Is age closing another window, another door on me?
Or am I being too complacent in accepting it?
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Today’s Comment
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Is age closing another window, another door on me?
Or am I being too complacent in accepting it?
It’s not that they are intrinsically evil.
Lifting apparatuses are made of steel and iron and other materials.
Devoid of personal desires or enmities.
Simply still.
Until I or the next person sits near them.
And acts on them.
Then they respond in absolutely predictable ways.
Engage an eighty pound weight and, on the application of eight-one or more pounds of pressure and that weight will move up or down as it is chained to do.
Seventy-nine pounds doesn’t do it.
A month ago I could apply eighty-one pounds of pressure.
Today I cannot.
Doesn’t mean I can’t use the machine.
All I must do is drop the weight down to seventy-five pounds and my anemic seventy-nine pounds of pressure is more than adequate.
Therein the sound of the door.
Slam.
Eighty to seventy-five.
The apparatus doesn’t give a hoot.
Not the slightest sign of being inconvenienced.
Or victorious.
Actually wouldn’t care if I melted the whole thing down into ingots.
But after a month of day-to-day believing that tomorrow I’ll get back to ‘normal,’ I’ve come to accept that seventy-five is the new normal.
To accept that next year perhaps, the normal might be seventy.
And I don’t believe I am complacent.
I still have my hearing.
And I know the sound of a closing door.
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Tracking Postings – Tracking Time
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Our 446th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 446 posts we’re at the 8.92 percentile of our commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
We are racing to the 10% mark.
Now there’s a mark, 10%.
And then?
And then will remain only 9 more such marks to fulfill our commitment to the blog.
Time of posting is 12.01am on Wednesday.
The hours are ticking away and if we don’t make the most of our time another day will soon click past.
Unnoticed.
Unappreciated.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Weather
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
On this day Boston will enjoy warm temperatures, with a high of 79* and a feels-like of 91* with partly cloudy skies.
The next few days will feature varying but seasonal temperatures, seventies to eighties with a lot of sun.
Anyone complaining?
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Dinner
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Dinner on Monday was sushi.
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We love getting mail.
Contact me at domcapossela@hotmail.com
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
This from Sally C responding to Howard D responding to Sally C and others.
Thank you, Howard! If I had patronized Starbucks for any length of time, purely for the sake of prestige (or the appearance thereof), I likely would have taken a similar measure. I am not shy in doing so when appropriate. (Just as a point of curiosity, are the staff trained in disdain?) This whole thing smacks of “the emperor has no clothes.”
Sally
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Chuckle of the Day:
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Jerry has a racehorse that never won a race.
"Horse, you win today or you pull a milk wagon tomorrow morning."
In the event, the starting gate opens and the race begins.
When the horses are well-cleared of it, maintenance moves the gate off the track revealing Jerry’s horse lying asleep on the track.
A swift kick from Jerry wakens the horse.
Jerry screams, “Why are you sleeping?"
The horse, "Give me a break. I have to get up at three in the morning."
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Today’s Thumbnail
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary.
Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university.
He married Jenny von Westphalen in 1843.
Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the reading room of the British Museum.
His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, and the three-volume Das Kapital.
His political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun and a school of social theory.
Marx's critical theories about society, economics and politics – collectively understood as Marxism – hold that human societies develop through class struggle.
In capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labor power in return for wages.
Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx predicted that, like previous socio-economic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system: socialism.
For Marx, class antagonisms under capitalism, owing in part to its instability and crisis-prone nature, would eventuate the working class' development of class consciousness, leading to their conquest of political power and eventually the establishment of a classless, communist society constituted by a free association of producers.
Marx actively pressed for its implementation, arguing that the working class should carry out organized revolutionary action to topple capitalism and bring about socio-economic emancipation.
Marx has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history, and his work has been both lauded and criticized.
His work in economics laid the basis for much of the current understanding of labor and its relation to capital, and subsequent economic thought.
Many intellectuals, labor unions, artists and political parties worldwide have been influenced by Marx's work, with many modifying or adapting his ideas.
Marx is typically cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science.
My bottle of ‘Wrinkles Away’ for only $99.00 a month will keep away all wrinkles, even on my bum.
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Good Morning on this Wednesday, the twenty-sixth day of June, 2019
Our lead picture was of a woman the image of my mother when she was that age.
Our comment was on aging closing doors on us.
We posted the Boston weather report, the ticking calendar, and the growing number of posts as a time marker.
Our dinner was sushi.
We posted a letter from Sally C.
And a chuckle.
And a thumbnail on Karl Marx.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.