he had moments

                      found himself in places   places  books videos overhearing conversations invited into them where sudden iridescent quotes float like squirrelly soapbubbles that popwhisper in his ears

Abraham Joshua Heschel

he wasnt a Jew

he would not know him

                            however

he stumbled into a podcast whose participants compelled him intrigued him  despite knowing they were going to discuss religion

   not his bailiwick

                         anyet

“Prayers are humble answers to the inconceivable surprise of living. It is all we can offer and return to the mystery by which we live, who is worthy to be present at the constant unfolding of time.”

grateful  

          there is no reason he could fathom he should be its only recipient

 POP  

1702,  Tuesday,  13  1. 26

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/abraham-joshua-heschel-a-prophets-prophet/

his cellphone rang

he looked

if the caller wasnt in his phonebook he didnt answer

                                                             he didnt answer a lot

FRIEND

hed answer

             but before he did he mused FRIEND thats what he called himnot by his first name by this nickname and musing he heard FRIEND in Boris Karloffs voice as Frankenstein

FRIEND

You’re not gonna quit with that are you?

Im not whas up

                   and they were off

they usually spoke a couplethree hours about things  often about nothing

FRIEND was having some health troubles attending many appointments

                                                                                 You’ll love this.

Whacha got

My physician has a physician’s assistantno not that . . . an intern.

Yah.

       A young man.

We went through the last test results. I have to wait a couple of weeks for the next appointment to go through the new labs I've done.

    I told him I was disappointed.

He told me . . You’re seventy.

Yah.

        Is this a cognitive test? I know how old I am.  immediately crackedup

his laugh  contagious

                         they must have HARHARed a good twenty seconds

I’m seventy! That’s fuckin’ hilarious.

                                                I would have bet against that.

Jah  Me too

Would have lost considerable money.

Not to mention youd be . . .

                                                 some things go without saying

1210,  Sunday,  11  1. 26

1119,  Tuesday,  13  1. 26

Frankenstein  Friend  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7BO_hqe_q0

WAKE UP

             a Breaking Points interview with Yanis Varoufakis

beginning around the 24:46 minute-mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQIrvPeNtds Yanis discusses AI assistants utilised by asses  he remarks about interfacing with them starkly reminding him what he knows  “. . . (this) machine trains you to train it to train you better, so that you train it even better to know you so well, that it wins your trust,

                                            Excuse me all to hell  TRUST? 

                                                                       and once it has won your trust, then it can direct your choices.”

he could rail he trusts no one

                                or those exceptional few who have a limited modicum of his “trust” might recallremember being horrified by what he told them about a cordyceps fungus that turns ants into zombies

 

    WAKE UP

1253,  Tuesday,  13  1. 26

fungi  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/cordyceps-zombie-fungus-takes-over-ants

amendment  Ezra Klein  the 35:00 minute-mark  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6fiO2EgJ4

    snapshots

                  he calls them snapshots because he is not a photographer most arent most people especially now do not craft or stage their photographyhence

                                                                snapshooters

he mentions this because last night a little blue he waondered his small house to spend time with the individual art hanging on the walls

                                      a strong third   photography

scattered around on bookcase shelves top of tables cabinets are small framed snapshots that hewed him deepened his shade of blue

                             each reminding him of the time he wished the day the date and what happened before and after

before

he shot

and after

          and after the film was developed holding themslipping one to the next to the nextMygawd wha an fantastic time tha was

 

he returned to his desk and sat went on-line he was tardy he went through his in-box to view literary sites he subscribed to

                       found this quote                            

                            timing is everything

There is no reason to be afraid of death – when we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.

                                                                     Karl Ove Knausgaard The School of Night

2337,  Monday,  12  1. 26

1032,  Tuesday,  13  1. 26

Manet  This May, Be Life  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dVmMzbabak  

The Sarto Klyn V - Turn To Stone  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M9Hc5E1s3U

     conversation over phones

You’ve heard the word oomph?

Of course 

    What do you mean of course?

O  O  M  P  H

                    Ive heard it

Alright.

          What does it mean?

A feeling  Being in a state of excitement energy   Sex appeal

                                                                  Vivaciousness

Yah.  Right.

                    I didn’t know that until this weekend. We were playing Wordle.

Wordle

           Ive no idea

Game. Have to guess a five letter word in six tries.

Clues

On-line. We play it on our iPhones. You receive color-coded feedback, green for a correct letter in the right spot, yellow for correct letter wrong spot, gray, if not in the word.

    Oomph

I believe if Im correct  midgets sang oomph in the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory  Gene Wilder

Oomph Loompa

                  An also if Im not mistaken  It was the name of the midgets   A fictional race

But I didnt learn any of tha until my girls read Roald Dahl

                                                                 Then we had to rent the film

Made in Seventyone

Now that you mention it. Yah.   Hmm.

                                           Hmmmm.  I’m reliving the Wizard of Oz, on the black and white Zenith, the scene when the scarecrow tin man and the lion went to save Dorothy. They were prowling around, spying, outside the Wicked Witch’s castle. 

Her soldiers were chanting and marching.

Jah

Yah.

        I thought then that that was clever. An advertisement. Possibly the first-ever. In a film.

An ad

         Ive no idea wha youre talking about

Oreos.

         O-re-o, o-reos.   

laughed

            Thas hilarious man  I wish yawoud have shared tha when we were kids

1246,  Sunday,  11  1. 26

2010,  Monday,  12  1. 26

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory  Oompa Loompa  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkC8wPSmcPg

The Wizard of Oz  Oh-RE-Oles, OH-Rioles  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqajwnKq1Ts