Several months ago, I mentioned that it took me 30-years to realize what 1 of my Aunts was telling me.
- Her and my Uncle lived on the next street over, when I was in high-school. At one point, I told her I was thinking about leaving home and she said I could move in with them.
- This was her way of telling me: "We're family. We help each other. If you're going to leave home, because you think you've got everything figured-out, then stay with us. We'll shelter you from the real "outside world", until you realize that living at your home, with your parents, who love you, is the best thing for you."
The reason I'm writing this is because I finally figured-out something else recently…
(Sylvia reminded me about this today.)
This one doesn't contain "pearls of wisdom". It's just a realization that I was fooled with a simply bar-trick by a family member.
- This was in the early 60s and I was about 8 or 9, which is the equivalent of a 4 or 5-year-old today. Me, my parents and a few other family members went to a small, locally-run bar-restaurant for supper. This was "old-school"… cement floor, uncomfortable bar-stools, etc.
- While we waited for a table, my Uncle sat at the bar and ordered a small glass of beer. My Dad and I were standing near him and the 2 of them were talking.
- The beer arrived and the Bartender placed it onto a napkin. My Uncle looked at me and said: "Come here. I want to show you something." So I'm now standing next to him at the bar and my Dad is standing next to me but out of my peripheral vision.
- My Uncle lifts the beer glass and moves the napkin out of the way. He reaches for the salt and says something like: "I like to put salt in my beer but I don't put it right in the glass." He then shakes-out some salt onto the counter in front of him and says: 'This is what I do. I sprinkle the salt on the counter and place the glass on top of it. Then the salt goes up into the glass. Look! You can see the bubbles going up into the glass from the salt."
- At the time… and for the last 54-years, I took this as: 1) a family sharing, 2) something I might need to know about later in life, and 3) a pearl of wisdom, which needs to be guarded.
About 2-weeks ago, that memory popped into my mind, while Sylvia and I were having breakfast at Subway. My tiny brain pulled this up because I was either finally ready to understand it or because Sylvia wanted to help me with it…
- What I realized was… my Uncle was simply "playing a joke on me" / "having a bit of fun at my expense"… because salt doesn't behave like that AND it cannot send "bubbles" through glass or influence beer in any way, from the outside of the glass.
So think of it… This is like someone telling a joke but not giving the Punch-Line until the participant is ready to hear it. He or she tells the joke and waits a few seconds. Nothing. They wait a few minutes. Nothing. My Uncle has waited 54-years for "me" to GET that Punch-Line!
- No, I can't Call him. He crossed-over a few decades ago.
- When I finally "got it", he probably told my Mom: "Your son is very smart in a lot of things but he still doesn't understand some jokes. It was just something fun to do at the time. I didn't know he would carry that unsolved memory around with him for all that time."
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REFLECTIONS
I'm including this because "IF" it's true, it just "may" be another "puzzle piece" that will help me decipher this very twisted illusion we have come to know as our "reality".
According to the Narrator in the following 14-minute video, the aluminum, being spraying into the air, is reflecting the sky. She has taken still photographs as well as video of the sky and has seen birds in-flight, which are being reflected by the clouds.
Question everything.
Here's the link to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK9juhkor00
Heres's the link to the Blogsite where I 1st learned of this:
https://outofthisworldx.wordpress.com/2016/05/28/weirdness-in-texas-sky-reflections/