My Messiah's Handbook
In Illusions, Richard Bach tells of the
Messiah's Handbook, a document which opens to tell you whatever you need to know at the time. It can answer questions, give suggestions, and in general help to guide you in your path and direction. But even better, is the fact that you can do this yourself, with any text. Take the newspaper, take a novel, take anything, and use it as your guide. Open it to a random page, point to a word or passage and that is your answer. It works shockingly well.
Well I tried it this morning again.
I used Richard Bach's
Bridge Across Forever, which I'm currently reading thanks to E's prompting. And it seemed appropriate, as the question I had was "what can I do so that E and I can be together, so that our time together can come?" I pointed into the book and the word I hit was "freedom". The actual passage was "freedom from all my lady-friends".
Okay, well, obviously. Thanks for the insight.
So how, was my next question, do I get free from my lady-friends...or really more specifically, the one I live with? The next word I got was "location". And I don't remember the passage associated with it, even though I read it. The key word here is "location".
But what, exactly, does that mean? My initial impression was that it's related to being somewhere in particular, being at or going to a specific location. I don't know if it has something to do with this fall's trip to China that S has been rabid about the last week or so, or what. Maybe it's that she or I needs to be at the right location.
The other thing that's struck me just now is that I would need to change my location, as in, I move out. Maybe that's what it means, that really the only thing keeping E and I apart right now is simply location. I can see that, it makes sense. Don't quite see how that answers my question, but then again, maybe the IS is just being a smartass too. Wouldn't be the first time, and would actually match up with the smartass answer I got to the first question.
That's the trouble with Messiah handbooks, they cause as many questions as they answer half the time...
[Edit, 5pm: I tried E's khi today...got a smartass answer from it too...yup, I'm getting smartass answers for sure. I think the real answer is there's nothing I particularly can do to manage this process...I'm a passenger, so sit back and leave the driving to the IS...]
Why do they look?
E asked me the other day about why she's regularly checked out by guys, what is it that makes her so darned attractive. So here's the list in no particular order...
1. Bright, beautiful eyes.
2. A really cheerful, sunny smile. She's quick with a smile and usually cheery, and that's really attractive.
3. A bubbly, easy to talk to personality. Who wouldn't want to be with someone that cheery?
4. Curves!
5. Squeezability. I can't tell you the number of times I've been tempted to just throw my arms around her waist and just squeeze!
6. Big boobs. I know, but they do attract attention, what can I say?
7. Smart dresser. The clothes E wears are really eye catching. They work on her, and they really work well. And when she dresses up, like for a funeral, she's a total stunner.
8. Comfortable in herself. She's comfortable in her own skin, relaxed with who she is, and it shows.
9. A different look. She wears short hair, no makeup, little or no jewellery. And these days, that's different, it sets her apart from other women. Tie that into how comfortable she is with who she is, and it just exudes confidence. That's really attractive.
10. Her inner glow. There's something there, something intangible, maybe even invisible, but something, that just radiates warmth and acceptance and friendship. Call it 2, 3, 8, and 9 all wrapped together and then some.
11. She's a she-geek. And to other geeks especially, that's really really attractive, in the way of every joke about "she's a girl who plays D&D!" you've ever heard.
That's all I've got for now. More additions as they come to mind....
Facetious bastard!
That was what E called me when she casually suggested I blog this...
Yes, she asked again!
"Here," she said, "could you hold this for me?" She held out the shopping bag with her newly purchased book and card holder, while trying to balance out her hat and gloves to head out into the pouring drizzle. We'd been out at the Starbucks for a mocha and of course the opportunity to check out the books in the attached Chapters. (It's funny, sometimes I think it's a bookstore with a coffee shop inside; others I think of it as a coffee shop with an attached bookstore)
After a really fun time together, for me at least, we were headed out so I could drive her up to meet her father for her uncle's viewing. We paused in the entrance, she handed me the bag of stuff she'd bought on the QT and asked me to hold it for her. Then she said "and you can blog it too, you facetious bastard". Funny how you can say that with a smile in your voice...
It really made my day. Not the facetious bastard part, but the seeing her part. I love being with her, seeing her, having fun together, just
being together. I like to be by her side. It's where I feel 'rightest', if you know what I mean. Like I've found a piece of me I didn't even know was missing, or maybe like I'd remembered a thought I'd been trying to find. Yeah, that's it. Like something I'd been searching for in my memory or my conscious thoughts, that thing that's on the tip of your tongue but you can't remember it, is suddenly recalled. She's my other brain, and I hers; we're joined at the mind, and at the heart.
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