---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote :
Excellent! Sounds like a great honeymoon - When we first met, mid-90's, we would go to this divey but safe, psuedo-polynesian bar (with the requisite homemade wallpaper of nude women in the men's room), called, The Kon Tiki - Great bartender - name was Harold. We brought in some drink umbrellas for him to give the customers, adding a little more south sea island flair to the place - lol. Bon voyage - He made very strong Long Island Ice Teas. Now, the neighborhood is Korean, and the place is a cafe. Lovely history. A cafe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bring back the Kon Tiki! Same fate for the West End Bar. Place was made famous by Kerouac and Ginsberg, who frequented during their college years at Columbia. Every table had carved names of literary types (or counterfeits). My future bride was a barmaid and I a regular. She knew what she was getting in to. A marriage made in... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote : First she sailed around the world, with one other person, in a 32' boat, and then we met. Instantly discovered faraway places we have both been, including past lives (Japan and Western US) - We complement each other very well, once again. A marriage made in heaven. Lovely Me and my better half met in a bar. Famous, literary bar. Traveled together to faraway places. Honeymooned in Peru & Ecuador before much plumbing. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote : Don't forget to pop into the Louvre - and I'll be watching you two scamps, so don't get lost! (PS In a past life, I was the grandfather of the security guard (who is a buddhist), protecting the Mona Lisa, on the day shift). Apropos of nothing, there is a nondescript eating establishment, in a strip mall, in Fremont, CA that my wife and I saw, and the name instantly become part of our vocabulary (well, mine, anyway...). It is called, creatively, "The Niche Business Cafe". I imagine you walk in, and are given a short interview, on how "niche" your particular business is, and if you qualify, you're in. So, for example, a shoe salesman, is out, but a bowling shoe salesman, is seated immediately. Sporting goods out, but selling just fishing line? Booth or table? ... I got it, but I'm not sure everyone did. You could start a Poll on ffl like: I make money the Old Fashioned Way...I don't work (doesn't sound that good when I see it on the screen, and Richard says this will be preserved eternally. Is that enough time to change it? Is it enough time to change careers? Is it enough time? You and your lucky wife sound well paired (and I'm am not talking jealously). ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : If the formatting was wrong, here's what the interview responses were like from the enlightened test subjects to the question "Describe your self": L1: We ordinarily think my self as this age; this color of hair; these hobbies . . . my experience is that my Self is a lot larger than that. It's immeasurably vast. . . on a physical level. It is not just restricted to this physical environment L2: It's the ‘‘I am-ness.’’ It's my Being. There's just a channel underneath that's just underlying everything. It's my essence there and it just doesn't stop where I stop. . . by ‘‘I,’’ I mean this 5 ft. 2 person that moves around here and there L3: I look out and see this beautiful divine Intelligence. . . you could say in the sky, in the tree, but really being expressed through these things. . . and these are my Self L4: I experience myself as being without edges or content. . . beyond the universe. . . all-pervading, and being absolutely thrilled, absolutely delighted with every motion that my body makes. With everything that my eyes see, my ears hear, my nose smells. There's a delight in the sense that I am able to penetrate that. My consciousness, my intelligence pervades everything I see, feel and think L5: When I say ’’I’’ that's the Self. There's a quality that is so pervasive about the Self that I'm quite sure that the ‘‘I’’ is the same ‘‘I’’ as everyone else's ‘‘I.’’ Not in terms of what follows right after. I am tall, I am short, I am fat, I am this, I am that. But the ‘‘I’’ part. The ‘‘I am’’ part is the same ‘‘I am’’ for you and me I describe myself as L4, beginning with "absolutely". I think I'm a little bit of this and a little bit of that - kind of like what my husband and I ordered off the thai menu last night when we had: #9, #22 with tofu, #13, #55 and #60. We like to experience lots of tastes and we still have some left over for lunch today just in case you noticed that was a lot to eat for just two people. Dear Ann, Thank you for the lunch invitation. You will be please to know that my wife will be joining us. She was thrilled to be invited. We both look forward tom seeing you and are skipping our breakfast to keep a hearty appetite. Your appreciative guests. P.S. I love Thailand (and Burma) I would be most honored to make your wife's acquiantance. She could do the ordering making sure to absolutely get a #4 for you and afterwards we could all talk about art. Are we meeting in Victoria or in NYC? If so I will have to have a visit with my niece in Brooklyn. She is an artist too. My son is an artist living in Brooklyn. Does niecey need an inspiring lover? He comes highly recommended. And the #4 was as delicious as you said. Sorry, our appetites got the best of us and we couldn't wait; what with all those flights, taxis, packing, schlepping, walking, getting lost... Don't thank us, we were just saving you a trip.
