Hate to disappoint you, Joodles but I have no plans to marry again.
Ever. I have too many comittments to doing a degree, becoming an
artist etc etc. As usual, I may come to eat these words but for now
that is my plan.
Roger
On 7/2/08, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes, R'Owl, you and many other divorced persons would say that.
>
> Yes, we who've been divorced are, indeed, "working backwards".
>
> Many of our children, partly bcuz of our marriage breakups, are lifelongly
> committing to partners, marrying them after living with them a considerable
> time, as if to return us to the Old Days in MiddleClassdom. BTW, in the
> 70's a divorce attorney observed that the reason for increasingly higher
> divorce rates at the time was bcuz wives were at last making enough money to
> leave their husbands. Those women, apparently, were the "lucky" ones. The
> trend has continued, though middle-class wealth has declined.
>
> A big difference in the USA, UK, and prolly most near-dominantly white-folks
> countries (I don't know enuff first-hand now about the Asias and Africa) is
> that now these middle class young partners - both of them - are working, as
> well as trying to raise their children. My mother and father both worked 60
> hours a week, heavy labour - in their own bake shop. My sis looked after
> me; I worked in the bakery with my parents; and I was what is now known as a
> "latchkey" child, tho we never locked our doors. I was and am privileged
> beyond belief, IM(never)HO.
>
> Bear with me, R'Owl, bcuz I'm tryna get you married, for which It would be
> well for you to begin what is called: CALL UP A FEMALE PERSON; TAKE HER
> OUT FOR A GREAT NON-DRUNK, PLENTY-OF-TALKING, MEAL; AND WALK WITH HER
> THROUGH SOME KIND OF LOVELY GREEN PARK. Let me know how that works out.
>
> Back to the probable topics.
>
> Who's taking care of the children? Child-minders (as UQers say) or child
> care workers and nannies (as USAers say), grandparents and neighbours.
> Increasingly, in the less wealthy classes, grandparents are adopting their
> grandchildren whose parents cannot manage destitution as well as their own
> parents did and are. We have social chaos, blind education, unemployment,
> and imprisonment as the damnable usual markers of relative poverty in our
> wealthy worlds.
>
> Robin quotes someone whose name he doesn't recall: "Men love women; women
> love children; and children love hamsters."
>
> Who will care for our children? Who cares for our children? Children are
> impossibly difficult to care for, but our pressing souls KNOW that we must
> do our best for them, whether they are "ours" or others'.
>
> You recall your father's "disciplining" the family dog. I recall weeping as
> my father kicked his (our) beloved dog down the basement stairs. Dave
> recalls a hellish life with his unwanted-by-wife, drunken dad. These are
> near-perennial stories. What does your heart tell you that you should do
> about the stories, about the facts, as we know them? What will you do for
> yourself?
>
> Best,
>
> Judy who wishes petc women would have the time to send in their opinions.
>
>
> 2008/7/1 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > "don't do it" is the most pithy I can manage currently. But then I
> > would say that, wouldn't I.
> >
> > "wisdom": is that the same as acreted detritus, or necrophage to use a
> > biology term? If so, I've loads of that. Not much good for anything
> > though.
> >
> > I've a can of VB brooding in my fridge. Not very poetic though.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > On 7/1/08, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > Nice, Roger (can you BE more a-littering? I think not!)
> > >
> > > Wonder if these poetry-head petc folk can match or steal as concise an
> > > a-littered and "BINGO!"-logic phrase..... And if you your very self have
> > > filched this 3-word fillosofee, at the least DON'T TELL US! Let us think
> > > you cleverer than Sweet P who may at this moment be receiving yet a
> > nother
> > > superb snap (telepathically) from the brooding (!) VB.
> > >
> > > Now you've named where I'd arrived but couldnae describe: working
> > > backwards.
> > >
> > > Working Backwards also serves as a nice shorthand for Wisdom---wot one
> > > "working backwards" person has tagged the lush circuitous musings that
> > the
> > > non-Alzheimered 96% of us over-somethings enjoy.
> > >
> > > Now here: Re "weedings" I was acourse referring to weddings and symbolic
> > > allotmenting. Any thoughts you wanna clip off your bristly head and
> > offer?
> > >
> > > the Other Judy
> > >
> > > 2008/7/1 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
> > >
> > > > hatches, matches and dispatches. Are we working backwards?
> > > >
> > > > On 7/1/08, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > > > We're done (or are doing) funerals. Now can we do weedings?
> > > > >
> > > > > The beginning of married life. Hmmmmm.....
> > > > >
> > > > > Judy
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > > > "I began to warm and chill
> > > > to objects and their fields"
> > > > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > "I began to warm and chill
> > to objects and their fields"
> > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
> >
>
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