nothing comes to sleepers but a dream
fiction
edward w pritchard
Every year or two my heart Doctor the specialist has the Talk with me. It's about sudden death that occurs among former heart attack patients of which I am one. It's odd because my health is good now and because of medication, formerly having some heart valve surgery and closely watching my diet, exercise and health habits I feel and sleep well, enjoy living and have totally come to grips with the brutal fact that he who is born must die, some sooner than others. Death occurs unexpectedly to us all eventually.
Of course this is a gruesome topic to discuss, especially unpleasant to the younger folks. In my case my grip reaper of sad tidings is a polite and urbane smallish civilized Doctor who about once a year feels compelled to remind me of Reality as it is.
Reality has a way of teaching one to adjust their philosophy to life as it is in fact. As the Blues doctor, not the heart Doctor but an old sad black guy with a twanging guitar says " nothing comes to sleepers but a dream". Meaning wake up and live and see things as they are. It's later than you think.
Don't wait for imaginary friends or things to come and rescue you. Get to the business of life yourself. You know what to do. You are unique in Nature. Develop, live thrive.
Hear the crackle of new life under the ice and snow that entraps us. Get up move, reach out. Free your sleeping spirit from it's entrapped enclosure.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Monday, January 15, 2018
homeless in San Diego; not even Brain Wilson is exempt
homeless in San Diego; not even Brain Wilson is exempt
fiction
edward w pritchard
San Diego has a chronic problem with homelessness. In an effort to combat homelessness humanely and by rule of law the Police in San Diego, California routinely resort to the issue of tickets for encroachment on public property. It's a sad little war the police there in San Diego are forced to fight on behalf of the Public. Without an income, a home or a car a homeless person has trouble getting to court to endure legal due process. One thing leads to another and failure to appear for a hearing or pay a fine timely leads a low functioning homeless person into jail or even prison.
Last Summer a law suit on behalf of homeless persons ticketed for encroachment was filed in San Diego. San Diego, California has a long history of problems with homelessness, outbreaks of hepatitis c, and unsightly trash accumulation, partly due to exorbitant rents in the area and lack of sufficient low income housing.
In an effort to alleviate some of the problems of homelessness and stall off future litigation on behalf of homeless plaintiffs the City of San Diego has resorted to providing temporary shelter in Balboa Park a large public space.
Former California millionaire Beach Boy Brian Wilson was once picked up for vagrancy as a homeless person in Balboa Park back in 1978. Wilson, genius rock and roll hero, who wrote " When I grow up to be a man," [what will I be] currently has a net worth of 75 million dollars and has attributed his previous problems with homelessness to alcohol, drugs and mental illness issues.
Rather than arrest Brian Wilson back in 1978 California police took him to an alcohol rehab facility.
One never knows who will be effected by homelessness. Rich or poor homelessness in America effects us all although often the problem remains unseen to ordinary people as they struggle with their own problems.
fiction
edward w pritchard
San Diego has a chronic problem with homelessness. In an effort to combat homelessness humanely and by rule of law the Police in San Diego, California routinely resort to the issue of tickets for encroachment on public property. It's a sad little war the police there in San Diego are forced to fight on behalf of the Public. Without an income, a home or a car a homeless person has trouble getting to court to endure legal due process. One thing leads to another and failure to appear for a hearing or pay a fine timely leads a low functioning homeless person into jail or even prison.
Last Summer a law suit on behalf of homeless persons ticketed for encroachment was filed in San Diego. San Diego, California has a long history of problems with homelessness, outbreaks of hepatitis c, and unsightly trash accumulation, partly due to exorbitant rents in the area and lack of sufficient low income housing.
In an effort to alleviate some of the problems of homelessness and stall off future litigation on behalf of homeless plaintiffs the City of San Diego has resorted to providing temporary shelter in Balboa Park a large public space.
Former California millionaire Beach Boy Brian Wilson was once picked up for vagrancy as a homeless person in Balboa Park back in 1978. Wilson, genius rock and roll hero, who wrote " When I grow up to be a man," [what will I be] currently has a net worth of 75 million dollars and has attributed his previous problems with homelessness to alcohol, drugs and mental illness issues.
Rather than arrest Brian Wilson back in 1978 California police took him to an alcohol rehab facility.
One never knows who will be effected by homelessness. Rich or poor homelessness in America effects us all although often the problem remains unseen to ordinary people as they struggle with their own problems.
Friday, January 12, 2018
the reality of cold weather
the reality of cold weather
fiction
edward w pritchard
The times determine the reality. It's cold tonight but in a house, with the furnace burning viciously, one sleeps unconcerned for the cold and winds. We worry only the cost all that natural gas will accrue as on next months gas bill.
Not so native Americans who lived previously here in Northeast Ohio in January. Tonight it's 18 degrees with a wind chill of about zero. Last week wind chill was ten below. What's it like to sleep outside in Ohio in January?
Well I have. Once for two nights in ten below zero before wind chill's were measured and announced by the weather bureau.
We slept in a tent at boy scouts camp. We hauled large sleds around all day from place to place filled with weights in a Klondike derby competition. The plan was to eat only certain foods but that plan was abandoned because of how many thousands of calories we burnt off trudging in the cold. Some eagle scouts wanted to build a lean to and sleep on pine branches with only a small fire and sleeping bag for warmth. Again plan abandoned. It was too cold.
I will never forget two days in sub zero temperatures in Ohio with no where to go to be inside and nothing to do but stay busy to be warm One slept soundly and awoke at 4:30 AM. One ate heartily.
Concerning the native Americans when the wind blows and the temperature is sub zero one admires our ancient forbears their fortitude, tenacity and survival skills.
To be young again. To yearn to be alive.
fiction
edward w pritchard
The times determine the reality. It's cold tonight but in a house, with the furnace burning viciously, one sleeps unconcerned for the cold and winds. We worry only the cost all that natural gas will accrue as on next months gas bill.
Not so native Americans who lived previously here in Northeast Ohio in January. Tonight it's 18 degrees with a wind chill of about zero. Last week wind chill was ten below. What's it like to sleep outside in Ohio in January?
Well I have. Once for two nights in ten below zero before wind chill's were measured and announced by the weather bureau.
We slept in a tent at boy scouts camp. We hauled large sleds around all day from place to place filled with weights in a Klondike derby competition. The plan was to eat only certain foods but that plan was abandoned because of how many thousands of calories we burnt off trudging in the cold. Some eagle scouts wanted to build a lean to and sleep on pine branches with only a small fire and sleeping bag for warmth. Again plan abandoned. It was too cold.
I will never forget two days in sub zero temperatures in Ohio with no where to go to be inside and nothing to do but stay busy to be warm One slept soundly and awoke at 4:30 AM. One ate heartily.
Concerning the native Americans when the wind blows and the temperature is sub zero one admires our ancient forbears their fortitude, tenacity and survival skills.
To be young again. To yearn to be alive.
a view from a room of my own
a view from a room of my own
fiction
edward w pritchard
A room of my own has become a burrow in a basement underneath the dissolving foundation of the American ship of State.
Meanwhile our enemies wait and plan eyeing our bounty of resources. Manufacturing imaginary sins we are guilty of to justify their avarices, their plotting takes root and our enemies seek secret alliances to attack our country, to steal our resources.
To our enemies the American union of States must be broken and be weakened into competing independent Countries. The great wealth of the American States must be used to pay reparations for past injustices to foreign elements speaking obscure languages say our enemies.
Repent, the end is near. Know who your fiends are.
fiction
edward w pritchard
A room of my own has become a burrow in a basement underneath the dissolving foundation of the American ship of State.
Meanwhile our enemies wait and plan eyeing our bounty of resources. Manufacturing imaginary sins we are guilty of to justify their avarices, their plotting takes root and our enemies seek secret alliances to attack our country, to steal our resources.
To our enemies the American union of States must be broken and be weakened into competing independent Countries. The great wealth of the American States must be used to pay reparations for past injustices to foreign elements speaking obscure languages say our enemies.
Repent, the end is near. Know who your fiends are.
castles in the air of unrequited love
castles in the air of unrequited love
fiction
edward w pritchard
It's a sort of virus this plague of unrequited love. Many about us but for circumstance and reality would joyously always be with their love object. But for their feelings for another the object themselves of the unrequited love would be perfect. If not for real world concerns, limitations and matter facts the multiverses of unrequited Loves would end and normalcy would return again.
A network of unrequited Love develops over time as a megalith of interconnected castles in the air. The castles are built and manufactured by those who cannot see things as they are, cannot see things in themselves. The great pretenders of unrequited Love dwell among the romantic vicissitudes of castles of imaginary relationships far removed from the real world.
There is no way to build a foundation under the interconnected networks of unrequited love. The floating castles themselves will not crash to earth until the final realizations of the death of the delusions of connected-ness between dis-familiar entities is manifested.
fiction
edward w pritchard
It's a sort of virus this plague of unrequited love. Many about us but for circumstance and reality would joyously always be with their love object. But for their feelings for another the object themselves of the unrequited love would be perfect. If not for real world concerns, limitations and matter facts the multiverses of unrequited Loves would end and normalcy would return again.
A network of unrequited Love develops over time as a megalith of interconnected castles in the air. The castles are built and manufactured by those who cannot see things as they are, cannot see things in themselves. The great pretenders of unrequited Love dwell among the romantic vicissitudes of castles of imaginary relationships far removed from the real world.
There is no way to build a foundation under the interconnected networks of unrequited love. The floating castles themselves will not crash to earth until the final realizations of the death of the delusions of connected-ness between dis-familiar entities is manifested.
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
There's no hierarchy in an Archaeologist's pile of bones
There's no hierarchy in an Archaeologist's pile of bones
fiction
edward w pritchard
There's no hierarchy in an Archaeologist's pile of bones as he methodically sorts bones fragments found part by part underneath the collapsed roof of an ancient Roman Villa. The femur of an 11 year old girl with shin splints, the skull of an old man or all the upper extremities of a three and a half year old child each get identical sealed plastic bags for transport to storage from the field dig site to the Museum back in London.
How Jesus is praised across the ages because he treated people the same regardless of rank or ability to further his career. It is so remarkable that in all cultures and time and places anyone who treats everyone fairly is remembered kindly as a higher level person.
An hour until any major battle anywhere in the American Civil War circa 1864 as the officers walk among the troops rank is forgotten on both sides temporarily as people face up to their own mortality and the calamity of what is about to conspire. Then one hundred and sixty five years later there sits that archaeologist at the dig site wiping his soiled glasses in a light rain as he sorts and places into large zippy seal-able storage bags the skull of an older man, or the backbone of a teenage boy. Only the buttons and shreds of dissolving cloth help him identify officer from enlisted man or North from South.
Don't rank and Judge people based on what they can do for you or who they are. It so not important in the long run.
fiction
edward w pritchard
There's no hierarchy in an Archaeologist's pile of bones as he methodically sorts bones fragments found part by part underneath the collapsed roof of an ancient Roman Villa. The femur of an 11 year old girl with shin splints, the skull of an old man or all the upper extremities of a three and a half year old child each get identical sealed plastic bags for transport to storage from the field dig site to the Museum back in London.
How Jesus is praised across the ages because he treated people the same regardless of rank or ability to further his career. It is so remarkable that in all cultures and time and places anyone who treats everyone fairly is remembered kindly as a higher level person.
An hour until any major battle anywhere in the American Civil War circa 1864 as the officers walk among the troops rank is forgotten on both sides temporarily as people face up to their own mortality and the calamity of what is about to conspire. Then one hundred and sixty five years later there sits that archaeologist at the dig site wiping his soiled glasses in a light rain as he sorts and places into large zippy seal-able storage bags the skull of an older man, or the backbone of a teenage boy. Only the buttons and shreds of dissolving cloth help him identify officer from enlisted man or North from South.
Don't rank and Judge people based on what they can do for you or who they are. It so not important in the long run.
Monday, January 8, 2018
Two Presidents or no President
Two Presidents or no President
fiction
edward w pritchard
Is it time in America for two Presidents or no President.
Currently there is so much friction, so much noise coming from the white house that it is amazing that anything gets done. Maybe it's not the Presidents fault as a man but a system design fault in the operational machine itself. Perhaps an update is called for, a system design modification.
Today a Celebrity is in the news for starting her campaign strategy to be the first successful female President in the next election. Of course this time again things will be different, her given a chance. Obviously we wish her luck.
Realistically perhaps two Presidents at once with a split of executive duties might work better. Or, no President with a viable alternative could be looked into.
The current system of American Presidential government was designed over two hundred years ago. Maybe it's time for a system design modification.
fiction
edward w pritchard
Is it time in America for two Presidents or no President.
Currently there is so much friction, so much noise coming from the white house that it is amazing that anything gets done. Maybe it's not the Presidents fault as a man but a system design fault in the operational machine itself. Perhaps an update is called for, a system design modification.
Today a Celebrity is in the news for starting her campaign strategy to be the first successful female President in the next election. Of course this time again things will be different, her given a chance. Obviously we wish her luck.
Realistically perhaps two Presidents at once with a split of executive duties might work better. Or, no President with a viable alternative could be looked into.
The current system of American Presidential government was designed over two hundred years ago. Maybe it's time for a system design modification.
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