Things you get to do when your shelf life has expired

The 3rd video points out the WHY of this ridiculous endeavor.

I need to go sing more songs now.

Learning to Let Go More Better

Life is about Figuring Shit Out.

It is fun and exciting to Figure Shit Out.

Even if you are 62

and have really Screwed Stuff Up.

Even if you let people you really loved a lot Screw You Over.

That just helps you learn to 

Let Go More Better.

Blinded by love and hope. Classic.

What on EARTH made me EVER think this was a tulip poplar,

I will NEVER know.

It is a SYCAMORE!

Love and hope blinded me.

It isn't the first time THAT has happened, ffs.

The Queen is Dead! Long Live The Queen!

The Queen Of All That Walks Upon The Earth Both Living And Dead

surveys the goings-on of her vassals

and is amused.

The Spiritual Significance Of Laughter or How Many Divine God-heads Does It Take To Change a Light Bulb?

Once upon a time, way back before the Big Bang, god-ness was the only thing there was. God-ness was different than nothing, but god-ness was not something either— it was just god-ness having god-thoughts about god-stuff.

That went on for a few billion years. Not that there was measurable time. Time is a post-Bang concept, of course. So is measuring, for that matter.

God-ness was interested in nothingness as a theoretical concept and recognized that if there was no “something” then “nothing” could not exist. God-ness passed a few more billion years contemplating this juxtaposition of nothingness and something-ness. Then god-ness thought up a way to make stuff exist. God-ness invented the Big Bang.

God-ness then took another long time considering the good and evil which would accompany the advent of materialism, and pondering whether or not existence was worth always feeling late, once measurable time came on the scene.

You’d think materialism and time would be enough to stop god-ness from using the Big Bang, but even the divine god-head can’t resist a new toy. Things got really fun when it was time for the Bang because god-ness thought of something so funny that laughing out loud came into existence 10 to the billionth second before everything else.

The act of imbuing existence with the concept of humor made god-ness get so distracted by feelings of pleasure that, when the explosion occurred, god-ness accidentally got caught in it. And that is how a drop of god consciousness got into everything. (It is also why god-ness decided that controlling one’s thoughts through meditative practice was going to play a key role in the human experience of soul and spiritual development.)

Think of it! Because of laughter, there is a drop of god consciousness in everything! Not just in people and all the other Earth stuff, but in Mars stuff, Milky Way stuff, Andromeda stuff, brown dwarf star stuff, cosmic dust stuff, black hole stuff – in everything. God consciousness is in everything everywhere.

So – and this is gospel so pay attention – even if we incarnate as a life form in some jerkwater solar system out on the fringes of the Pisces-Cetus Supercluster, we don’t have to worry about being bereft of god or laughter. Brilliant!

Of course, the bad news is that wherever we incarnate we will still be karma’s bitch.

Damn.

Still, it’s worth it for a good laugh, right?

The End

P.S. Maybe god-ness jumped into the Bang on purpose. Maybe laughter was the whole point of the Bang. We pay a high price for incarnation – samsara, dukkha, and all – so maybe laughter is god-ness’s way of giving us some ice cream when the samsaric weather gets hot?

November

How we spent the 4th

Clearly, my daughter's double major in

Global Studies

and

Sexuality and Gender Studies

was worth every penny.

Remember sugaring time at the store?

Winkytoes the Elf Goes Skating

Almost worth mentioning

Mt. Ellen, yesterday,

my last Vermont peak over 4K ft.

News From The Store

Friday: OMFG I AM HOME BRING ME A GLASS OF WINE I AM GOING TO VEG 'TIL I DROP

And make as many stupid blog posts as I feel like. 

 

First Day: The Rose Ceremony Cafe

Making Friends In The Neighborhood

I spent a morning trying to get close to butterflies and bumblebees with one of my soon-to-be new students.

It was royal.

And golden.

And magically delicious.

Making Friends In The Neighborhood

Liriodendron tulipifera!

In the centre of the road stood an enormous tulip-tree, which towered like a giant above all the other trees of the neighborhood, and formed a kind of landmark. Its limbs were gnarled and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth, and rising again into the air.

(Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)