Winter has arrived with its tell-tale chill. The kids are not going to arrive to rake the leaves -- but I visited there, already. Kvetch-Kvetch-Kvetch ....
There's a religious tradition that reads the part of Genesis that follows with and on Sarah's death. It's that part that got me in trouble years ago when I suggested that Ole Abe couldn't feel deep sadness. In that same tradition, the section from The Prophets that is read is that part about King David not being able to be warmed. They bring him blankets? no go. They bring him a beautiful Shunamite girl? and not only doesn't he warm but he "doesn't know her" -- wink-wink! OK! Maybe David was low in thyroxin .... and the chill of a slow thyroid and the Cold Castle was too much for him.
Easy for Players in the Last Quarter to stumble over the Young and the Beautiful, I suppose, and I have wondered with Marsha about what happens if she predeceases me ... Do I go to "pay as you play."
Alas, these are among the puzzles in this Last Quarter ... puzzles and pitfalls.
The Prophets' reading ends with David's talking to his previous hottie, Bathsheba, about who was to take over ... she was pretty clear about wanting her son, Sollie, to assume the throne. What a mess followed.
No throne? but maybe I can straighten things out so that my kingdom doesn't fall apart, as David's did, when the Two Minute Warning expires.
I'll do my best.
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