181. 7 August 2019
Noon. Carol is out pulling weeds. You have readied yourself to go out to lunch (Carol's suggestion). You feel very good with the response to your birthday; you are really quite surprised at the number of 'Likes' and 'Comments'. - Amorella
1204 hours. All those former student names and old college friends and teaching colleagues -- from back in the early seventies at Escola Graduada de Sao Paulo in Brazil; from Indian Hill High School in Cincinnati; and from William Mason High School in Mason. I retired in 2003 and taught from November, 1966 at Magnetic Springs Junior High, then at Whitehall-Yearling High School in Whitehall, an eastern suburb of Columbus before we moved to Sao Paulo after a year for my Masters at Bowling Green State University. I am trying to decide whether that was a long time ago, or not so long ago at all. (1216)
With that, a quick flashback to three, and your statement, "I want a cookie," at Grandma and Popo Schick's in 1945 and your first historical recollection - a wake for the death of President Roosevelt. And, from there to age five, shaking hands with an old man, Mr. Press Reynolds, who had been born a slave on a plantation in the South. He lived three houses west of 103 West Walnut, home of Grandma and Popo Orndorff in Westerville. - mh
A quick flash of your life is not going to happen here, orndorff, though you would 'enjoy' the experience. - Amorella
1237 hours. It was just a thought, Amorella. I'm glad you quote marked 'enjoy'. Life has its positive and negative memories. Some I would just as soon not remember. But then, that would not be reality would it?
Carol is reading in bed with Jadah by her side. Spooky is out in the sun room sleeping. It was a relatively busy day. You did buy Carol and small desk with a dropped keyboard and three enclosed drawers for her new iMac, and you decided to put it in the sunroom and leave the printer in the study. So, there will be no clutter. Tomorrow you have lunch at Old Bag of Nails at State and Main with Aunt Ruthie, Tony, Marilyn, Cathy and Tod, and Gretchen and Jerry. Mid-afternoon, you boy sit and Uber drive Kim and Paul to a second wine tasting session for a friend's new restaurant opening in the Fall. - Amorella
2254 hours. Back to "reality" in the previous paragraphs. Here is a brief description of reality from Wikipedia:
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Reality
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Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent, as opposed to that which is merely imaginary. The term is also used to refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence. In physical terms, reality is the totality of the universe, known and unknown. Philosophical questions about the nature of reality or existence or being are considered under the rubric of ontology, which is a major branch of metaphysics in the Western philosophical tradition. Ontological questions also feature in diverse branches of philosophy, including the philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophical logic. These include questions about whether only physical objects are real (i.e., Physicalism), whether reality is fundamentally immaterial (e.g., Idealism), whether hypothetical unobservable entities posited by scientific theories exist, whether God exists, whether numbers and other abstract objects exist, and whether possible worlds exist.
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Amorella, what is 'reality' from your perspective'?
Reality in its general sense is real life, i.e. consciously living in the real world. I am not alive. - Amorella
2303 hours. Ms Havisham, what is 'reality' from your perspective?
As a soul I am conscious of the human spiritual heartanmind I comfort and protect as I am immortal and human spiritual heartsanminds are not immortal. I am indifferent to imagination because it is not spiritual. I understand what it is to be human because I am a part of this process even though when alone and empty I am not human at all. Examples: I am neutral to physics and the known and unknown universe. I am immortal. I understand human beings are not immortal. My understanding relates to the comfort and protection of her or his spiritual heartanmind only. The spiritual heart and mind have to work out what reality is to each part and to the two parts as a whole. The living spiritual reality is not the same as the non-physical spiritual reality. Living consciousness is not consciousness after living just as consciousness at 77 is not consciousness at 5. One has a spiritual memory but it focuses in a present tense of Being. Being human demands a sense of space and time. The sense still exists when physically dead but it is relative to what is not what was. Without this sense one could not grow and mature within the framework of the humanity of the heartansoulanmind, the individual human spirit. - mh
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