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I wanted to acknowledge that your sharing that part of your upbringing and family dynamics takes a lot of courage. Sadness like that is never easy to deal with but it can help with perspective and the experiencing and appreciating the happiness.

Some people's lives (half-brother) experience life as though being chased with a blow-torch ... others apply the blow torch to others. Luckily (IMHO), you had as much distance from this destruction as you had.

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You can say one thing about him ed and that is that he wasn't trying to set himself off against others for the purpose of a favourable comparison to himself. I'm not convinced that grownups have the right to tell kids what to do. Especially not in gangs like school boards.

The other extreme is just as tiresome.

He was interesting to watch, for me. I recall when I went to see the movie about Woody Guthrie - Bound For Glory. Magically he appeared next to me in the line. Throughout the film he was sitting next to me, then gone, again and again. I left the theater alone and did not see him again for two days. I told him once I was sorry because I got overly rough with him one time when he was still sixteen. He shrugged. "Somebody's got to be the boss."

When this half brother was 16 I was 27.

A local home has a swarm of killer bees in the attic that frightens the neighborhood. The bees have killed a German Shepherd dog. The bee keeper charged with handling this is not killing a single one of them. Instead, he is working to swap the Africanized queen with a European queen, which he claims will make the bees docile. It wasn't mentioned if or when the swarm would be moved out of the house.

Since I wrote this the bees have been relocated.

Just as well! Wow - killer bees! And bees killing a dog - that really worries me. I rather like the bees we get all summer long - harmlessly hovering round the lavender beds that border our house. Are killer bees an American breed of bees or what?

Some genius introduced African honey bees into the hives we already had. Result - beligerence by the hundreds of thousands.

Tomorrow begins the jury selection process for the killing of Trayvon Martin. Regardless of how the killing transpired, Zimmerman is in my view guilty, because he was told the police were going to arrive in a few minutes and to stay away. No need to even consider further developments to arrive at that conclusion. (Somehow, people with guns generally get a pass in too many of these type situations. Might makes right?)

Air TV has decided that all these available digital channels ought to be used for showing old movies and series episodes. I must say, the Movie channel has been coming up with films I have not seen before as well as old favorites from the distant past. The notice posted before their movies reads to the effect that the movies are not edited for time in order that they can squeeze in more commercials. One channel that started up a couple of weeks ago has been offering The Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy and the like, as well as Highway to Heaven and The Six Million Dollar Man. TV these days can have very good viewing one day and be incredibly boring another day, depending -

Back to the days when TV was only a vacuous wasteland.

The Lone Spoon in the Sink, a situation that forever plagues me. Any time there is a single spoon lying in my sink it somehow aligns with the flowing water so that it throws splashes in every direction. It can be one that has lain in overnight. It can be laid in by my wife or myself. Nothing alters the equation. Being watchful just works part time. That spoon is going to splatter water.

I agree; it should be an "open and shut case."

Oh so true Edgar - love your description!

Spoons in the sink make me a little frustrated. You ought to see me roll out a hose or electric cord if you would like to see me lose it.

Governor Perry is positioning himself to make another run for the presidency. While I am no fan of Forest Gump, I have to borrow a saying of his to comment: "Stupid is as stupid does."

There is a new book on autism, in which the cases of ninety three children are presented, in text and photos. The program followed caused all of the children at the end to be removed from the autism diagnosis. I have not read it, but I want to order a copy. I copied the information to paste here.

Healing The Symptoms Known As Autism by Kerri Rivera

In 2.5 years, 93 children previously diagnosed with regressive autism were able to shed their diagnosis, their symptoms, and return to an overall state of health and vitality. If you have any interest in finding out how they were able to heal you need to read this book. Kerri has a heart for children with autism, and she cares greatly about recommending safe, economical interventions that are helping to confront an epidemic. --Teri Arranga, Executive director of AutismOne

You can downloaded for $20 here. http://mmsautism.org/index.php/15?view=category

Thanks, CI. I actually have the link already, but I held back posting it because I did not want anyone feeling put upon by me to read it.

I worked with a nonprofit organization many years ago that provides services to the autistic, but there wasn't anything like the "cure" described in that article.

This is brand new and outside the circle of approved methods.

Hiya, Edgar. Are you concluding Governor Perry is mentally challenged? Tsk-tsk! Shame on you maligning this fine governor of Texas this way? You know I watched that debate where Perry could not remember the third point he wished to make; that third position was supposed to be important to his administration if he were to get the nomination for president of the US, but poor man, he simply could not recall what it was, demonstrating on the national stage that he had no depth intellectually.

In a way Governor Perry is more akin to Palin who thought being able to see Russia from Alaska made her a first class political expert.

The Republican Party is so closed minded that once Obama is no longer on the ticket any of the former presidential candidates might run again, even Mitt Romney who has now gotten back onto the political scene, calling for a special investigator to look into the IRS scandal.