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                           Contexts consisting of infrastructure containing elements of urbanity and artifacts not found in rural and suburb areas because in the city the outside is used differently than outside of the home in both rural and suburban areas/

                        The home is perceived and understood differently in each of the contexts.

Rural, sub-urban and urban dwellings have a different relationship to the context in which they are set.

The meaning and importance of the dwelling has a different significance.

It is also scaled differently from in to outside.

                         Contexts are the interrelated conditions in which things exist; actually, it is the weaving together of words.

That is the connection of the words and really the ways all of the other words in a discourse may shed light and influence the words of a specific passage.

Context It is that relationship between the single individual and his environment which sociologist study.

In other words it is the scenario and description of the reality which is the reality of context. It is what we say is there not what is there. Alternatively,

I could view my roots consisting of a bunch of strangers over a period of time in random acts of greed, legitimate business, and investment, discovered, platted, deeded, marketed, sold and eventually planned, designed and built the utilities, support services and the buildings. Otherwise were rented out to tenants of facilities and individuals.

These building were bought and sold to other investors and other families occupied the buildings.

Our family was one of those and I was one of those whose curiosity was peeked about the significance and meaning of the decisions that were made and the process that led to the context and history of the places in which I found my family and my self.

Context

                       Perhaps there is a cosmic, universal, and generally applicable principle or simply the practical instinct that any of god’s created creatures to know where he is as what to do while he is there.

I began recognizance missions and explorations and untimely discovered that the material contexts vexes and challenges but in and of itself is corrupted and corruptible it fades, crumbles, and ultimately disappears.

Our attention is much better spent on the incorruptible and eternal things of God and His creations.

It the very environment in which we grow as children and mature to adults. We begin in one weave and find ourselves in another and so forth.

The family is both the first social embryo and nurturing framework while coexisting with a plethora of competing contexts.

As metaphors, contexts depend on the thoughts and perceptions of social structures.

                        Contexts are formed either synthetically or naturally; that is to say, they either can be authored intentionally around a theme and for some purpose or can grow haphazardly and randomly.

Context In addition to their many other differences these contexts proclaim the different choices that separated the clans one form the other.

Primarily there were those who choose the path of societal conformity and succumbed to the pressures of control by buying and enlisting in programs to educate, dress and associate with lock step repetition and adoption of class and neighborhood distinctions.

While others choose to further remain and develop individual and entrepreneur prerogatives.

Such were my Aunts Rose, Helen, Mollie and Betty. As a result their children turned out to be manufacturing czars, medical doctors, dentists, and lawyers.

The rest became teachers, architects, planners, artists, photographers, educators, and small business men.

Such contexts can be about neighborhoods, business, religion, commerce, institutions, nature, careers, education, heroes, etc.

                      In the early years of the immediate family I can only remember my family relocating from one to another location with expense and function in mind.

America, the country, of course, the state of New York would be the only place in which one could survive and prosper, and it was the only one, which was known.

Context

                      The city of New York had all the opportunities people like us could benefit by, and the Bronx was convenient and costs were commensurate with the jobs my father could get.

My mother was terrified of being stranded in rural wilderness away from commodities and services, shops and vendors, urban transportation, trolleys, bus, and trains.

Her contexts had to do with the needs and necessities of housing, feeding and maintaining the health of her two children. Her context had nothing to do with fashionable addresses, locations, nor the status of this or that building type, color, or style.

My mother’s context, as was mine as a growing boy was prompted by what we heard on the radio, red in the news papers, or heard on 78 rpm records we played on the Victrola.

Context

                      Yes there was a world out there, which was at quite some distance orbiting around us in which we were the center.

But to say that my parents decided about one or another thing based on its context would be wrong.

There were glimpses into context motivated decisions when we joined Shore Haven club, bought drapes and slip covers to decorate our living room.

Or when I can just remember dressing my mother would buy us navy pinafores or knickers and high stocking outfits for school.

There are photos of my parents taken before they married in furs and hats; and i remember my mother dressing in crinolines, satin and high heels.

The typical look of the forties and fifties.

The depression left little time and energy to conjure but lots to remind about immediate needs and necessities. It was a long and sustained period.

Not only did God call me, he also prepared me for each next context by experience and suffering and bearing.

Context

                     But, why change locations, contexts and jobs. Was it for the lack of discipline or ability to be steadfast and abiding?

Was there a “wander lust” or just a wish to go into “harm’s way”?

Was I seeking some reality, which I could not find?

Did I enjoy adapting and learning?

Did I yearn for being “brought out” by circumstance than books? I believe God will reveal this in His time.

I know that I have discovered and bear the burden of experience.

What others have contemplated in theory and possibility we have seen and felt?

We can compare discipline vs. chaos; agreement vs. conflict (there is no gestalt nor agreement)

Moments vs. survival;

                     Seek challenge to skills Look for something that is not there.

I thought best school meant best company and there fore the best of the world.

Best design, salary and care

                 Instead serving man’s sins in the world.

Context

Prescriptive:

                       The sociological analysis, pronouncements, and prophecy were plentiful and available.

I was particularly fortunate to have studied with scholars who seemed acutely aware and articulate about the phenomenon, which was mushrooming before everyone’s eyes.

Most of my childhood was spent in a non-prescriptive context.

My friends, acquaintances, neighbors, and family were subscribing but we did not.

Later some of them rebelled and got off the prescription.

The prescription included college, house in suburbs, 2 cars, children, credit, dope (unspoken), divorce (this became a norm later on).

I was born and raised before oil, TV, Technicolor, Rock and Roll, dope, mini-skirts, and computers.

Yet, all of these would be the world in which I was to mature and develop.

                        My city’s streets had cobblestones, nightclubs, small corner grocery stores, and five and ten.

Men and women wore hats and gloves. My mother dressed me in knickers and high socks.

The trolleys clanged, screeched, and took their time.

Context

                           At night the streets were dark and so were the skies.

You could see the Milky Way and falling stars.

The streets of New York City were lined with low-lit lampposts and the sidewalks glittered with clear crushed aggregate containing quartzfelspathetic or fractured k-feldspar with mica content.

I remember cars with mica windshields

Oil became the “big deal” of my lfe and changed my cites and my career. In Jackson in 1973 I was a victim of the OPEC oil embargo as all our customers from up north could not drive to Tennessee to see or buy our lots and houses.

I listened to songs like mid night in the oasis and made pen and ink sketches of the Arabian Desert. I dreamed of dinosaurs and visualized how their carcasses changed to oil under the compression of earth. In Reston,

                        I learned what the prices of a barrel of oil should cost form a company full of oilmen.

In Houston, all any body talked about was the price of oil and its affect on War and Peace; and in Saudi, with oil the only factor in the economy, the price and quantity of oil sales directly affected my contract’s fee, benefits, etc.

Context

                      The family, village and neighborhood manifests in compounds, developments, offices, companies, sports, entertainment, Brigadoon, plays, parties, movies, and theaters.

You can see families and relationships and for the hour enjoys the visit to the past “family model” where you experienced acceptance, nurturing and encouragement.

What I have learned from my family and the context in which we were a well-knit family was the meaning of relationships and love for the urban city.

                       In most all instances I can relate each to a venue, place, apartment, house, neighborhood where some drama played out. I also learned how precious and special they, there context and the times were for all of these things and events to happen.

There was never any thing remarkably special about any of it except that I loved it all. That love was sewn into my love of cities, urbanity and communities.

Context

                       There are four children of Orvadio and Esther who died when they were very young.

That makes a total of 15 Uncles and aunts.

Now, here is what really happened!

                       A bunch of strangers, over a period of time in random acts of greed, legitimate business and investment discovered, platted, deeded, marketed, sold and eventually planned, designed and built the utilities, support services and then the buildings.

These were rented out to tenants of facilities and individuals.

These buildings were bought and sold and other investors and other families occupied the buildings.

Our family was one of those and I was one of those whose curiosity was peeked about the significance and meaning of the decisions that were made and the process that led to the context in which I found myself.

It is all part the zeal and passion I had for all and every part of life that I could grasp.

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