Microcosm NYC's Central Park, Swett Lodge's Martin Luther King Park center nine square blocks 'tween busy arteries/semi-industrial area; everyone lives on park - then some - neighbor. Exclusive! Course, all desire stop/chat, walking the dog - miracle anything gets done!
Journey leisure fosters ruminative, imaginative speculation: Swett Lodgic gone wild! No concern
(Dusk's neon shards descend dark on Times Square.)
Fine visit both amazing daughters; reminds old Sesame Street song, 'one these things just like the others...': pod peas us three, down to kvetching foibles. Oy vey! Amazing our aspects offspring manifest: second daughter Khalsa (pure) Sikh - India's religion (~ 1500 CE) born expound equality - devout; while elder - wealthy's chef - my proclivity commoner identify, general block headedness
Cake piece: almost no - meet one verified homeless; await phone charge only known park electric outlet, cord timed Harlem street lamp jury wired; twenty year falsely imprisoned in/out
Daytime relate north center park's well groomed ball field, dog walkers encircled; thousands - race one day - blazing, fit - never seen so many dedicate hard bodies, even LA - cyclists, runners outer
Course never's perfect (god's imprimatur): chew granola, break third of four lobes off rear most upper - fortunate childhood dentist excellent practitioner, amalgam core holds, protects nerve, emergency care unnecessary though crown time looms - molar; bust well abused spectacles, almost derail NYC - as lost contact lenses derailed 38 year past OR trek - sojourn; decide not driving, probably Swett craft repair; carry on.
Harlem Meer waterside magic jam, slack (banjo - lower pitch than standard tuning, same chords as
Miss highly volatile/changeable times surround us? Must be dead! Scientists postulate black hole center galaxy; many concurrent universes, variable distinct physical laws. 'Tis said, human brain may not register black hole passage. Approach fourth twenty six thousand year (100K years!)
Remembered - black/worm (string) hole slip? - node, flood; previous fire, cyclonic - cardinal sign - upheavals? Perhaps initial black/worm hole passage, carried through time - Big Bang? - blender. Long count node ahead, maybe slip through spirit/black hole blender to unacquainted physical law
Or one further: each bunch similar mores relegate new 'universe'; opportunity duke it out, their own turf - such event would fulfill logical resource conservation, growing physics understanding. Good fun imagine every one per center, for instance - a la 'Canticle For Lebowitz', 'Perelandra' - transported discrete world their ethics governed, manage brave new world. Let games begin!
Alternatively some think (resonates visceral) change may involve tectonic plate/pole shift, possible result: large portions east seaboard, west coast, Mississippi river valley inundation. Answers question why 80% earth's life oceanic: intelligent species understand periodic upheavals affect not, certainly behoove land life attent periodic - long count calendar - shifts. Heart hints else, hope enscription adequate dissipate manifestation energy, tribulations pass not; mien mayn't represent: DO love folk, all natures!
Dad's cancer passing in my fifth earth year, spiritual journey initiates. Besides engender organization - if church's God allows beloved pa's death, what good is it? - distrust; jaundice normal teenage fooferall. Ten plus years later personal unsuccessful worldly success decisions; young family responsible; sense spirit, home realm; commit follow call; study fine art. Accidental pilgrim, spirit guides four corners power region. Slip/slide worldly; LA, desert/'Course In Miracles' revivify
Siri Chand Kaur Khalsa - 'reflects god's light as moon reflects sun's' - Sikh physician
Unlikely encounter thought line elsewhere. Now understand fiction's utility: screwball ideas acceptable; incontrovertible; question not sanity. Swett Lodge on the edge: our gift to you. Enjoy!
Desire not alienate/offend: expression/thought freedom so valiantly/vitally championed by so many through millennia, feel comment compelled. Certainly no biblical scholar here - and no doubt determined/artful interpreter able construe textual support any doctrine (how flexible, human mind!) - don't believe Bible asserts anywhere Christ>god one, ONLY path. Luther underwent great hardship/peril over throw Catholicism 500 years ago, enable direct man>god path. Seems prosthelytizing Christians all to willingly Christ>god mandatory path supplant pope>god path. Swett Lodgic view: god/ma nature - fellow (Swett Lodge) rejuvenater, intuit erratic weather self heals - one/same; all are god's children. Duality (black/white, life/death, sickness/health, matter/spirit, good/evil, heaven/hell, you/me, us/them) our world's divisive nature. God's: unity. Fret not, do what compels (convenient: allows my belief anything not intended help one another through these perilous times at best inappropriate, at worst plain wrong); THE good news: ultimately every last one (devouts, murderers, lovers, rapists, gays, thieves, bankers, bakers, sailors. tinkers, doctors, politicians, lawyers, housewives, saints) will know god's home's love, peace, life, grace, abundance; no silly - impossible - separateness thought withstanding. Freedom.
Sooo .... sprinkles awaken 6.30 am, preminisce torrential down pour few hours later. Enjoy, after shop, from Trader Joe's lobby, head library/internet, unsuccessful search night's lodging; on hunch phone internet spec provider, eyeglassdirect.com - that's right: pluggin' 'em - at Flatbush end Brooklyn subway line, 'can repair, bring 'em out'. 45 minute ride massage eye sockets, inner upper
Brooklyn/Flatbush dirty/gritty - wouldn't barefoot here save my life - earth salt inhabitants. In Manhattan do anything - bank, buy, parking meter, cab, etc. - credit card. Flatbush stores all have ATMs, accept no credit. Kind Trinidadian - right eTc? - directs. Expect arrive spec lab find dozens crafting, locate shop, discover three person outfit. Corpulent owner prioritizes repair, all while berates long standing co-workers, ex-worker - now at lab due his recommendation - 'bout tardy lab; few hundred not multi-million - he's got my repeat biz - dollar orders, disgruntled clients. Avers sends lab 15K monthly: great internet biz. Talk 'bout incompetence, spurs his comment FB IPO largest in history though company actually makes no product. Posit greed causes underpaid, ergo sloppy workers, concurs. Notice FB founder married weekend following IPO? Bet - gave 'em quite wedding present, did we not? - no accident!
Most convincing evidence unity - not duality - home: love each daughter, every ounce heart. Elder's - LadyChef - wealth exposure's given her cavalier financial attitude - money's almost play thing. Uber talented, master all attempted, know she works long, hard earn; hasn't yet cause - though seems she's getting there - understand rest - 95% - salt - like Flatbushians - struggle, bleed every dime - money's no toy/joke - won't take much more squeeze, shatter prior. Flatbush condition compared Manhattan's, long, stinky, crowded sub ride home - currently Central Park - emphasizes: folks, must change - easy or hard. Homeward, blow right past little used, half green globe lamp marked, subway station.
Thank you, spirit pilgrim's gatekeeper - strong heart, bandolier - Skye-o; look for gran. Accidental Central Park mock homeless/spa week tremendous, cathartic, cleansing, heart opening. Few relaxed, balmy, sunny days precede few damp; outside entire time: dawn Betheseda Terrace/Flatbush sub ride deep muscle
Imagine.
As you were.
Peace.
