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Lisa Marie tells me that the old Dude won't tell anybody his name, they just call him Grandpa.
LM (sorry, it's easier) says that Grandpa has worked for them for the last 9 years, and that they only worked part of the year and that this is the part where they don't work. Instead they had decided to come to the Eastern Mojave to see an outdoor art installation here. Having recently accomplished that goal, they decided to come to Gold Butte to see the sinkhole, before heading back home to Washington ...

We never made it to Kohta Circus. When we left the pavement just outside Bunkerville we saw an old man standing outside a VW bus with its engine cover opened. There were two people on the other side of the 1971 VW. So we stopped to see if they needed help. They needed help. What they needed specifically was a fuel pump. They did not have an extra, and we could not locate one in our belongings. My trusted sidekick, who shall go unnamed, in case there are statutes of limitations in play, as it turns ...

Worlds Inside Me

When I close my eyes
new worlds come alive
not like dreams
that flit through the mind
but visions seen
playing along the back of my eyelids
my own miniscule movie screens
awake
while I watch
how I long to trespass
into those distant places
but like wishes and rainbows
always just out of reach
perhaps they are the cities built
by those microscopic
invertebrates ...

The universe is empty
of anything but light.
There is only one lone figure,
who stands by an eternal ocean,
and forever gathers to his heart
all things in existence.
There is only one heart
which is one eternal flame,
which is the life of every life.

The universe is a dream,
which is empty, except for forms
which are reflections of one true form.
-- Waking reality is as perfect as it could possibly be. ...

This is kind of funny. Here we are in a brutal winter and there are people who claim that it's really so cold because of global warming. Whether the temperature goes up, it's caused by global warming; whether the temperature goes down, it's caused by global warming. And this cold isn't just local here. It's supposedly across the whole world. Of course it's hilarious to watch people rationalize every bowel movement the earth is a result of warming. Ah the poor polar bears have less ice to rest ...