Virginia Is For Families

This video has a lot of things going for it.  And I am on top of it.

Probably because I decided to take a walk and not watch football.  But, in any case, back to the video.  It has:

Beautiful video of animals

Awesome music with Sarah Brightman

And African women singing in the chorus.

I am in heaven.  You might enjoy it too.  Please let me know if it goes away.

There’s a very basic difference between a television and a computer screen.   The latter allows you to interact.  It  challenges you to think and possibly even to create something.  It can make you a more creative person if you let it.  And it involves you with the entire world!

You can communicate with people all over this creation.

Isn’t this amazing?   How can television compare with this?

Deliver me back to nature.

Deliver me from my passive nature and my television.

But I’m still not sure I can pass up the playoffs and the Super Bowl.

, originally uploaded by Davidlind.

Your blogging friend has been asked to do the photos for a Visitor’s Guide published by the Chamber of Commerce in this area.

How about that?  And it’s a perfect time of year to take some photos of the outdoors with the leaves just starting to seriously turn different colors.

This publication will go out to thousands of people in the area and it will include a bio of the photographer. So I will be taking a lot of photos in the next few weeks. And there should be some photos of Heaven being published soon because that’s where I will be.

This has also got me thinking about publishing a book of poems and photos using Amazon.com. I’m a little late for this Christmas but we will see.

First things first and the Visitors Guide.

I will let you know how it goes.

Also a new edition of Wordpress has come out today.  It offers a couple of security fixes so it’s probably a good idea to “get er done”.   And prior to that . . . Today would be a good day to BACK UP the blog.  In fact I am going to do it right now and suggest you might want to do it too.

As I sit here in Richmond, Virginia I wonder about you.  Where are you writing from?  And what is it like where you live?  Recently I was struck by an image of an Angel who seemed to be writing her blog from heaven.  And then I discovered she actually wrote from a tough neighborhood in LA.  My angel.  You can find her comments around here.

Where do you write from?  What is it like?  Here in Richmond, Virginia  we have a lot of historic stuff from the past three hundred years.  And it’s a pretty conservative place.  But some of you live in areas that have held western civilization for thousands of years.  And some of you as we discovered in the recent Olympic games are beyond our western civilization in time and place.   It’s a whole other order of things!

And that is pretty fascinating to me as I sit here looking out the window.  Here is what i see from my window.  What do you see from yours?  Send me a photo and i will post it here.  I am imagining what you see.  But it is not coming in so clearly.  Set me straight.

What do you see out your window?  What kind of world is just beyond the place where you dream at night?  Do you see the moon?  Here is what I see. . .

Continue Reading »

I am eating tapioca pudding through a straw as I write these words. I can’t feel my lips. Here’s what you do after several novacaine shots to avoid having the inside of you mouth for lunch. Stick one end of the straw in the little plastic cup of pudding and then stick the other end in the corner of your mouth. Then close your mouth and put one hand over your mouth to create a secure environment. And then inhale through the straw.

It’s actually pretty good. It’s a lot easier than drinking ice tea in a glass I can tell you for sure.

Driving home after going to the dentist is pretty unusual too. Because when I have teeth worked on I require a large serving of Nitrous Oxide. And when that baby kicks in I can sit there looking exactly like a middle aged guy having some dental work. But on the inside there is some VERY weird stuff happening.

As those of you who have been following along here are probably not too surprised to learn.

There is something about Nitrous that in my limited experience makes it the best of all drugs. Here’s what it does.

On Nitrous anything that I think about easily can become the subject of a some sort of internal spiritual or philosophic conversation. At one point today I realized that time had stopped. There were two other people in the room but they didn’t seem to notice. All I remember is that it was like standing in the middle of a hologram. Only the hologram was “real” and not the other way around.

I do remember thinking that whenever “I” had a revelation immediately there would be the understanding that “I” wasn’t real. You can”t know stuff for long in my Nitrous Oxide Universe because “you” keeps disappearing.

Nothing seemed very real after awhile.

But then the universe is billions of years old. Multiply our lifetimes by a thousand years and it is not a significant amount of time compared to the age of the universe. So how real are we or any of the things we know?

So NO2 is fun but you can’t drift too far off. There is always somebody with a finger on a vital spot making sure you are not going too far away. They keep tapping you like you are some kind of Morse Code device. Don’t fade out! Or you will be breathing oxygen without the N2 very quickly.

Now the teeth are fixed and the pain has gone away. Modern dentistry is just amazing! I appreciate it so much. I bow down to my dentist. And to his assistant who I invited to the Bahamas this summer.

Unfortunately she can’t make it.

Oh well. They ought to replace all the alcohol out there with NO2. And then build little stations that you can put next to you favorite chair or your bed. Outlaw booze. But replace it with something better.

A lot of problems would be solved if they did this. Too bad it will never come to pass.

*

What are some of the problems (if any) you see being solved if NO2 replaced alcohol?