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I went to a Buddhist meeting a couple of years ago to just see what was happening in my ever ongoing quest to see what is happening. It was held in the upstairs of a bookstore. Not at a temple.

I asked the little leader guy --- who was not my idea of a Buddhist ... don't quite know what my idea was --- the Dalai Lami?

The Dalai Lama - I would love to meet him

--- he was an intellectual kinda kid with all the --- I'm an intellectual --- kind of dress and attitude. You know the rumpled britches, rumpled shirt, beard and glasses ... with his nose slightly tilted...

I've known this type since the early 60s ... I'm not pretty but bygod I'm smart... fine.

Anyway... I posed the question - do you think inanimate objects absorb life? ... which to me is energy.

He gave this standard omg - don't make me vary from the script - response. sigh --- never went back.


My favorite character in Aladdin was the carpet... I do believe in energy. I believe that objects can absorb our energy. That's why when I go into some place and it feels right. ... as we used to say in the 60s ... good vibes... I enjoy it more. I have walked out of restaurants, churches, cafes... homes .. if it felt weird.

I like going to estate sales in my old age. Even though I feel kinda creepy sorting through someone's stuff who has either died or has been incapacitated and can no longer live without assistance and had to leave --- usually, it's a her - stuff.

JEeeeeeez that's got to be painful and a decision I hope never has to be made for me. I hope to just become fodder for a sand dune.

I can go into someone's used to be home and feel as though ... yes, I would like to go on in and buy something... or just the opposite. Or go into a restaurant or someone's home ... the ambiance is important to me. Whether it's a wifi/cyber cafe type place - a bakery - coffee shop... I've always been acutely aware of my surroundings. Don't know what that means or if it should mean anything... I've traveled so many places by myself since I was 18 that I guess it's also a security issue.

Just as our pets absorb our personalities ... I believe our stuff absorbs our energy.

Don't know why I feel as though this is blog fodder but I'm in a peculiar mood today. I just do not do cloudy, gloomy days well. Not at this time in my life when I'm champing at the bits to hit the road.

I want to go to Big Sur ... bad ... the first time I went there... I was mesmerized by the absolute beauty ... wanna experience it again... and I want to go now before I get too fat to fit in Homer from eating COOKIES all damn day ... I've had a bowl of good for me quinoa soup, Pillsbury popemoutofthecan rustic french bread - hot with butter and chocolate chip pecan COOKIES fresh from the oven ... no wonder bears get fat for the winter... nothing to do but hibernate... jeeeeeEEEz