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Psalm 90:10, "The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong.... |
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Three Score and Ten the Introduction, Well here we go, After 50 years I am going to take another attempt at writing. The first time was the Palmer writers correspondence school in 1969. The writing will be not a book that will be written with the idea of being published, But will be a writing of thoughts unencumbered by possible publishing and monetary gain. This writing will be a hybrid of Journal and Reminisce. It is important to me that the writings are my true thoughts at the time, not influenced by any factor. The writing will try to explain how a 70 year old white, male USA citizen now relates to today's world. Is every oldest generation lost in their own world, that they aged into? What do I see, and feel as I age farther. I know I am not normal as in what this world today would consider normal. But I hope I am in the ball park writing the thoughts of a 70 year old. I hope for you to learn to know who I am, As I search for Who I am at 70+ This work will carry on until I am no longer able to think or write. This will be done on a nearly daily writing interwoven with a life's reminiscing. This writing has been in the planning for 10 plus years. and I have now made it to this starting point. This writing is dedicated to My Wife The Kitten, My family, My grand children, Lukas, Levi, Luis, Lydia and Sonora Pearl. I thank you God that you have allowed me to have your Three Score and Ten Time. |
| Three Score and Now Twelve + Day 37 Hello Grandkids and Others Things are rolling along here since I last wrote. As always time has slipped away. It is now end of September, where has summer gone too. It is cooling down and the garden has been winding down. The fish have been hard to catch for me. We will go north again this coming week and I will try again. When at the north location I will mow grass for the last time this season and put the mowers away for the winter. The potatoes were dug, and ground plowed the last time we were there. There is something I have been thinking about as of late. The idea was brought to me by an article I recently read. Am I a pessimist or an Optimist? That is something to think about and not an easy answer to come by. I really do not want to think of myself as a pessimist. I do not think of myself as a negative person. I do not spend my day generally complaining. Well maybe other highway drivers, I am not perfect. Now the other side, am I an optimist? It is for me hard to be an optimist in today's world. So many problems with so few answers. Problems of War, Disease, Famine, Climate, Economy, Politics, and Culture and more. How does it all end in a satisfactory way? Has the human worldly situation gotten irreversibly out of control? Notice I ask a lot of questions here because I have no answers. So I have come to the conclusion that I am a Realist. I can be an optimist where there is in my mind a reason to be optimist about future events. May they be short and long term situations. There are some reasons to be optimist, God will be at my side tomorrow, The sun will shine tomorrow, I can look forward to that future day. I and many others will eat tomorrow. I can be optimistic about the wife's and my health for tomorrow. I can be optimistic that our personnel situation can remain satisfactory into the future. But on the other side being a realist means to not sink your head in the sand and think everything is Hunky Dory. It is not. There are times you need to call a spade a spade and not sugar coat the problems we face as humans. The first step in going forward is recognizing the situations you are in. Then stop digging the hole. I do know that we as individuals are all part of the problems as we are also all part of the answer to the problems. It all starts with our individual behaviors. The other part of the answer is asking the creator for help. We certainly need it. So I say Optimism divided by Pessimism equals Realism. |
| Three Score and Now Twelve + Day 20 Hello Grandkids and Others I should phone you guys and see how your camping trip of Labor Day weekend. But maybe tomorrow night. I always put off talking on the phone. It is always stressful for me, so I do something else first until there is no good time left to phone. If there is something important to talk about, I am fine, but i would rather talk face to face. As for phone small talk I am no good at it. I never learned the art of small talk conversation. There evidently is a talent for that. I have a problem with small talk even in church. I will at time try to avoid people, so I do not have to small talk. I do not mean to be rude; I just do not know what to say. It all seems so phony looking for something to say. We did a Flea market on Sunday. The second in two weeks. Doing two in two weeks really wears me down. We did okay but not great. It is a good thing we do not do it just for the money. It is an activity outside of the house. Along with a social activity for me but mostly for the wife. She loves people just like our Cairn Terrier does. But at times it has caused her problems. We have one more market this season, Mid October. Then we put it all away until May next year. By then I am ready to rest. We are starting to see the end of the garden season also. It has been a productive season so far, with more produce to bring in. We are so Blessed that we have a space with good soil and sun. That we still have the ability to do the physical work. And that we still have the desire to do it. The biggest Challege is that my battery runs down easily, so I know need to pace myself. The wife helps where she can but does have limitations also. It is now getting late, and I still want to do some reading. So, all have a Blessed evening. |
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