Monday, June 30, 2025

Though I'm not an Editor I am a Good Storyteller

My father and grandfather had this ability and I apparently do to. It comes from when there was no TV or Radio in my Grandfather's case because he was born in the 1880s and lived until 1970 so I got to meet him many times between 1948 and 1970 when I was 22 in 1970. My father who looked a lot like my grandfather in his face and eyes and both of them had steel blue eyes that made them look like Eagles in their Swiss German intensity.

So now as I reread much of what I have written since 1980 often I am amazed at what came through me. Since I began writing this style in 1980 to heal myself in many ways from traumas of my youth and then also realized more in 1998 and 1999 as I believed I was dying (because doctors didn't have much hope for me then) I realized I wasn't really writing science fiction at all but rather real stories of my past, present and future lives in which our souls experience all at once in a moment of being because time isn't real for them. So, when I realized in 1998 and 1999 that I could experience life in this way I also realized why it was important to share with the world my experiences because they would help people survive better in the future both this century and all centuries over 1 million years into the future here on earth and beyond.

So, this is one of the reasons why I started my first blog in June of 1999 when doctors told me that I likely wasn't going to die then and possibly even could live a normal life span.

In some ways I didn't fully believe them but even then I decided to live my life like I was going to live forever in some ways which I have.

So, in the fall of 1999 I took my mother who was then 80 and my oldest biological daughter who was then 10 years old first to Scotland where her parents grew up in Clydebank and Ayr, Scotland so we flew there from San Francisco then. However, the driving on the left side of the road while driving in the right side of the car didn't work very well for me especially in full on jet lag from being about 9 hours different than San Francisco either. So, finally I drove north to Aviemore out in the Highlands of Scotland where the Caringorm mountains are and my daughter saw the wild reindeer then which was wonderful too. We also before and after this visited the Edinburgh Castle which winded up being a lot like Hogwarts of Harry Potter as well as many of the local business names that wound up in the Harry Potter books by

J, K. Rowling.

Then since my son was then 25 years old he was in Europe riding the Eurail Trains all over Europe with his best friend who just had gotten his degree in physics then. So, we flew over to Munich, Germany and all met them there and I rented a 6 passenger motor home for us all to travel and stay together about a week or more while we traveled through Germany, Austria, Switzerland and finally as far as Aosta, Italy after driving through all the tunnels of the Swiss Alps through mountains to get to Italy. Then we flew back to England to visit Stonehenge and Glastonbury England and London before we returned to San Francisco by plane. So, we spent about 3 weeks total in British Isles and in Europe before returning home to san Francisco in fall of 1999.

We rented a car in Edinburgh, a 6 passenger Fiat Diesel Motorhome in Munich, Germany and then another car in London which we drove to stonehenge and Glastonbury, England. Another interesting place we found is the Tower of London where there are amazing things like Armor from kings and jousters and fabulous jewels and all sorts of interesting things out of history and how Crows have always been a part of English Government through Superstition too which is interesting because Crows have their own language that they teach their young (a very intelligent and social bird).

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