Ah, That Explains the Break in Blog

The Last Quarter -- just ask Gov. Romney and President Obama -- is punctuated by celebratory moments during each of which troubles are gone and pains invisible. There are other moments, however, when the petty ailments pile up ... paranoid-like moments when it feels as if the World or its animating spirit
(Anima Mundi) has it in for me. I suppose it's easier to be a little paranoid than to believe that life is a crap-shoot. I awoke thoughout the night with back, leg and foot pain and by 3:00 am realized that my heart rate, my pulse, was way outa whack .... Yesterday it had been in the low 40's even while laying some electrical cable and now, in the middle of the night, it was over 160. I'd been there before ... the arrhythmias of the Last Quarter.

I have a beneficent envy for those who manage to maintain a level of productivity into their late 70's and 80's. Just finished a review of a volume by an older fellow ... first name Otto. Left Europe with his family in 1939 for So. America when he was 11. Emigrated to USA some 20 years later .... and has continued to contribute to his field .... to hang out right there on the top. The book I was reviewing was a collection of published and soon-to-be published professional papers. 83 years young. Somewhere, need I say, I know that Otto has suffered ... burying a wife of many years maybe 5 years ago ... told when he came to NY that he better not bring any of his So. American ideas if he wanted to get ahead ... told that by the leaders of his field.

And it was three years ago that my Mother died ... maybe that's when one feels like s/he's entered the Last Quarter .... when you're an orphan. Talking Wednesday about Jonah's dilemma of doing something for Others .... for people not his own ... God's way of teaching him about this. Gotta go.