DEC 29, 19 .. FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH

For What It’s Worth (to some few of you) I just published a post about ‘recovery’ over on blogspot:

http://aaphotoshere.blogspot.com/2019/12/dec-29-19-to-friend-next-time-try-god.html

For What It’s Worth (to the rest of you) I’m living the life (Failure to Remember) of the memory of the mother’s of the world. 

I have a theory. IF all of the mother’s (who could do something about pregnancy) of the world could remember, REALLY REMEMBER, all that comes with the child bearing / birthing process, we would have fewer people on the planet. 

I am not yet ‘over’ the process of recovering (feeling ill / jet lag etc) from my recent fourteen month trip. In spite of how I am feeling, I am getting the green light from all of my doctors as to being healthy. I once told a psychiatrist (as I was leaving his office back in 1996), “If you knew how I am feeling you wouldn’t let me out of your office.” He smiled and said “See you next week.”

And?

I am considering applying for a new Russian Tourist Visa. 

Geez Captain! What on this good earth are you thinking! Please get back to feeling better before you get yourself pregnant (with another  trip).

As I was ‘enduring’ (December 10th) this last long haul International flight from Seoul to Seattle I was thinking, “Oh my. This may be ‘it’ for me.” And as it turned out, it was as-good-as-it-gets with regard to (economy seating) on a long International Flight.

Odd twist on the above Seoul to Seattle flight. 

Say what you want, believe what you will, I believe that (based on many years of living and traveling outside of the United States) World Cultures are different. In Asia, (with the males) you have the save-face-culture. In Asia, you have the honor the elders culture (and YES they do HONOR their elder senior citizens!). With regard to my seatmate, I was probably 40 years his senior in terms of our ages. So I had age on my side. 

I had paid extra money for an ‘extra leg room seat’ on the flight. There were two of us in our seating row. I sat at the window and my asian seatmate (who also had paid for an ‘extra leg room seat’) sat on the aisle. From the get-go, from the instant I showed up to occupy my seat, the ‘vibes’ from this gentleman were not positive. We settled and the battle was on for dominance over the arm rest between the two of us. I immediately ‘yielded to him’. I just crosssed my arms and let him have the arm rest. I didn’t want / I didn’t need the hassle of the arm rest. Dinner time came and he splilled over into my space with his right elbow as he was eating. He wanted the arm rest / he also wanted part of my seat. And he was getting-his-way. 

Mother Nature and my kidneys then ‘fought back’. I have to get-up-and-go quite often during these 10-hour flights. As I continued to get-up-and-go he continued to get more and more irritated with me. 

Fatigue overtook me and I went to sleep. I then ‘sensed’ he was missing. When get-up-and-go time again appeared and I was awake, I noticed that he was missing. His seat was empty. On my way to the restroom I noticed he was sitting in another seat further back in the plane. 

And? He never returned. For the rest of the flight I was (blissfully) alone and I could spill over into his empty seat (with the arm rest elevated) as I slept. At the end of the flight, as I was (yet again) getting-up-and-going to the rest room, when I passed him I caught his eye and I smiled and gave him a double thumbs up sign thanking him for moving. 

I’m going to publish this and Patti will proof read it hours from now.

Smiling.

Cap and Patti 

Thanks Julia ..

Julia Cameron wrote the following thoughts on Page 223 of her amazing book .. ‘The Right To Write’ .. Thank You once again Brad 49885 for the gift to me of her book ..

“When we start to write, we prime the pump and the flow of ideas begins to move. It is the act of writing that calls ideas forth, not ideas that call forward writing.”

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