Life in a Box Chapter 19

If I ask myself what’s MOST needed in the world of the Trump Virus, the answer always comes up the same — BLESSINGS.

Everything else is shit compared to Blessings. If you’re walking around UNBLESSED, you’re taking your life into your hands.

Take it from me, as sure as I can levitate a few lousy inches off the ground, Blessings are a sure-cure for anything that ails you, and that includes fear, anxiety, frustration, confusion and a whole lot of other really bad things.

Blessings work to cure, to heal, to resolve and to uplift.

That’s a whole lotta payoff from something that you can’t see, feel or touch — but what exactly IS a Blessing?

  • Something lucky should happen to you.
  • May you be protected from illness, harm and calamity.
  • Here’s some positive energy — I hope it does you some good.
  • May you be successful in your endeavor, I hope it works out for you.
  • I hereby shower you with bountiful goodness.

When performing Blessings and Miracles, always keep in mind the First Rule of Dealing With People of Planet Earth — “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished”. Continue reading

Life in a Box Chapter 18

PLS Beginner Deck has 30 cards, of which this is the very first.

Can you see a Christmas tree in that photo? Is the little girl riding a new hobby horse, amidst a crowd of Christmas presents including dolls, baskets and books?

If that’s what you see upon first glance, you’ve never taken the PLS course, and you’re missing something in your life.

The PLS course is a way of DEEPENING the life-experience and making it strong and fulfilling and giving you a chance to fulfill your lifetime destiny.

That involves working on yourself, and the sooner you gird your loins to that effort, the better, particularly under the threat of immanent death, as we all experience it now in the time of the Trump Virus. Continue reading

Life in a Box Chapter 17

Bug-Eyed Monster is my favorite rock art character — they run $9.95 each.

This bug-eyed monster is the easiest thing in the world to produce. I drive over to the garden supply place and load up on bags of rocks — I run into NOBODY in the rock dump, and I pay $1 a bag, and I’m home-free.

So now I dig out my glue gun and glue this guy together, then paint the black lines and then the white filler, sign the back with a black Posca pen, and I’m done.

If wanted, a small stand can be included — just glue him or her onto the piece of wood you’ve selected as a base.

I’ve done a number of workshops on this, and there are videos, or you can join one of my ZOOM two-way workshops and I’ll help you develop a style and a group of rock paintings that will SELL.

The real secret is learning how to sell something online, so back to ZOOM and learn some more, sell some more, practice selling, selling, selling, and also practice delivering a good productive workshop, which will in the end bring in more than the selling. Continue reading

Life in a Box Chapter 16

After sickness comes hunger, fear and greed. Get ready to be overrun by city folks looking for FOOD and destroying all FUTURE FOOD as they swarm past the farms, not understanding that it takes a YEAR to bring that food to the table, and what’s more, somebody has to PICK it and PACK it and SHIP it from the farmer to your table.

What you really need in this situation is to find some stable place. A Happy Place is, for the duration, out of the question.

First things first — if you need food, we can grow it here and ship it to you, assuming that shipping is still available at that time, but YOU need to help us help you. It will take at LEAST $3,000 to get started with our raised bed technology and greenhouse manufacture.

That having been said, there’s then the matter of earning a living and not trivial is the question of mental health, so you will need CONTACT. Continue reading

Life in a Box Chapter 15

Dutch Landscape Miniature Nail Art by E.J. Gold.

Can’t wait to get there, eh? I don’t blame ya — here’s the address:

click here to visit my nailery

Isn’t that something? I can put the most intricate things on those nails, just like I used to do with a fine-tipped pen, only these nails are SO much cheaper that I can actually hope to market them.

I also have original painted designs on Feature Nails, but they run $125 a pop, and are actually miniature paintings and ink washes.

If you really want an original Dutch Masters Painted Nail, I’d recommend mounting it in a deep frame. I do that for an additional $125 — the labor is a bitch and I wreck one out of four frames, so if you’re looking for a wrecked frame, check my wrecked frame inventory out back of the shed.

You know that you can add to this product by painting colors onto them? I don’t think it would add anything, but it’s just another way you could add value if you were strapped for another reason to charge more. Continue reading

Life in a Box Chapter 14

Why not make an annoying video humiliating and ridiculing Trump?

It’s easy when you know how. He can’t stand being ridiculed, because his dad did it to him, and he has powerful Daddy Issues.

This is a pretty accurate rendition of the Oval Office — it’s accurate enough to get the idea across, and it makes a great backdrop for any political announcements you’d care to make.

So you’ll notice that I have my own pictures scattered around the space, and a SuperBeacon and a Matrix are on the top of the famous “Resolute” desk.

It’s details like that that make the shot — you can fake all the rest, but you MUST put in the details. Continue reading

Life in a Box Chapter 13

cover screen from my latest action video game from GoddGames.

If you stop to think about it, now that you have a little thinking time on your hands, this is the greatest opportunity to be of service if you have ANY online or digital skills.

You don’t have to go to the rock face and start digging. You’re not laying rail or logging or digging or anything that requires your personal presence at the scene.

The Coronavirus has changed all that, and now, you’re limited to what you can do at your desktop, laptop or smartphone.

Well, Hell, for a game developer, it’s total Heaven.

I developed this “Greatest Witch-Hunt Ever” from Trump’s whining and bitching about him being a total victim of everybody all the time, and in particular, his great enemy, the Media.

It’s because they insist on fact-checking the old fat bastard, and he hates that, because he lies, but only when his lips are moving, and some of us wish they didn’t — make of that what you will.

Speaking of LIPS, I’ll be resurrecting “Killer Lips from Outer Space” as a videogame in the new engine, which means a LOT of changes in the levels, because Claude and Dick have come up with some killer smart bots that will drive the average gamer nuts — a short drive at best. Continue reading

Life in a Box Chapter 12

You’ll have plenty of Afterlife Adventures, once Donald Trump gets through with you!

Want an Afterlife Adventure? Want several a day? No problem, that’s all we sell. Seriously, what a great opportunity this is to take the time to actually work with these ideas, get some handle on the Afterlife and rebirthing and learn to make decisions without hesitation by spending a few hours EVERY DAY in a D2 Bardo Safari.

What is a Bardo Safari, you ask?

Hey, you’ve wasted enough time, already — get in the groove! Find out about Bardo Safaris and ASK someone how you can join.

You won’t be disappointed, and it’s a great way to spend some “me-time” if you’re as boxed-in as you look and feel. Continue reading

Life in a Box Chapter 11

a country at war with another is a country at peace with itself.

It’s time to get practical. You’re in a box and you can’t get out of the box, at least not for very long.

Just long enough to go shopping or go to the bank to visit what’s left of your money.

There you are in a box. Everybody’s in a box. We’re all in our boxes. We’re totally boxed in. That’s a Given.

Now, under those circumstances, where you can’t have ANY contact with anyone else — I’m in that “78 years old” category myself, and can’t contact anyone for any reason — what can you DO in that box to make a living?

Who will give you money to do that? How much, how often? Any repeat sales? Continue reading

Life in a Box Chapter 10

Plan for a “Hobo Nickel” engraving design over a BU 1927 Philadelphia Silver Dollar

I’ve made hundreds of “Hobo Nickel” engravings on a variety of out-of-circulation coins, and most of them are skulls, for one important reason — to remind everyone that even the king has an end of life.

Nobody escapes the Reaper, who isn’t actually grim. As a matter of fact, he’s downright jolly, but who would fear The Jolly Reaper?

Back in 1969, Jim Morrison, who used to come into the shop just about every day at that time — it was in a dark, black-painted and blacklight illuminated “Head Shop” called “Psychedelic Supermarket”, and that’s exactly what it was, and I had a tiny 10’x10′ booth directly across from “Famous Gene” LP warehouse.

Today, you couldn’t run that shop, with swarms of teens swirling through it like a flowing mass of soap suds in a Jack Oakie comedy of the 1930’s.

So one day Jim comes in as usual, he’s in the middle of reading my hardbound copy of Siddhartha — he wouldn’t dream of buying a book, but he devoured Hesse like some kids go for ice cream and pizza.

Not a bad combo, I’ll consider making it in my virtual restaurant, the only kind of food service I’d run today, as you’ll note from my FULLY FUNCTIONING “Michele de Paris Pizza Parlor” just outside the Temple in our Prosperity Path Virtual Ashram currently housed in Second Life, an online experiential digital world. Continue reading