ANOTHER DAY 18 A

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE ANOTHER DAY 18 A And the clock says it is midnight, to the one that doesn't believe that the time is real. So what does it matter. It is just another day, I haven't done much of anything productive or otherwise worthwhile. I "officially" retired a month ago. Atleast for the time being. I will take a few days off, a few months even. No rush. At 71 I don't need much, I make more in my pensions and social security than most Americans make working a day job anyway. Times are changing they say, next generations will not be so lucky, their spending is out of control (but a consumer economy depends on people spending all they have), housing costs are through the roof and the interest rates are too high. Who cares? We ( my age group) have created the problems the our future generations will pay for. And we have raised our children with no solid foundation. And we blame the culture and the society, were we not the culture and the society that created this mess. We here in the small town South ( name of the state), or any conservative area claim that we always held the moral high ground, not true, not atall. Yes the racism, the segregation, the Democrats becoming Republicans if that is what you call holding higher morals, add to that oppression of the working poor, lower wages, anti union sentiments, yes, these were not the dictates of our beloved scriptures. "If Jesus came back, we'll hang him again" , and I said that 40 years ago, only my reasons were a little different back then. I WROTE THIS TWO NIGHTS AGO I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 30 AUGUST 2023 P. S. LOOK FOR PAGE "18 B" SOON

ANOTHER DAY 17 B

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE ANOTHER DAY 17 B I say will write more, more often, days turn into weeks, time passes. Time doesn't change things, things change on there own, time just passes, or sometimes time stands still. We blame time, time doesn't exist. What is time? We have no clue, but it helps to know time, so we invent time, a construct we call it, something imaginary but useful at the same time, sometimes. What is reality, we have no idea. When we are "sleeping" , when we are dreaming, we may travel a thousand miles, we may fly a plane, it is as real as anything, all the feelings, all the sensations are present, until we are awaken that is. One may dream that they are falling the fear is real, the heart rate goes up, one may start to sweat even. One may drink a soda, or coffee, the taste is real, the aroma is real, or one may drink a few drinks and get drunk too, all in a dream. Reality is subjective. Reality is NOT real, not any more than a dream is, how do you know you are not dreaming right now, you didn't know you were dreaming when you were dreaming. We are living a lie, we know, but we like it because it makes us comfortable, and we like it this way, so be it. Same is true of the truth, what makes us comfortable is true, what makes us uncomfortable is a lie. Like I mentioned in my earlier post, " all truths are but half truths" no one has the monopoly on it. It is like if I can afford it, it is cheap, if I can't afford it, it costs too much. And you thought I will talk about "TRUTH", I will, I promise. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 25 AUGUST 2023

ANOTHER DAY 17 A

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE ANOTHER DAY 17 A I shouldn't really count my days, but I do. It's been many days since wrote here last, more days pass, more thoughts gather, those thoughts get stale, they gather dust. Then dust devils whirl through my mind, my own thoughts start to smell old and musty. We must think, but we must also study, new ideas and new thoughts keep the mind from getting musty. I think. Who are we?? Who am I, who are you? What makes me or you important? At the end of the movie, "Saving Private Ryan", Captain John Miller, (Tom Hanks) tells Private Ryan (Matt Damon) , SPOILER ALERT, (they have suffered many casualties trying find and bring Ryan back, he is told that he is being shipped out from the combat zone to be returned home), "earn it", two simple words, what did he mean? We are Americans, we are free, we are proud, we have a functioning Democracy, sort of, we have rights, if we want to keep them. We have promises and guarantees if we can save them. Too many have died to save those rights, too many have fought, over the last two and a half centuries to bring us to this point. The struggles have not been simple or easy. Yet many today are willing to give up, nay even disavow and hand back what we have, to a system that we know is inherently corrupt. "EARN IT" I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 11 AUGUST 2023