all these little relationships
fiction
Once I talked to a mobster type for a minute and in passing she told me that as she got older it was hard for her to stay genuinely interested in all the little relationships between people and all the complex rules and obligations that they entail. Looking back reflecting on my life while going through this stay at home order in America I finally understand that sentiment.
On a whim with that thought in mind I reread the short novella by James Joyce "the Dead" today.
Joyce populates the party mentioned in the story with several sad pathetic types who are incapable of change. The final exchange between the couple is just too sad.
Also today I saw a brief part of an interview on TV with one of the richest men in the world Bill Gates about his efforts to help find [and fund I assume] a vaccine to combat the virus currently crossing the world. For us, humanity, all, I hope he is successful. I hear as a big picture type guy Gates worries about a virus or tragedy someday killing a million people or more unexpectedly.
All these little relationships between the 7 billion plus of us humans. Bill Gates one of the seven Billion humans plans and programs his time by the minute and works on several initiatives to curtail population growth in Africa and elsewhere in the civilized world while also funding vaccine research to save lives. Meanwhile most of the world lives like Gabriel and Gretta in James Joyce's "The Dead"; private lives of quiet desperation a bit pathetic when examined too closely and all to brief when viewed in real time.
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Monday, April 27, 2020
identify yourself with non-distinction
identify yourself with non-distinction
edward w pritchard
Once I owned a home with a large sliding set of glass doors leading to series of wooden decks overlooking a pond and some woods. About once a year someone would rushing out smash the middle of their forehead onto the heavy glass hurrying outside. I did it once.. No one however, myself included ever tying to rush in ever smashed their head.
Things have changed. We can no longer peer cautiously across the future.
Identify yourself with non distinction.
edward w pritchard
Once I owned a home with a large sliding set of glass doors leading to series of wooden decks overlooking a pond and some woods. About once a year someone would rushing out smash the middle of their forehead onto the heavy glass hurrying outside. I did it once.. No one however, myself included ever tying to rush in ever smashed their head.
Things have changed. We can no longer peer cautiously across the future.
Identify yourself with non distinction.
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
How to invest your stimulus check
How to invest your stimulus check
fiction
edward w pritchard
The government has just sent out a pile of money to citizens to stimulate the economy in a pandemic
and advice is everywhere on how to invest the money to make yourself financially independent like our elected officials themselves.
First off don't buy Champagne and reefer like Muddy Waters once recommended. Too expensive.
I recommend Southern Tier 2XIPA beer 8.2% alcohol $ 1.75 per bottle and listen to you tube [free]
on internet [$30 per month]. Tonight I am listening to Billie Holiday "Summertime", Janis Joplin "St James Infirmary blues" and Sidney Bechet saxophone with Claude Bowling on piano "St .Louis Blues.
A mild spring rainstorm is due locally here about midnight so open a window and "listen to the warm" [attributed to Rod Mckuen poet "it's either famine or a feast"] .
fiction
edward w pritchard
The government has just sent out a pile of money to citizens to stimulate the economy in a pandemic
and advice is everywhere on how to invest the money to make yourself financially independent like our elected officials themselves.
First off don't buy Champagne and reefer like Muddy Waters once recommended. Too expensive.
I recommend Southern Tier 2XIPA beer 8.2% alcohol $ 1.75 per bottle and listen to you tube [free]
on internet [$30 per month]. Tonight I am listening to Billie Holiday "Summertime", Janis Joplin "St James Infirmary blues" and Sidney Bechet saxophone with Claude Bowling on piano "St .Louis Blues.
A mild spring rainstorm is due locally here about midnight so open a window and "listen to the warm" [attributed to Rod Mckuen poet "it's either famine or a feast"] .
Friday, April 17, 2020
A man with a knack
a man with a knack
fiction
edward w pritchard
What jobs will survive the corona virus pandemic? The only job that's open needs a man with a knack [1].
[1] Milt Gabler- "Choo Choo Sh Boogie"
fiction
edward w pritchard
What jobs will survive the corona virus pandemic? The only job that's open needs a man with a knack [1].
[1] Milt Gabler- "Choo Choo Sh Boogie"
accent on the wrong syllable
accent on the wrong syllable
fiction
edward w pritchard
I had a boss once who when he wanted to take anybody down a notch would describe them publicly as [having] "the accent on the wrong syllable". He covered a lot of ground with that insult but I always thought his observation was original and not conventional.
Such is the state of our Country now in the corona virus pandemic. America "accent on the wrong syllable". Everyone is out of step and stumbling to a fall.
fiction
edward w pritchard
I had a boss once who when he wanted to take anybody down a notch would describe them publicly as [having] "the accent on the wrong syllable". He covered a lot of ground with that insult but I always thought his observation was original and not conventional.
Such is the state of our Country now in the corona virus pandemic. America "accent on the wrong syllable". Everyone is out of step and stumbling to a fall.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
ponzi scheme or maya
ponzi scheme or maya
fiction
edward w pritchard
How hard we struggle to be honorable pay our bills and be an dutiful citizen because we don't realize it's an illusion.
Three trillion dollars of additional bonds must be sold by our government to bond investors soon or the federal reserve will have to presto change the three trillion into long term debt for future tax payers. Either way it's a perpetual sophisticated ponzi scheme. Or perhaps it's Maya in the Hindu concept of reality as in we believe in [good faith] what is ultimately an illusion [ for our own good].
What to do? Plant some flowers this week with the spring rains upon us or if no green thumb plant grass seed it always grows.
Calm and serene I nurture my garden.
fiction
edward w pritchard
How hard we struggle to be honorable pay our bills and be an dutiful citizen because we don't realize it's an illusion.
Three trillion dollars of additional bonds must be sold by our government to bond investors soon or the federal reserve will have to presto change the three trillion into long term debt for future tax payers. Either way it's a perpetual sophisticated ponzi scheme. Or perhaps it's Maya in the Hindu concept of reality as in we believe in [good faith] what is ultimately an illusion [ for our own good].
What to do? Plant some flowers this week with the spring rains upon us or if no green thumb plant grass seed it always grows.
Calm and serene I nurture my garden.
Saturday, April 4, 2020
depreciating American script money
depreciating American script money
fiction
edward w pritchard
I had a visit in my dreams last night from the British philosopher Iris Murdoch. Earlier that day I had reread her excellent article "Void"also known by her as "affliction"about how to deal with serious psychological issues using philosophy. I was reading her article for solace because of the trauma inflicted on the World because of the Corona 19 virus that I am experiencing now along with my countrymen.
As you know Iris Murdoch was a genius writer and philosopher who when she died had had Alzheimer's for several years. Because of that affliction that she suffered with in life she was unable to talk to me after death through my dreams as characters typically to do in these stories I write. However I was able to understand some of her thoughts through dream telepathy.
Iris mentioned that the US government is making a serious mistake sending checks to US citizens payable in US dollars in an attempt to jump start the economy because of the corona 19 virus. She suggested while the government had good humanitarian intentions such a massive influx of funds
could cause the dollar to face grave unintended consequences.She could not further explain but mentioned the words black swan several times.
She suggested a fiat script which expired in thirty days should be sent by the US government when the extraordinary benefit checks are mailed to named recipients this April.
fiction
edward w pritchard
I had a visit in my dreams last night from the British philosopher Iris Murdoch. Earlier that day I had reread her excellent article "Void"also known by her as "affliction"about how to deal with serious psychological issues using philosophy. I was reading her article for solace because of the trauma inflicted on the World because of the Corona 19 virus that I am experiencing now along with my countrymen.
As you know Iris Murdoch was a genius writer and philosopher who when she died had had Alzheimer's for several years. Because of that affliction that she suffered with in life she was unable to talk to me after death through my dreams as characters typically to do in these stories I write. However I was able to understand some of her thoughts through dream telepathy.
Iris mentioned that the US government is making a serious mistake sending checks to US citizens payable in US dollars in an attempt to jump start the economy because of the corona 19 virus. She suggested while the government had good humanitarian intentions such a massive influx of funds
could cause the dollar to face grave unintended consequences.She could not further explain but mentioned the words black swan several times.
She suggested a fiat script which expired in thirty days should be sent by the US government when the extraordinary benefit checks are mailed to named recipients this April.
Thursday, April 2, 2020
in all earnestness
in all earnestness
fiction
edward w pritchard
Earnest Hemingway has visited me in dreams to comment and clarify something I wrote in my last post about his novel "farewell to arms".
He suggests using telepathy that I reread "the sun also rises" concerning his concepts of "the Code"
about each individuals facing Death over the course of their lifetime and those times when death is imminent and not just a philosophical puzzle.Such as now with this corona virus 19
" Earnest -I can read your thoughts"
author- perhaps you can suggest a way for myself to organize my ideas
" Earnest- no time, I want you to remember about what I said about "the Code" /when one has to face their own death in "the sun also rises"and later novels I wrote
author-"I forget"
Earnest "no think hard, my ideas influenced you, more than all the Buddhism you studied"
author- thinking omnipotent in his dreams- "The code" was in your opinion Earnest that one should react graceful and courageously in the face of danger or death and always be a professional [and a mensch]
Earnest- good bye then.I must go
fiction
edward w pritchard
Earnest Hemingway has visited me in dreams to comment and clarify something I wrote in my last post about his novel "farewell to arms".
He suggests using telepathy that I reread "the sun also rises" concerning his concepts of "the Code"
about each individuals facing Death over the course of their lifetime and those times when death is imminent and not just a philosophical puzzle.Such as now with this corona virus 19
" Earnest -I can read your thoughts"
author- perhaps you can suggest a way for myself to organize my ideas
" Earnest- no time, I want you to remember about what I said about "the Code" /when one has to face their own death in "the sun also rises"and later novels I wrote
author-"I forget"
Earnest "no think hard, my ideas influenced you, more than all the Buddhism you studied"
author- thinking omnipotent in his dreams- "The code" was in your opinion Earnest that one should react graceful and courageously in the face of danger or death and always be a professional [and a mensch]
Earnest- good bye then.I must go
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