#100DAYSOFHALLOWEENHAPPY #6 Happy Friday
What better way to get people into the Friday the 13th Spirit then to release a movie about Demonic Possesion on a date, during a month when some people are in the mood to raise a little Hell and there is a segment of the population is afraid they will be able to actually do it ?
Well played Hollywood, well played.
WP asks: What are your Future Travel Plans
There are three places I want to travel too, but I probably never will because two of them are forbidden destinations and the third is a reminder’ there’s what you want and what you need and a smart person will make the correct call.
First up- I want to explore the Seed Vault in Norway.
Inside of this vault are seeds that can be used in the event something catastrophic happens and trees and crops get wiped out.
I’ve seen this movie friends and neighbors and I really doubt if it’s only plant seeds they’ve got in storage. But there’s no way to know unless you get to take a look inside.
Svalbard Seed Vault, Norway
The Cave of Crystals looks like something from a SCI-Fi movie. In addition to that it’s hot enough to shut your internal organs down.
I don’t know why I want to go there but I think it has something to do with wanting to find out what lives down there because my Spidey sense says something does.
Cristales cueva de Naica-
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There was this journalist who interviewed people who had jumped off of the Golden Gate Bridge ( I think it was that one specific bridge, but I could be wrong ) and lived. In the interview the people who survived said that the minute they let go they knew they had just made a very big mistake.
In the Haunted Forest in Japan- infamous because people go there to commit suicide- I’ve read that some people may have changed their mind but they had gone into the forest with little to no provisions and gotten lost. And they died. In their way, they let go of the railing and knew they had made a mistake and like the people who jumped from the bridge, they couldn’t take that simple action back where they let go.
I don’t want to go there to find a corpse, to touch the ropes hanging from the trees, or wander off trail and move the clumps of earth with my toe. I want to go there to remind myself that the minute you let go of that railing, you will know you have made a terrible mistake.
Aokigahara, the Haunted Forest in Japan Credits: Simon Desmarais
I’ve chosen these three destinations for another reason- they’re a little dangerous, a little mysterious and even though I like to take part in tour groups, there is nobody there to take care of you if things go bad. You will have to figure your way out of it- or not.
That would be an adventure and I would like to think I am up for it.
RDP Tuesday: Reconciliation
I like people because my dog likes people.
He likes everybody no matter what I think of them, but there are a few times where he was put off by someone and wanted nothing to do with them and I figured they were serial killers or something monstrous like that.
However, there was also one time Hamish’s love and faith in humanity were tested.
During the Summer me and Hamish were at a block party and one of the Dad’s decided to take sneak up on his son and his friends ( the kids were around 7 or 8 ) with a Super Soaker.
I saw him weaving his way around some trees and acting sort of stalkerish and I was ready for the Super Soaking to commence when Hamish ( my dog ) got on the pathway between the Dad with the Water Gun and the kids.
Hamish’s Hackles went up, he bared his teeth and for the first time in his life ( he was about 6 years old at the time ) he growled. He sounded like one of those big giant trucks that my friend calls ” Bro-Dozers ”
I thought the Dad would be really angry- but Hamish didn’t charge and he didn’t move. He just stood there like Cerberus at the Gates of Hell and honestly in that moment I didn’t recognize my own dog.
” Hey! ” the Dad called to his friends, ” Did you see this dog protect the kids? Damn! Anyone tries to hurt them and this dog is going to shred them. ”
Before I could say anything the Dad threw in a hearty ” Good BOY!”
Once Hamish saw the Dad relax, once he heard his voice and I guess decided we were all cool, he wagged his tail and made a new friend. Hamish looked at me during this little bonding moment and he looked super happy- like at that moment his faith in humanity, which had been shaken was restored.
Hamish did spend the rest of the day around the kids- which was new for him because we don’t have a lot of little kids in our life, but nobody seemed to mind.
It made Hamish happy to do it, so I was happy too.
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Hamish Macbeth
Photo A.M. Moscoso
2014
This is copy of a painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Louvre (inv. 775) which is dated to 1513-1516, at the end of the artist’s career. Scholars are now considering the possibility that the Walters’ version was actually executed at the same time, alongside the original. As in the original, the Baptist wears a leopard skin, usually considered an attribute of Bacchus.
If I could change one thing about Modern Society, I would make it ok to be alone.
It’s firmly ingrained into our social consciousness that if you don’t have a cellphone or a ‘tribe’, if you don’t have a million followers on Instagram or thousands of friends Facebook if you don’t TicTok or Snapchat then ( gasp ) you MUST be some kind of outcast and everyone must hate you.
I can live with that-in fact I do.
However, sometimes I leave my phone at home or I forget to turn it on and even though it doesn’t make alert noises often and it doesn’t ring at all, the world is so quiet- no- peaceful.
I wish it could always be like that.
But I do have my phone on most of the time- even though my dog hates it and so do I. I carry it around simply because it’s not okay if I don’t. It’s just one of those things that we are expected to do- like covering your nose when you sneeze or closing your mouth when you are chewing your food.
I’d change that if I could- not the covering your nose when you sneeze or covering your mouth when you are chewing your food bit, but the phone part. I’d change it no matter how loud people yelled or cried. For this I would give up a quiet and peaceful day or two.