discernment   Oxford Languages dictionary definition   1. the ability to judge well

                                                                                 what had he learned since a child about judgment

another thing his parents did right

tallied under GOOD  lefthand column

                                        according to him

his siblings shrugged when he asked what they thought  they hadnt

                                                                according to him

they were playing catchup to the righthand column

                                                          Judge not lest ye be judged

his parents didnt use lest or yeWho 

dug around and found it was Matthew

cat was given a lot creditedwritten in the Bible

                                                   although he was suspicious

the Bible was consolidated more than two hundred years after the events

                                                                                    when they occurred

no one was writing  quoting    theirs was an oral tradition

Matthew

            maybepossibly  a bit like Kilroy Was Here  graffiti of World War II American GIs

his parents insisted he not judge

 

 

discernment

                  why was it shaking its shaggy headround him

    for what he happened to overhear

by the looks of them HEY  No judgment   lets say they surprised him

                                                                           . . . discernment for what you’re not.

was not often he heard the word      engaged   deployed

came out  nicely   nicely  out of ones mouth

                                                 if he had been involved in their conversation he would have tendered

considered

                consideration

First People may have had it right

. . . walk a mile in ones moccasins

though he doubted they actually said that    because

                                                            no one was writing    tribes had oral tradition

if incorrect    corrected

                           hed apologise for his abysmal mistake

1738,  Sunday – Father’s Day,  15  6. 25

1003,  Monday,  16  6. 25

Pianza  Hourglass  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGw2ZsI4ugk

she stepped into the tiled hallway turned her back to him closed the heavy oak door  turned back around

she was dripping wet

white tshirt

braless

       You were right. It was gonna rain.

he nodded

             Lemme getya a towel

went from the hall into the formal diningroom into the kitchen into the halfbath off it

returned

she was chilled had slipped off her shoes barefoot socks balledstuffed in each shoe

he handed her the towel

Thank you.

Ya betch

           he watched

she daubed her face daubing her eyes cheeks  went to her head  vigorouslytoweled her hair then brusquelyran it down her arms across her chest worked it down her thighs calves  straighteningup she brought the towel overhead regrasped it arms behind her she vigorously toweled her shoulders back  fanny

she tossed him the towel

leaned at the waist

shook her hairran her fingers through it stood upright again

                                                                  Aaah, better.  she smiled large killer dimples

he smiled

    So what you thinking?

You have to ask

0709,  Sunday -- Father's Day,  15  6. 25

Care for an edible . . .   as he handed him one

Ohedible

                    then in his head a clatter a Venetian blind hastilyyanked up

his reply changed  Ohedable

he thought  Ohedbabble

                             Oh

                                      ed

                                        ibleliable          liable

accepted it on his own accord

There’s rosin in it

Hash oil

Yeah  Rosin

                 couldnt help but play with that in his head

Rosin     Raisin  raisin oat bran

                                      Raisin Cain  widhim

OhEld

       OhElp

whippedup aerated he considered them   not surewhich should have precedent

1939,  Wednesday,  28  5. 25

0953,  Sunday -- Fathers Day,  15  6. 25

Aging  The Kiss of Wet Asphalt  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO_br-Zym5w

John Hunt black lead character in Everetts Wounded

                                                         it somehow gravitated to Richardsons historic Wounded Knee

one book or the other on top the other

Crazy  given the dozen other library books stacked on the studio floor at his heel

John said Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.

                                                                    simple language   bigger

who we love

bigger

         than us

    hes enjoyed that kind of love throughout his life

                                                        heartbreak

so many have died

                    tearing through lifetaking for grantedIll seeya next time round  for granted   except

those simple solitary quiet moments together

                                                asif held in honeyooze   amberised in his brain

conversing

cool evening chilling the windowpanes

reflecting the flickeringflames in fireplace

standing to stoke the crumbling wood

adding one more log

the last

before bed

 

                       Bigger

1310,  reggaefriday,  13  6. 25

1028,  Saturday – No Kings Day,  14  6. 25

lotsa birthdays

lotsa Geminis

                he got along exceedingly well with them   he was an Aries

lotsa of homemade birthday cakes

                                     lovingly made  hearts and souls worn on the sleeve kind of cakes

caringly beautifullymade

his two favourites

a ginger cake decorated with shredginger jumbo cinnamon gummy bears

a carrot cake  creamcheese frosting scattered walnuts carrot slices cleaved to look like hearts  a whole carrot greens included arched to one side

hed not seen either like that ever before

                                           delicious  artworks

he enjoyed a sliver of each

wasnt keen on cake

                        his birthday cake was a lemon meringue pie

the pie his mother made for him for years were the best

                                                             then

his girlfriend made him “risked” as she said she understood whos pie hers would be held up to

she  crushed  it

a heart and soul pie

                      eating it he admitted as much

 

were probably the only times savouring her successive birthday pies  he conceded the possibility of soul

0826,  Saturday -- No Kings Day,  14  6. 25

glancedup out of the book as he entered the uphill church drive  angled parking right

Daves back was to him

                        had someone cornered   nope  woman  had a woman on a bench that paralleled the drive which went past them to a lot further back on the property

Community nondenominational Church which differs from a prodemonical church

dropped his eyes back into Everetts Wounded while he continued walking  the canvas bag over his shoulder gentlythumped against his thigh it held Fridays 3 for $5 Kettle chips  Baldwins The Fire Next Time

    Baldwin distracted him

 

almost on Dave the womanShit she was a looker  Dave quit talking and turned

                                                                                       Dave

the woman looked at himhed seen that look too many times in too many bars

                                                                                       unwanted attention however   polite

the shit women think they have to put up with

if rude

a bitch

Dave said to the woman  This is the walking reading man

                                                                 is this a pronoun    it is  he knew

a demonstrative pronoun

lotsa demons gamboling about

Hell lo she said

Hiya he replied   he did say demons

there was that plead in her eyes

    he didnt know her from Eve or Lilith for that matter

                                                             heard his mothers voice go off in his head

Make your bed Ya got to sleep in it

she was a hard woman look to her for pity shed spit in the palm of your hand

her world everyone made their bed

                                       but

had they the decency to ask her

shed give them a piece of her mind

apparently somehow  she had an endless supply

he didnt ask her

when she attempted to say unsolicited he stopped her tersely   in her tracks

                                                                                           I don believe I asked you

to her credit   he her son product of her loins  she quit   went quiet

                                                                           Thanks Maw  I appreciate tha

sincerely

he went past them   cornered right  then chuckled to himself

                                                                    grateful her not him

1400,  reggaefriday The Thirteenth,  June 2025

absently  You ever do that?

Have me at a disadvantage  I coudnt hear wha yawere thinkin

                                                                       I do my best not to eavesdrop

Ah.  Sorry.

               You go into a room . . . and wonder what the hell you were going into it for?

Ohhellyah

             Question might be  How do you leave the room

Leave it?

I back out

You back out?

Rewind

Oh. That makes sense.

                          Does it help?

On occasion

                  If nothing flutters into my skull I keep backing up to the room rooms Id left

That help?

On occasion

               But ya know wha the trick is don ya

There’s a trick?

Yah  I leave hints

Hints?

Enter the kitchen  Wha the hell am I doin here

                                                   Back into my studio  Coffee cup waves at me

Went into the kitchen for another cup of coffee

In the hall on the short bookcase  Leave my reading glass

                                                                Enter the livingroom  More bookshelves

Wha

Back out

Reading glasses

My hardbound  Robert Penn Warrens World Enough and Time

Works sometimes

I’ll have to give it a go.

Yah 

      Don be upset

We all drop the string sometime look for it  A reprieve when its found   Exercise if its not

My daughters do it

Frankly more than me

    Memory.

People who know you remark on your long memory.

Yup  Comin in   Top shelf

                             Ravaging it the matron stepped up heeled me  just    just woudnt ya know it  as I was reaching for the big cock

    What?

Got long memory missed out on the huge cock

                                                  I hate explainin jokes

1615,  reggaefriday,  6  6. 25

1218,  reggaefriday The Thirteenth,  June 2025

he hoppedup on the low stone retaining wall

the wind was whipping

he took a leak there hed be wearing it

so he sidesaddled sidestepped closer to the houseFACK

                                                               dismounted

neared the crotch of the house out of the randy breeze

 

    takin a leak looked around

                                  nice thing about leaking he didnt have to think about it

which isnt to say it forgave him

                                  because that was an aspect he couldnt turn off try as he may

he often thought how nice it would be if he could scoop his brain out put it in a box bury it  leave it be for awhile

his brain niggled him

he was its nigger its labourer its polack

                                          any slack it was his to reform  cinch   tightenup

urinating he looked around

                                       What the hell

purple grass

he rubbed his eyes with his free hand

                                            Yup  Purple

hed have to ask

 

going inside

           HEY

Yeah.

        Fix your libation.

buddy had made his sweettwist on a White Russian  no heavy cream   Baileys instead

                                                                                              awfully sweet

his threefingers whiskey neat

                                   Outside

Yeah.

You have purple grass

Purple?

Im tellin ya  Purple

Where?

In the shade of the house just off the wall

                                             Had to hunker in or Id have showerednot tha Im adverse to golden showers

No. You wouldn’t be.  Not you.

Nah

       You seed tha grass

I don’t know what you’re talkin’ about.

Follow me

           he lead the way through the screen door drink in hand  went right  down the deck steps  toed the wall

           There   See

Well I’ll be damned. Definitely purple.

Its beautiful

                Wha kind of grass is it

It’s not. That’s a weed.

Its grass

A weed.

Why weed

I didn’t seed it.

Thas no answer

Lemme put it this way.

                         Round here any unwanted plant is a weed.

Hell with tha Leave it be it hasnt gone to seed

                                                 I definitely want seeds  woud love havin it round my place

Fuckin’ guy wants to plant weeds.

One mans weeds anothers grass

                                       Speakin of which  We gonna fireup another bowl

Yaready?

I coud use another toke or two

1615,  reggaefriday,  6  6. 25

1129,  reggaefriday The Thirteenth,  June 2025

Brewer & Shipley  One Toke Over the Line  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzfb6XriWCw

Carole Cadwalladr said she was SLAPPed

                                                      he saw no shine on her cheek  or rouged   or bruising

he was missing something

she explained

                SLAPP  An acronym he couldnt escape themtry as he may  an acronym for Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation

Law as a weapon to shut people up

    mused  So much for law as protection

                                              Really

Wha

May we add our two cents

You have senses

Youre cute

I was fishin

Enough

         Protection  Racket

One coud conceive the Law protects the Innocentjust tryin to make a buck from the ignorant mob  Understandable

                  Yacant have tha now  Canya

An the Ignorant havent the financial resources to combat the Law and their guileless Clients

Guileless  We like tha

I have my moments

We do

SLAPP  Fuckin corrosive

But thawoud depend on whose side youre on

                                                You shoud be able to imagine the rush to Singularity so were all on the same side

Oh brother

Not shabby

No

     Not at all  We cant be ostrichs  heads buried in the sand

Ja  Bad enough our heads are buried in your brain muck

1855,  Thursday,  12  6. 25

1020,  reggaefriday The Thirteenth,  June 2025

Carole Cadwalladr  TED Talk  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE

Jon Stewart  Daily Show  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7CvbccdVM

Kurzweil  https://philosophynow.org/issues/86/The_Singularity_Is_Near_by_Ray_Kurzweil 

for whatever reasonreasons maybe just to irritate him he was trying to convince himsell him according to the Flynn effect human intelligence is on the rise going up over time

Oh bullshit

             picked up his coffee mugsipped so he didntcouldnt say morecouldnt insult him for insulting him his intelligence thinking This is smarter Wha idiot woud buy into that mularkey

    Im lookin at him

a chipmunk skittering upsprinting on a short stone retaining wall stopped abruptly  turned to him cheered him on

         that was all the encouragement he needed

Excuse me all to hell I didnt mean bullshit

                                             Wha I meant  Youre full of shit

Yareally buy into tha crap

Hey.  I’m simply relating what studies have confirmed.

Answer the question  I asked you

                                    Through your experience

Because according to mine studies that have confirmed fiftyfour percent of American adults cant read at a fifth grade level is lowballin it  Majoritys vocabulary is shit

Your experience

    If studies have confirme . . 

. . Blow me  I asked your fuckin experienceKahRist

I know what studies have confirmed.

 

    Slowly turn rightlook on top the retaining wall   A chipmunk

he looked

See

Yeah.

They agree with me

                      Arya truly someone hauled around by your nose

My experience

                 Most people are scarecrows   If I only had a brain

1607,  reggaefriday,  6  6. 25

0923,  reggaefriday The Thirteenth, June 2025

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4152423/#S1

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2022-2023

Scarecrow  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG3mJcUzwaI

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