“Stinky Qi is not only sticking to your organs, but your joints and tendons … and the way you think.”

That’s why “silence is golden” and Yogis often take vows of silence (Meher Baba, etc.).

The good news is that “speech is silver.”

The plot (according to IMDb) …

“Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.”

You might remember what a junkie I was for the Detective Anna series. According to IMDb …

“A 19-year-old girl discovers that she has supernatural powers that allow her to see spirits. The spirits haunt her and she uses them to solve crimes that the police have not been able to solve.”

Q — How was the shock administered?

A — The pad was sold to set off an alarm to wake me up. It short-circuited and electrocuted my boonga, but like the villain in the 1990 Lou Diamond Phillip’s neo-noir horror film, The First Power, it resurrected.

Q — Hmm, maybe parasites? I have heard something similar before.

A — The New Age is obsessed with parasites and pink UFOs.

More likely I was really “pissed off” as a child. That’s often a cause of urinary bladder issues. It beats being “sick and tired” or “heartbroken.”

My fifth wife and I were cold in Bellingham, Washington, so I used a mirror to angle the sunlight into the window of our rented upstairs room. We basked in the sunshine while drinking our morning Cobalamin Tonics.

If we had lived there longer, I might have bought several dozen mirrors, so I wouldn’t have to go outside every so often to calibrate the single mirror to the Sun.