ed pritchard's stories

2026-07-13T12:02:16.411-07:00

not fade away

Edward W Pritchard

Take a full draft of beer

Not fade away. Before we be dead.

Surely the song of me can't end. How about you.

ignore the pains of age and suffering

Somehow we savor each day despite the pains,

its hard to recall if before was this or now is reality

Not fade away

end

reach for the glass /ed

Remember the Doctor warned you the limit of two beers

so we buy two cans of beers each holding two beers in each larger can

four stages of life

2026-07-11T16:03:41.195-07:00

four stages of life

fiction

edward w pritchard

Anyone who has studied in the least eventually realizes the wisdom of the traditions of India in ancient times and how their philosophies still stands the test of time. If one has read lots and thought things thru as he ages he will eventually begin to meditate on the four stages of life in the ancient tradition of India.

The first two stages in India's philosophy are pretty much universal; to be a student as a youth and then a householder, beginning about the age of 20. These are the basic duties of most people in the world regardless of the Country he is in. To study and learn a career, find a spouse, have children buy a nice home and be a proper citizen is what most people strive for.

For Americans now a days it is very difficult to move beyond the first two stages because of cultural pressure and greed to continue endlessly to acquire more and more material things, bigger houses with endless ecoutments and the fear that one cannot live forever without a large bank account or seven figure stock portfolio.

President Trump should travel to India to meet with the Dali Lama

2025-12-02T16:51:00.000-08:00

President Trump should meet with the Dali Lama

Ed Pritchard Stories

President Trump should travel to India and meet with the Dali Lama. There were never again be a person in the position of the Dali Lama. The Dali Lama has something important to say and he could send his ideas into the future through the person of the American President Donald Trump.

Of late Donald Trump has spent a lot of time traveling trying to end military feuds between Countries far off. Perhaps Donald Trump might have some ideas on the subject of War to discuss with the Dali Lama.

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Is Eric Hoffer supporting the dock working in their recent strike

2024-10-01T11:36:00.000-07:00

Is Eric Hoffer supporting the dock workers in their recent strike

fiction

edward w pritchard

Eric Hoffer the writer and former dock worker has been ask if he supports the dock workers of america's recent strike.

Eric replies they are asking for a huge raise. However although I am dead inflation is high in America as I understand it.

Sometimes it's good to be dead.

end

it's always about war and religion

2024-01-04T10:48:00.000-08:00

it's always about war and religion

fiction

edward w pritchard

It's always about war and religion. And belligerent young men killing women and helpless children.

Currently Israel is desimating Gaza for a sneak attack against ordinary souls going about their own lives.

Israel in the Middle East is always the super power that is in the way of Muslim locals. Young local male Muslim locals race across the borders through tunnels armed with various weapons and cause temporary loss of life to Israel

and its inhabitants. Then using superior weapons Israel methodically destroys it's enemy.

Is it about war or is it about religious animosity. Muslims and Jews, I am a back sliding protestant who always admired the Muslims. Of late though I have admired John Lennon's proclamation that religion causes wars.

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Thoughts on New York's The Cloisters

2023-12-18T11:50:00.000-08:00

Thoughts on New York's the Cloisters

fiction

Edward w Pritchard

Before I first visited the Cloisters in New York city I was fortunate enough to visit the Sorbonne medieval museum in Paris, France . As a comparison between two of the world's finest medieval museum I often remember each museum's collection Paris and New York and the lasting impression each location and collection leaves on the fortunate visitor years in his future as the money to travel at will leaves him for old age's poor health and lack of monies to travel.

The Sorbonne medieval museum is magnificent but is forced into competing with dozens of world class art museums in Paris as well as the spell Paris itself permanently blesses on the tourist. After a few days of visiting the sites of Paris with plenty of money to see the city and museums as well as a world class hotel to stay in for a few days Paris generates a smile for future years.

New York's jewel is the cloisters blessed by John D. Rockefeller who spent some of his world class Fortune to pick out a location on the Hudson River and spent money as no object to buy the medieval art and statues as well as the buildings to house the location, collections and ambiance of antiquity. Room after room will set the mood for visitors of the museum to go into the past of Europe to display the art in a serene and authentic environment. There is a serenity to the Cloister's rooms of fine art that slows guests down during their New York city visit.

Stand out behind the Cloisters and watch the Hudson River race by. American Indians used the Hudson to move about their country. Now the sub way from New York city or taxi from Harlem zips you to the Cloisters,

Visit the cloisters after you visit the metropolitan museum in downtown New York. The Cloisters are my favorite location in America.

sometimes I wish I were born Russian [part 2]

2023-11-20T12:51:00.000-08:00

sometimes I wish I were born Russian [ part 2]

fiction
edward w pritchard

A dozen years into the future from now there's these robots who are very intelligent and conniving and created by the Russian government to intervene with American society, politics, and institutions in a non violent but intrusive way.

Each robot looks and acts like a famous Russian writer or novelist and has one dictate from home in Moscow on how to behave in America, " stay in character comrade".

Pictures below are the robotic representations of Gorky and Tolstoy working hard to stay in character.

fully tax the catholic church on all USA propertes they own

2023-11-17T13:23:00.000-08:00

fully tax the catholic church on all USA properties they own

fiction

edward w pritchard

If I were President I would fully tax the catholic church and others on all the USA real estate properties they owned. Starting in twenty five years from the present. The money would be used appropriately to help the downtrodden. For a twenty five year period the tax would not start provided the catholic church and other churches went back and re reviewed their position on each religious schism or scriptual controversy they fought and or murdred people over, that is those who they intellectually diagreed with. In addition all religious organizations in the USA must publically forgive John Rawls for his positions on all matters they disagreed with him overs by admitting that in matters of opinion both sides are partially right and wrong at the same time.

seventy first birthday

2023-02-17T20:43:00.000-08:00

seventy first birthday

fiction

edward w pritchard

About ten years ago a noted local heart surgeon told my family gathered in my room at the hospital after a heart procedure and a heart attack that I probably wouldn't make it till morning. Somehow I have survived nearly ten years and I credit my still being alive along with various pills daily to listening to blues music, three cans a night of beer and a proper outlook on the world., and walking around the world more than three times on the canal paths in the local area where I live.

Bessie Smith, Elmore James and Snooks Eaglin are my only friends anymore. Several times a week I converse with them as I listen to their philosophical thoughts expressed through music.

As you get older there is less to fret about. As an example in my case I don't care if I have a 4,000 square house properly remodeled and filled with more expensive furniture than I can sit on.

Most days I hope for a clear night to watch the evening sky, planets and stars as I walk and walk along the lake walking and walking to keep myself alive. That's about it really. Excuse me it's time for me to go back to reading a few high brow books on various subjects, joyfully interacting with the grandchildren, and spending many hours at the gym trying to extend my time as a sentient being.

Someone said " Life has no meaning , only the beauty of it's intricate design".

what ever else they said about Jesus

2023-02-12T05:47:00.001-08:00

whatever else they said about Jesus

fiction

edward w pritchard

Whatever else they said about Jesus, Jesus never sent important information to his twelve disciples by email.

Jesus never had twelve way phone conversations either. Face to face conversations is how Jesus communicated, whether to twelve people or an entire sermon on a mount.

We should take a lesson from Jesus' communications style. No phone chats and no emails.

Face to face conversations in business and personal life is how Jesus handled his personal life and business life.

james Booker and Jesus part 2

2023-02-12T00:08:00.002-08:00

Why would Jesus return to the earth for the second time as James Booker, the New Orleans piano prodigy? And why would Jesus return to the earth to full fill his prophesies of the second coming as a homo sexual drug addict? And why would the staff in the emergency room at the hospital in New Orleans refuse to treat James Booker when he was sitting in the hospital waiting to die of Kidney failure.

Was James Booker Jesus returned? Listen to James Booker's Oh Holy night rendition for clues. Do you need your Jesus to be perfect? Do you need your Jesus to be perfect, without sin, and without human attributes and faults ?

Course I, me, don't really believe in any thing at all super natural. I said that because I just can't stand to hear about good old Jesus, who may not of even have been real suffering through a short life like they said and ending up -for real on a cross and then dying and that was so final. So I made up that part about Jesus and James Booker both having been reborn and coming back to life. Both of them and us too are just so lonely,

I can understand why folks would exaggerate a bit that about there's a better life a coming after we die. It's just for me I wish it were real in a proven scientific sense. So I won't say anything about was Jesus for real and all. And if I have to believe anything scientific provable about James Booker, I believe he did walk around sometimes when he was down and out looking for marijauna cigarettes on the ground like he earlier would sing at the piano when he played " King of the road." It's a provable scientific fact, us being so lonely and all believing in a fine afterlife sometimes at 3 am in the morning.

James Booker New Orleans piano man came to the earth at his second birth as a stand in for Jesus

2023-02-10T18:15:00.004-08:00

James Booker New Orleans piano man came to the earth at his second birth as a second stand in for Jesus

fiction

edward w pritchard

politics as usual in america

2022-08-22T15:13:00.002-07:00

politics as usual in america

fiction

edward w pritchard

Now that women are joining in the spoils and fame of politics in america it's not unusal to see a pretty blonde govonor or lady senator in trouble for some minor violation of the ethics code. Yes, the good old boys of fifty years or more ago could get away with misfeasance as politicans but my how the current news media like to spinkel the internet with sad pictures of female politicans in situations of damsels in distress over minor violations.

I like it too at some level but lets give the ladies a break and respect their position and give them a chance to learn the ropes of politics as usual.

worst lightening strikes in history

2022-08-22T03:06:00.000-07:00

worst lightening strikes in history

fiction

edward w pritchard

Lightening frightens us all. It's not unusual to have reports unverified and less than scientific that lightning killed up to 300 persons in ancient babylonian times or native americans at youngstown ohio sometime in the past. Of course there are no scientific provable witness collaborations. Although there at Youngstown there is a large rock that was split !/3 2/3rds by gods' wrath, lightning.

But what of lightning strikes on distant galaxies that perhaps wiped up to billions [ 300 billion] life sources?

sometime in the distant past with no witnesses or collaboration. A tragedy indeed long since forgotten or unknown.

Don't carry an umbrella in a lightning storm. There is a connection between god's moods and lightning deaths among sentient beings. Be safe around lightning, although the odds of being emulsified are low its an absurd way to go.

wealth longevity and the secret of it all, including early retirement, nba super stars, beautiful demur women ,non shrewish but smiling , early retirement, riches beyond imagination, and bulging retirement accounts

2022-08-12T00:11:00.001-07:00

wealth longevity and the secret of it all, etc

fiction

Sometimes I remember the time I was at a nice hotel in new orleans with the kids safely in bed, the wife asleep that I shuffled out through the rainstorm and went to a small club and heard a formerly beautiful once a near celebrity with a record or two black torch singer doing " I get the blues when it rains". as I recall I bought her a drink anomously and was depressed when I saw such a talent walking home alone through the back streets of new orleans to her run down apartment [I supposed. and her grey hair dripping in the drizzling rain] as she stumbled along.

America the beautiful, the sad Indians at Taos, up from slavery for folks moving north, and super inflation lurking around this corner of our future.

If Alexander Hamliton hadn't been shot he could help President Trump get through the next few years.

donald trump update

2022-08-09T23:47:00.002-07:00

donald trump update

fiction

edward w pritchard

Mr Trump, my you certainly do keep busy. Even in my most large delusions I can't keep up with your day to day life.

I hope things go well for you, as I always respect our ex presidents but I am confused and a little worried by your latest predictament.

Here's what I originally wrote you when you first became our President:

PS maybe the FBI would backoff if you would negotiate a pause with Mr Putin to his war in the Ukraine, at the very least it would take your mind off your own problems.

New President Trump's welcome letter from a citizen

fiction
edward w pritchard

Congratulations on your election in becoming our Country's new President. We wish you continued good health and continued success in your new assignment.

Tonight new President Trump consider all the light, heat and energy produced and consumed by all of the magnificent Properties throughout the World you own and manage. Additionally consider all of your employees and their families you have paternalistic-ally been responsible for as their employer over the last forty years of your life and the how you indirectly created the security that allowed your employees to thrive. Soon, President Trump you will be responsible in a similar way for the safety, security and to some extent welfare of over three hundred million Americans and indirectly as leader of the premier nation economically on Earth of the remainder of the six billion plus citizens of our planet. It is an awesome responsibility you have assumed.

New President Trump as you successfully manage the challenges and responsibilities of your new assignment and your Power grows exponentially as the one of the World's most important citizen's remember the Power of all the light, heat and energy produced and consumed by the trillions of stars and billions of galaxies across the vast and timeless universe and may you recognize our place in it all.

your humble follower
myself

don't buy a new car, house, or take that european vacation until you talk to pete best

2022-07-27T23:54:00.002-07:00

don't buy a new car, house, or take that european vacation until you talk to pete best

fiction

edward w pritchard

Americans are scratching their heads as they watch all the large cap super duper stocks crash and with it their delusions about permanent prosperity and endless riches. Us baby boomers have gotten old and we are getting swept out along with our delusions and ideals.

Don't despair ask original beatles drummer Pete Best who was replaced just before the fab four hit the big time what it's like to be thrown out with the trash.

Watch your sacred stocks and investment like fine homes, expensive cars and meta stocks crash and throw you to the junk pile with them. Your old dude. It's time for a new paradigm and your not invited.

I liked Ringo Star a lot but Pete Best didn't seem like such a bad guy. Things have changed, try to make yourself comfortable baby boomer when you are uncerimoniously tossed on to the trash pile.

they call them the baggies

2022-07-24T03:02:00.000-07:00

they call them the baggies

fiction

edward w pritchard

When a stock has crashed and former investors keep hanging on , desperately buying more and more to average down on manipulated dips and buying occasionally more, more, more on the ravings of mad men; they call those hangers on, those gullible saps, the baggies, that is bag holders, holding a bag of worthless garbage. Baggies are all delusional but in a nice, hopeful, patient way.

America has crashed and former patriots keep hanging on desperately becoming more and more optomistic

desperately hoping that a decaying document of 18th century values will rejuvenate a dying nation.

Dismantle the war machines and worship of wealth America- times have changed. Listen to the falling soft rains, a few minutes pre dawn. Rain, the greatest commodity in the universe, to erase our sins.

Alzheimer's disease

2022-07-10T10:11:00.003-07:00

Alzheimer's disease

fiction

edward w pritchard

There are none of the minor actors in Shakespeare or other playwrights except Death who waits backstage clear till act five to give his few lines on the death of Kings. In real life when Death sits at the bedside of the poor soul with Alzheimer's disease does Death wait and wait months and years indifferently to finish his lines until after a short eternity Death mumbles his final denouement. Only then does the audience shuffle off, heads hung down, with confused emotions.

choose your psychological make up

2022-07-05T19:55:00.000-07:00

choose your psychological make up

fiction

edward w pritchard

Should you base your behavior and psychological makeup on Neitzche's writings and similar philosophies or the Good Summarian? That seems to be the confrontation facing ordinary Americans and wrong choices among many can lead to

an unhealthy breakdown in the social order. Which seems to be happening now.

Help others, harm no one, and force yourself if necessary to be cordial with strangers. If your moods lead you to be two faced like Janus keep the cynic in yourself and display in public your positive proclivities the best you can.

I am starting today. Join me.

1859 slave memories pre juneteenth

2022-06-20T18:53:00.003-07:00

1859 slave memories pre juneteenth

fiction

edward w pritchard

five minutes from freedom

fiction
edward w pritchard

Usually a hazy swirl surrounds our recollections of the past. But to this day I can vividly remember the slave auction house there on tenth street in Wheeling Wv [ then called Wheeling Virginia] one rainy Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the afternoon back in 1859. My Mother's great grand Mother rode in a wagon by the large auction house building as a little girl and her Mother ordered her to close her eyes so she couldn't see
the chained slaves waiting to be taken to be sold.

Of course my Mother's relatives were too poor to own slaves but by circumstances they found themselves in a slave owning country and state.

To this day I recall my Mother's great grandmother thinking as she peeked at the chained slaves back in 1859 that they were only five minutes from freedom. Up over the roof of the slave auction building on tenth street in Wheeling Wv and ten miles North across the River to Martin's Ferry Ohio and a colored person could be free.

Today I live in Ohio, north of the Ohio River about ten miles south of some all black neighborhoods. The fact that we had slavery in the United States saddens me. If I had lived back in civil war times I suppose I might have been killed as a soldier fighting in an Ohio regiment. Many people in America sacrificed to end slavery in the past of our Country's history. Me, today I enjoy black blues music; scrapper blackwell, tampa red, lead belly, elmore james, muddy waters and many others. The music is the memory of the suffering of the past.

be glad you are poor

2022-05-18T13:47:00.000-07:00

be glad your poor

fiction

edward w pritchard

Be glad you are poor. You have never screwed a friend over money and you are not fretting over the stock markets eating up your hard earned savings .

You are star dust you are golden. We have got to get ourselves back to the garden. [ Crosby, Stills and Young.]

the future lives in the past

2022-05-14T11:08:00.001-07:00

the future lives in the past

fiction

edward w pritchard

The future lives in the past.

Rather than electric, hydrogen or gasoline being the future of the auto industry and peoples preferences of perpetual locomotion economic and environmental circumstances will dictate trains as the new source of locomotion for Americans.

Heed the future. Look for trains as the next best thing.

all the news that's fit to print

2022-05-11T01:12:00.000-07:00

all the news that's fit to print

fiction

edward w pritchard

Everybody at some time in their life finds themselves working in some kind of a job to support themselves. In my case I sit in a very small space capsule traveling very fast at the edge of the solar system and transmit the stock market action across the universe as far as humans have settled to investors millions and millions of miles from home. What I do is routine but of great importance because I am the last link in the mother economy stretching from earth to the next galaxy. Still sometimes I get exasperated being involved with persons obsessed so much with money and I sometimes get in trouble for the sarcasm that I sneak into my financial reports

As example during the worse crash in the stock indexes in twenty years I began to sing during my broadcast the Kinks song " celluloid heroes" between my commentary on the DJ Industrial 11% fall this morning.

I remember myself singing " everybody's a dreamer, everybody's a star, and everybody's in movies, it doesn't matter where you are". I like to think that the writer of the song Ray Davies of the Kinks would smile if he could hear me now. Of course broadcasts traveling back to earth on financial matters are forbidden for a 30 day period as everyone knows. So it will take about five weeks for my boss to reprimand me for my disobedience.

wall street may 09, 2022

2022-05-09T18:47:00.000-07:00

wall street may 09, 2022

fiction

edward w pritchard

Another debacle on Wall Street today. Could be the start of serious times.

Here's today's summary of today's wall street action from Henry James in 1904, " The American Scene" New York chapters.

" confusion carried to chaos for any intelligence", any perception, any welter of sounds in which relief, detachment, dignity, meaning, perished utterly and lost all right. "

Couldn't have said it better myself.