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Subject: +*+*+*+ Stephen's Secure Blog #227 "We Have a PURPOSE!" +*+*+*+
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:36:25 -0400
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Stephen's Secure Blog #227
These stories about Stephen began was when he was 10 years old, and
moving to a new part of the country to attend a special school for
gifted students, in the 1950's. This was from a time before computers
would fit on a desk, and when people communicated with friends in other
countries by actual letters sent through the postal service. He wrote
225 of them to a friend. He stopped writing to his penpal, but found he
still wanted to record his life, in case he lost his memory again, and
wrote 30 entries in his first logbook. Then he wrote to an artificial
intelligence called Geenee, in the master computer in his school for
gifted students, which he started attending in 2016. Now it's after
2018, and he's continuing to save his memories in a secure blog.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
Stephen is 16 in this story, in the Fall of year 7 of his special
school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #227 "We Have a PURPOSE!"
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I had asked the dance band to come in early, to try out some songs
for the show. Rose, Hawk, and I, ported there through the rest rooms.
We were greeted warmly. I handed out my arrangements for the proposed
songs, and they studied them. Then some of the musicians tried out
their parts. They didn't have a trumpet player, so Rose played those
parts, which she had already learned, naturally. The clarinetist wasn't
good enough for the lead on that instrument, but I had planned for
that, and played it. They didn't have a full drum set for their
drummer. We had brought one. I had made the arrangement so that the
regular drummer would do most of it, but Hawk would do the solo parts.
With that setup, we all agreed we could play any of the songs well
enough, but they really liked my version of "Sing, Sing, Sing." So, we
chose that to end the two song set, with "Don't Be That Way", first. We
practiced for an hour and a half, and decided to schedule some more
practice sessions after some of their dance programs. I said, "This is
going to be great! You are all great, that's why. Just remember, we
will be having fun with this. A lot of it. Thank you. Never forget I
love you." I gave them my love.
Then I met with the conductor of the orchestra. I told him about the
dance band. Then I said, "I will be playing my original composition on
the piano. Before that, we need to decide on what concerto I should
play, and on what instrument. Something interesting to a broad range of
people, and very difficult for the soloist. I favor the Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E-minor. What do you think?" He said "I think that,
or the Grieg Piano Concerto." I said "Not the Grieg this time. I want
that for the next show, and played by a guest soloist. So it will be
the Mendelssohn, if you don't mind, to start it." He grinned and said,
Horizon'. A new thing I composed while I was waiting for the last show
to start." He said "I heard the recording. It's amazing!" I said "Thank
Mobile" from Rigoletto. Unless you would prefer 'O sole mio'. I could
save one for the show after this one." His eyes almost popped out of
his head. I said "Yes, I can sing. Let's go with the first one. Next
will be two Benny Goodman songs with the hotel dance band, with me on
the lead clarinet, and two of my friends on other instruments. My
purpose is to introduce them and their charity, which the show proceeds
will be supporting. Then the orchestra will return for the last
selection of the event. That will be the love song from the movie, 'The
Godfather', 'Speak Softly Love', which I will sing. The only thing
after that is my usual encore. I have the all the music with me. What
do you think?" He said "You could have featured us less. The Godfather
was added just to have us last, for the final bow, wasn't it." I said
"So you caught that. Yes. A guest act shouldn't receive the final bow.
thought so." He laughed.
While I was talking with the conductor, and deciding on the program,
I was in contact with Chad, and discussing it with him. We agreed on
the selection. He would contact the hotel, and inform them of it, and
set up the date, and ask if a bigger room was available. The conductor
and I went to where the musicians were, and he announced the program,
and they applauded loudly. We played the Mendelssohn without any
problems. They were a little ragged on the opera piece. I had to tell
the conductor not to blame them, it was their surprise at my voice. He
agreed. We did it again, and they were much better. They already heard
me sing the Godfather, so they weren't surprised, but it was something
they had never played before, so we did it three times. Then we did it
all over again. I said to the conductor, "I think all we need is the
final undress rehearsal. We don't need the band for that, because you
won't be there for it." He said "I agree, and that is amazing. You have
made us better than ever!" I said "Well, that's not a bad thing. If you
don't ask the hotel for more money." He said "We won't. We couldn't buy
the publicity for any money, we receive for playing with you." I said
"Well, yes, there is that. It's going to get bigger, too." He said "I
know! We have all been following your er, adventures, haven't we,
people?" They loudly agreed. I said "It's a good thing to have the
support of such talented friends. Thank you." He said "We are honored
more than we can say, that you think of us as your friends." I said
"What is, is what is. I am love. That includes friendship. I give you
my love now." I glowed and wrapped them in all my love.
Then I went to my appointment with the station manager. He was
grinning so hard it almost hurt me in sympathy. He said "Properly
ignore! Would choke any decent bird! Fantastic! Thank you for the
translations, too." I said "You're welcome. I didn't say them for sound
clips, it just happened." He said "I don't care why you do it, just
keep doing it." I grinned and said, "I'll try." He said "That wheel is
amazing!" I said "As intended. But not as amazing as what I did
yesterday, but that wasn't as spectacular." He said "What was that?" I
said "I rebuilt most of Ganden Monastery to its former gigantic glory,
in a few minutes, all out of carved jade and crystal." He said "Wow!" I
said "That's what they said." He laughed. He said "What are you going
to do next?" I said "In making things? I don't know. To me, that's the
interesting part. We are set on the next program for music. I don't
know the date yet. Still no live coverage. Will you be there to
produce?" He said "You couldn't keep, er, well, you could keep me away,
but you wouldn't want to." I laughed and agreed.
I said "How are you on languages? If you could learn one in five
minutes, which would it be?" He said "Not learn, but improve my
English." I said "Which accent? English cultured, Aussie, American
standard?" He said "American." I said "Since it's a refresher, it
shouldn't take long for it to settle in your brain completely. A week,
probably. You can speak it now, if you want." He did, saying, "I didn't
notice a damn thing!" I grinned and said, "Well, it worked. Want
Chinese next week?" He just grinned and nodded. I said "This is a
secret, right?" He said "Aww, shucks!" I laughed, and so did he.
I had a meeting with my old Guardian team, and my new team. I said
"I've been thinking." They laughed. I said, sadly, "So little respect."
Those near me, hugged and kissed me. I said "If Tibet is free, they
won't allow anybody to examine my works, and the Temples and
Monasteries will keep any secrets we ask for. I would like to give them
crystal education sets, with some of our people to manage them, and
train their Adepts, too. We can help them to be the country which leads
the world some day. Not because we favor them, but because they will
have a situation were we can actually do it. We don't have to decide
now, but soon, I would like to know if all I'm working for, will really
lead to something great." We discussed it some more, with a lot of
crying from Tomba, and my proposal was, in preliminary, approved. We
all ended up flowing tears. I said "Ouch!", and rubbed my temple. Tomba
knew what had happened, and really cried. Then Chad figured it out, and
did the same. I said to Nigel, "It's true they aren't idiots, but from
their point of view, I was being one, a little. Not any more." The rest
got the message, and had a lot of wows to give for it.
Then I surprised myself with a new idea. I said "If Tibet is going to
be really free of China, they will have to have some more land based
commerce with another country. Which one?" Pete said "It has to be
India. Nepal and Bhutan are too poor." I said "Yes, but transportation
is a problem. Tough mountain passes." Chad said "You will just have to
build a road." I said "There are problems. I would have to get
permission from India for some of that. And then there is border
control and maintenance. There would be some tunnels. What if there is
a car crash in them? Who will respond to that?" Pete said, "In the
beginning, it would have to be, no, maybe not. Make the Tibetan
government in exile do that. They are right there. Make them do
something useful for a change." I said "I'm not sure that giving them
any legitimacy is useful, but it's a thought. I will be visiting the
Indian government soon, and can ask them about it. There is one thing.
I could build the road completely as a tunnel, but I'm afraid of old
"Great idea. Get India to run both, with revenue from the rail
service." Ichi said "Sounds great. I feel something about all this.
Invigorated. We are finally doing something good on our home planet,
and I like it a lot!" We all agreed. Rose said "Native Americans like
it a lot, too. We have something to fight for, outside of ourselves.
It's a great feeling. We have a PURPOSE!" We applauded. I gave them my
love.
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