Why is it cold in Duluth / Recollections

 Maybe, we can fall back just a bit to the days of Socrates and Solomon, well, that does seem like a " reasonable ", time frame, both guys well known, and  might be surprising to consider that they were contemporaries, and may have exchanged busts , as they had no cell phones, at that time.  So, what is the state of Israel at this time this time? Well, I am going with >>> not great <<<<, simply on account of the levels of both public destruction as well as the lose of life, which, seems ridiculous but at the same time, the reality and consequences for so many lives now hang in a very >>> precarious <<< balance.   Since Duke Ellington recorded Mood Indigo, I would say >>> despair <<< now overflows it's banks, and at this point seems to be uncontainable. So, the question is clear, what now must be done to secure prosperity and dignity for all of the Mid-East, where ever that particular Mid-East might be.

 Now, to begin Imaginary risk!, you must first exit the reality in which there is no Imaginary Risk!, and then enter a reality, (probably by  moving to your left ), in which Imaginary Risk! does in fact exist.  Kind of like the Twilight Zone.   Well, first thing is there must be some rules.  The most important would be that the player actually has to be at the board.   In other words, if the player is not at the board , like goes and gets a sandwich, he is out.  Now, the nice things about Imaginary Risk! , is you have a board that kind have a variety of sizes which will allow it then to have a very large and varied number of players.  So , for example, you can have 40 or even more players at the beginning of the game.  Other than that, it's really like regular risk, in that you take turns, like clockwise or anti-clockwise, and then you can attack other players, but there are more and different cards, and you got all kind of things l...

 You know, thinking about sharing dreams, it can be a good thing, sometimes , sometimes maybe a necessary thing, and sometimes you, maybe, rather not.   For example, a bunch of guys on the East Coast of North America, got together and decided to share their dreams, and suddenly ( well, maybe not quite that easily ) a new country was born.  Now, some might say it was a good thing, and some might think about that whole situation a bit differently, nevertheless, it has kept many people talking for some time. Well be that as it may, Ralphy has dreams of his own, as you might guess, and  in his situation his dreams are shared quite often, particularly amongst those folks, up the food chain in the Altarian Deep Pockets projects, who are vary concerned about Ralphy's dreams, because they really don't have any real ideas about his limitations, which they, of course, assume he must have.  Might be a good assumption, but how could they know for sure.   So, ...

  And so, sometimes you do have to go back to Dune, because, ( I guess ), it always seems like, there is some idea, that you didn't understand, and you end up reading the whole thing again, maybe, and by then you may have forgotten the idea, that you were thinking about in the first place.  And of course, Ralphy always did have one copy, in his glove compartment. So, it's real simple for Ralphy, with the internet, he can read it to you.  But my point is simply to compare the world we currently live in with the world of Dune.  It is the issue of " ownership ".  Somebody owns something, a planet, a contract, whatever, and then they control what they own.  But , in Dune, for reasons that are not at all clear, at least to me, it always comes down to --- one guy ---, clearly connected to the issues relating to the use of violence.   The absurdity in this notion , is that ---> one man <--- or whatever could control everything.  When, it get's...

 And so, as things will happen, suddenly you reach a point which is kind of like an occurrence. The following then might likely be a good deal about nothing. So my occurrence was thinking about fatalism.  It did occur to me that if you write that backwards you will get something like msilataf , which might mean something like laughing at your mistakes.  Now, if only life was so easy as to be able to laugh at your mistakes, as generally we do spent a good deal of time really kind of crying about them.  Of course then, we might find ourselves laughing a great deal more, and probably having less time to make new mistakes, because we are already too busy laughing about all of the mistakes we did make.   Which does bring me back to something the President of the U.S.A. (i.e. Mr. J. Biden)  mentioned about having faith in humanity.  What an interesting thought.  To have faith in each an every human, I would assume is what he was getting at.  A...

 Now if you consider the question of, is it hot or cold, there are of course many answers. For example, you are imagining things or ridiculous, or why do you ask, or maybe, etc.  Now this is very important in my own time line, in which I wish to answer the question, in somewhat of a conclusive manner, and yet spend an awful lot of time in an attempt to reach my destination.  Then there is that old >>> cold as hell <<< thing. Anyway, back to time lines, which serve a very important function, especially it seems in history, when it gets really muddled if you start putting things in the wrong order, for example in U.S. history, if you put the Civil War in front of the Revolutionary War, that would be extremely confusing.  When you spread that out to histories in various other places, you can see how difficult it might be to get a reasonable, or say coherent view of the history of almost anything. But , I am thinking of a time line in 3d space moving in...

 Now, I am pulling back from Missouri, and all the pressing issues of the 1950s, in order to once again try and figure out this issue of hot or cold.  So right now, I don't know.  But I do care, in some kind of a , not sure I care that much, but I do care, and it's one of those things I would really like to communicate with Ralphy about, although, I am pretty sure he'll make a sarcastic remark like, >>> gibberish <<< But here I am , really at the beginning of a novel, about whether or not it is hot or cold, and no help from the apparent protagonist.   Nevertheless, my thoughts are definitely turned to the issue of crisis, of the spirit, crisis of the mind, and even you could say crisis of the soul and body on more than one level.  How do we get from here to there? How can we even begin to imagine right now, a bigger and brighter future?   This may be a bigger question than if it's hot or cold, high or low, big or little. ...

  The American Crisis. by the author of Common Sense [Thomas Paine] "These are the times that try men's souls:  ... " Interesting question, and that can only be answered in some hypothetical way.   Anyway, mostly what Herb knew, from 1954 to 1956 was he really liked his pick-up truck which might have had a lot to do with the radio, because when he listened to baseball games, it was like really , really being there, which was fascinating for Herb, as really no other radio really seemed to produce that effect on him.  Of course, at that time Herb spent a lot of time with Ralphy , but by 1956 it was time to get a " new " , but more important, larger vehicle, because of the increases in his business, so he " re-upped ", and got something larger, So, long days with Ralphy began to decrease. So, the only thing that would be suspicious was that most of his family would be reading in or around the pick-up, which some might find suspicious but because it was ju...

 Curious thing about human beings is that we , like most other things, get lost.  Of course, we frequently notice the absence of some things, more often, but often we do get lost ourselves.  This brings me back to Jiminny Cricket's words of wisdom relating to how much time males will spend hunting, which was mostly about Goofy, and how much time he spent " hunting " ... Some how, this brings us back a bit to probably both Herb and Ralphy.  Of course, Herb, having spent time in combat , did, unfortunately experience some grievous lose, which is not unusual for people in that kind of situation.  This, of course, he was reluctant to share, but fortunately, he did have some close friends, particularly , many who were connected to the local VFW, with whom he was able to share some of his experience, and like wise others where able to share theirs. And , as a result , Ralphy spent a lot of time in the parking lot at the VFW, during which time he was also able to conne...

 So, imagining back to the early moments of Ralphy's life, well, it's really like imagining the early thoughts of a human child.  Questions like, " who am I ?",  " where. is here ? ",  " why am i here ? ". oF course , these questions are not easily answered and therefore generally tend to create an intense sense of frustration as well as pain.  Although this is a really difficult situation, nevertheless, most people, as well as other living things somehow manage to deal with it, and even to sort it out in various ways, in order to deal with the " reality " , which confronts them. So, Ralphy's response was similar to most living things, as he lashed out >>> forcefully <<<<, which in this case resulted in transmissions to the vehicle and operators in the vehicle, that created this situation.  So lots of data, which was transmitted -- upstairs -- ,  resulting in the understanding, that a significant error has been ma...