watched pres. bidens final speech last night...ouch!... now we get to sift through the next administrations output of verbiage...why no fact checking mr Z?... anyhow, it should be interesting...
i guess now that carter is dead i can tell about my Iranian encounter...i was going home from the zoo after doing night keeper duties when about 3 in the morning i see a car on fire...it is a Volkswagen and the rear engine compartment is ablaze...i pull up to the car as the driver is finishing putting out the fire,,,ain't going nowhere in this bug...i see the driver is a is middle eastern looking man and in need of help...i ask him if he wants a ride somewhere...then i tell him there are three empty rooms where i am staying at my recently divorced fathers house...he decides to ride with with me and i put him in the master bedroom while i retire to my room...and when we get up later in the morning i ask him where he needs to go...i forget if it was to the bus station or what but he is grateful for the help and he gives me a ring as a thanks...he says it was his grandmothers and the inscription says "GOD IS GREAT"...actually it says allah is great...before we part he asks me what i thought was a strange question..."if i return will we be friends regardless of what has happened" it sounds kind of mysterious to me but i say sure why not ....well he says he must return to Iran immediately and less than a week later the hostages are taken in Iran...i always hoped that this man had encouraged the kidnappers to not be cruel because of my kindness to him...who knows...
i recently watched a biography of sorts of mark twain during his so called "later years"...he developed an obsession with girls from the age of 12 to 16 years...i think he referred to them as his "angelfish"...ok whatever...he even built a large house with many rooms so they could come live with him...he said he had no grandchildren and he long for them...so when his daughter returned from europe she put the brakes on this plan...too bad sam...i also read about john ruskin who wrote and did art and was a critic of some note...he became obsessed with a 10 year old student of his but was able to control himself until she turned 16 when he proposed marriage...she rebuffed his attention and basically told him to get lost...poor mr ruskin was actually married to a woman but on the wedding night he got sight of her "private parts" and was so alarmed that they were soon divorced...OK...this sad fellow seems not to have had a good grip on reality....anyhow i guess the dating sites might serve a good purpose if even to let folks get acquainted before too serious a relationship develops...
"Great Spirit, give me a heaven not so large as yours, but large enough for me." Emily Dickenson
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