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Excerpt Johnny Oops - CHAPTER 34 -- THE PROPHET’S NEW LOVE
2008-04-15 02:45:00 Johnny Senior was frankly relieved to get rid of Jody with her non-stop lecturing, and Sonja whatever his real name was with his rules on abstinence, celibacy, and nutrition.As far as Johnny was concerned he was an independent Prophet now with no one to answer to, or cause him to look over his shoulder, and no one to second-guess him.It didn’t take him long to find someone to become his playmate. The object of his latest perverted passion was one Carla Shenk. She was a beautiful eighteen-year-old redhead exchange student from Austria who had become a member of the flock.Carla shared Johnny’s passion for bondage and his sadistic inclinations; in fact she far exceeded them. One has to wonder why the Prophet got such a kick out of self-mutilation. Maybe it was because he secretly loathed what he had become and wanted to punish himself.The two of them made quite a sight with their blazing red hair and Johnny with his reddish beard. Someone made the comment that they looked like Sant... More About: Love , Johnny , Chapter
GRANDMA’S SECRET POTION OF FAITH
2008-04-07 19:50:00 Grandma Jenny slipped shoveling snow off the front steps of our home in the midst of a fearsome snow storm at the age of ninety-six and broke her hip. She was a feisty little woman who weighed only ninety-five pounds and stood four feet-nine inches tall. The shovel was bigger than Grandma. You might wonder why she was out shoveling snow early in the morning at her advanced age, but it was part of her stubborn and cantankerous nature. And it was a part of her tradition. She didn’t want my father going to work and getting his feet wet in the snow. It was a matter of respect for the man of the house. It was a matter of faith in her traditions. It was her way.Grandma was from the old country – Russia to be specific. She came to the United States as a girl of fourteen traveling for fifteen days on a tramp steamer, and surviving on bread and water. She lost her provisions, her money, and her clothes on the trip over to thieves that hounded naïve, unsuspecting young girls such as her ... More About: Faith , Secret
Easter – Its origins and relationship to Pagans and Passover
2008-03-21 14:38:00 I’m confused about Easter , how about you? There seems to be much scholarly discourse that links the Christian tradition of Easter to the Jewish tradition of Passover and to certain Pagan rituals and beliefs that came before them. There is even some dispute over the actual date of Christ’s death and resurrection, but the faith that each of us hold in our hearts cannot be in dispute. This I believe.The name Easter may have first been associated with an ancient Goddess, The Venerable Bede, (672-735). She was the mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe who was known as Eastra.Many Pagan religions in the Mediterranean area had a major seasonal day of religious celebration following the Spring Equinox. Cybele, the Phrygian fertility goddess had a fictional consort named Attis who was believed to have been born in a virgin birth and to have died and been resurrected each year during the March 22 to March 25th period around 200 B.C. Wherever Christian worship of Jesus and ... More About: Relationship
Our Spirits Will Dance Together
2008-03-15 14:47:00 What ever happened to the new America we were going to build together? What ever happened to our promise? Have we been lulled to sleep with a false sense of security? Have we forgotten the quest for freedom that our forefathers passioned for, and died for? What happened to our traditions?Where is our merit? Did it evaporate in our greed for material accomplishment? Have we sacrificed our souls for meaningless benefits?One might ask why all the questions? Have we nothing better to do than speculate on what could have been? Why can’t we relish in the here and now, and forget about the consequences the future has in store for us?Why can’t we have some peace of mind?Is it because our vision is distorted by false pride, and false promises? Why are we willing to believe in economic and political promises and compromises that we know in our hearts are not true or worthwhile? What are we so scared of? Is it the truth?I think the problem is that we are not well grounded in that which we ... More About: Dance , Spirits
I’m Listening As Hard As I Can
2008-03-07 00:07:00 I’m listening as hard as I can, but the silence is deafening. Why won’t you talk to me? Don’t you have something to say to me?Every once in a while I hear a tiny whisper; a little murmur, as if you were trying to say something, trying to communicate, trying to form a union or meeting of our minds, but I can’t understand you.Won’t you please speak up?I know you have vast knowledge and important things to say. I know you mean well and have my best interests at heart. I know you love me, but why can’t I hear you.Won’t you please speak up?In my mind I imagine we are talking and smiling and laughing together, but I can’t quite catch your drift. What are you saying that is making me laugh? Why are you smiling? Your thoughts are not clear to me.Won’t you please speak up?Sometimes I feel as if we are passing in separate canoes down a raging river shouting something at each other, but the roar of the rushing waters keeps me from hearing you, and it keeps us apart.Won’t yo... More About: Hard , Listening
Sex Sells – Dead Fish Smell
2008-02-29 23:56:00 I am so glad that I am a fictional character in a novel. I don’t have to worry about the tricks I use to get you to read what I have to say. For example I got you to click on this article so it must be true that sex sells, but what does it sell? Does it offer happiness and or riches? Can it keep you from being lonely, or does it leave you feeling like a dead fish? Personally I have no sense of smell so it really doesn’t matter to me.Speaking of dead fish, I was thinking about all the bright ideas and concepts that have ended up smelling like dead fish in the last year. There are so many. I wonder if in review of a few we can come up with a pattern of what not to do, and maybe even get a little insight into what we should do.What ever happened to amnesty for illegal aliens? Did it die a legislative death because someone forgot to lock the barn door before prejudice and bigotry had a chance to get out, or is protecting our borders really the moral high ground, or are we all a bunc... More About: Fish , Dead , Smell
CHAPTER 25 – SOUL-SEARCHING - Excerpt Johnny Oops
2008-02-26 14:19:00 Johnny was serious about cleaning up his act. He called Doctor O’Hara over for an all night session. He said to the good doctor, “I have to clean up my act. I have to find out why I do such reckless things. I’m a father now. I have to be responsible.” Johnny was sweating, his eyes looked frantic. He was beginning to think of himself in the third person. He was becoming too introspective.Doctor O’Hara laughed and said; “You know what your problem is? You have no character.”Johnny scratched his head and replied, “What do you mean?”The good doctor replied, “You have no backbone, no balls, no moral fiber. You’re a mush melon weakling who relies on hype to make himself look like a Guru, You’re a phony Johnny Oops.”“What do you mean by that,” Johnny whispered?”“I mean you’re a farce Johnny Oops. You’re a charlatan. You’re no philosopher genius. You’re just a guy with a glib tongue and a great line of bullshit about faith. If you ask me all that to... More About: Soul , Searching , Johnny , Chapter
Election Madness
2008-02-13 15:39:00 Sometimes it pays to be a fictional character in a novel. This way I don’t have to make up my mind about who to vote for.I find the whole thing very confusing. It seems that everyone wants to change everything. Haven’t we been doing anything right?All the candidates seem to want to stay in Iraq for between sixty days, and one year, or up to one hundred years. If we don’t want to set dates as to when we will leave then why have we?On terrorism we finally seem to have struck a consensus. Every one of the potential nominees in both parties is against it. What I can’t understand is whether they think it is a good thing or a bad thing that we haven’t had another attack since 9/11, or is this all just politics as usual, and if so why does everyone want to change things? You can’t have it both ways as far as I’m concerned. Can’t we all agree we want peace and security all of the time?When it comes to the economy again we seem to have reached a consensus that we are spending... More About: Election , Madness
If It Isn’t Broke Don’t Change It
2008-01-30 21:39:00 Change, change, change: all I hear about these days is changing the way we live, act, and think. What was wrong with the old you, or me for that matter? Don’t we have a lot of accomplishments to be proud of? Isn’t our Country something to be proud of? Isn’t our democracy something to be proud of? Why do we have to change everything? What was wrong with the old us?I know a lot of people are dissatisfied with the way the Country has been run lately including me, but that doesn’t mean we have to change everything. All we need to do is to change our leadership. We don’t have to give up the basic principals of freedom and democracy that this Country was built on.Let’s not give up so quickly on the basic principals our forefathers fought for. Let’s not effect change for change’s sake. Let’s not throw out all the good things about our economy and our political system for the sake of getting rid of a few bad ones.It’s time for a new reality of the possible, and the pract... More About: Change
The Prophet Returns To Do Battle
2008-01-16 15:26:00 Johnny Oops returned to lead the battle for the hearts and minds of the non-believers in our midst. He had heard enough of the false claims against him that he wasn’t real; that he was merely a fiction in peoples minds.Whose reality is it he asked? Is it the reality of people who do not care for their neighbors? Is it the reality of those whose greed makes them take advantage of people of lesser means? Are these the righteous thoughts of real people or a fiction perpetrated on our souls?What has happened to our humanity? Has it become hostage to the logic of the Computer? Are we allowing our basic values to become subjugated to our quest for wealth? When will we remember the lessons our forefathers fought for that provide us with freedom and equality?It is not enough to pay lip service to the protection of the moral fabric of our Society. We have to show by our actions that we mean what we say, and we will do what is necessary to protect our freedom, to share the bounty of our la... More About: Prophet , The Prophet , Battle
Oops, I Did It Again
2008-01-08 15:17:00 I can’t believe I have broken all of my New Years resolutions already, but to tell the truth I have. It’s not that I don’t want to be good and keep my roaming eyes to myself; it’s just that I have what I call a renegade gene. I can’t seem to help myself. I am totally and completely addicted to life. Not just any average boring life, but life in the fast lane.I guess it all started the day after New Years when I went to my yoga class hoping to lose the terrible hang over I had inadvertently acquired the night before. That’s when it happened.I was standing on my head meditating and trying to mind my own business when this girl in a tight pink leotard crashed into me. Evidently she was standing on her head too, and lost her concentration, and fell down bumping into me as she collapsed in the most beautiful jumble of limbs I have ever seen.It must be fate, but these things keep happening to me. I wonder if it is my subconscious mind willing me to participate in these situati...
CHAPTER 12 – A NEW BEGINNING - Excerpt Johnny Oops
2008-01-02 16:16:00 Seventeen isn’t too old to start over, is it? I decided not to go back to school for another year. My folks got me on this great International Exchange Student Program in France. I get to live with a French Family and learn how their lives are. They have a sixteen-year-old daughter. Next year she gets to come and live with us in the states. Her name is Danielle. I hope she isn’t big and fat and ugly. I’m searching for some beauty in my life now. I’ve been spending the last few months studying how to speak French non-stop. I’m so fluent in the language I can even philosophize in French. Isn’t life wonderful? I’m beginning to feel good about myself again. I’m still a genius. Geniuses have especially tough lives, but I can take it. This is the way things were meant to be. I have my faith back. I feel almost invincible again. To tell the truth I have had such a full recovery it’s almost scary. Life is great don’t you think?Danielle’s family, the Gellets, live in a ... More About: Johnny , Chapter
New Years Is Coming – Are You Ready?
2007-12-27 16:30:00 How many times have you made New Years resolutions only to break them in a few days? What was wrong with the old you? Aren’t you happy with what you are doing in life?Many people spend a lot of their time planning how they are going to change their lives when they might be better off just living life to its fullest.Instead of making a list of all the things you want to change, how about making a list of all the things you do that make you happy.Have you:1. Been in a loving and caring relationship2. Made a real effort to help others3. Grown your spiritual soul4. Found more faith in God5. Aided someone less fortunate than yourself6. Tried to make a difference7. Been loyal to your Country8. Worked hard9. Enjoyed successes10. Been all that you can beIf you can answer yes to most of these things on this list than you can be happy with yourself just as you are.Let’s resolve to do more good works in the coming year. Let’s resolve to be all that we can be. Let’s resolve to continue... More About: Ready , New Years
The Little Christmas Tree That Could
2007-12-17 14:52:00 Many years ago when Johnny Oops son, Johnny Jr., had twin baby girls and was pursuing a quest to find his faith in God, he bought a tiny little Christmas tree to celebrate the holidays. It was all that he could afford at the time.His wife and little children were very disappointed that the tree was so small. They didn’t say anything, but Johnny Jr. knew it, and was upset that they were not happy. He wished and prayed that the tree was larger and more magnificent.The night before Christmas when he went to put his few meager presents under the tree, he was startled to notice that the Christmas tree had grown much larger. It was taller by more than three feet and wider and its branches seemed to sparkle. The few tiny ornaments and lights that Johnny Jr. and his wife had managed to put up also appeared to have multiplied, and now their sparkle lit up the whole room.Johnny Jr. called his wife and little children over to witness this miracle of the little Christmas tree that could grow.... More About: Tree
CHAPTER 7 – SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN – Excerpt from the novel Johnny
2007-12-12 15:24:00 Just when you think you have life by the cajones, fate grabs hold and squeezes the complacency out of you. It’s my own fault. I sold my father such a bill of goods on our fishing trip he decided to go all out to assure that I have a bright future. Who asked him? Anyway, he used his muscle at Yale to get me into an experimental Junior High School for gifted children; Yale it seems has some input in the school’s curriculum. Now I’m going to be surrounded by other would be geniuses. This is the pits. I don’t need peers. I need a flock to appreciate my wisdom. I decided to separate myself from the other kids by evidencing my obvious superiority even to this august group of wanna bees. So I invented a new religion. I call it Dialectic Spiritualism. It meets the needs of the time we live in. The short form definition of it is that it allows people to practice a reasoned logical belief in a universal entity that has overall control over our lives -- a Supreme Being, the one God... More About: Children , Johnny , Chapter , Chapter 7
Disease Prevention – The Answer To Rising Health Insurance Costs
2007-12-10 16:03:00 There is now a substantial portion of the population in the United States, which is unhappy with their health insurance coverage or lack thereof. There are approximately 46 million uninsured in the US.Members of the New Middle Aged Group are particularly interested in their health insurance options because many of them lose health care benefits upon retirement. Medicare, which is available at age 65, does not cover everything, and individual or family health care insurance policies are very expensive and for the most part payable with pre tax dollars. Health care costs in the US keep rising, and in most years health insurance premiums do too often at double-digit rates. .Disease Prevention expenses as a portion of Gross Domestic Product (GDC) accounts for some 16% of the budget with only 4% spent on Disease Prevention while 50% of Diseases are preventable.According to the Congressional Budget Office by the year 2020 health care spending which, is already more than $2 trillion dollar... More About: Insurance , Answer , Health Insurance
CHAPTER 1 – IT’S A BOMB - Excerpt from a new novel called Home Grown Te
2007-12-07 20:49:00 A short, thin young man in a dirty kaki colored raincoat and badly scuffed faded brown shoes pushed his way through the crowd propelling a baby carriage in front of him like a weapon. He was sweating profusely, and had a straggly black beard.“Get out of my way,” he shouted. “I have to get through, get away, move out of my way damn people. It’s your fault,” he cursed in a hoarse voice. The smell of liqueur was reeking from his breath as he continued up an entrance ramp spewing saliva and curses.Two security guards who were lounging against the railing on the far wall of the entry way moved over to him to see what the commotion was about. Then the bomb went off.The bomb blast killed thirty-two children and their parents on the way to the in store Ferris Wheel. Another one hundred and twenty four, many of whom were children, were injured as the blast slammed its way full of shrapnel and nails to the fourth floor and eventually the sheer force of the bomb blew a five foot hole... More About: Home , Bomb , A-Bomb , Grown , Chapter 1
The Big Tom Tom Beat Of Desire
2007-12-03 14:12:00 Please feel free to use this article as long as you give credit to my resource box.© Copyright Arthur LevineWords: 603Keywords: Desire, God, New Beginning, Faith, HolidaysI could feel it stirring in me. Pulsing stronger and stronger. I wanted it more than I had ever wanted anything before. I desired it. I craved it. All I had to do was to reach out and grab it when no one was looking.I was ten years old, and it was the most beautiful, powerful yellow water pistol I had ever seen in my whole life. I tried to tell myself that the toy store owner would never miss it, but I knew better. I tried to tell myself that I would come back some day and pay for it. The price tag said it was only $3.98. Maybe I could save that much from my allowance, but I knew I wouldn’t. I just took it anyway. I jammed it into my book bag. I gave into my desire. I could feel the drumbeat in my head saying, tom, tom; you’re a bad boy. Tom, tom, you’re a bad boy.I ran almost all of the way home. The fear a... More About: Beat
The Troubled Little Geese Of Christmas
2007-12-02 20:38:00 One little Goose turned to another as they sat near the edge of a golf course that was covered in a half an inch of fresh snow and said, “My friend we should have gone South before it became so cold. I am afraid our wings will freeze up if we try and make the trip now.”The other little Goose responded, “And do you expect a less icy reception in the South. Everybody hates us. We are welcome nowhere.”“Why is that asked Goose number 1”?“I think it is because there are too many of us, and we create a mess wherever we go. Besides people think of us as just Geese who don’t count for much,” answered Goose number 2."But I thought that in the spirit of Christmas people would be more willing to look kindly on the least amongst us”? “I know, I know, but life is not always what it is supposed to be. We will have to learn to accept our circumstance with grace and good will to all at this holiday season.”“I find it hard to accept our lot in life as it is. I don’t belie... More About: Troubled
CHAPTER 41 – THE SINNER RETURNS - Johnny Oops
2007-11-26 13:54:00 Jack Calb had a reputation for being a hard-nosed TV interviewer. He liked to ask incisive questions. His broadcast from New York City was the most popular talk show format on the air. Johnny was getting a little too full of himself again. It was a recipe for disaster. Johnny wasn’t worried; he was carrying the ‘word’. He was the Messenger, and now forty million people were going to hear what he had to say. The television interview started off with simple introductions, but quickly shifted into fast forward. People would be talking about it for a long time. They had certainly gotten the ‘word’, and the ‘word’ was, “ The old Johnny is back.” “So Johnny, you seem to have a checkered past: part charlatan, sometimes sex maniac, part time saint, would be Prophet, and reborn Messenger -- which is it,” Jack Calb asked? “I’d guess I’d have to say all of the above Jack. I’m a sinner you know. Most of us are. Few of us are perfect. Can you say that you are?... More About: Chapter
Happy Turkey - Oops
2007-11-21 19:43:00 Hi, this is your new best friend Johnny Oops. Since some people think I am not real, I decided not to eat turkey. In fact I decided not to eat anything so you can have my pecan pie, but that's not going to stop me from wishing you and yours a very happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving.Even though I don't do turkey, I do do applause, so let me applaud each of you for checking out this blog. Please keep coming back. You have no idea what crazy wild things I am going to write about for Christmas. Either do I. That's what makes this fun. None of us know what is going to happen before it does.And they tell me I'm not real. It doesn't get any more spontaneous or real than this.Happy Turk ey , Happy Turkey, Happy Turkey.Your Friend,Johnny Oops/Arthur Levine
CHAPTER 13 – STUD - Excerpt From Johnny Oops
2007-11-15 13:55:00 I’m home now, two inches taller, well tanned, stomach ripped by swimming and fighting the ocean each day, and fifteen pounds of muscle heavier from Mama Gellet’s cooking. To tell the truth I’m a good-looking seventeen-year-old stud with a very positive attitude. My folks can’t believe it. They think I’m ready to go back to college. We put our heads together and came up with the University of California in San Diego and a major in Humanities. I’m still a philosopher in training and a humanist. The school finally accepted me after much pulling of strings by my Dad and a glowing progress report from Doctor O’Hara. He said my perspective on life and my emotional stability was now superior to that of most of the weirdo’s, which the school matriculated. I’m really proud, I think. Oops, here I go again. I decided to approach UCSD as the domestic version of the French Riviera. After all, the climate is similar and they are both near the ocean. Granted it’s a different oc... More About: Johnny , Chapter
Global Warming – Will God Help Us Solve The Problem?
2007-11-13 22:47:00 Orange Groves on the East coast, Palm trees in New Jersey, where is God’s hand in all of this? Are we going to end up like a bunch of fried Bananas?According to the latest scientific evidence revealed by ABC News and featured in Time Magazine, the world we live in may be warming at a dangerously rapid rate due to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide, and other man made pollutants. Glaciers are melting and our shorelines are in danger of being overrun by water. What else would they be overrun with? At the same time, the sun it is hypothesized, is dying. Well, which is it, are we going to burn up or freeze to death?Climate change is out of the closet and no longer the stepchild of a minority of do-good environmentalists. Today almost everybody is worried about global warming. What is so bad about things heating up? Are people worried that we are creating an environment more friendly to the devil than to God? I for one am not worried about it. I have faith that God... More About: Global Warming , Global , Problem , Armin
Immigration -- Can We Use God’s Inspiration To Solve The Problem
2007-11-12 14:50:00 Is our current policy providing a fertile hunting grounds for terrorists or is the spirit of “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” still alive and well in God’s country?Talk about “huddled masses”, what do you call twelve million illegal immigrants? Is this what the poet Emma Lazarus had in mind when she used the term?I have an idea, why don’t we just impose a huge illegal immigrant tax. We could probably eliminate our national debt in no time at all. The only problem with this self defeating strategy is that then no one would want to come to this country. Perhaps we should make it a both ways border tax. That way we could charge these illegal immigrants coming and going. There is nothing illegal about that is there?We could also double the minimum wage, in which case the farmers might automate and eliminate the need for cheap labor. Our food prices would rise, inflation would set in, unemployment would grow, and our own citizens ... More About: Inspiration , Immigration , Problem
How does God rate in the polls verses the devil?
2007-11-09 14:32:00 According to a Fox News poll, ninety-two percent of the U.S. population believes in God. This is interesting because the PEW Research Institute has statistics that show that roughly forty-nine percent of the population attends houses of worship on a regular basis and forty-nine percent attend rarely if at all. Evidently God is more popular than organized religion or going to Church. The Gallop Poll and the Harris Poll and an ABC News poll also confirm this, but God’s popularity percentage verses the popularity of going to church varies with each poll. Sometimes I suppose it depends on how the spirit moves you or what and who you think that God is. Unfortunately seventy-one percent of the population believes that the devil exists, but this doesn’t mean he is popular – thank God.Of course you can skew the poll results in many different ways depending on how you ask a question and interpret the results. Perhaps this is why the same Fox News poll shows that eighty-five percent of ... More About: Polls , Devil , Rate , Verses , The Devil
GRANDMA’S SECRET POTION OF FAITH
2007-11-08 14:49:00 Grandma Jenny slipped shoveling snow off the front steps of our home in the midst of a fearsome snow storm at the age of ninety-six and broke her hip. She was a feisty little woman who weighed only ninety-five pounds and stood four feet-nine inches tall. The shovel was bigger than Grandma. You might wonder why she was out shoveling snow early in the morning at her advanced age, but it was part of her stubborn and cantankerous nature. And it was a part of her tradition. She didn’t want my father going to work and getting his feet wet in the snow. It was a matter of respect for the man of the house. It was a matter of faith in her traditions. It was her way.Grandma was from the old country – Russia to be specific. She came to the United States as a girl of fourteen traveling for fifteen days on a tramp steamer, and surviving on bread and water. She lost her provisions, her money, and her clothes on the trip over to thieves that hounded naïve, unsuspecting young girls such as her ... More About: Faith , Secret
Johnny Oops The Virtual Adviser
2007-11-06 14:43:00 Hi, I’m Johnny Oops and I’m a genius. What’s your story? Are you tired of not living up to your potential? Don’t worry; I’m here to be your virtual advisor. With me at your side you can realize all your goals and dreams. Isn’t it wonderful?The first thing I want you to do is to make a short list of what is most important to you and then post these goals in the comment section of my blog. Don’t worry if you are shy about what you really want to do. I have heard it all before. After all I am a virtual spirit, I go on for eternity. You can’t imagine the kind of stuff people have revealed to me. That brings me to an important point. For this to work you are going to have to use your imagination. To start with you are going to have to imagine that I am real. You do have an imagination, don’t you?Now to some general thesis that are inhibiting you from achieving your dreams and goals – around these parts we don’t have rules, we have thesis. Remember this is all being ... More About: Virtual
Can You Remember Your Promise?
2007-11-05 14:29:00 Sometimes the daily trials of life makes remembering how talented and worthwhile we really are very difficult, but we have to try and remember our promise. We have to try and remember that which is wonderful and unique about each and every one of us. We have to try and remember the unique gifts God has given us that make us unique.Do not concentrate on your failures or frailties. Concentrate on the miracle of life that God has blessed you with. Concentrate on the possible – your promise – that which makes you a unique and wonderful person with special talents and the ability to do good. You can make a contribution to society. You have the ability to do so. You have promise. Your promise is a special gift from God. It is always with you. It may be hidden deep down within you as you struggle to deal with the trials and problems of daily life, but never doubt that you possess this special promise. You may well ask what your special promise is, but the truth is that you know. You kn... More About: Promise
CHAPTER 35 – COME AGAIN - Excerpt From Johnny Oops
2007-11-04 14:33:00 Johnny lay in his hospital bed bemoaning his fate. He was weeping silently, but you could see the tears rolling down his cheeks. He was thinking, “Oh God, what have I done wrong? Why am I so cursed? I have always believed in you. I have always had faith. Why have you deserted me?” There was no answer. For once the Prophet did not have the ‘word’. Jody sat quietly by his side holding his hand. They didn’t talk. There was nothing left to say. Johnny had ruined everything. He knew it. She knew it. Why berate him? He was a broken man. Johnny Junior bounded happily into the hospital room. He had his latest bimbo on his arm. He said. “I just stopped in to say goodbye. I’m off to live in the Himalayas and study with the Buddhist Monks. The High Priest of Zen has personally invited me to be his guest. I intend to sit at his feet and learn the true faith -- no more of this Prophet bullshit for me. I’m off to find my soul. Have a nice life mis famila. Don’t miss me. I won... More About: Johnny , Chapter
Thanksgiving, Christmas And New Years
More articles from this author:2007-11-03 17:16:00 I think I am getting a case of emotionally induced acne. Here it is barely the beginning of November and I am being bombarded with Holiday catalogues and offers of retail store discounts. I am so stressed out with the pressure to give everyone expensive gifts that I am actually in pain. I’m having a stress migraine.Forget the fact that I haven’t made up my mind yet about what presents to get for who, and whom I plan to spend the holidays with, I am operating on a much more limited budget than usual this year.I can’t count on a big bonus any more because of the economy. I can’t take out a bigger mortgage on my house to pay for things because of the sub prime mortgage crisis, my credit cards are near their limits, home heating oil is going to cost me a fortune this winter, and I am spending way over my budget on gas just to get to where I don’t really want to go to in the first place.What’s an average working person to do, I am caught up in a country wide financial crisis ... More About: Christmas , Thanksgiving , Years , New Years 1, 2, 3 |
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