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I wrote a few paragraphs in a post to a discussion group earlier and I've got my mind on that, so I'm gonna paste it here, and then write a little more if it comes to me.
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In my own opinion about the term "care" I usually use it in association with "acting" to replace the mis-spelt term "character". My reasoning is weird to so-me perhaps. My major in college was Drama & Speech. I had too many people coming up to me during my late teens and twenties say-ing thangs like, "Boy, you just don't know how to act around decent people, do you?"
I still don't. It's too cut and dried for me. Hypocrisy is what turned me against my early religious training. The people who were telling me that what they were teaching me about Jesus was supposed to help me develop character traits that would serve me well as an adult. They didn't conduct themselves according to the tenets they supposed they were teaching. The dish ran away with the spoon.
What I heard them saying that was actually useful to me was that if a person acted like they "cared" about the misfortunes of the other, then they had character. If they acted like they didn't care about the other's misfortunes, then they had no character. I call it careacting. In either case, it's acting. Why would I need to study anything else than how to fake it until I can make it?
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Well, I was gonna do that, and then I started inserting all these characters and symbols at the top and bottom of the entry, and the various Sun symbols at the beginning and end of the quote, and life got complicated.
Two more hours until the Spring Solstice. I'm accepting Rainey's invitation to come over to his house to celebrate it with a small bonfire and maybe listen to the music of the hillbilly band he's pitting against each other for him to play against.
I ain't possessed by the desire to perform publicly again, so I won't be joining them. My musical ambitions seem satisfied by redundantly playing the scales on my digital piano. Not so much to understand my own way with music, but to grok what other people "think" they're doing when they play old-time and other music. I seem more attracted to nursery rhymes that can be extended into facelessness.
I'm really pleased with the way my seed sprouting project is going for-me. I got about three quarts of alfalfa and clover sprouts, and the very idea of what I'm putting in my old body is exciting for me because I know how those seeds got turned into wholesome food. Presently, I'm sprouting some alfalfa and radish seeds I started a day and a half ago.
My sister-in-law and next-door neighbor got me started in juicing wheatgrass which I greatly appreciate, and so to sort of pay her back I gave her a couple of wide-mouthed quart jars that has stainless steel lids that are needed to grow sprouts.
I didn't realize she didn't have any seeds to use, and/or that she felt a little clumsy and queasy about how to get started, because it's sorta like germinating the wheatgrass we grow. Her hesitation was pretty much the same way I felt about getting started growing wheatgrass. I just needed somebody to show me how and get me started.
So, I took care of that yesterday and gave her a starter package of mixed seeds I had, inspired her to put two tablespoons of seeds in the jars I gave her, had her fill the jars about halfway full to cover the seeds good, and to let them soak overnight before she drained them. All she had to do then was to wet them with more water a couple of times a day and drain them again, until they started looking like the commercial sprouts what she bought at the store.
I think this will take with her because she's a real gardener. You oughta see her yard. Like my father was, she's a Libra, and the way she keeps her wits about her is through orderliness. My brother, the Aquarius, is happy beyond measure with her Draconian ways (her Chinese astrology sign is The Dragon and my brother's is The Pig. Fortunately, mine is The Rabbit). I'm just glad we get along okay despite my gentle ways.
All living creatures have to worry about the way dragons inform the world of their ex-is-tense. Dragons represent electrical storms and lightning is how they spit fire. Their winds, as exemplified by both tornados and hurricanes, like the fairy tale about the Three Pigs is like a wolf that will blow yo' house down, and if that don't work, the dragon will indiscriminately burn it to the ground with a bolt of lightning. Aiiiiyyyeeee!
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
