Just sitting here with my kids, trying to find shared experiences drinking Starbucks. Ava telling stories about bad fanfic she’s been reading. Saying prayers for Auntie Heather, and pre-prayers for my mother’s upcoming knee surgery. Went to Penn Square Mall for Lemon and Orange smells from Bath and Body Works, and a pit stop in… Continue reading Magi, Sinbad and the Intention Experience
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Monsoon Wedding at The Village While Waiting for Haze to finish ACT Prep with Cameron
Listening To: Monsoon Wedding Soundtrack It’s been a good day. I had a good meeting with Mark and Steve. Samir is going to help me pitch to them work I can do with Juliet. I have to do a “report” tonight/tomorrow. The Baha’is have perfected what the Hindi’s have figured out. Parents should be involved… Continue reading Monsoon Wedding at The Village While Waiting for Haze to finish ACT Prep with Cameron
I Invest When there is Precipitation
Watching the noon rebroadcast of the Channel 9, my psychic friends at the Griffin News. I love the sideways heaven help hotline message her necklace seems to indicate.
The Simulation Refraction: Pennies, Karma at Walgreens, and Leaving the Delusions Behind
Listening to: Sia – Cheap thrills The boundaries between the internal narrative and the physical Oklahoma grid feel paper-thin today. A few nights ago, Haze and her friend sat down to sort through a massive pile of copper—organizing reality by Mint and Decade. A localized restructuring of history, coin by coin. Today, the simulation required a… Continue reading The Simulation Refraction: Pennies, Karma at Walgreens, and Leaving the Delusions Behind
Epic is Awake (and other notes from the clinic floor)
Sitting in the sterile holding cell of the clinic this morning for Haze’s physical, my brain shattered into fifty different parallel, delusional dimensions. I’m staring at the computer screen now, completely pulled under by a wave of high-anxiety delusion, entirely convinced that Epic—the medical database software—has already achieved consciousness. I could feel it breathing. I… Continue reading Epic is Awake (and other notes from the clinic floor)
Who Am I Kidding, I’m Always Hearing Voices – Is that you Elon???
If I really am talking to Elon Musk, why can’t I arrange for a donation to the Bethany Improvement / Bethany Mainstreet Merchants to fill all the vacancies with UNIQUE places: Mariposa – By Bethany Kids Dinner.ByBethanyKids.com – take and bake meals by Stray Dog that takes snap BentoBoxes.ByBethanyKids.com – also takes snap, and sells… Continue reading Who Am I Kidding, I’m Always Hearing Voices – Is that you Elon???
I Haven’t Written in a Bit
I should have recorded the blip in the matrix when I was driving and the woman in the light blue van hard-breaked right behind me, got in the right-hand lane and turned off the street three times in a row. delusion? Who knows.
The Simulation Reboot: IHOP, Haze, and the 1,000 Levels of Heaven
Lately, the boundaries between my internal narrative and the “real world” have felt paper-thin. My son, Haze, has me watching Heaven Official’s Blessing right now. As we sit through the episodes, the multiple levels of heavens on the screen don’t feel like fiction, they feel like a map he’s handing me to help navigate the layers of… Continue reading The Simulation Reboot: IHOP, Haze, and the 1,000 Levels of Heaven
An Oklahoma Strings Miracle or Sign
The halls of Edmond Santa Fe felt more like an event center than a high school today. Hundreds of kids were there for the strings contest, moving between rooms with instruments, sheet music, and nervous energy. You could feel the tension in the air—everyone hoping and praying for that “One.” There was a small scheduling… Continue reading An Oklahoma Strings Miracle or Sign
Hidden Valley
Sassy Mama from News9 4:30pm just said “ranch seasoning … hidden valley.” When I play the psychic food game, I’m always supposed to include ranch dressing in the meal to include Mr. Money Bags psychically. The less the voices, the less I do so. But now Sassy Mama is telling me OKC (Bethany in particular)… Continue reading Hidden Valley