In Pursuit Of Maine: October 20, 2019 - The Fall of Fall

Sunday, October 20, 2019

October 20, 2019 - The Fall of Fall

What? Is it too much? Be careful as you approach, if you can at all. This was the reality all along, hiding under the counterfeit celebration, but you came for pretty colors and angelic butterflies with gossamer wings. You came for sweet scents and soft winds and gentle rays of sunshine. Because you wanted to keep the illusion alive, the vision of autumn’s splendor, the fool’s paradise of glutted satisfaction.

Is it too much? Be sure to block your sight out with an iron nail driven deeply through the eye. No amount of avoidance can be enough. No amount of pain is enough so long as it blocks out the truth, right? Go ahead and place the anointed and embalmed body in a padded coffin with lace and flowers. Paint the macabre marionette’s face to make her look alive, so you do not have to see what has been waiting for you all along.

Is it too much? Be sure to stain your vision red so you do not have to see the inky blackness. Be sure to pretend the gaping dark precipice on which you stand is just the dirt under your feet. But I have been here all along. Before you were born, I was here. After you have gone, I will still be here. I am the cycle from beginning to end. You came for lies, but I haven’t any to give you. I have loved you more than your own God ever could.

"The Plain Maine Cookbook" is my own collection of vintage Maine recipes that will immediately bring you back to a simpler time, a less confused time. These recipes are more than just comfort food. They're family food, traditional food, simple food, plain food. One bite and you'll say, "Ah, yes! I remember my grandmother used to make this. I had forgotten all about it!" Recipes for whoopie pies, funnel cakes, fried fiddleheads, haymaker's switchel, coffee can bread, glogg, and much more are in these pages. There is even a recipe on how to render lard. So open the door and go back to some simple, time-tested foods you can prepare easily. You'll find that you save money and waste less by "making do" with commodity cooking. What's in the pantry or in the garden is what's for dinner.

"So You Want to Move to Maine" is an invaluable little book in helping people to make a permanent move to Maine. It will save you a ton of time because all the initial footwork is done for you, including 100 links on how to find work and living quarters, getting your driver's license, pet requirements, programs for people with disabilities, programs for senior citizens, getting married in Maine, hidden taxes and expenses, hospitals, health insurance, handling a real winter like a pro, etc. Stop being "just a number" or another face in the crowd. Walk away from the rat race. Become boldly individualistic and make your mark in life. You can still do that in Maine, one of the last holdouts of ordinary, old-fashioned, kind, and decent American living.

I’ve chosen 37 unique fairy tales that will be loved by both adults and children as they can be read and interpreted on many levels. But if you are looking for only sweet tales that end in joy and fairness, you may want to pass this book by. Some fairy tales are simply “dark,” and that is because sometimes life is simply dark. Not always, of course, but often enough. Sometimes the hero lives; sometimes he dies. Check out my book, “Fairy Tales of Maine,” in the photo link below. If you are brave, you might just meet yourself in one of these tales.