Dog day's and the peoples republic of stuff

Technically this post is for the 5th and 6th of October. Our home email connection has been down for perhaps 24 hours. I got to go to work today but no time for blog's at work. Kathy was in withdrawal when I got home. Then by way of disclaimer I need to mention "Skipper". I had referred to him in my last blog noting that he was indeed in the picture. I got emails about Skipper on this comment. By the way my comment option below has been changed. If you make a comment it is emailed to me and I get to click yes or no on having it published below. The reason is that I had a person who was passing by and looking at blogs leave a comment with word I wouldn't want posted so I de listed my blog and gave myself this option. Kind of like a can of recalled tuna. A long disclaimer. So yes Skipper, my dog and the dog of the night, was in the prior blog as indeed I was. You will have to go to the blog today and figure it out if this doesnt' do it.

Skipper

Back quite a few blogs is the "old first ward" building in Pocatello. I was about 8 or 9. It was summer. Skipper showed up at our house out of the blue. I had to go to Primary at the church, a mid week experience then. Skipper began to follow me on my bike. My mom had said he couldn't stay and that he would be gone even if he did follow me to church. At church I tied him to my bike with my belt and later he followed me home?? He stayed for 20+ years. I left before he did. I figure, and said, he was in the house on yesterdays blog. On the other hand the guy on top looking "UP" into the sky was really me so what I meant was he was in the house. As far as me on the roof, of course it could have just been "metaphorically" me. Of course the whole blog is metaphorically me......................................


Since the "subject" has been a dog

This book is on my top 5 list. I made a list of maybe 300 books I had read in the last few years and then from that list I picked the top 50 best, and then top 30 or so, and then top 10 or so, and then top 5. I really wanted to know what would surface as the top for me, that day. So far I have profiled most of those books, and others of course, on this blog. The thoughts in them apply, for me, to things of interest to me and have tied into some memories.

It is odd that this book is a favorite because I don't think the reference to autism is one that applies to very many situations. Then again having been a little closer to autism the last 10 years I can tell you that I don't know what autism really is. It seems to be a lot of things, and the way it is presented in this book isn't similar to any life example that I have seen.

Even so the book took a look at the world through the eyes of someone that saw it "very differently" and it was a "can't put down" book. I didn't, until I was done.


Two books on the same subject

A history of the people and a peoples history

My son Mike gave me a copy of Howard Zinn's book. I already had one so now I have two and have really read it probably twice. I also got the copy of Paul Johnson's book from my friend Doug Snarr and he told me it was a book I needed to read. Both tell the same story. I have to laugh at the Zinn book. The slight title difference reminds me of the label "People's Republic of California". Berkley might be Bejing. Zinn was upset with the country being founded on the backs of slaves. Johnson saw the country as being wonderful and an inspired sequence of events. I liked both books. Then too I figure that right and wrong are not in one book or another but in all the choices made along the way. To pick one side and condem the other sometimes is just a fancy way to feel good about yourself.

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A people's history or a history of the American People. Which one is the metaphor. Well we already found me suggesting that "peoples" symbolizes the masses vs's the government. At least that is what the idea of socialistic societies was suppose to me. Then on the other hand it is indeed the elite that give us the American People or History written out for us. Pretty hard to write anything without tipping your hand as to what you think. "I guess"