{"id":118,"date":"2018-02-11T03:45:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T07:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aerendel.ca\/perspective\/?p=118"},"modified":"2018-02-11T05:51:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T09:51:45","slug":"i-just-saw-a-documentary-on-the-life-of-eric-clapton-in-twelve-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aerendel.ca\/perspective\/2018\/02\/11\/i-just-saw-a-documentary-on-the-life-of-eric-clapton-in-twelve-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"I just saw a documentary on the life of Eric Clapton ( in twelve bars ? )"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, February 11th, 2018 —> -1\u02daC \/ +30\u02daF & still snowing (?) in the dark @ 3:13 am in Atlantic Canada —> On Pamm’s Birfday \ud83d\ude42 <—<\/em><\/p>\n

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At my lowest point, I was singing ‘Bell Bottom Blues’ to myself and got the words all wrong –<\/p>\n

Instead of “I don’t wanna fade away-” I was singing “I don’t want to lose control-”<\/p>\n

and at the time I had no idea why those words popped into my head –<\/p>\n

and later realized that since my father was a mean drunk –<\/p>\n

I was afraid that any socially acceptable means for chemical relaxation –<\/p>\n

might turn me into an alcoholic or otherwise addicted ogre –<\/p>\n

who would drive everybody I cared about into seeking safety away from me.<\/p>\n

& of course, you would be an Aries – dangit –<\/p>\n

My Aries moon reads like, “Way deep down in the depths of your soul, you know for sure that brute force rules the universe.”<\/p>\n

And that’s a complete bloody lie. And you know it –<\/p>\n

Redeemed by a “7” life path -? You need to base your life on something to believe in.<\/p>\n

Rock N Roll -? Drugs -?<\/p>\n

But watching that documentary tonight –<\/p>\n

I felt like you need to know. Of course he will know you in Heaven.<\/p>\n

And things over on that side are a lot more forgiving than they are here.<\/p>\n

Over there, no low minded men are using religion to try to control you – or me, or any and all of us –<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But you might want to know how I know that.<\/p>\n

The last time I saw my cousin, Gary, was at another cousin’s wedding.<\/p>\n

Then Gary died shoveling some old lady’s snow – it was something he did without asking to be paid for it –<\/p>\n

Because he was like that.<\/p>\n

Gary’s older brother died of a brain tumor at the age of 6. Gary might have been 4 years old at the time.<\/p>\n

And you know that kind of thing leaves a hole in your soul forever.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Nobody ever told Gary that I connect with the spirits of those who’d passed over – connect mostly in dreams –<\/p>\n

They tell me things I couldn’t learn trough normal channels. They tell me in riddles I don’t always understand –<\/p>\n

until one of life’s little surprises makes their meaning perfectly clear.<\/p>\n

That’s something I don’t tell everybody. That’s something not everybody wants to hear –<\/p>\n

It messes with the way they believe things are, or maybe should be –<\/p>\n

But the first thing Gary did when he became acclimated to life on the other side –<\/p>\n

He came to me in a dream. He set it in the venue where I’d last seen him, where the reception for our then newly married cousin took place –<\/p>\n

He came down a stairway and made sure he caught my attention. There was somebody with him, and he was really happy to tell me,<\/p>\n

“Hey, look who I found!” – his brother had grown up on the other side.<\/p>\n

And there they were, together. Forty something years couldn’t keep them apart.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And I had a thing for John Lennon. Of course never met him in real life.<\/p>\n

And of course I was shocked when the MKULTRA victim shot him that night –<\/p>\n

So on the anniversary of that ignoble event I was working alone at night, cleaning an office, I –<\/p>\n

heard a radio announcer mention the date and the anniversary of John crossing over –<\/p>\n

I turned my thoughts beyond the clouds and asked, “How are you?”<\/p>\n

And I was stunned that I got an answer –<\/p>\n

“I wish you bluddy psychics would leave me the fook alone!”<\/p>\n

And he knew I was shocked.<\/p>\n

He was shocked that I was shocked – “Sorry-” I said, “I never thought you’d get this message from me -”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And a couple weeks later, same place, same job –<\/p>\n

I thought I felt John’s presence again, I smiled, and asked, “How are<\/em> you doing?”<\/p>\n

And very deliberately he answered, “Better Than One Might Expect” –<\/p>\n

And I got the feeling that – that was part of a message he wanted Yoko to get.<\/p>\n

And I wondered if that message was coded, “B to me -” and the rest would come from somewhere else.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I later learned that a very good friend I talk to maybe once a year –<\/p>\n

has a daughter ( I knew she has a daughter ) but I didn’t know –<\/p>\n

Her daughter works for Yoko and Sean.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And hey, ‘Ric’, the Aries love of my life absolutely loves your song to Conor –<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

— you’ve earned you wings and halo, dude –<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

— Jassper LeBoof —<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sunday, February 11th, 2018 —> -1\u02daC \/ +30\u02daF & still snowing (?) in the dark @ 3:13 am in Atlantic Canada —> On Pamm’s Birfday \ud83d\ude42 <—   At my lowest point, I was singing ‘Bell Bottom Blues’ to myself and got the words all wrong – Instead of “I\u2026<\/p>\n

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