glorycloud's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- those who dwell in chronological finitude It is 2:05 PM Wednesday afternoon here in south western Michigan. It is 52 degrees and cloudy gray ugly weather. I got up this morning around 7:15 AM. When I came upstairs Carol was dressed, she had an Eye Doctor appointment this morning. When you get old like us we tend to go blind. I spent the morning wandering my cell, writing in my paper diary, and reading from a book titled, 'Light Unapproachable-Divine Incomprehensibility And The Task of Theology' by Ronni Kurtz. Carol got home around 11:30 AM from her eye appointment-going to a local bakery-stopping by a cousin's. I worked on raking leaves this morning-took the leaves to the street to be picked up by the City of Holland. This afternoon I have been mainly reading, 'Gulag: A History' by Anne Applebaum. There is not much else to report so I will close. A graphic description of what Donald Trump has in store for his enemies- "Another form of torture specific to the islands, mentioned in both archives and memoirs, was to be sent "to the mosquitoes." Klinger, a White Army officer who later made one of the few successful escapes from Solovetsky, wrote that he once saw this torture inflicted on a prisoner who complained because a parcel sent to him from home had been requisitioned. Angry prison guards responded by removing all of his clothes, including his underwear, and tying him to a post in the forest, which was, in the northern summer, swarming with mosquitoes. "Within half an hour, his whole unlucky body was covered with swelling from the bites," wrote Klinger. Eventually, the man fainted from the pain and lost of blood. . ." pg. 24 'Gulag: A History' by Anne Applebaum 2:14 p.m. - 2024-11-13 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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