The J-Spot

T-minus Life Images Courtesy of Pixabay and Edited by the Author It’s only when we’re terminal that we give Life the respect it deserves. Terminal velocity is when you’ve reached the point that you cannot fall any faster as opposed to the medium you’re falling through —   — when the air around you gets real . So thick it’s just like you’re standing with your feet back on the ground. I titled my first book Life’s a JOKE! (now out-of-print) on the premise that you can prevent yourself from negatively affecting your experience by first taking things as a joke and working from there. But there is a big difference between taking things lightly and playing too much! I was working as an EMT in Florida when I parked the ambulance curbside at the bus station. The call had come in as an eighteen-year-old-male that had his throat slit. Blood was everywhere, but the guy was sitting on the curb when we arrived, keeping his head on his shoulders by gripping handfuls of neck-skin on each side. H...

What is sacrifice? Copyright 2021 Bookflurry Inc. I love it when people post a tiny piece of a picture and have you guess what the image might be. It reminds me that we all see only a small part of our journey. Additionally, the puzzle reminds us of how great and sometimes grave our imaginations really are. You can’t say you’ve never been briefly worried that you might zoom out and see a hairy nipple rather than a cute puppy smiling back. Can we assume that Jesus knew, as he held up his unleavened bread during the last supper, that the bread would be transformed into his body if he put it into his mouth and chewed? Yes. Just as he knew that if he drank the wine from the cup it would, by the power of transformation, become his blood. After all, that is what the body does. It takes in things and turns them into human. A spinach here and a carrot there, a glass of water and voila. The body does the rest. What if, like Siddhartha, who once finally loved a stone for being more than a st...