Episode 16

Marriage

Marriage

Phreddie asks, "What did marriage mean when you got married?" Jazzy asks, How is marriage defined?

Jazzy's marriage is arranged, and he discusses the boundaries between him and his wife -- yet, there is a family.

Jimmy recalls how he met Mary. Jimmy's father said Donald men are like geese -- they mate for life. Currently Mary and Jimmy are managing. It's a more difficult time -- Jimmy's dying -- they are not sure what they are doing. He's not building anymore. Curious time. Workin' it through. Jimmy looks at families to understand what to expect. He studied they family. The family things pop-up. Control issues. Jimmy doesn't like to be controlled.

Phreddie has been married 3 times. Phreddie's family pops-up. Phreddie recalls his three marriages. He describes what was in his head -- defines marriage -- when he married. Phreddie wants someone to play with -- a partner and/or companion.

Jazzy returns to recollecting his arranged married. In the West first Love then Marriage. In the East, Marriage then Love.

Jimmy says, in the old days, the family helped pick the partners. Jimmy would trust his mother and father to pick him a good partner. Prem Rawat -- Mary sought blissed out experiences festivals, led by the Maharaji.

The conversation concludes with a discussion of parents, who, Jimmy explains, have the data.

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I like to do. I like to make things. And, I like telling stories. I tell stories to myself and to others.

First, a short biography, which is, of course, is a story. I was born in Cleveland, played sports, and attended university. Later, after a few years in the radio business, I returned to university to study education and literature.

With a teaching certificate in my file folder, I began working in high schools, first as a strike-breaking scab substitute teacher in Cleveland's far suburbs, and then in Chicago, mostly in private high schools.

Cleveland and Chicago. My two main towns, and I escaped them both. Presently, I live in a tiny, isolated, mountain village in Spain. I am reluctant to write the name of the town because I don't like tourists. When the tourists arrive, they look at me as if I am an animal in a zoo.