smile if he could hear me now. Of course broadcasts traveling back to earth on financial matters are forbidden  for a 30 day period as everyone knows. So it will take  about five weeks for my boss to reprimand me for my disobedience. 

wall street may 09, 2022

 wall street may 09, 2022

fiction

edward w pritchard

Another debacle on Wall Street today. Could be the start of serious times. 

Here's today's summary of today's wall street action from Henry James in 1904, " The American Scene" New York chapters.

" confusion carried to chaos for any intelligence", any perception, any welter of sounds in which relief, detachment, dignity, meaning, perished utterly and lost all right. "

Couldn't have said it better myself.