AND just like that with little fanfare my ball of biology will shift into dust.In the meanwhile I will eat and laugh and cause as much of a ruckus as I feel like.I suggest you all do the same.
Recently watched a video “what to do if I’m swallowed by a whale”.The person suggested a special kind of wetsuit that will protect me from the whales internal juices.I saw another guy pitching a bracelet I should buy that has a special bead on it in case I need to brake the car window if I fall off a bridge into the water in my car.This reminded me the few minutes directly after a team of surgeons told me they were gonna do this or that to me another unassuming doctor came in the room to tell me oh by the way you also have Emphysema.I just laughed.It was like a cartoon.The character gets run over by a car they stand up brush themselves off and immediately get swallowed by an earthquake. A life filled with worry about whales and falling off bridges.About medical news or meteors is a life wasted. “If the thunder don’t get ya then the lighting will”...........Go swim with the whales naked with no special wetsuit. Something is gonna happen.Ask the 108 billion who have lived walked the earth and died.I hope my epitaph is Adam was eaten by a whale.
I sat hostage in the barber chair yesterday. I endured the 20 minute Us against them speech.This one was the typical democrats this Trump that, blah blah blah.No one listening, just spewing.Bring me a bucket of blood you found in a random parking lot.If you’re able to tell me the ideology of the body that spilled the blood with no more information other than it’s a bucket of blood.I’ll listen to your stupidness.If not STFU and offer solutions.Offer compromise.Negotiate.If not as evident in ten thousand years of human history. We will continue to annihilate each other.Take away all higher powers and ancient rules.What is compassionate and equal across the board is all that’s necessary for clear decision making. ALSO Don’t trust bald barbers, thin chefs or ANY politician.
I have put a white gazpacho as part of a cold soup tasting a number of times on summer menus. I did a Tapas restaurant on Fire Island with items from Spain.This was my first time with this dish. It was a hard sell. BUT in my home I don’t sell it for $14.00 and if you’re hungry you may give it a whirl.It is light refreshing and easy. I like it with grilled fish.You can serve it in an iced pitcher and let people pour shots.OR you can fancy it up by taking some of the items you would blend and brunoise a bit of them and pour the soup around it in an iced bowl. Garnish with the XVO toasted almonds and cucumber and grapes.The bread is used as a thickener.But I made it yesterday for someone with a gluten allergy and omitted the bread. It was thinner but Still pretty. good.Learn a few techniques.Let cooking be a joy .............May life be filled with long summer days and few people you like.............xxooo
How would life be without art ? Sit in a dark closet in silence for an hour or two .You will get it. Then peel off a hundred and give it to an artist.Buy a painting, an album or a book.More than likely they need it way worse than you do. Perpetuite beauty and thought.All else is a waste of time
If left alone flowers eventually grow.You need to wait.Feed the soil of non attachment.I was deeply betrayed by someone I gave a lot of time and trust to. I was extremely hurt and exceedingly angry. It took me YEARS to let the flowers of forgiveness and compassion grow.I keep this person around on social media so I could privately rage. UNTIL one day.The flowers grew over him. That day I deleted him from all my news feeds.I stopped feeding the rage. It took almost 6 years.I went from some of the most vile thoughts to OH well next next.The coal of anger burns you when you hold it.It doesn’t matter who lit the coal to begin with.Right or wrong Justified or not is irrelevant Anger does not exist without your direct participation................Nothing does. Anger and suffering is a life raft for many of us.It gives us something to hold onto when nothing is left.This is why it’s so hard to let go of. Anger is the last remnant of a relationship.Let the flowers grow.May we all find peace in the beginning of July xxoooo
“I am he as you are he as you are me” If they never wrote a single syllable more it would have been fine. What is spiritual awakening? The concept of “them” vanishes like a soap bubble. All that’s left is the us. In birth and death.In a sunrise or a deep rain. It’s only we. It’s the single lesson humankind needs to learn. It would end all war.It would end all hunger.May all beings find peace.May all beings realize there is no them. Just a single big fat US ................ xxooo
W50 years of seeking has brought me to this single sentence. —“When you know the changless you have found god”—Beyond concept Beyond anything created or destroyed.Beyond within. Beyond it all is the changeless.This is god. It has been called Jesus and Moses..Hashem, Mohammed and Buddha.It doesn’t really matter.When the seeking ends it sits there For now and forever.There is no cost of entry.No group you need to belong to.No incantation that opens the golden door.The portals of entry is simply love.Tears flow this morning. Because when you touch this space it’s simply overwhelming. When all battles end......... When conversations cease. nothing more needs to be done..xxooo
It’s the irreverence.that I loved the most. Maybe not the most.Marlboros I loved the most.It was all fun. If I was able to change one thing, when historians look back on the 1980’s in 500 years from now. It’s the male belly shirts. They almost negate the coolness of the whole thing.