Monday, September 01, 2014
Lloyd's Irving Bradbury's stories and poetry
Lloyd Irving Bradbury, seven 815 W. 39th St., Lyons, IL.
60534
telephone number one – 708 – 447-2041
Lloyd Bradbury born in 1937, in New Jersey.
time he spent in an incubator as a new born, saved his life but also damaged his eyes. r eyesight created many obstacles growing up, but his persistence and intelligence helped him to survive.\
A stroke came after being and soldier, engineer and teacher. Started to paint, write short stories and poetry. Improving body mind and soul was now his objectives. This is accomplished. Also by giving lectures on improving self. Lloyd also has given art classes, religious inspiration, and puppet shows had nursing homes and churches.
A magnets and ladders poetry submission August 2014 by Lloyd Irving Bradbury, seven 815 W. 39th St., Lyons, IL, 60534
Unicorn.
There was a maiden that lived in a castle.
She was afraid of people that would give her a hassle.
In a wonderful garden, she did stay.
She was in a loan in the garden to play
then a beautiful white goat came from. No where.
Now she had a pet. She would love to care.
She braided his two horns, instead of his hair.
Now for two horns. He had only one.
She smiled a wicked smile. She's now would have fun.
Now she could let him stay because she liked him that way.
There is a moral you know.
Goat watch out where you go
A short story submission by Lloyd Irving Bradbury.
Title: Ugly Fish
David was a good guy. He was known as “the happy guy” at work, but times were bad and even though he was a very nice person and he got along with all the other employees, he’d been laid off. So he came home that day very dejected. It was early in the morning and his wife had already gone to work. He was thinking about this on his way home. When he arrived, no one was there. Well, he thought, “I could hang around the house and worry about what she’ll do and how angry she’ll be when she comes home.” Recently he’d had some arguments with her and some of them were quite verbal. She would always say that he was a lazy guy and that he always wanted to go fishing when there was work to be done around the house. So, there were some problems with the roof, with the plumbing, etc., etc. And each time he didn't fix these problems, his wife grew angrier. But now he’d have plenty of time to make repairs. But how could he face his wife? She’d be really angry. The only thing he could say would be, “Now I have plenty of time to repair the house.” But she’d probably scoff at him and say, “You? Repair this house? You'd probably repair somebody else's first.” He needed to relax. So how would he relax before she came home and prepare himself for the onslaught? Well, let's try his favorite – fishing. There was a path from his house to a little bridge over the Des Plaines river, and he loved to fish from the other side of the bridge at Riverside. But, Riverside forbade fishing on their side. That's why he liked to go (because there were no other fishermen). However, Riverside never really enforced it. The Des Plaines river had come back and now instead of three types of fish in the river there were 35 different ones. He thought to himself, “I don't even know 35 different species of fish. I wonder what they all are.” One of the fish he liked to catch was pike. A pike was long and thin and a predator – the number one predator of a lot of fishes (it had lots of teeth). But when you catch it, it really put up a fight. David liked to catch that fish but he always threw them back because he never wanted to kill them. As the day wore on, he was thinking about all his problems and all his life and all about what he was going to say to his wife about losing his job. He hadn't realized how quickly the time had gone and it was starting to get dark. So he thought, “One more cast.” And he cast out his line. All of a sudden he got really excited. He’d caught a fish! And he reeled it in and fought with it and reeled it in some more until he said, “Boy, this is a big pike.” And when he pulled out the fish, it wasn’t a pike. It was a saligralla – one of those fishes that are really ugly and have poisonous spines on them and a big mouth with lots of teeth. It’s a type of fish that was left over from when the river had been polluted. He wanted to throw the fish back and save his line. But, it had gotten tangled in it. How could he get it off? He fought with the fish to free it plus get the hook out of its mouth. In the process, one of the spines cut his hand and it started to swell up. Then he realized that his face had been scratched by one of the spines, and that he didn’t feel very well. Finally, he got the fish off his line and threw it back. He was in a terrible fix. “Enough is enough!” he said to himself. So he put all his tackle back in his fishing box, crossed over the swinging bridge and headed for home. On the way, he thought about his wife. “She’ll really give me hell now that I’m so late getting home,” he thought. Even after a full day's work, he was always on time coming home and now he’d been playing – fishing. She’d never forgive him. As he approached their house, he noticed it was dark. She’d never keep the lights off. He opened the door and called Her name. She wasn’t there. Now, he was really puzzled. He looked all over and she was nowhere to be found. Now what was he supposed to do? He turned on all the lights so he wouldn’t feel alone and turned on the TV as well. All of a sudden there came a knock on the door! He thought, “She wouldn't knock.” Then, somebody was beating on the door!. Who could it be? When he opened the door there was a man standing there in a uniform with a badge. David said, “Yes? What can I do for you?” It was the local sheriff and he had a very odd expression on his face. He was looking at the wounds on David’s hand and face. “Is your wife’s name Sylvia?” the sheriff asked. David said, “Yes.” The sheriff said “This identification was on the body of a woman we found by the bridge.” “Oh, you mean the one where I fish?” David said. “Yes,” the sheriff replied, “Near the Des Plaines River. The woman was strangled. But she must have put up a heck of a fight.” David was amazed. He couldn't believe it! The sheriff looked at him suspiciously and said, “You need to come with me to the station and answer some questions.”.
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Lloyd Irving Bradbury. My version of creation
Thinking About The Fabric Of The Space Time Continuum 2014.
Sometimes one wonders what dreams are made of. Dreaming of how are worlds began is like reading a blank book. Each leaf more confusing than the next. Especially after reading all the physicists have to say about all the different models that are used to explain the existence of our world. Also, the explanations of all the forces exerted in these worlds cannot be explained by one unification theory. Thus, it is important to believe that there is no real answer to who controlled the force of nature. The natural rules are in such an order or is it chaos. One cannot understand even that concept.
In thinking about this creation of it all. It is noted that the Big Bang theory exists. The existence of the Big Bang theory that it seems that everyone agrees on has some great flaws in it. Can something be made from nothing. I think that is really the greatest question of all.
No one could say that the first fabric of the time continuum was nothing more than lines of various forces aligned in one direction with three expect of the expansion of time. We could call this the space time continuum. All these lines of force whether we consider waves or particles seem to exist in space. The expansion of time led to these particles or waves extending prompts zero to infinity. This existed because the space time continuum began and ended at infinity and zero. This meant that in between these two events there was a continuum of energy. Much like taking a point on the circle and in time spinning the circle and ending at the same point but during the duration of time and the spinning there was a force that had to be exerted. This meant that the space Kiam continuum created all energy waves and particles been that existed in what we consider 0+ time.
Tab so let's look at this like paper laid in, stacks. Each piece of paper was an energy level and the particle and waves flowed through this paper. As long as all these leaves of energy, were compress there was no large spaces within the leaves of the paper and the spaces between the paper if there was any and all.
As the space time continuum continued the book of leaves changed. As the space time continuum expanded in every direction. There seem to be bubbles that form or spaces, between the energy levels of the time continuum. These bubbles or energy spaces could be considered waves or particles. This is because that even within the spaces and the waves there is matter expansion. Just like a balloon that existed and is deflated or inflated with energy added to it. Thus, energy what expand or contract the waves are the bubbles of energy called particles. The expansion of this energy also conformed and changed the particles due to the energy applied to them. Thereby the time change. These particles and also the waves so they existed in the time continuum of different energy levels.
Could that mean that there was no Big Bang, but a continuous energy expansion due to time that was created by the ever-expanding growth of space. Could this be the function of energy being added by the forces of collection created by energy fields of like and dislike. Combinations of forces changing with respect to the age of time. Is time the creation of everything. Sometimes we can relate this to that frequency equals one over the time. And frequency is the vibration of everything. Thereby could not energy of likes and dislikes create this vibration and therefore create time. It would not take a Big Bang, it could take a long time growth of forces that would be expand into time. Every four seems to be related to time..
It seems that whoever set off the Big Bang or whatever started the Big Bang must've had generated a match to this firecracker. That would imply that they would have to be energy to begin with to create the Big Bang. Why couldn't the Big Bang be nothing more than the growth of energy with respect to time created by all the growth of energy within or without. This energy seems to be over expand over and under creating all kinds of sex and these forces growing or decaying and therefore creating what we sealants see and feel. If we were to judge our senses, which are very frail we would only see the energy of always forces in a very natural are very narrow spectrum. We could extend our forces so that we could transduce a lot of the frequencies and use them and we can also create them. Thereby I think that they must in a way be created by their sheer existence. Now, one would say what would create always forces. Just maybe one could conclude that the expansion of time is nothing more than pulling strings of energy in an ever expanding way. And when these strings of energy are stressed just so far they will snap back in 20 again and restart back to infinity and to the great snap. The expanding use the universe in time could also be referred to as the shrinking time created by the collapse thing of the universe or universal forces.
Note to the reader, including me;
this is only a unproved theory of which a model could be somewhat produced. Certainly a model and a mathematical proof could prove this theory. But there is one problem with me here. Neither am I qualified to make the model or the proof. This is just an idea that with imagination could produce a story or writing that may be interesting.
From the mind of Hootie and the Dragon and little Hootie and the puppet creator. Lloyd Irving Bradbury September 1, 2014
Based
Sometimes one wonders what dreams are made of. Dreaming of how are worlds began is like reading a blank book. Each leaf more confusing than the next. Especially after reading all the physicists have to say about all the different models that are used to explain the existence of our world. Also, the explanations of all the forces exerted in these worlds cannot be explained by one unification theory. Thus, it is important to believe that there is no real answer to who controlled the force of nature. The natural rules are in such an order or is it chaos. One cannot understand even that concept.
In thinking about this creation of it all. It is noted that the Big Bang theory exists. The existence of the Big Bang theory that it seems that everyone agrees on has some great flaws in it. Can something be made from nothing. I think that is really the greatest question of all.
No one could say that the first fabric of the time continuum was nothing more than lines of various forces aligned in one direction with three expect of the expansion of time. We could call this the space time continuum. All these lines of force whether we consider waves or particles seem to exist in space. The expansion of time led to these particles or waves extending prompts zero to infinity. This existed because the space time continuum began and ended at infinity and zero. This meant that in between these two events there was a continuum of energy. Much like taking a point on the circle and in time spinning the circle and ending at the same point but during the duration of time and the spinning there was a force that had to be exerted. This meant that the space Kiam continuum created all energy waves and particles been that existed in what we consider 0+ time.
Tab so let's look at this like paper laid in, stacks. Each piece of paper was an energy level and the particle and waves flowed through this paper. As long as all these leaves of energy, were compress there was no large spaces within the leaves of the paper and the spaces between the paper if there was any and all.
As the space time continuum continued the book of leaves changed. As the space time continuum expanded in every direction. There seem to be bubbles that form or spaces, between the energy levels of the time continuum. These bubbles or energy spaces could be considered waves or particles. This is because that even within the spaces and the waves there is matter expansion. Just like a balloon that existed and is deflated or inflated with energy added to it. Thus, energy what expand or contract the waves are the bubbles of energy called particles. The expansion of this energy also conformed and changed the particles due to the energy applied to them. Thereby the time change. These particles and also the waves so they existed in the time continuum of different energy levels.
Could that mean that there was no Big Bang, but a continuous energy expansion due to time that was created by the ever-expanding growth of space. Could this be the function of energy being added by the forces of collection created by energy fields of like and dislike. Combinations of forces changing with respect to the age of time. Is time the creation of everything. Sometimes we can relate this to that frequency equals one over the time. And frequency is the vibration of everything. Thereby could not energy of likes and dislikes create this vibration and therefore create time. It would not take a Big Bang, it could take a long time growth of forces that would be expand into time. Every four seems to be related to time..
It seems that whoever set off the Big Bang or whatever started the Big Bang must've had generated a match to this firecracker. That would imply that they would have to be energy to begin with to create the Big Bang. Why couldn't the Big Bang be nothing more than the growth of energy with respect to time created by all the growth of energy within or without. This energy seems to be over expand over and under creating all kinds of sex and these forces growing or decaying and therefore creating what we sealants see and feel. If we were to judge our senses, which are very frail we would only see the energy of always forces in a very natural are very narrow spectrum. We could extend our forces so that we could transduce a lot of the frequencies and use them and we can also create them. Thereby I think that they must in a way be created by their sheer existence. Now, one would say what would create always forces. Just maybe one could conclude that the expansion of time is nothing more than pulling strings of energy in an ever expanding way. And when these strings of energy are stressed just so far they will snap back in 20 again and restart back to infinity and to the great snap. The expanding use the universe in time could also be referred to as the shrinking time created by the collapse thing of the universe or universal forces.
Note to the reader, including me;
this is only a unproved theory of which a model could be somewhat produced. Certainly a model and a mathematical proof could prove this theory. But there is one problem with me here. Neither am I qualified to make the model or the proof. This is just an idea that with imagination could produce a story or writing that may be interesting.
From the mind of Hootie and the Dragon and little Hootie and the puppet creator. Lloyd Irving Bradbury September 1, 2014
Based
Wednesday, June 04, 2014
Lloyd Irving Bradbury – suggestions for a snake farm – marry Lloyd
Snake farm an opportunity – by Lloyd Irving Bradbury June 2014.
My wife saw a snake on our little veranda type porch. We live on the first floor and apartment across from the forest preserve. On the porch. I put a little flowers and some containers of grass like structure.
I usually store some on use potting soil and a few pots in the very corner of the friend the type small porch. There is enough space on the porch for to small chairs and a couple of flowers. In front of the porch are some flowering bushes only about 2 feet high that had just recently been planted there. The porch is made of concrete slab with an iron railing. The plastic chairs were bought for a few bucks. I have a small plastic table about 1' x 1' next to my chair so I can put a refreshment there.
So it is June and the porch plans are out there. I put the houseplants very carefully out there. Or should I say my wife get it. I usually go for fun a tomato plant or a pepper plant in a very corner of the little porch. He usually thrives in gives one or two tomatoes. It is a great thrill for me to see them or should I say not see them. Since I am blind. But I feel that I am in the garden with all these plants surrounding me.
Well, let's start the story. Maria saw a snake on the porch. She usually smokes on the porch instead of the house. I have been asking her to quit for health sake but she has other answers for me. So she went out to smoke with the snake on the porch. We love the shrieks and hollering. She took a broom and swept the big snake into the bushes. In her country. There are. This snake was a tiny little thing probably a gardener snake. It did not have a triangle or had dark awful body which indicates that it would be pointless. I don't think there's any snakes in the Chicago area. If there are there are very few. Snakes are also a rarity even around the forest preserves.
So I consoled her and told her that we have an owl on the side the house. Maybe this how was trying to eat the snake and dropped it on the porch. I know it sounds like a con job and it was to alleviate her fears. So she calmed down.
Next day it was another story. Since it was June she decided to clean up all the old pots I had a little bag of soil I had tucked into the tiny corner of the veranda behind the chair. With a broom. She started sweeping and uncovered the plastic I have put over the pots. She picked up one of the pots to clean it and there was a snake in it. With many screeches and hollers, she retreated to inside the house. I told her that maybe I'll had tried E2 snakes. But that did not go over very well. So she went out again with a broom as a weapon. She switched off the other snake into the bushes off the veranda. Then she started getting the the pots well. There was a nest of snakes in the other parts maybe about six. Half a dozen spiders a couple of other bugs that I don't even know what they are and she was shrieking and hollering and beating them all and train them off the porch. She did not want to kill them because she said she would be cursed, if she killed a snake.
So I'll today. She is blaming me for raising stakes on the porch. She said I brought the snake and did this on purpose. That I must love snakes. But I told her. Even Adam and Eve didn't kill the snake that was in their garden. But she said I cannot experiment with my little vegetables anymore and the only thing she would allow on the porch is flowers that are of the non-snake type. I asked her what that meant. She said only I better not raise snakes on the porch.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Lloyd Bradbury's apology for a free-form poem that was not free of mistakes
An apology; in uploading this last set of poetry. There are so many mistakes that one would think it's freeform. When I uploaded the poetry. I did not realize that it had been sitting on my desktop for a while and therefore errors had been absorbed by Dragon speak and or trade as part of the the poetry. But I will correct it as soon as possible as soon as I get some sleep and some alcoholic beverages. So I can be drunk when I do it. Because I certainly was drunk when I posted this it seems that way. Although I have not had a drink and 30 years it sure look like that I had gone the Binger or should I say binge. So to all my poetry fans God bless you.
Dragon and my new owl pet are really admonish me for my sloppy presentation. But I will overcome. Lloyd Irving Bradbury the poetry wizard of the backwoods
Alien ghost(that finite meets the infinite(by Lloyd Bradbury
Elements of poetry chapter 8 exercise to
Lloyd Bradbury
seven 815, W. 39th St., Lyons, IL 60534 telephone number 708-447-2041
instructor, Vicki.
The poem – the alien the ghost.
are representing. Two types of philosophies. One is a supernatural and the other is science fiction. They collide in the painting. They communicate and settle their differences. Each is described as a separate entity. It is meant to be a poetry or poem of the abstract and also of the supernatural, fantasy and surrealistic concept of to worlds and their ideas conflicting with each other.
The painter positive his abstract painting and noticed that the images that came forth seem to have a mind of their own. Upon his canvas.
When they started to talk to each other. He fled upon which he covered the painting.
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Crosstalk
he was launched in deep space,. To find another of his race
He was locked in the bubble, so as to have no trouble
she was in a different plane. No one was there to complain
She was not looking for trouble, especially from a bubble
she was in a different place. Also she was a different race.
She was locked in a different plane, no trouble to complain.
They both felt all alone. They both felt like a stone.
These beings wanted to reach out. Beyond there regions clout.
Then a window became quite clear. They both became quite near.
They searched for a great mind. One with brightness they would find.
They met on a flat plane. Both encased in a picture frame.
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like strong links of a chain, made their minds to remain.
Happiness was hard to restrain. They cried out a wreath frame.
Love made a flowery bloom. Now both in a picture room.
Painted colors were all about them. Like flowers on a stem.
They would not mind an alien and a ghost. Painted on a picture host.
Then the artist was painting. There. At the picture. He did stare.
Once upon a time a painting communicated with alien and ghost.
Were present as a painting host.
The painter fled in fear. Thinking craziness was near.
Especially when he heard them talk. He left quickly and a speed walk.
The alien spoke first quote I am in space. In a round bed of bubbles, fearing note troubles.
A ghost replied I am here flying through a cloud are you just speaking out loud?
Then both realized that across the dimensions they had spoke.
Then came the aliens reply, quote are you a ghost that did die?
The ghost and said, quote I may be dead but I'm not in a crazy bubble bed.
Wake up. Then the alien angrily said, quote where you to tell me where to bed.
Also had to laugh.
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Hooty, a new member of the Lloyd Bradbury family
Hellooooo
I am a new member of Lloyd's family. Lloyd decided that my name should be Hootie. Well. He was at the thrift store the other day, he saw me. It was love at first sight. Especially since I had a price tag on may of only $.99. One of his friends commented the out should be called Hootie after the Hooters that are displayed at his favorite lunch place. I thought cooties would be better for a name. So I told Lloyd that would be my name. I am and how had puppe
Hootie,
who you looking at, Dragon.
My name is Dragon. I will call you cookies, ha ha ha ha.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Lloyd Irving Bradbury – and early work ethic of a teenager
\Tit Cars That I Drove And Pose Asked. Another Way To Look At This Is To Say Cars That
Pose Asked Me.
It is now 2014. From this perspective I realize that the society that I lived in was dominated by cars and trucks. Someone not living through these years would question what I mean. The only way they I can relate this back to you is to tell you the story of my involvement in the American tradition of owning a car. I will try to relate to you every 10 year period in my life and use the car as a reference to events that I lived through.
I will make a statement here. The car was a major possession that really changed lives in America. Everyone in my age group resemblance by the automobile.
A must have possession was the car in the 20th century. 1900 to now 2014 the car is a major possession of America. There seems to be only two major possessions that created a status between one individual and another. They were the home and the car.
I learned to drive a car by a method called trial and error. I believe it was more error and it sure was a trialing experience. One now that I will relate is the beginning experience of the first car.
Well let me jump back to bed. One that drives a car must know how to drive a car. I learned how to drive a car through observation. This observation was done by writing in my father's vehicle and observing his craziness. Another means was to observe how people drove the cars about me. This was all done in a town that had a main street of about 3 miles long and side roads that were Clay going off of this paved street. The name of the street like most towns at this time was MainStreet. Farmingdale also had a railroad tracks running through it that carried both chickens and ammunition. One route went to Lakewood New Jersey and the other route went to the munitions depot of Earl so now you know that there was a railroad track running across the town and going down some of the side roads. This is important for later adventure in how not to drive. What I learned before I drove was said the wheel was to turn the car, the seat was to sit in, and the pedal was how you push a car along. The break was optional. This somewhat confused me when the car would start in reverse and go the wrong way. Later I would learn that there was also a clutch and a gearshift to propel the car in the direction that you wanted to go. The break was another adventure sometimes in some cars it worked in other cars it did not work there was also an emergency brake that one could pull up when the brakes failed. Or if you left it on one that could burn out and cause smoke to bellow from underneath the car. Another thing to remember was that if you tried to start the car in what was called second year or even third year the car with think you are crazy and just stop and skull. Another is very serious thing to remember was that the car. This gas was an expensive needed item and later on I found out there was something called oil in a car that burned 2 1/2 gallons of it each week.
The first car that ever intrigued me was the one that my teacher had in Farmingdale New Jersey it was a rather square boxy thing and was electric car. Yes there was electric cars in the early part of the 20th century. They were slow and reliable and rather boxy looking. They were reliable in that they would run on one charge which would take them about a mile down the road and a mile back but then again most MainStreet were that law. Some of the milk wagons or should I say milk trucks were electric. Also some mail trucks were electric then again they didn't go too far down the main street to deliver their milk. Or their products. The first car that my dad had Was in Essex. Most people do not ever remember in Essex it was a backs boxy four-door very high car. I remember my dad in the wintertime to get the car to start would build a fire underneath it. Even to this day I'm amazed it didn't burst into flame. But then again I realize that the gas tank was slightly above and in back of the engine. It used gravity to feed gasoline to the engine. I wondered if it ever blew up it would land in your lap. He drove this Essex in till it just froze up and never start again. He then invested in a new car and got the loan from household finance. If he was still living he would probably be still paying on the household finance loan. This guy remember had trouble with first and second year so my dad use the reverse gear to go to work. That's right he drove in reverse back and forth to work. I believe it was one of those old early Chevrolets it seemed modern compared to the Essex. My dad's and he was a brand-new red coupe which the German engineer across the street had. It was a 1948 Chevelle or should I say Chevy let. Every time the car would go out of the driveway my dad would look up and curse. He would mutter the Germans would take over the world.
I asked my dad one day to teach me how to drive. He said you will get your car when you're 21 years old. And I will not teach you quote what you think I am a driving instructor exclamation quote I'm glad he did not teach me how to drive.
So I first started to drive it was with an old prewar Buick that doors open the opposite way. So if you open the door and traffic when it was part the car coming by would rip off the door. This could be a concern and would require some running if it happened. I bought the car in a junkyard for hundred dollars it had no battery so I mounted the battery and jumper cables from the seat beside me in the front of the car. The seats were like sofa chairs. This would be a problem later on. I started to drive this car one night on the back roads and I came to one of those crossing roads over the railroad tracks. It was starting to get dark and I mistook the railroad track for the other road. After bumping and something along for about a half a mile I realized that I was in trouble area the car suddenly tipped over and lay on its side. The battery short of an ignited the sofa chair front seat. Rather hurriedly I jumped out of the car on the driver side climbed over the car and had the presence of mind to remove the lice and plates just in case. That I remember there were no lice and plates on the car for I didn't even have a license. So I just did on the side of the road and watched the car burn. Finally the state troopers came along and were cursing that a car was on fire next a railroad tracks. They stormed over to me and asked me who was driving the car. This was the beginning of my Lai and to authority. I told him I did not know. I just saw the flames and was curious what was on fire. The state trooper looked at me and kind of snarled I think he saw through my line. That was the end of my hundred dollars that had taken me all summer long to acquire by painting and inoculating chickens. Oh but that's another story.\
Now what did I learn from this driving experience.;
1.0 never put the battery on the drivers passenger seat or you may burn your but.
Two point 0 Never Dr. down a railroad right-of-way especially across the tracks where trains loaded with explosive were chickens may soon appear.
3.0 never invest money in a Buick
4.0 driving can be expensive and also hazardous to your health
5.0 never tell your father you drove a car without license plates and license. He may just laugh at you. This would make you kind of feel like an idiot.
This would also stop me from experimenting with driving for at least another two years in till I reached being a freshman in high school. I vowed at this point to buy a car that was not so inflammable. Him him him him him him him him him
Boyd Irving Bradbury's biography. Teenager
Title: Ugly Fish
David was a good guy. He was known as “the happy guy” at work, but times were bad and even though he was a very nice person and he got along with all the other employees, he’d been laid off. So he came home that day very dejected. It was early in the morning and his wife had already gone to work. He was thinking about this on his way home. When he arrived, no one was there. Well, he thought, “I could hang around the house and worry about what she’ll do and how angry she’ll be when she comes home.” Recently he’d had some arguments with her and some of them were quite verbal. She would always say that he was a lazy guy and that he always wanted to go fishing when there was work to be done around the house. So, there were some problems with the roof, with the plumbing, etc., etc. And each time he didn't fix these problems, his wife grew angrier. But now he’d have plenty of time to make repairs. But how could he face his wife? She’d be really angry. The only thing he could say would be, “Now I have plenty of time to repair the house.” But she’d probably scoff at him and say, “You? Repair this house? You'd probably repair somebody else's first.” He needed to relax. So how would he relax before she came home and prepare himself for the onslaught? Well, let's try his favorite – fishing. There was a path from his house to a little bridge over the Des Plaines river, and he loved to fish from the other side of the bridge at Riverside. But, Riverside forbade fishing on their side. That's why he liked to go (because there were no other fishermen). However, Riverside never really enforced it. The Des Plaines river had come back and now instead of three types of fish in the river there were 35 different ones. He thought to himself, “I don't even know 35 different species of fish. I wonder what they all are.” One of the fish he liked to catch was pike. A pike was long and thin and a predator – the number one predator of a lot of fishes (it had lots of teeth). But when you catch it, it really put up a fight. David liked to catch that fish but he always threw them back because he never wanted to kill them. As the day wore on, he was thinking about all his problems and all his life and all about what he was going to say to his wife about losing his job. He hadn't realized how quickly the time had gone and it was starting to get dark. So he thought, “One more cast.” And he cast out his line. All of a sudden he got really excited. He’d caught a fish! And he reeled it in and fought with it and reeled it in some more until he said, “Boy, this is a big pike.” And when he pulled out the fish, it wasn’t a pike. It was a saligralla – one of those fishes that are really ugly and have poisonous spines on them and a big mouth with lots of teeth. It’s a type of fish that was left over from when the river had been polluted. He wanted to throw the fish back and save his line. But, it had gotten tangled in it. How could he get it off? He fought with the fish to free it plus get the hook out of its mouth. In the process, one of the spines cut his hand and it started to swell up. Then he realized that his face had been scratched by one of the spines, and that he didn’t feel very well. Finally, he got the fish off his line and threw it back. He was in a terrible fix. “Enough is enough!” he said to himself. So he put all his tackle back in his fishing box, crossed over the swinging bridge and headed for home. On the way, he thought about his wife. “She’ll really give me hell now that I’m so late getting home,” he thought. Even after a full day's work, he was always on time coming home and now he’d been playing – fishing. She’d never forgive him. As he approached their house, he noticed it was dark. She’d never keep the lights off. He opened the door and called her name. She wasn’t there. Now, he was really puzzled. He looked all over and she was nowhere to be found. Now what was he supposed to do? He turned on all the lights so he wouldn’t feel alone and turned on the TV as well. All of a sudden there came a knock on the door! He thought, “She wouldn't knock.” Then, somebody was beating on the door!. Who could it be? When he opened the door there was a man standing there in a uniform with a badge. David said, “Yes? What can I do for you?” It was the local sheriff and he had a very odd expression on his face. He was looking at the wounds on David’s hand and face. “Is your wife’s name Sylvia?” the sheriff asked. David said, “Yes.” The sheriff said “This identification was on the body of a woman we found by the bridge.” “Oh, you mean the one where I fish?” David said. “Yes,” the sheriff replied, “Near the Des Plaines River. The woman was strangled. But she must have put up a heck of a fight.” David was amazed. He couldn't believe it! The sheriff looked at him suspiciously and said, “You need to come with me to the station and answer some questions.”
Ury
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Lloyd Irving Bradbury – in search of heaven and hell
Sometimes, I wonder
when I hear God's thunder
where can have an be?
Is hell below the sea
where the birds fly free
is that where heaven be.
If I don't care ill I go there,
do I dare, not to want to go there
by Lloyd Irving Bradbury the greatest intellectual amongst the trees in the forest preserve of Chicago
when I hear God's thunder
where can have an be?
Is hell below the sea
where the birds fly free
is that where heaven be.
If I don't care ill I go there,
do I dare, not to want to go there
by Lloyd Irving Bradbury the greatest intellectual amongst the trees in the forest preserve of Chicago
Friday, February 21, 2014
Once upon a time – Lloyd Bradbury
This should be a picture of one of my paintings. But it is just an experiment actually and postings. Since it's been a while since I've used this blog.