Category Archives: trickster
The Trickster – or Not?
Several years ago, we wrote about our trip to a Scottish festival in Orlando and the synchronicity that occurred. The synchro seemed to suggest I should take a particular path with one of my novels. Here’s the recap of what … Continue reading
Cosmic Clown
art by deb komitor +++ I’ve been reading a book called The Trickster and the Paranormal by George Hansen, published in 2001. The book is dense, often academically dry, packed with mythological references, theories about what the paranormal is – … Continue reading
Apples to Apples and Alien Abductions
This is an odd synchro. On Thanksgiving day, our friend Rob Lockhart usually joins us for the festivities. We eat and drink and are merry, as the saying goes, and usually play Scrabble or Monopoly or some other board game … Continue reading
The Trickster, the Colorado Massacre, and Planetary Empaths
This morning (July 20) when I checked my usual news sites, the headlines in Huffington Post were shocking: Movie Theater Massacre. During the midnight premier of the new Batman movie, Dark Knight Rises, a 24-year-old man, James Holmes, entered a … Continue reading
Debby, the Trickster
Tropical storm Debby has all the earmarks of a trickster. She formed in the Gulf of Mexico last week, the first time since record keeping of storms began in 1851 that there have been four named storms in June. Initially, … Continue reading
That Ole Shadow Trickster
See that guy in the picture? This is how I visualize the shadow trickster. He’s doing a yoga posture that looks relatively easy. You just extend a leg and grab your toes and voila. You’ve got it. Try it now. … Continue reading
A Sobering Synchro
John Goodman Car bomb. That’s the name of a drink. I found that out the other day while reading an article about the trial of one of our wealthy citizens here in the Village of Wellington, Florida. John Goodman … Continue reading
The Light Bulb
This is the light bulb that Thomas Edison invented. The first successful trial of the bulb happened on October 22, 1879 and Edison was granted U.S. Patent #233,898 for the device on January 27, 1880. The rest, as they say, … Continue reading
Tony and the Trickster, Revisited
This story was originally posted back in 2009, when our blog barely a month old. It’s a wonderful example of the trickster and involved Trish’s father. At the time it occurred, in 2002, he was living in an assisted … Continue reading
Trickster Economics
On Friday afternoon, August 5, the coveted AAA credit rating the U.S. has enjoyed since 1917 was downgraded by Standard and Poor’s to AA+. This one seems to have the trickster’s footprints all over it. It’s like Smeagol on hallucinogenics … Continue reading