Wow, yesterday was emotional, gang.

Not just that David Johansen died, but the way I found out —

I was with my 94-year-old Japanese client. I was kneeling next to his recliner and playing Louis Armstrong’s “What A Wonderful World” for him on my phone.

He wasn’t familiar with that song. And he had tears in his eyes as he was listening to it and watching the little video — and suddenly a text from Wayne popped up at the top of the screen, saying that David Johansen had died.

I swiped it away before my client could even process it. But I had definitely processed it. In a nanosecond. And so to be there like that, with my client practically in tears of joy, and that beautiful song playing, and then seeing the news and having to keep it to myself… wow.

My client had a lot of incredibly beautiful things to say to me yesterday. It was intense. So, all of it together — I left there not feeling at all like shooting a gun. So I just came straight home and skipped the open house at the shooting range.

And in the mail yesterday — there was a sympathy card from the staff at the agency where I work. Expressing sadness for my loss — for my cat being killed by a car. Is that, like, amazing, or what? They are the nicest company to work for, in so many ways.

Anyway, by the time I got home yesterday — walking in to a kitchen that had been turned sort of topsy-turvy by the foster cats — I was just worn out. On so many levels.

So today, I just want to have a really nice day.

The sun is out. It’s cold, but at least it’s March and Spring is right around the corner.

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Okay. I thought this was of interest. This is where the Government has uploaded (and will continue to upload) assassination files on JFK:

“The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection“

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If you are interested in Judeo-Christian antiquities, this is great stuff. We are studying it (again) in Tabor’s private Patreon Group. This video is taken from our recent zoom session.

James Tabor — The Didache: A Lost and Rediscovered Text of the Teaching of Jesus Pt 1 (1 hr):

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And this has begun today! And THANK YOU (!!!) to the folks who are already downloading my free eBooks! (Direct links to my eBooks that are included in the sale are HERE. Scroll down.) (ADULTS ONLY!!)

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Okay, I think that’s kind of it.

I want to finish up the laundry, do some yoga, and then get back to editing the files for the TV series promo package.

Enjoy your Sunday, gang, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I also played the song below for my client yesterday morning. He had never heard it before. It was popular here when he was living back in Tokyo.

My client was born in NYC in 1930, but when he was 3, his father moved the family back to Tokyo because the world situation was getting dicey — just before WWII.

When my client was 17 and done with high school and WWII was over, his father gave him enough money to go back to NYC. (His father had also arranged a job for him.)

As my client was leaving Tokyo at age 17, his dad said to him: “Don’t expect me to send you any more money. If you can’t make it in New York City, then you’ll never amount to anything.” My client went on to graduate from NYU by working days as a TV repairman and going to school at night. That degree from NYU eventually landed him several Executive positions in electrical engineering in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Fort Worth — and it took him all over the world. He became very, very successful.

My client certainly knew who Frank Sinatra was, but he was only familiar with the earlier songs. When I played this one for him — he was spellbound. And, yes, he had tears in his eyes. When the song was over, he whispered, “Thank you.” Enjoy, gang.

It is a gorgeous day here and the birds are singing — this seems to be a sign that Spring is really on its way to the Hinterlands, gang. (The weather will not be so nice starting tomorrow, though.)

But because the weather is so nice today, I’ll be taking my favorite 94-year-old Japanese client out to lunch again!! Probably back to the Peony Bistro, but he and I have been discussing other places, for when the weather gets really nice.

For instance, that restaurant at the local golf course that I briefly posted about recently. It has spectacular views. So going when all the foliage is out & about is a better idea:

The restaurant/golf course is only 10 minutes from my house, but it’s 20 miles from my client’s house. So that’s a ton of driving for me.

We also want to go here — to the historic Buxton Inn. A place he and I have both been to many times, though not together, and it’s about 6 minutes from his house.

This inn is very old — from 1812. And Abe Lincoln actually spent one night there, on his way to Washington DC.

The room he slept in is now the main dining room:

So those lunches are coming up in our future!

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Okay, so regarding the Epstein 200-page-flop yesterday —

I’m guessing it was planned that way. (Meaning that thousands of files are missing on purpose. For now.)

Especially since yesterday, il donaldo Trumpo posted TWO popcorn memes — one early in the morning, and then one yesterday night. And Dan Scavino posted one very early yesterday morning.

When I saw the two earlier memes, I thought: Okay, now what? But it didn’t occur to me it had anything to do with Epstein…

I guess we’ll see if anything else really egregious unfolds.

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I loved this! It is in the same vein as James Tabor’s teachings and Ross K. Nichols teachings. I love that these guys are so young and are looking for the true teachings of the actual Jesus (that’s the reason why I left the ministry after I graduated from Divinity School, I wanted to learn about what Jesus of Nazareth actually taught) — and these guys have over 300K followers! It gives me hope!!

The Moses Scroll: Lost Deuteronomy & the Missing Commandment | Jesus Way Podcast 02 (2 hrs 35 mins):

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Well, if you thought there was a finite limit to the amount of stress in my life, you are sadly mistaken.

I can’t go into the details on the blog, but something really devastating has happened in Peitor’s family. He is now in Iowa, attempting to deal with it, cope with it, survive it.

And, yes, Series Mania in Lille, France, is only 3 weeks away.

For the most part, we have the essentials. We have the most important documents — the logline, synopsis, and the pilot script. We should have the pitch bible by then, too, because that only requires some editing done by me. Which I can finish doing on Sunday,

But the pitch deck — only he can do that. It requires a ton of graphic design and a thorough knowledge of photo shop. Neither of those skills are possessed by moi. We are trying our best to just cope with everything. It’s astounding, really.

But on we go, gang.

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Okay, that’s it for now. I gotta scoot and go see my favorite client.

Enjoy your Friday, wherever you are in the world!!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I leave you with this!!

Breakfast-listening music!! Since Johnny Cash’s birthday the other day, I’ve been on a Johnny Cash kick.

From the Sun Record years. “Guess Things Happen That Way”. 1958. Enjoy, gang!!

Even though it’s still February, the birds are already singing in the mornings around here. And today is going to be another sunny day. So we’re off to a happy start.

This will be quick because I have to head out to see my favorite 94-year-old Japanese man! But I just wanted to post this video, because it amazed me.

I have posted in the past about a young musician I know in Istanbul. We met through Instagram a few years ago. I posted some of his music here when his last album came out.

Very early this morning (midday his time), he texted me on Instagram and I told him about one of my cats dying.

He sent me this video. It broke my heart in the most beautiful way. And it rang true for me & my life these days in so many ways. If you watch it, be sure to watch to the very end. What a sweet guy.

Okay, gang, have a great Wednesday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

Yes, the sun is shining here this morning, after raining for several hours during the night.

I am so grateful that my neighbor and his wife were able to help me with burying Big Blackie yesterday afternoon. I would have been so stressed out, thinking he was out all night in the rain. He’d been wrapped in blankets since he was killed, but still.

I am just so relieved that he is buried now — right next to Lucy, with a statue of St. Francis looking over them, both.

This is a photo of him from when he first went into his new little house — that the neighbors brought over at the start of the winter. He loved that little house!!

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I have today off. I wasn’t supposed to — originally, I was supposed to be with that new client that I saw yesterday, wherein I was informed that they aren’t with the agency anymore.

So I have today off. And this is my life this morning (and this is no exaggeration): I have 9 unopened files of notes from Peitor in my inbox, that will all need editing by me for the pitch bible. And I have TWENTY texts from him on my phone, that I haven’t read yet.

So I have a ton of editing to do for the pitch bible, so it’s almost sort of astounding that I was actually supposed to work today. (Peitor doesn’t even know yet that I have today off… otherwise, you know, I would have gotten a bunch of emails and texts from him during the night…)

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In other news–

From March 2nd – 8th, the annual “read an eBook sale” is going on at Smahswords.com, and all 4 of the titles I have published there will once again be FREE to download for the entire week.

This includes;

Freak Parade

And all 3 volumes of The Muse Revisited:

The Muse Revisited, Volume One

The Muse Revisited, Volume Two

The Muse Revisited, Volume Three

All four of these books have been around for a really long time now, and I always appreciate that people keep on downloading them, year after year.

However, they are sexually explicit and intended for adult readers only!! Thanks, gang.

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Okay!!

Phil is supposed to be live tonight at 8PM, Eastern time. I cannot imagine what he could possibly tell us, since everything seems to be right out in the open now. (Assuming you live in the US and don’t watch mainstream media, that is.) Check here later to confirm.

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And last but not least, today would have been George Harrison’s 82nd birthday! (Another CIA hit, in my opinion — they killed him with cancer, after the “crazed fan with a knife” attack didn’t work.) (“Rockefeller Oil Mafia Scheme – The Cancer Cartel is the worst pathocratic mafia on the planet that needs to be fought and exposed at all costs …” full article here)

Anyway, if you never heard the George Harrison tapes, made before he died, about what really happened to Paul McCartney in 1966 — and previously, what happened to John Lennon, when he was also going to go public about what really happened to Paul McCartney in 1966. Just awful stuff.

Regardless. Happy Heavenly Birthday to George Harrison!!

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And that’s it. I gotta scoot!!!

Have a terrific Tuesday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I leave you with this!! Enjoy.

I was really looking forward to today, gang.

A Sunday off, a sunny day, and the temperature is going up into the 50s (Fahrenheit)!!

I have 9 documents that I have to begin editing today for the tv series proposal package. And Peitor is enroute to Iowa, so it will be a quiet day here.

Last night, I had a really fun time watching a couple reruns of “Castle”. I knew I had liked the show a lot, back when I had actual cable television and watched regular TV all the time. But I couldn’t really remember what the show was about.

So I just randomly tuned in to Season 3, and immediately recalled why I had liked it so much, What a fun show — great acting and great writing. And just delightful characters.

I had a nice evening, after having spent another sort of intense day with the 94-year-old Japanese client. Not a bad day, it just gets so intense — this line between his incredible life, and this vague sort of twilight area that he spends reliving it all with me, as he waits to “go upstairs,” as he puts it, “to be with his wife”.

Here’s a photo of his favorite hotel in Tokyo, when he lived there in the 1970s. It was an iconic hotel that was torn down in 2015. Hotel Okura:

Anyway. I always enjoy every moment with him, but it is always intense for me — this eventual ending of his beautiful life.

So I was happy to get home yesterday afternoon — it was sunny yesterday, too, and all the snow & ice were melting.

The 3 outdoor cats who live on my porch were having a great day — frolicking in the sunshine, and just spending time outside of their little houses.

I fed them their dinners, then had my own. And when I was turning out the kitchen lights to head upstairs, the sun was setting and I saw Big Blackie in his favorite porch chair, just staring out at the sunset.

You may recall that this past summer, a tornado touched down in our town, and Big Blackie (I don’t know what his real name was, but I have 2 stray black cats — a big one and a little one). Anyway, he was on death’s door when he suddenly showed up on my porch one day, to eat some of KonTiki’s food that I’d set out.

I had never seen a cat in such bad shape — he was literally a walking skeleton, covered in flies, and had been seriously injured by the tornado. I nursed him back to health and the chair on my kitchen porch became his new permanent home.

Looking at him last evening through the window — so healthy now, so content, so peaceful; the sun setting on what had been a beautiful day.

Around 4:30 this morning, I woke and glanced at my phone, and saw that my neighbor (the ones who have been such a blessing to me) had texted during the night to say that one of my cats had been killed by a car. They had found the cat in the road when they were out walking their dog around 11PM.

I did not know which cat. I threw on my robe and slippers and ran downstairs and went out into the incredibly dark and peaceful and star-filled freezing cold morning to find which cat was missing. I immediately saw that my neighbors had gotten Big Blackie out of the road and laid him in the grass in front of my kitchen porch.

I was so grateful to them for taking him out of the road. Not only did it spare me from having to do that, but it also kept him from getting run over multiple times.

Anyway, it was heartbreaking, but I immediately thought to myself that he died free, you know? He was happy, healthy, loved. And gone in an instant.

Here he was, out in my backyard last August, on the mend but still really thin:

I will miss him so much, but it was such a blessing, having that cat in my life for that brief, happy time.

And my neighbors continue to bless me — the husband texted me to say he had the day off and would bury Big Blackie for me.

So on we go, gang.

This idea of life and death — I have not only lost 3 cats in the last 8 months, but of course my Dad died, too, and that favorite client of mine. And in my work-life, I’m surrounded by people getting ready to pass over, who all have such wonderful stories to tell me about their long-lived lives.

Well, I have to get to that editing now.

Enjoy your Sunday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya.

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The theme song from the first movie that ever made me cry. I saw “Born Free” at the drive-in with my family when I was 6 years old. I have always just adored animals.

Still more snow is falling here, but oh well.

I’m heading out to see my favorite 94-year-old Japanese client, so what’s a little more snow?

Things here are getting happily intense, gang. I now have a ton of editing to do on the pitch bible document, while Peitor now has to concentrate on the pitch deck — a similar document, but it uses PowerPoint and relies heavily on images and graphic design.

My carpet cleaning machine arrived!!! So now all I have to do is find time to use it, but I’m really happy, gang. Soon enough, my house will be sort of back to normal. (And for me, that helps de-stress — when I look at my house and it’s clean.)

Okay. I gotta scoot. Enjoy your Friday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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My off-to-town music today!! Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, “You & Me” !!!! From The Last DJ. 2002 Enjoy.

“You And Me”

Take a look
At what I got
I can’t promise
You a lot

But you and me
And the road ahead

I can’t save
You from yourself
You gotta want it
All that’s left

Is you and me
And the road ahead

Wherever that wind might blow
Wherever that river rolls
You know I will go with you

Lookin’ over
The mountain’s crown
The water roars
And tumbles down

Like you and me
And the road ahead

Wherever that wind might blow
Wherever that river rolls
You know I will go with you

Just you and me
And the road ahead

Just you and me
And the road ahead

c- 2002 Tom Petty