I started cranking through them and opening them up the other day. It's interesting how much writing provides a voice: so easy to hear my dad, hear his thinking, hear him talking to me. A little wave from the other side: this person passed here, and in fact, they did leave a record of their having passed here.
One of the more interesting files is a laundry list of ideas he had to write about:
"Time is always too short and no path is long enough for lovers." Ivo Andric
Question if all thought, genius, creativity, criminality, insanity, etc. etc. are caused by certain biochemical reactions and nothing more or is there a Pattern or Plan behind it.
****Can a new 1914 come and take it all away? Is Balkanization within nations or between nations desireable? or in the long term, possible?
Can confederation work over time? Doesn't someone have to be in charge? Must there be war at the interface?
Why aren't Greek statues circumcised?
Spuds McKenzie gets pregnant.
One he clearly wanted to do, that seems particulalry appropriate today:
******Does sincerity, even fervor, justify the abandoning of DUTY?
So many more... probably a hundred stories he might have written, but never got the chance to.
Today as I drove home from Sumner, I saw two people set up with a sandwich board that said, "Pull over to impeach Barack Obama." Nearly as I'm aware, he hasn't done anything impeachable. More disturbing was coming up the hill to Bonney Lake and seeing another group of people with the same set up... only this Barack Obama has a Hitler mustache. Ofergodsakes, people. Do you think they have any idea of who Hitler is? Do you think they get the magnitude of the destruction he caused? Do you think they know how many people died as a result of him?? I want to ignore them, and I want to throttle them. The disconnect from any sort of rational thought... is just down the street from me. Geez.
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