Hip hip hooray, to God I pray
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John Aufenanger
 March 07 2023
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    I will be dropping off the grid for... probably about a month, maybe two. Writing about the only thing of any conceivable value or importance (to me) may be interfering with my own development. I'm going to hit the old reset button and take a break, technically a retreat, where I will practice an austere form of meditation in silence.


    Thinkspot is my only "social media" because here I'm pretty much left alone, and it is to Thinkspot that I intend to return, assuming both the website and I are still existential.


    I've written for as long as I have known how, beginning at age 4, when suddenly the world began shouting words at me from every road sign, every discarded Pepsi can, or whatever. This world of ours, at least where we live in strength of numbers, is so polluted with words that shout and scream our collective pain - buy this, buy that, Stop, Yield, No passing, Vote for Zippy the Pinhead, and on and on and on. I have a little poem I wrote shortly after realizing I could read. Although I don't recall the event, my mother (now deceased) showed me how to put a date on it. The date on it is March 2, 1965. The content was this:


    I am Jay

    Hip hip hooray

    To God I pray

    To save the day.


    Great stuff, yes?


    But, that aside, writing about my personal growth has been a lot of fun, and I may come back for more fun in the Spring or Summer. Perhaps I'll want to write about something else entirely. I don't know. Well, do any of us know what we will be doing in a world that can only exist in the imagination - the future? This is what is happening now. This is what we have.


    Peace be with you. God bless us all.

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