The Stroke of Midnight

Hey, gang! Welcome to my life – where anything is possible and nothing is as it seems. I’m Freedom and I’ll be your host, coming at you from within the depths of Geistopia.

Welcome To My Life is a project, an experiment in Life and ART. A living storyboard, if you will. Its premise is that life is experiential, and that you can, and do, experience the life you choose. It is based on The Wheel of Life and The ARTs for The New Millennium as life building tools.

Welcome to my Life is an I T.V. Studios/Geist…House Players Production, in association with the Center for Creative Inspirationalism. JustUs Productions, the parent company, would like to give a ‘Shout-Out’ to the following for their ongoing, and oft-times unknowing, inspiration and support:

Princess Cuddlebug

Princess Sunshine

Craze & Co.

The Shaman

The Pillar

F’n Bob

The Entire Putt-Putt-Putter Clan

Professor Siggy Chong

The VanMan and General Ralph Glossop (may they R.I.P.)

PDT

‘Blue 326’

The Original KLT

The Looch

The Baker

Bert-on

Andy Pandy

The Mudder

Hoagie

Superstar

The Wix-ians

Piz-Niffer

Dancing Queen

The Anomaly

Downtown Encyclopedia Brown

Mama Rabbit

And, of course, a very generous sponsor who (not-so-much) wishes to remain anonymous.

It is…Monday, December 31, 2018. Time...Regrouping.

Theme of the Week – Relax

Lesson of the Week – Just Be

Observation of the Week – All Things in Time

*sings.* Should old acquaintance be forgot…

Tonight, I sit alone in The Cave.

Do not feel sad, nor heavy-hearted, faithful readers. It is a necessary thing. It was a very intense and powerful year. And, as I recently learned, it is good to stop and be still and silent from time to time. This is something I am working at daily – if even for just a moment here or there. I strive for moments of stillness and silence. Times when I can just sit and observe, appreciate.

It has not only been an intense year but an intense two decades as well. It all goes back to twenty years ago.

Yule is coming to a close and the cycle of the year is complete.

As the year closes, I cannot express enough how grateful I am to be alive and to have the life that I do. It is far from perfect and worthy of much condemnation, I suppose. But, it is mine. And, for me, it has been splendid and spectacular.

I not only have been blessed to drive the country three times now, but I have also had many an adventure right in my own backyard. [Sometimes, quite literally.] I have met a plethora…[Yes, Jefe, I know what a plethora is…]a plethora of extraordinary people. I am friends with some of them to this day. Others are but a memory whispered on some random evening breeze. And, still, there are some I am just getting to know.

I am in awe of this recently. Right now. To think that I have been fortunate enough to know some of the kindest, most generous, talented, intelligent, bright, caring, soulful human beings. It is almost to much to process really. It leaves me wondering what I could possibly put back into the world to equal what I have received from these associations – no matter how brief, or seemingly insignificant.

I have seen some brief success and I have endured many a failure.

I have never stopped trying. [This blog a case in point.] NO matter how hopeless things begin to seem, no matter how broken or defeated I may feel, I inevitably dust myself off and get right back to it. I would hope that my gravestone would read, “One resilient S.O.B.”

This year, I fell in love. I came to know love. It was the most intense experience of all my travels, and though, I cannot tell of it, let me just say that I would never trade even a moment of that journey. It was a love meant to break my spirit. It was prophesied twenty years ago, when everything would begin. It was just before my death and I had truly just discovered the most potent presence in the universe. It was at that time I had learned to see through a different set of eyes, hear through a different set of ears. It was then that I learned we are not alone.

“You will be broken down to nothing so that you can be built up stronger.”

So many times I thought I had seen that point. [So many times, T.O.T.S. did as well.] Still, nothing I had ever experienced would break me. Nothing could reduce me to nothingness…until her. Everything T.O.T.S. has tried over 20 years and only she had the power to leave me feeling empty inside. I would inevitably find myself feeling as dead on the inside as I had been on that night twenty long years ago.

But, life moves on, and so must I.

There was a certain degree of salvation in the experience. I feel more alive now. I feel more aware. Having come face to face with Death for a second time in my life, I find that I am left feeling so very aware of life itself.

I am grateful for my life.

I feel blessed in it.

I do not know what I want from the next year – if I want anything at all. Quite frankly, it is all perfect no matter how it goes down.

I would like a stronger life – doing more with the girls, taking care of more business. I would like to see things come together better this year. There is a lot on my plate coming out of the gate in the new year. I have work at The Theatre, plus a show to put together for the Middle School and, I believe, a show to rehearse. –Still waiting to be clear on that.] In and amongst all of that I must try to grow other areas of income. I have many from which to choose.

I would like to see things come to completion around Geistopia – the Garden, The Cave the storage areas.

I would like to see more with, and for, the Princesses.

I would like better finances.

Yet, recently, none of this seems to matter. There will be what there will be. What gets done, gets done. Whatever money there is, there is. Another year passed is another year lived. It is another year of experience. And, it is another year of sharing in the lives and experiences of those who touch my life.

So, here is to a very Divine 20-1-9, faithful readers.

And, without hesitation…

For now and for always, from here in Geistopia this is your beloved Rev wishing you Peace, Love, Light and Freakishness, baby!

Please feel free to leave comments, questions, and concerns. I don’t know you are there if you don’t say, “Hi.” Also, you’re experience of WTML is just as important as mine. So, let me know what you think. Secondly, if you would like to connect, or find out more about me, you can find WTML on Facebook @TheNewWTML or myself at @rev.mgeist.