The Landscape is changing. The land of snow is transforming into terra firma. The Old Man has been snapping many photos as memory fades. Soon, we will say what kind of winter we have, and we scratch our heads. So it goes with our walk through life. Things and places that were important to us are replaced with new causes and concerns as we travel the rocky road. My opinion of New Orleans was influenced by my visit many years ago, when it was sweltering hot, and we did not stay in the French Quarter. Our visit last month was perfect and a spiritual experience.

Time changes things. What we believe to be true may not be. The French Quarter showed the Old Man that there is a deeper meaning to life than he had conceived. A spiritual etheral element could be felt throughout the Quarter. One size of faith does not fit all. The connection of the people we met with the eternal was amazing.

‘The Old Man wondered how deep the misunderstood mystery goes. We have our creeds and doctrines and dogmas that forget the real world on the ground.’ He felt the spiritual connection with the black bartender at the Carousel Bar in the Hotel Monteleone. No one was trying to impress. There was no seeking of agency or advantage. Souls know souls without human interference. We seek our eternity wrapped up in Paper Source Beautiful Christmas Wrapping when we do not understand the gift.

We have our eternity wrapped up in a beautiful Christmas Gift. We love stories. None of us has experienced life after death and come back to tell the tale. The reality will be both exciting and sobering. There is another universe or plane of existence. We feel it all around us. We know it instinctively. An Astronaut recently commented that he observed a Blue Ball in space with a little blue cloud over it, and he realized that we live in a special place in the universe, and that it is impossible to understand why we fight each other.

Is there a Bardo as the Buddhists teach? Catholics tell us of Purgatory. How do we transition from oppinuated earthy creatures to obedient children of God? Is our transformation through our experiences with earthly humans as we see the future beyond the Veil? How is it that so many of God’s creations are relegated to the dustbin of history when they are his magnificent creations?