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Monday, December 30, 2019 Live long and prosper. Or notI turned 72 this year. After congratulating myself formaking it this far, I did what I usually do, and that is worry about how muchlonger I have to live.
I take a statin drug for cholesterol, and I take a drug formy blood pressure. They both appear to be working, at least according to theblood tests I take every year. I have become dependent on those prescriptionsfor a sense of well being. But I recently read an article that spoke of statindrugs this way: if you dont get a heart attack or a stroke how do you know if its because of the statin drugs you took, or you were nevergoing to get a heart attack or stroke anyway?
There is no way to know that, so you either have to assumethe drugs worked, or you are one of those people who live a longer life thatothers. Either way it leaves a puzzle in your mind.
I have cats. We had four cats, and then the four gotwhittled down to two when both died of old age. I thought in that case there isan advantage to being a cat. All cats do two things: sleep and eat. When ourcats are awake they listen to every little sound hoping I will put their dishfull of food on the floor. When they finish eating they go somewhere to sleep.
Except for instinct, cats don't think about the past or the future.They don't think to themselves,Yeah, there'sfood here today, but what about tomorrow? What if my owner has a heart attack or stroke and I don't get fed?They are incapable of thinking that way because they don't have the type of brains that conjure up those types of thoughts. As my wife and I have discussed, cats just live in the right now. They don't think about their past, and they don't think about a future. Why worry? I envy that, but as a human being if I thought like that I would be very low on the art of thinking, or scaring myself, if need be, to eat healthier or take statin and blood pressure drugs. There is a price for being at the top of the intellectual food chain. We are aware of our mortality.
Having said that I need to make some preparations for my eventual demise. Writing a will is a must, I think. Why haven't I done it yet? I think it is my ability to procrastinate the necessary in favor of the unnecessary. After all, there is a new series on Netflix I'd like to watch, and I would prefer that to thinking about what happens after I die.
I heard that married people live longer. I'm married for 50 years and is it because I'm married that I am living longer, or is it that it just seems longer? That's an old joke, probably older than me.
My wife was in an accident earlier this year that totaled her car and caused her some injuries from which she is still healing. It was such a bad accident that an elderly woman in the car that hit her died from injuries. Not only am I grateful my wife is still alive, but the accident has reminded me to be more careful driving. I am not scared to drive, but it makes me pay more attention when on the road. And if I get killed in a car wreck then someone might think, gee, maybe he didn't need to take those statins or blood pressure meds after all.

Not me, but after an entire lifetime I wish I'd kept up with the accordion lessons of my youth.





Posted byPostinoat5:44 PMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Sunday, October 27, 2019 The Friendly GhostsHalloween is coming, and here are two versions of a popular ghost story.

Louis C. Jones, a folklorist and author of the popular book, Things That Go Bump in the Night, mentions a ghost story that is very famous. He places it in the Troy, New York, area, but variations on the story's locale have popped up all over America, and even other countries. It has been retold over and over. Here are two versions. One is a story from a special ghosts issue of Classics Illustrated, which I took from Pappy's Golden Age Comics, the other a story from the celebrated pulp magazine, a 1939 issue of Weird Tales, which is available on the Internet Archive.















Posted byPostinoat11:20 AMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Wednesday, May 29, 2019 Write, then edit: editing is writing

I wrote this a couple of years ago, and thought I wouldshare it with fellow writers and would-be writers.
FIRST DRAFT:
I've been reading old issues of Writer'sDigest magazine. I've had varying degrees of success with thatpublication, because some of the articles are useful to understanding theprocess of writing, but often I'm left thinking that an idea might work for onewriter, but not for me.
I'm in agreement with the idea--told by more than onewriter--that even bad first drafts are fine, as long as the ideas are put down.Writing is bashing it out, then going back in with an eye to simplify and mostimportant, editing. Cut, slash, pare down.
I have a tendency, being a stream-of consciousness type ofguy, to want to say too much, and that might lead to something else, and verysoon I've filled up a page with superfluous words that just hold the reader upfrom getting my point. Ever do that? It's why things are done in first draftform, so you can get it out of your system. One article in particular said whencomparing manuscripts that Hemingway stood out for his clean pages. Very fewchanges were made in his hand. That's because he thought it out before he wroteit. He did the editing in his head. Most of us aren't that skillful; for me,personally, I have to have the words come out of my fingertips. I can think aparagraph in my head, but until I'm looking at it in the form of typed words itmeans nothing. Then I can go back in, and thank computers and word processingfor this, with my cursor edit everything out that doesn't need to be there.
Anyway, the writing process that works for me is idea,execution, editing.
GOOD ADVICE FOR THE EDITING STAGE:
From The UltimateList of Writing Tips, no credit for the list, found on the Internet, but mostof it makes sense, especially Number 62: Editing is everything. Cut until youcan cut no more.
So I cut, and cutand this is now the edited version of myfirst draft you see above:
FINAL DRAFT:
Reading old issues of Writer's Digestmagazine, I'm in agreement with the idea that even bad first drafts are fine.Writing is bashing it out, then editing. The writing process that works for meis idea, execution, editing.

A POSTSCRIPT: If you are being paid by the word, disregardall of the above advice.Posted byPostinoat3:44 PMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Friday, March 29, 2019 Choosing religion when science goes the other wayIn Utah a few days ago a group of people crowded into a school board meeting. They were there to complain about the science curriculum which says Earth was created not 6000 years ago, but billions of years ago, and that evolution is the answer to the origin of species. Because it made the local news I am reprinting a post I wrote in 2016.

People who believe the Bible to be the be-all and end-all of any discussion can be hard to communicate with. For instance, while even many pious and devout religious people believe in a scientific explanation of the origins of life on earth, when it comes to answers about tricky things like evolution (people were created when the earth was created, and began with Adam and Eve), or dinosaurs (lived amongst people, and their fossils are wrongly thought to be from millions of years ago) there is no equivocation from the Bible-is-the-only-answer-you-need folks. They believe in Creationism as a valid set of facts about everything.

The Creation Museum is open in Petersburg, Tennessee. You can go there and see the wonders of Gods creations.

There are also books published with answers to thorny questions about early humans and dinosaurs cohabiting the planet, not unlike the Flintstones or Alley Oop.*

One childrens book, The Great Dinosaur Mystery and the Bible by Paul S. Taylor, from 1987, attempts to explain the so-called mystery. As Taylor explains on page 16: When God created the world, dinosaurs were one of His creations. God created all the animals (Genesis 1:20-25). God made everything in the entire universepeople, stars, planets and all that there is (Exodus 209:11a Genesis 1, John 1:3). Like Adam, the bodies of the first dinosaurs were formed from the dust of the earth. Man and dinosaurs lived at the same time. (Emphasis mine.)

As always, click on the pictures to make them dinosaur size.



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