the new future done arrived

 the new future done arrived

fiction

edward w pritchard

 New future done arrived,

nobody heard the door bell ring.

 Everybody forgetting to grow vegetables,

 store of value gone empty.

Here when we live electricity doesn't work anymore,

 houses shaken off foundation,

 Everybody's neighbors be missing,

 winds increasing steadily,

 fires of Hell spread across  old neighborhood;

who can hear for the silence,

 Romans knocking down last cross,

tearing apart heavy boards,

soldiers stacking rough hewed wood for posterity,

someone used boards at future time,

to construct a rocking chair for Nietzsche,

to spend his final ten years staring into the past.

inflection point

 inflection point 

Several times in my life I have met a person facing their inflection point and have struggled to decide should I offer my opinion on their cage that is currently restraining them. Often[ twice] the person was a pretty bar maid  stuck in a cage of a job restraining their true personality. Of course she was pretty. Should I speak out?

The environment is always dark for them, melancholy music always on the jute box and two hundred twenty four men a month routinely bores them with their pick up lines and life stories. The tips are good. 

Should I speak out and offer her my be true to thy self lecture covering Buddhism, Greek philosophy, and Lucretius. 

I note I am too old to get to know them these days. 

first hour movement of Sun across morning sky

 First hour movement of Sun across morning sky

fiction

edward w pritchard

Author has invited deceased author F. Nietzsche author of "Twilight of the idols" and " the anti Christ" and Lao Tzu" Tao Te Ching" to enjoy with author [ed} the rotation of Earth facing and circling the morning sun resulting in brief temporarily awakening where author now temporarily lives and abides. Various processes of the universe cause a hundred sounds each early morning  as this daily process unfolds and it is a privilege to have a few more years to enjoy this event. 

Half way through the morning ritual as the Light brightens chirping birds quiet down temporarily busy with their work. Seeing first light is exemplary.  

eric burdon and elon musk

 eric burdon and elon musk

fiction

edward w pritchard

note for convience words fate and god are enter changeable here

Eric burden sings " i'm just a soul whose intentions are good" and 50 years later Elon Musk speaks and modifies events. Elon how could god have given one person that much money and the power to control events with a few glib utterances?

Mr. Musk please use your influence to pause the war in Ukraine. There is a picture from WW2 shot in London the morning after Nazi bombing of a little boy about 7 holding his stuffed animal amid the rubble of his street being destroyed by last night raids. Similar things are happening now in the Ukraine to children. 

Elon use your influence to pause the war in Ukraine.

Ukrainians and Russians working together for justice

 Ukrainians  and Russians working together for justice

fiction

edward w pritchard

In world war two a prominent Nazi and Christian temporarily "ruled " in the Ukraine and parts of Poland. Erich Koch was a good Nazi and a devoted Christian. He was brutal toward the Ukrainians. Koch is best remembered for declaring " Ukrainian children do not need to attend school "[ he might have meant at this time as they could be indoctrinated into Nazi thought later - writers opinion only]. Rather than list Koch's brutalities toward the Ukrainians let's just say he was a good Nazi.

After ww2 both Poland and Russia demanded that Koch be found and tried by the allies. Eventually found and tried Koch died in Prison of natural causes denied the death penalty for poor health pleading to the end he was good Christian, a good socialist and a friend of the workers.

In bringing justice in the case of Erich Koch the Russians, Ukrainians and Polish worked together. 

-let's stop the war between allies in Russia and Ukraine in the present day where children and good Ukrainian citizens and  Russian soldiers die daily. 

Pretzel Pete of Hardy boy's fame seeks new author

Pretzel Pete of Hardy boys fame seeks a new author

fiction

edward w pritchard

Pretzel Pete of Hardy boys fame seeks a new author we hear.  Pete who works the docks near Bay Port sometime in 1930's America has always been a prime source of information for the Hardy boys Father detective Fenton Hardy. 

America was a different place in the 1930's said Pretzel Pete. " I have seen people nearly kill for a pretzel during the great depression in America" said Pete. -and to be blunt it was because they were staving with no prospects of honest work, a steady job and the basic necessities of life. 

How can Americans living in 2022 America possibly understand what it's like to live in the great depression, or live through fascism in 1930's Germany or survive the siege of Leningrad in Russia in WW2. 

I must find a new author said Pete, " this author Pritchard doesn't have the words to awaken his meager audience." Beware, the times are changing". "Hot pretzels sang Pete, one now and two for your pockets for later".

a thank you for the russians

 a thank you for the Russians

Currently most Americans are down on the Russians. Let us go back to the 1860's with America in civil War and the two most powerful European powers, France and England considering supporting the South in the civil war. Enter the Russians who dock two fleets temporarily in American ports.   Changing the balance of power internationally and allowing the two American sides in the conflict to proceed without foreign involvement ending slavery. 

Currently Russia is the world's whipping boy for their actions in Ukraine. Maybe rightly so. However

my own County permanently has unclean hands for it's treatment of the Native Americans when America was conglomerating into a world power. Most countries of the world have similar pasts. 

As author has written elsewhere The Pope, a Muslim caliphate and other religious leaders should be available and step forward willing to attempt to pause aggrandizement by strong men of the  various world powers. Said world strong men often get into situations where they need to stop fighting with their armies but are afraid to loose face and because of time and circumstance innocent civilians die and their lives are ruined. 

Mr. Putin stop the war in the Ukraine.