Learning from an old brain

As my brain slows down with age, I am able for some reason to notice its actions better than before.

For example, I turn right at the top of our street and see a deer out of the corner of my eye. At least that’s what my perceptual mechanism does before “I” immediately correct this report from “below”: it’s a neighbor’s sign in the shape of a moose.

This morning I opened up the Wall Street Journal and placed it on our kitchen table along with the New York Times. Here’s what I saw:

My brain reported The Real Wall Street Journal! That was enough to focus my attention on the page and realize where the Real had come from.

When I was younger, I suspect that I overrode erroneous reports so quickly that I didn’t become conscious of the process as often as I do now. Or maybe I’m just more interested in the working of our brains than I used to be.

Don’t thump this Bible

This is a Concealed Carry Semi Hard Shell Bible Gun Case For Medium To Small Guns sold on ebay.com. Notice that the pistol in the photo is cocked!!??

Hurricane Elsa

Our evil stepmother spelled her name “Else”, but this makes me feel uncomfortable anyway.

Hurricane Elsa is coming our way

OSS sabotage manual from 1944

Rebecca Hill posted a Homeland Security Digital Library article on Facebook.

OSS/CIA sabatoge instructions

1. Organizations and Conferences

1. Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

2. Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate “patriotic” comments.

3. When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible — never less than five.

4. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

5. Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.

6. Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

7. Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reasonable” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

8. Be worried about the propriety of any decision raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might confict with the policy of some higher echelon.

Home — Finding Place in Poetry

SAVE THE DATE!

Sunday, July 18th, 3:00-4:00 pm

Use this link to join the Zoom poetry reading,

Featured Readers: Mark Smith-Soto, Iris Tillman, Fred Joiner, L. Teresa Church

A longing to understand origin leads our poetry
inwards and sends us seeking in the outer world.

The four poets who will read on Sunday, July 18th,
3:00 pm, have found a lost home in their writing.

Please join us for an unusual and diverse reading.

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The Great 2021 Gasoline Shortage

As I recall, the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers used to say

Beer will get you through times of no gasoline better than gasoline will get you through times of no beer.

Or has the beer given me a false memory?