Posts in the “personal” category

“It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.” ~ Alan Watts

In a dream this morning
I’m pushing a little unpowered vacuum/sweeper
like you see them use at Denny’s
or maybe Cracker Barrel.

And then I look up
and see two young girls
and they’re singing a pretty song.

I ask what the song is
and they giggle a little,
and one asks the other
if they should tell me,
and she says yes.

So they tell me that there’s this
old abandoned house
and sometimes when they go by it
they see an old woman pushing
a sweeper like this.

I did a “gratitude” meditation exercise two nights ago, and it ended up going almost four hours. (Fortunately for me, at advanced levels you can trade some meditation time for sleep.)

The technique is to put your mind in the area of your heart and express things you’re thankful for, including this crazy body I have, all of you, and in the end, basically everything.

If it helps you can start by feeling love for one being — such as Zeus — and work out from there.

A soul that temporarily has a body

At some point it really hits you that I’m some soul that’s pushing this vehicle that was named “Alvin” around, and YOU are also some other individual soul. So when YOU don’t do what I want, that’s okay, because you’re another student here in Earth School. Basically, MY soul needs to give YOUR soul that freedom to work your stuff out.

I don’t watch many movies or tv shows, at least not as many as most people. The reason I don’t is because I experience lucid dreams most night that Hollywood can’t compare to. I don’t know why I have these dreams, but I have had them since I was a young child, and that’s just the way things are. This story from May 2, 2022, is just one example.

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There was a bomb in the building.

Somehow I knew that.

I remember walking into a government-style building that had a parking lot directly in front of it. If you walked into the front doors, went down the hallway to the right, and then took your first left, there was a device on the floor that looked like a boxy, 1970s-style tape recorder, but it was really a bomb.

So I began working with a friend to evacuate the building. He went one way, I went the other.

As I ran around the building, Lori — my friend who died last summer — ran up to me and said in a panic, “He knows everything about you. Everything! You have to run.” I looked at her and tried to make sense of how she was here and what she was saying, but she was terrified and screamed, “RUN!” Then she ran away in the direction I had just come from.

A woman in a dream this morning was quite distraught and spoke only Spanish. I tried communicating by speaking very slowly (“Why .. are .. you .. here?”, “You're .. in .. the .. wrong .. dream”), but that didn’t help at all.

(A dream from September 22, 2013)

I was watching a Season 4 episode of Maine Cabin Masters and heard an interesting saying that Ryan has about Sunday and Monday:

“Don’t let your Monday ruin your Sunday.”

Initially Ashley and Jedi were talking about this, and then I think Ryan talked about it as well. They started the conversation when they found a sign in someone’s cabin, and Ashley noted that Ryan says that all the time.

The basic idea is that you know you have to go to work on Monday, but don’t let that ruin your Sunday, meaning that Sunday is still your day off, and you should enjoy it, rather than worrying about Monday all Sunday like many people do.

They also mention this saying in this Facebook post.

If you’ve ever seen the “Maine Cabin Masters” tv show, you may have seen the black flag that they fly on their cabins while they’re working on them. If you ever wondered about their black flag, here’s what I can tell you from this deleted scene video:

• In the video, which was posted on March 19, 2020, Ryan states that the flag is new.
• The flag signifies the Maine Cabin Masters “are here” and “we’re kicking butt on this project, and it’s going to be the best this camp will ever be.”
• It is the Maine Cabin Masters “skull and crossbones.”
• The image is a Chase Morrill design.

“Always kiss me goodnight. Always kiss me goodmorning, too.”

~ as seen in a house in Florida

After my first-ever bought with diverticulitis, I wanted to make notes about what happened over the last five days.

Monday, April 7, 2015

On April 7, 2015, I woke up at 3:30am with pain and discomfort in my lower-left abdomen. I knew something was wrong, but I didn’t know what it was. It felt like a golf ball was lodged in there, and several hours later it was still there.

In 2024 I watched the very emotional Elton John “Tiny Dancer” music video, and afterwards I wanted to do some research on how the music video was created, the story behind it, and what its meaning is. To that end, here’s a summary of what I found out about the “Tiny Dancer” music video.

The story and meaning of the Tiny Dancer song

The short story behind the Tiny Dancer song goes like this:

The song, “Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny),” by Elton John and Bernie Taupin is one of my favorite “sad” songs, and a great tribute to John Lennon, who was one of my “peaceful” inspirations when I was growing up. In the song, I think there are at least two interpretations of the lyrics, “It's funny how one insect can damage so much grain,” and I’d like to share those here.

“It was the 3rd of September...”

When I think of the song Papa Was A Rolling Stone, I think of the line, “And when he died, all he left us was a loan...”

(I never knew if the lyrics were supposed to be “alone” or “a loan,” but “a loan” is more accurate in the case of my father and family.)

“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion.”

~ Ram Dass

Many websites seem to have the wrong lyrics for the Dave Matthews song, Grey Street, so to help correct that problem, here are the correct lyrics for the long version of Grey Street that Dave Matthews played with Tim Reynolds at “Live at Farm Aid 2021”:

Here’s another A.I. faux painting. This one is based on the Matsuo Basho quote, “Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.”

(I find it hard to get this one right because it’s hard to differentiate what someone is seeking.)

Regarding Jesus Christ, Maharaji began to cry and said, “He lost himself in the ocean of love.”

~ Maharaji (Neem Karoli Baba).
quoted in Miracle Of Love

I just came across this article where the author suggests that because of Elon Musk’s right-wing political actions, people boycott Tesla, advertisers should boycott Twitter/X, the FTC should sue him, and more.

September 1, 2016 was a day of rebirth for me. The previous day I was so weak, I couldn’t hold a carton of milk.

Crying in bed the next day, I decided something had to change, and eventually saw 26 doctors.

As this was going on, I wrote “Functional Programming, Simplified” (and the PDF is currently free!).

“Love the poor. Serve them. Give everything to the poor, even your clothing. Give it all away. Jesus gave away all, including his body.”

~ Maharaji (Neem Karoli Baba).
quoted in Miracle Of Love

“If your kundalini (spinal energy) awakens, you can go to America without a plane.”

~ Maharaji (Neem Karoli Baba).
quoted in Miracle Of Love