“Matter is Moving Atoms Timelessly Transforming Emission Recurrence. Matter is catalytic condensation.”

“What?!? By gesturing with my hand?” I asked.

“Yes.”

“Was anyone killed?”

“No, but the engineer was injured.”

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Nitty-Gritty even named the railroad. (I didn’t write it down.)

And you thought 5G is an issue!

My second longest trip was 7,000 miles round trip — Santa Barbara to Caribou, Maine, and back again, just sitting on the bus all the while.

I wrote the first draft of Butterflies Need No Taxidermist while on this ride.

A tourist was kind enough to take my photo on top of the Empire State Building.

Our bus had a flat tire just before entering Portland. Lucky for us because angry strikers turned over a Greyhound bus that arrived on time. We just encountered scattered strikers hitting the sides of the bus with their picket signs.

I’d like to think it was because I was eating On Time.

“Where would you put love? The heart is an output chakra. There’s a difference between love which comes from the heart and emotional attachment which comes from the second chakra. It’s no accident that pubic hair looks like Velcro.”

“No, Baba,” the man replied. “It was terrible. The mosquitoes kept me awake all night!”

“No mosquitoes. Only ONE mosquito,” Baba pronounced.

“Well, Baba, maybe there were only a few mosquitoes, but they kept me awake all night.”

“No FEW mosquitoes. ONE mosquito. And it was ME, at 4:00 o’clock, coming to wake you up for your meditation, but you went …”

Baba slapped his arm.