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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Wherewithal

Dictionary

wherewithal

The necessary means, especially financial means: didn't have the wherewithal to survive an economic downturn.

Slang Dictionary

wherewithal [ˈʍɛrwɪθɑl]

n.
money. : I don't have the wherewithal to invest in anything like that.
n.
motivation; gumption. : As soon as I get some wherewithal, I'll get a new computer.

I don't have the wherewithal to manage a stroke. I can only do what I do, in essence.

Yes, it seems like ages ago "wherewithal" was forced into my being. If folks asked me :

"Are you going to get a new car?"

I would say.

"Wherewithal"

"Your back yard looks nice."

I would say.

"Wherewithal"

Money. Motivation. Gumption. It could mean any of those things and for example, if you said the sky is falling. My response could have been :

"Wherewithal"

wherewithal (adv.)

"means by which," 1535, from where + withal. The noun is first recorded 1809.

Or it could mean : "I am astounded that the, means by which, your hat blew away!"

It could have come from 1809 if you want to know the truth.

Or it could mean:

wherewithal----------means------substance

During the stroke I did not have the means or substance so wherewithal was the term.

Or during the stroke I did not have the means or substance, I just wanted to sleep : wherewithal.

In fact "wherewithal" left me 1.2 years ago. To which I say:

Good Bye wherewithal, see you soon!

Bill Maher brings home a fact that has left me dumb founded for years on end. I was brought up in a Presbyterian house hold. And was, in fact, cast out of the Church for bringing up, in Sunday School, a problem when I was eight years old. I wanted to know how Jesus, who was dead as far as I was concerned, came alive after days and was brought up to Heaven. I wanted to know how the Doctors made him go from dead to un-dead. And wouldn't that mean he was a Zombie? The Church Lady was all up in arms over this. It was a question I though had to be answered. So there I went, un-christened, for the rest of my life.

I mean, I was eight years old, who was I going to tell? I just went on with my life at that point. Until I had a stroke at age 46. I was left with no speech. Inside I was OK, but outside, I was a mess. There was no paralysis. In fact you would not look at me and tell there had been any change at all. It took me 2.10 years to get over the stroke. During the stroke, I watch Religious and it really hit home with me. During the stroke, Meditation was one of the ways I brought peace to myself. But the whole Zen, Buddhist thing made me uneasy. But I did it anyway.

So why is it that Meditation brings in all sorts of kooks?

It was like : "He's into Meditation."

"Oh really, he must be a Buddhist!"

What? I am into Meditation because it strengthens my mind. That is it.

Anyway, back to Bill, it is cool he really came at it, getting the facts straight and staying with it. But with Religious there is going to be, well, a Holy War to end all Holy Wars. It will not take a month, a year, 10 years this is going to be a frightful case in which no one can win. There are many, many among us who say this :

There is nothing after we are dead. We are ashes in the wind.

And that is ok.

But the there are others for the cash it brings in, for the "Holy Scriptures" it brings forth and they will say your are either for us or against us. And the "against us" will bring down the whip to so you whose the boss.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Old Crow Medicine Show

"Chuck Mead and the Old Crow Medicine Show"

Chuck Mead was great, I would have been happy with him and his band of brothers but the Old Crow Medicine Show came up next and it was awesome!!!
It was a hooting and barn storming evening flanked buy a banjo ( it was a guitar actually ) and a banjo ( 5 string ) on the right and left side and fiddle/harp/guitar, bass, and guitar in the middle. Did I tell you it was awesome?
I did not think they would ever be in SB at the Lobero Theater, when I saw them on VH1 3.5 years ago. But here they were.
"....drink the corn liquor let the cocaine be....cocaine is going to kill my honey bee...."