possibilities

update

The Dawgs project is stalled in the water. I'm not sure what to do with it. There are many possibilities. I had to shelve it momentarily which is what I do when I really don't have a clue where to go next.

I'm kind of eager to get started on a biography of Frank Leverett, scientist who walked from Ames to Madison, and might start as soon as I can. But I have never written a biography, and haven't read one in ages.

I'm trying to finish Prairie Leveretts, which will actually take some work to make a book out of it. Pulling together pictures, files, getting everything in there....I've got a ways to go.

I've been drawn up by a fireman's class.

Finally, I have this idea that I have to get on paper before it's too late. It is roughly this. We are all cards in a deck, equal when the game starts, except for the jokers which are generally excluded. but some of us get to be aces, while others are twos. In other words, while we have the fundamental equality of being just one card in the deck, we have "acting status" that allows some of us to win by virtue of being who they are, while others will always be at the bottom unless they "play their cards" very well. Now this setup implies that there are four different kinds of people (spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs) and I haven't quite worked that out. Or, similarly, thirteen levels, or castes, one could say. And these would be natural castes; you're born as a two, or born as a king. The world recognizes your status. No matter what game you play, you live with your caste.

Just an idea. But mind, you saw it first here.