What Does Heaven Look Like

Delores asked the question of the LBC. Doesn't it usually look like a release from toil, care and worry? A release from pain and fear?
Well, my business system failed today and I had to get another system, build it to what I need - and it is still not complete well after midnight. So, this is what Heaven looks like to me right now:

Calvinistic Thought

I’m busy reworking reality after Lafawnda and Flash’s wedding.

Translation: I am working to bring funds back up to normal!

Just thought you wanted to know why the spotty writing schedule.  Right?  Hello?

Speed bumps on the road to the ashram …

As all the readers of this blog know, my friend Ramana Rajgopaul let it slip in a comment that he was actually Superman.  At least that is the way all of us had to interpret it, given many of the mysteries surrounding his secret identity.  That and the fact that he pretty much just said it.

With me being his sidekick, he had the right to label me and has done so quite accurately as a philosopher and misguide, which is calling for an interesting choice in superhero attire.  However, we thought this was the perfect situation for us to open an Ashram in America and it was my task to procure a good location in the Western World where it can do the most good.

Unfortunately, the ARP (American Reality Police) has intervened, fined us heavily and hindered our cause considerably.

The above photo is from a surveillance camera showing Ramana being confronted right after he and I had partaken of lunch.  Of course, I was inside, tipping the waitress.  Don’t worry, though, she is OK.

The Oddest Place I've Slept In / On ...

This topic was brought to the Loose Blogger Consortium (listed with clickable links on the right, so check their takes on the topic out) by Paul of Blackwatertown fame.  Tough one, Paul.  Tough one.

 

 

I'll let the readers decide what is the most odd.

• I slept under a park bench in a sleeping bag, in the rain, in Limon, Colorado while trying to hitchhike from Arizona to Kansas.
  
• Slept on a mountain peak in a thunderstorm.
  
• Slept in a ... well, basically a closet in a pasture in New Zealand.
  
• Slept in a school bus on a mattress stolen from my dorm on the way to Florida.
• Slept on an airport bench waiting for a friend coming form Europe who forgot it wasn’t OK to bring hashish home from Amsterdam and ate it in the security line.  I’d have killed him when he eventually showed up, but he already looked most of the way there.
  
• Slept with my head on the rim of a toilet, but then, who hasn't?

 

Man, I've had a really boring life!  At least, a sleeping life.  Paul must have a doozy, though, or he wouldn’t have brought this up!

Starting Their New Lives

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 The "official" pictures haven't been released yet and I will overload you with those when available.  In the meantime, this is a picture posted on Facebook by a friend and I loved it. It shows the setting so nicely, with the vineyards in the background that are so much a part of Northern California.  Lovely!

The End of Our World?

No, our world hasn’t actually ended, but we have certainly turned the page to a new chapter.  Photos are coming, but be it known that Lafawnda and Flash are safely back in their world mostly enhanced by a lot more kitchen appliances.  Everyone was exceptionally generous with them and Lafawnda has invited the Lady F and me down to their place for Thanksgiving!

Now, if that doesn’t help it sink in to us, nothing will!

Fire

 

It was 38 years ago.  We were sitting around a campfire on a warm summer evening in Kansas.  We had just smoked a joint and were enjoying the patterns of the flame.

George said, “The flame is the perfect electrical conductor.  That’s the answer.”

George was like that.  He always just pulled some idea out of the ether, never bothering to encumber it with connection to anything in particular.  I remember thinking, “Great, George.  If that’s the answer, now all we have to find is the question.”

It’s taken me 38 years, but it finally came together.  The question was, “What do I write about fire for this week’s topic?”

The topic was brought to us by Will Knott.  Check out what the other members of the Loose Blogger Consortium, listed on the right hand side of the page, have to say about it.  I’m willing to bet that most of them took less than 38 years to put it together.