Friday, February 24, 2017
Cherchez
The last thing we worked
on was trying to ascertain
how two men could have very
similar life experiences, and
yet end up with extraordinary
ly different personalities.
Thus, JJ of Omaha, Happy-Go-
Lucky, and DS from suburban
Pennsylvania, Tick-Tight!
We gave each the other's file
to get their takes also.
Both thought the other crazy.
Now, I omitted the chief difference,
or difference-maker: Laurel.
She lived with JJ and was entirely lovely.
On the surface.
Was it she helped make him so casual
and very often careless? we wondered.
But before we could manipulate anything
for the purposes of Science, DS started
emailing her. Mostly nervous messages
of his ailments and fears. Innumerable.
Struck a chord after a bit, and now Laurel
has moved to Pennsylvania!
What does it do to the experiment? We’re having
a big meeting of the Project Director and staff.
Preliminarily, DS is–perhaps a stretch to call it thus--
but...happy.
She agitates him further than he’d like at frequent times, but to
a good end.
And so is JJ, back in Omaha! Ecstatic really. Yet, calmly
trying to take himself, and life, more seriously.
Thus, anyway, “The Laurel Factor.” Oh yes!
Much much study is needed imho.
Labels: powerful woman, relationship, social experiment, Woman
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Power
The one single desired tidings of joy and bitterness, as she had recently staged a breakup with her forever boyfriend.
The children wanted to play with their new toys to the point of smashing them against others, and tears and exhaustion.
The men to return to the football game on the tube as it wandered to its artless conclusion.
And drink.
But the women, gathering torn wrappings, needed
to depart, resigned to a two-hour process thereof
before finally getting on the road.
Enter Aunt Dot, unshakable resolver of impasses!
The last car left fourteen and a half minutes later.
She freelances also.
Labels: children, Christmas, Christmas Party, drinking, Family, powerful personality, powerful woman, toy
