Just wanted to follow-up with a few things from my recent Santeria reading… If you remember, the Santero warned me about stepping in holes and twisting my ankle. Well, one night last week, I was walking in the grass by a sidewalk with some friends, and stepped on a metal plate - the kind that cover wires of something. And wouldn’t ya know, but it gave way and my foot sank into it. Luckily I didn’t hurt myself, but it was extremely close. If my foot had been an inch or two differently placed in any direction, I would have twisted by ankle badly, maybe even broken some bones.
Also recently, I played a pick-up game of pool at a local bar with an old-woman. She spent almost the whole time telling me how I should apply for a job at Microsoft. It was weird, but especially weird in light of what the Santero said about needing to figure out my career and that I should try to dream bigger than I ever thought possible. You don’t get much bigger than Microsoft. And I’m not going to go through with it, but the point was well-taken anyway.
One other thing, he suggested I get into gardening; I’m currently waiting to hear back about a job doing just that. I have no experience in it though, so who knows. I also recently found out I’m having an article published in New Dawn Magazine, and have pitched three other articles elsewhere.
Also was sent a really interesting article by my brother-in-law about how Cubans and Cuban-Americans are engaging in a whole host of Santeria rituals both for and against Castro’s health. Good stuff!
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Speaking of the “job bigger then you thought possible,” I had a dream the other day where PopOcculture became huge. Well not huge, but big. A print magazine, a vast forum… blah blah blah. My dreams are usually very personal, if bizzare and fantastic, but this was neither. In the dream, PopOcculture was part of a bigger movement that has allready begun (The DaVinci Code). It was centered around religious exploration and the like. I remember that my friends all thought I was cool because I liked it before anyone else, and I told them how that was stupid. At the time, it seamed shallow, but now it’s in perspective. Or maybe it’s just another crazy dream…
Man, that’s awesome!
the gardening advice likely would be more beneficial to you if you were growing plants for yourself, rather than as a job.