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Portrait by C. Dey Prescott
D. R. Prescott has written a novel, short stories, a nonfiction book, a collection of essays, a full-length-three-act play, planetarium show/display scripts, two family histories, technical articles and business plans as well as written for and edited several newsletters.
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Recent awards and published work include Writers' Journal, Long Story Short, Taj Mahal Review literary journal, The Orange County Register, Writer's Digest and Writing.com among others.
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Prescott currently writes and explores life in Orange, California.
"Sentience can be annoying."
-DRP Abt. 1990
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My fifth contribution (BENGAY AND PROMISES) to The Taj Mahal Review
Literary Journal December 2010 is available: http://ning.it/ggarW6 ________________________
Don Prescott appears on Episode 7:Colonizing the Cosmos and 8:The God Question of D. Wayne Dworsky's Alpha Centauri & Beyond Blog Talk Radio.
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O R D E R T O D A Y !
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Got It All Wrong?
by D. R. Prescott
Are we doing it all wrong? Every year, parents buy cards and gifts for their kids, grandkids and great grandkids. The Gross National Product must be significantly influenced by just the act of gift-giving at birthdays and other holidays. We have been brainwashed since birth that it is nature's way. There must be a better system! No? Well, let's think a moment about it and focus on birthdays because Christmas gift-giving, for example, is already out of control.
In the distant past, gifts were often offerings to the gods. You know, those infallible, lofty beings that take care of human beings, one way or the other. People thanked the gods for nurturing them, not hurting them too much and especially not killing them, then came taxes. The powerful readily extract, sometimes harshly, offerings called taxes from common people for not hurting them too much or not killing them. Somewhere, someone came up with the stupid idea that parents make periodic offerings to their children and children’s children on their birthdays. It seems so backwards.
Shouldn’t parents be the ones who receive rather than give gifts on children's birthdays? It financially and logistically spreads the burden, particularly in large families. If you have three children and each of them has three children and you throw in a couple of great grandkids, you wind up buying cards and gifts for well over a dozen people. Then, there is all the running around trying to find just the right card or gift which adds to the logistics and frustration, not to mention budgeting for it in the first place.
Of course, if you have that many offspring and are receiving over a dozen or more gifts each year, you risk having a storage problem. That is easily solved. You can always sell unwanted gifts for pure profit at swap meets. Not only do you save money initially not buying cards and gifts, you have resources to add to your fixed income.
Reversing the roles of giver and “give-e” places the priority in a better place. Kids ought to be thankful that their parents did nurture them, did not hurt them too much and definitely avoided killing them, even during their teenage years. Isn't that a better system?
Okay! Okay! I lost my head for a moment! What do you want for your birthday?
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