The Rockhouse doesn't have any fans of America's Got Talent and that's largely due to the absence of fans of television in general but this was a surprise.
At first I thought I could present the video and some of the rest of it without needing the #Blotto tag but better to use it even when it's not absolutely necessary than to omit it.
There's an unrelated #Blotto surprise of the easy-traveling kind as well and it shows the responsiveness of Heartland. The surprise part is after Nurse Wendy consulted with the physician she is sending 120 mg of morphine per day but Nurse Wendy said don't worry about it since you're having trouble with it but you will get used to it. To help with that she is also sending an anti-nausea med.
Zen Yogi: you know she is gently telling you pain will get worse?
I do, mate, but I'm aware and this addresses it straight-up. I'm quite sure she got it with me yesterday that dying isn't such a concern but becoming a cabbage is a big one since I see it as virtual death.
It's cool, mate. No worries.
Entirely unexpected but welcome is Ativan for anxiety and I don't think I am all that anxious but I walked straight away from ganja (mostly) and Pepsi (mostly) but, if anything, smoking increases and what else is that but anxiety.
There's more but those are the primaries and this makes it all the more clear the choice was the right one.
On hearing my breathing, she said I want you on that oxygen right now so I'm using it at this minute. It's awkward and I was just about to repeat the morphine but it helps stave that off.
It was not a surprise to see Chaplain Alan today but the talk was good and this isn't a do it or you go to Hell vibe. He's cool and I talked to him about that little country church in Tennessee. It turns out country churches are well-known to him which shows why he is not a high roller Pro from Dover.
Ref: M*A*S*H for Pro from Dover.
He holds a PhD in theology although we did not talk about his dissertation. He's a level-headed man and it was a pleasure to meet him. Don't be out there snickering about taking it to the chaplain, either.
Ref: in the military telling someone to 'take it to the chaplain' is about the same as telling them to buzz off for excessive bitching.
Chaplain Alan has been playing guitar even longer than I and he definitely gets a Rockhouse hat tip for that since that's a long, long time. He started at fifteen and he's younger than I but he has logged many miles with his axe and that counts big at the Rockhouse.
I did tell him about my ordination and he listened rather than criticized so he heard I'm aware it's not really much more than paper which makes it legal for me to be a preacher but it's nothing more than that. The Regulars know I've been preaching constantly on Ithaka but not in a way which conforms to Christian beliefs while you have also seen it does not reject them. I just don't have any use for the rules.
In effect, there was one preacher, highly-trained, talking to another who is unwashed, untrained, and (sob) unlovely. So what do preachers do when they get together?
Zen Yogi: they drink, mate
Take it easy, Yogi. I assure you no-one had any interest in drinking and I loathe alcohol almost as much as opiates anyway. It was a cool talk and there's no pressure from anywhere.
I've got another one, me hearties, since there's a peach of a surprise coming from Ohio because Cadillac Man will be coming down here. More than that, we have a different kind of magic. It's still the CM magic but now the M isn't the same person. She's the one who once asked, "Why does he keep worms in his swimming pool, Daddy?"
Note: after a rain enormous numbers of worms come up so they can commit suicide in swimming pools.
This makes the circumstance all the more moving and he's been my mate since the early 70s but read that as a Brit since it means the same as bosom buddies. After all these years, the truth of it is obvious. CM saw immediately importance of being the Eldest since he holds the same position in his own family. For me it means it's important to lead to show how to do death right and that doesn't necessarily mean following exactly the same path but working through the Kübler Ross steps to get to a peace which is impossible to know any other way. She went crackers later but those five steps are real.
Zen Yogi: it's far better thing than you ever did before?
Ref: "The Tale of Two Cities"
I do believe that's possible and I'm sure putting everything I can into it.
Yesterday I raised an eyebrow by writing I'm happy to receive the pilgrims and I saw receive as the better word since jumping up to give lovey hugs will likely mean I will topple right over again. The word may also elicit an image of Queen Elizabeth receiving people in her royal way so maybe that's why the raised eyebrow.
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