after a rich dinner last night i was walking and found a dollar in the street. i went a little further and found another.
i was very excited because i had just been counting in my mind the days until my next ssi check and planning to bring my change to the supermarket coin machine…. anyway, then i found a folded five and two more dollars… then amazing as it may seem a ten. then a few more singles.
i looked around to see who was playing a game with me…. then i was looking up to heaven and said, "wow, …
thank you god… you really are watching and moving things around aren't you?"
anyway, if i hadn't eaten this delicious but rich dinner, i wouldn't have gone for a walk at 9:00 and if i had gone back on the side of the street i prefer to travel on, i wouldn't have found the cash. go figure.
stroganoff night. my invention… many people might not like chicken livers but the bay leaves with the carmelized onions made it taste even as if it had been cooked in sherry. but i used no wine.
experimenting. it's good for you too.
i didn't make this tart…. just wanted to show th biggest lindzer tart i've ever seen. i couldn't eat it until my midnight snack… i just had a sliver with tea.
apparently all my creative force is surfacing in the culinary department. i'd better get back to painting quick… or i'll start balooning and have difficulty getting up.
i'm ready for a whole new direction… been here before. i can feel it cooking in my unconscious… gotta be patient. farmers wait years for the fallow field to ripen enough for new crops.
i'm really not worried.
i'm really very happy.
podloonaroon 
yes indeed, as we have discussed before, Father certainly does watch over us, doesn't He?
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Wow, what a great cook you are. I think it's commendable that you make such nice meals for yourself. Me, I can only put in that effort if I have someone else to cook for. My partner and I have this saying now, "Must be living right", to explain when things just seem to be falling into place. Isn't it so exciting when you can sense that change for the good coming? Yay Scott. 😀
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yeah san, i do know what you mean. and i have that saying too. you know like when you are driving somewhere and not much time and you keep getting green lights and find a parking space right in front… yep, i must be living right now.probably when i get back into painting again though, i can predict that it will be a piece of rye bread folded over some cheddar cheese and a slice of onion.thank you for the nice comment.
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beautiful pictures, and what luck too…glad u found what u did.i know u could use it.
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I cant remember where I read this or who said it but I love it:
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Something brewing inside? The times they are a-changing?I think this post is most exciting and at the same time soothing to read. I´ll follow you, if you´ll allow me, to see what way your new direction takes you.Oh, and one small question from a person not having English as his first language: What does the abbreviation ssi stand for?
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:up: I love it when that happens! :heart:
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Good for you, IArtman!Scott, why are you revelling in freedom? What happened? Who took your freedom away?
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Great Scott. I know times like that. But beware It´s sometimes Gods way to get your attention…you might have to be alert of what is wanted from you in return 🙂 If it is so..you´ll be informed..don´t worry.It´s possible that you´ve already done something that deserved a reward :up: 🙂
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some of the kindness and understanding you have shown others came back to you. 🙂
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@ allan & edwardSSI = Supplimental Security IncomeNOT Social Security Insuranceit is for ppl that are disabled & unable to work, or that retired too early to get social security benefits.
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Wow, Scott, that's really a bizarre occurance. I wonder where all that money came from?@ Allan, SSI = Social Security Insurance.
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exactly, avl
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Thanks for the linguistic assistance….
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…From me too:up:
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😀 :up:
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you guys are wonderful. i feel like a prize fighter with good allies in his corner.kim is right. it's supplemental security income. doesn't include any healthcare. $850 a month. that's less than $30.00 a day.momable, the answer is, i have been living communally in sober living houses for five and a half years. sharing a kitchen with 18 people. that's one of the strongest reasons why i am so gleeful.allan yup, something's brewing… times are changing. i'm like a man who has had to drag a millstone tied to his leg for the last ten years.now finally, it has been cut and as soon as i get over the post-traumatic stress syndrome all of this has left behind, the phoenix will be resurrected."god willing and the creek don't rise."timewarner brutally cut off my t.v., internet, and phone today… that's why i didn't answer sooner. obviously, it's on again. it took me all day to get back into the saddle.i love you friends.
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and we love u too, scott
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thanks kim, i feel good having you in my corner.
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yummy! :eyes: wow! i am impressed! 😀
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Wonderfull story Scott, i really think this is a gentle sign to you, if i read "you'r mind" correct :)Suddently, you feel very awake, right ?Moments where everything quietly get together, i think, and hope :heart:PS: love the dinner cloth with all the colours :sherlock:
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isn't is just great to find you have so many friends. btw, happy birthday, young man. keep'em coming. *****j*****
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I just want to thank you for the respect and courtesy you have shown me. In a world full of narrow and closed minds, you my friend are a breath of fresh spring air. 🙂
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i do see more when i am on foot.
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Wonderful!!!I think I will take up walking too…. 🙂
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…on the other side of the street, a windblow took all the money of a rich man opening his wallet.And he turn to the sky and said "Wow!"… 😀
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tres bien… peut etre c'est vrai. le bon dieu. formidable!
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if i had my way, everyone would be happy. but i guess it's not in the big plan.
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yes, formidable….sometimes GOD just needs to do that to more people
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maybe one day, scott….maybe one day
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Yup…the inner star:)
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Nothing wrong by reaching for the stars..even though we can´t reach them…we reach for them anyway 🙂
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thats for sure…and one day…we will all eventually reach the star we are trying to, in one way or another.
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the brass ring of self-containment?
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it was a prize on a merry-go-round in the old days at the amusement park or county fair. you rode round and round and your wooden horse went up and down so you had to be lucky to be in the right position when you got to where you could reach out and get the brass ring. then you could take the ring to the operator and pick out the prize from among an assortment offered. then they put the ring back.self-containment….? the grace of self-control… a gift from god.
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EEEhh I´m not exactly sure what that is Scott. Please enlighten me..
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I follow you now Scott..thank you…Self-containment then..I believe:)
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ty 4 the enlightenment, scott
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lol
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yvw, kim 😎
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i've been to key west once when my brother and i ran away and got a job on a shrimp boat out of key west to campeche. but no, never during the hemingway festival… oh i get it… lol i remember now. they have a look alike contest.
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I'm gotta ask. Have you ever been to Key West for the Hemingway festival? :coffee:
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:up: :coffee:
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:yes:Hemingway……… I knew I had seen your face before.Do you have a cat with six toes on the front feet?
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took a minute but i caught on.
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Could'nt help but notice the resemblance. 🙂
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mike vann writes:
Scott,Groovy man. It's your time to strike up the band and kick it. {-:Happy Birthday Scott. Thank you for your fantastic friendship all these years. You've been a valuable source of wisdom, an enlightening bolt of energy and an incredible companion. Your ability to stay positive through all you've been through these past seven years is an inspiration for us all. I'm glad you've finally reached a level of comfortablility for yourself.I'll keep you posted on the upcoming retreat.All the best,Michaelangelo
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no wonder he checked out early… six toes? that's a very inauspicious deformity. now if it had been seven toes, everything would have turned out differently.hey, mike.thanks for the birthday wish. i'm ready when you are… to the mountains! to the high sierras. can't wait. mike, you are an angel.go easy on that java leonard. you're hallucinating.
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Hemingway was known to have many cats, all of them had six toes on the front feet. You can still find the "Hemingway cats" all over south Florida. I had one for years.
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I lived in Daytona Beach until early 2000. Those cats are famous all over Florida. :up:
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wow cool. that's a piece of history.
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sounds to me like some cat hater was tryin to commit political suicide. thats the kinda thing that can bite em in the butt on election day! :cat:
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i read a news report recently that they were trying to close Hemmingway House bcuz of all the cats, and the estate went to court over it and was awared at being left alone, and the cats are now free once again to roam the land where the house is at, and no1 can interfere with their being there anymore.good job on the courts decision.
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for sure
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😉 :up: your welcome to look at my two cats in the Pets folder in my photos, just stay outta the Me folder unless you got an open minded sense of humor.
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Cool 😀
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well, i done visited your blog, and u have seen some of my posts, so u take it from there
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