Shoe Salesman I have a friend who works in a shoe store. He’s worked there for over ten years. When he started he thought it would only be a part time job. A lot of big bookstores are closing. For obvious reasons. A lot of retail is in trouble. But bookstores even more so […]
Interdependent Co-Evolved Instincts
Cute Babies I read a recent article in a science magazine that suggested that the instinct to pick up and protect a cute baby is an evolutionarily beneficial instinct. If you can imagine two different tribes of people, one tribe that had the protect the cute baby instinct and another try that had the […]
Revenge Against Evil
Not So Fast I’ve a friend of a friend who started working at a very large very powerful company about 10 years ago. After about a year of working there he found out that this very large and very powerful company was engaged in very terrible activities. They were exploiting people. They were killing […]
Musical Arts And Prosperity
Street Guitarist Occasionally I’ll see this guy playing guitar, acoustic guitar on the street. This is remarkable not because of the music that he plays, he’s remarkable because he always has his guitar case lying open and it is always filled with money. Not just singles but fives and tens and hundreds. I’ve always […]
Angel of Peace
Bad Mood Couple of nights ago I was in a fairly foul mood. I didn’t know why and I wasn’t really interested in finding out why. I wanted to ignore my problems by focusing on something else or what to my local bar. I didn’t even plan on talking to anybody. I just sat […]
Metaphysical Librarian
Spiritual Bookstore Couple weeks ago I went downtown to check out this new age spiritual bookstore. I walked inside and had a lot of different crystals a lot of books on magic spells a lot of books on spirituality. There was this interesting woman reading a book. There was something about her that was […]
Out Of Calibration
What’s That Noise? A few days ago I was out driving around and I was continually getting bothered by this strange clunking sound in my engine. I drove past this auto repair shop and so I pulled and finally deciding to see what was wrong. I was kind of worried because I don’t know […]
Infinite Meditation Experience
Free Meditation Class A couple of weeks ago I went down to my local stripmall to try out this guided meditation class. It was held in a yoga studio and while I like yoga I like to at least try to do some of it in the morning, I don’t really like the idea of […]
Psychic On The Run
New Dentist A couple of weeks ago I went to see the dentist. I hadn’t been to the dentist in a long time so I was a little bit worried about what they might find perhaps too many cavities perhaps they would need to do a root canal. As I was sitting there waiting […]
Underground Metaphysics
Secret Fortress When I was a kid a couple of friends of mine and I were playing around this park near our house and we found this underground fort. Somebody had dug a relatively big holder was the size of a very very small room. They had dug a shelf into one of the […]