THE TIGER TRANSFORMING...THE GREAT WITHIN...THE GREAT DA

THE EXTREME YANG OF THE FIERCE KING OF ANIMALS...THE EYE OF THE TIGER...THE BATTING EYE...THE WIND IN MY EYE...THE FROZEN TEARDROP ON MY LENS...

INSIGHTS ...OPPOSED TO AND PROTECTING AGAINST DEMONS OF EXTREME YIN ON THE NORTH SOUTH AXIS OF THE UNIVERSAL COMPASS

IT IS ELASTICITY IN ADAPTATIONS TO MOVE WITH THE VICISSITUDES...WHAT CROSSES ONE'S PATH...

IT IS SEEING INTO 'AGO' AND MOVING TO 'A'-GO AS ONRE IS IN BAOKA MOVING THROUGH THE  DUALITY SERVITUDE OF KA INTO THE BA OF OWNING ONE'S SOUL IN THE ENCOUNTERS OF THE ABYSS-NOTHINGNESS OF 'O'...BAOKA...

TO FACE THE DARKNESS OF IAGO RHYTHMS OF MACHIAVELLIAN WAYS...

TO SEE MOTION LIFE LIQUIDITY OF A DANCE AS 'YIELDINGS REQUIRE STRENGTH'...TO GROW BEYOND PAST CONSTRAINTS...

'WHEN YOU CHANGE THE VIBRATIONS OF YOUR AWARENESS PAST ELEMENTALS THAT BOUND YOU WITHIN...KARMA CANNOT AFFECT YOU ANYMORE'-KYRIACOS MARKIDES

WATER IS 700 TIMES DENSER THAN AIR...MUCH LESS COMPRESSIBLE

SOPUND WAVES TRAVEL THROUGH AIR INTO WATERY FLUIDS IN THE INNER EAR...ONLY .1% OF THE SOUND WAVE , THE ENERGY GETS THROUGH INTO THE WATER...THE REST IS REFLECTED BACK INTO THE AIR...

FOR WHO ENCOUNTERS STARK TERRORS WITHIN ONE'S REALM...

1 2 2 1 KNIGHT MOVES IN VENUS 'L' PASSAGE ACROSS THE SUN IN 2012

SUNSPOTS AND SON SPOTS...THE LARGE MAGNETIC DISTURBANCES...IN SUNSPOT MAXIMA...GROWTH DIFFERENCES IN TREE RINGS
HUMAN AGGRESSIONS IN HOSPITAL WARDS...

THE NEVER CEASING CIRCULATIONS AS THE TAO SEEKS RETURNING[TO THE ORDER OF NATURE]...

THE I CHING AS 'RESONANCE' IN THE UNIVERSAL COMPASS




'THE KNIGHT MOVES IN THE STARLIGHT IN THE DAYTIME' SAYS BILLY...THAT'S THE 1 2 21 MOVE IN CHESS...THE WINTER SOLSTICE SHIFT IS A KNIGHT MOVE IN THE SKY...THE WOMAN VENUS OF BEAUTY  MOVES ACROSS THE SUN...LIKE THE SON AND BECOMES MY FAIR LADY...

WOW...WHERE DID YOU COME UP WITH THAT ONE BILLY SAYS DERA

OH...IT JUST MADE SENSE TO ME...AND ANOTHER THING IS 'WHAT ABOUT THE MILKY WAY BEING JUST A CANDY BAR FROM MARS'...IN THE GAL LACK TICK OF IN TICK TOCKS A 'K' SHUN OR ORION HUNTERS AS OPHIUCHUS GIVES ORION THE ANTIDOTE FOR THE SCORPIONS POISON...

ORION KILLED BEFORE RESCUE FOR THREAT TO GET RID OF ALL THE ANIMALS...

BILLY AND V2 0F A KIND RESCUE

HOLOGRAM ZONINGS OF MEDIUM MANCHURIAN SOUND BLINDNESS

FOR THE GOD ENTERED INTO HER AND USED HER VOCAL CHORDS AS IF THEY WERE HIS OWN.. THE DELPHIC UTTERANCES ARE ALWAYS IN THE FIRST PERSON, NEVER IN THE THIRD...THE 'REED' MY LIPS OF AVATAR, MEDIUM, CHANNELLIZINGS OF TALENTS, PERFORMERS IN ROLES-ELECTRONIC SURROGATES IN A TONGUE-LAND DREAM

WALLING OF ENCOUNTERS...IMAGINATION AND BARRIERS, PASSAGEWAYS AND PERMEATIONS

THE MAGICIAN...TO INVOKE IS TO CALL IN...TO EVOKE IS TO CALL FORTH...

IN INVOKATION THE MACROCOSM FLOODS THE CONSCIOUSNESS

IN EVOCATION, THE MAGICIAN HAVING BECOME THE MACROCOSM CREATES A MICROCOSM...YOU INVOKE A GOD INTO A CIRCLE...YOU EVOKE A SPIRIT INTO A TRIANGLE..

IDENTITY IS INVOLVED IN LOVE AND SURRENDER, BY GIVING UP ALL ILLUSORY OR SUPPRESSING ALL IRRELEVANT PARTS OF SELF...

IT IS PAYING ATTENTION TO THE DESIRED...THE POTTING AND EXPOSURE TO THE SUN...

IT IS SYMPATHY IN BECOMING THE PLAY OR PERFORMER...IT IS THE SWELLING OF VALUE...

GILGAMESH...

SEEING GILGAMESH IN THE PIMA CLOUDS...

FOR THE QUEST TO THE WATERS OF THE GREAT DEEP...FRESHWATER SEA UNDER THE EARTH...TO FIND A MAGICKAL PLANT THAT WILL RESTORE HIM TO HIS YOUTH...

THE ANTIDOTE TO THE FEAR OF DEATH[PLANT] UNLIKE FRUIT OF TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL IN PARADISE...GARDEN OF EDEN...

THE PLANT IS A MEDICINE THAT USES SYMPTOMS TO RELEASE FEARS OF DEATH/POSTPONE DEATH...

JOURNEY OF WHOLENESS IN HIS RETURN...NOT A KILLING THE BEAST AND VIOLENCE, HUBRIS, DEATH...

A CARELESS MISTAKE...GILGAMESH LEAVES THE PLANT ON THE GROUND WHILE HE BATHES AND A SNAKE  CONSUMES IT IN PLEASURE AND THEN SHEDS ITS SKIN INT TRANSFORMATION..

TO REALIZE WHY AND SEE SNAKE AS HEARTS BLOOD LABORS???

NO RETURN TO YOUTH...JUST FREEDOM TO GO FORWARD...WHEN THERE IS NO WAY OUT GO /FOLLOW THE WAY IN FRONT OF YOU...

CHINESE ONE STEP...A THOUSAND MILE JOURNEY...

THE FUTILITY OF GLIGAMESH'S QUEST...NO WAY TO OVERCOME DEATH...NO WAY TO OVERCOME REALITY...THE CONSTANTLY DISINTEGRATING AGAINST THE MIND'S SEARCH FOR MEANING IN ORDER, CONTROL...

TO COME HOME TO REALITY WHERE THE HOME HAS ALWAYS BEEN...

THE FLOOD...IN THE POOL 1.04.10...

GEORGE SMITH, AN ENGLISH ARCHAEOLOGIST, FOUND A DESCRIPTION OF A 'SUMERIAN' STORY WHERE ONE MAN SAVES HIS FAMILY AND SAMPLES OF ANIMALS ABOARD A SHIP...

GILGAMESH, KING OF AKKADIAN TOWN OF ERECH ...IN SEARCH OF ETERNAL LIFE AND FINDS UT-NAPISHTIM...WHO HAS ETERNAL LIFE AND TELLS HIM THE STORY

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY...

UT-NAPISHTIM WAS KING OF A SUMERIAN CITY AT THE TIME OF THE FLOOD AND RODE IT OUT IN A LARGE SHIP. GILGAMESH OBTAINED THE SECRET OF ETERNAL LIFE FROM HIM, NEARLY OBTAINED THE NECESSARY CONDITIONS, AND THROUGH MISADVENTURE LOST IT.

IN THE 600 HUNDRED YEAR OF NOAHS LIFE...

A LARGE METEORITE IMPACT CAUSED SUDDEN RISE OF WORLD WATERS ARCHIMEDES SPLASH AND RECEDINGS IN MONTHS AS ALL IS MUDDIED AND MAINTENANCE[HOFFER] IS TRUE TEST OF CIVILIZATION...

TWIN GIRLS AND DERA...

FLOAT A CHECK OVER THE WEEKEND...

BILLY DREAMS OF THE RAINSTORM OF A FEW DAYS...40 DAZE 40 FOETUS 40 IN DESERT

NOAH'S ARK FLOATS FOR MONTHS...DOVE RETURNS WITH A BRANCH...
TIDAL WAVE...TSUNAMI
KATRINA...

ARC OF THE COVENANT?...ARCHIMEDES DISPLACEMENT...DUALITY BAOKA DOUBLINGS AND PARALLEL BARS

BEING IN FIREWATERS PARALLEL OF BARS...AL CO HAUL ISMS OF DREAM CULTURE...ENTERTAINMENT...

WATERS SLOWLY RECEDE...

GILGAMESH...

BELIEF IN BEING BEYOND OTHERS AS SURVIVING THE FLOOD...
VISION INTO THE GREAT MYSTERY...SECRETIONS AND URGENCIES...
TO SEE THE TERROR AND HORROR OF ALL EXCEPT THE 2X2 AND 1X1 OF PARALLELISMS...NOAHS ARC...DUALITY...

WHEN THERE IS NO WAY OUT JUST FOLLOW THE WAY IN FRONT OF YOU...
MEETING THE WISE GUIDE...
CROSSING THE THRESHOLD INTO NUMINOUS WORLD OF ADVENTURE...
PASSING VARIOUS TESTS...
DEFEATING FORCES OF EVIL...
RETURNING WITH THE WISDOM...
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SHAMAT...LOVE ARTS TO CIVILIZE HIM...7 DAYS OF BEING ERECT...INITIATION AND PRESENCE OF ORIGINS...

NOTES OF NOAH

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BOBCATS AND MINERVA…BILLY

THE EMPERORS NEW CLOTHES AS H.R.DRESS FOR SUCCESS AND INSIGHTS STORY OF WILL NOAH TO BILLY WHILE AT ZOO/BKFST

CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE…KATDOLOGO CAT…BILLY STORY SEEING SIGNS

BILLY NOAH… ‘KATDOLOGO’… OR

THE ANIMALS IN THE OFFICE

3D AVATAR UNDER RHYTHMS OF 2/3RDS OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AWE DAZE

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‘THE SHEPHERD DRIVES THE WOLF FROM THE SHEEP’S THROAT, FOR WHICH THE SHEEP THANKS THE SHEPhERD AS HIS LIBERATOR, WHILE THE WOLF DENOUNCES HIM FOR THE SAME ACT AS THE DESTROYER OF LIBERTY’

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 1864.



‘A LITTLE NEGLECT MAY BREED MISCHIEF…

…FOR WANT OF A NAIL THE SHOE WAS LOST; FOR WANT OF A SHOE THE HORSE WAS LOST; AND FOR WANT OF A HORSE THE RIDER WAS LOST’

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN



THE WOLVES ARE THE PROFIT TAKERS…

THE BULLS DROVE IT UP AND THE SHEEP HIDE

AS THE BEARS COME OUT OF HIBERNATION.

THE ‘INSIDERS’ DRIVE IT AS ‘KEYED BY’

A ‘GREENSPAN’ OF ATTENTION…

IT IS ‘WALL STREET TAKES CARE OF ITS’ OWN

THE ‘HAVE TO HAVE’ GAME

THE ‘SPEED OF THE GREED’

THE NUCLEAR COMBUSTION OF CAPITAL…

FINANCING A MOMENTUM OF ‘BUILDING PYRAMIDS’

BELIEVING IN THE ILLUSION OF JUSTICE

THAT IS THE ‘TRICKLE DOWN’ SCHEME…

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BIBLE 'WICKEDNESS OF HUMANKIND' IN A TIME WHERE 120 YEARS WAS LIFE SPAN[ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS...2010 0R 2020]...NOAH FAVORED BY THE LORD AS THE LORD WAS SORRY OF CREATING ANIMALS, PEOPLE AND CREEPING THINGS[CREEP-WATERGATE] AND BIRDS...SWINE FLU/BIRD FLU
CORRUPT EARTH...MING MERCILESS...GLOBAL WARMING...MELTING
MEDIA SEXOMONEY VIOLENCE IN THE WAYS...CORRUPTION OF FLESH...FALSE IDOLS IN TV AND GOSSIP LAWS OF FLAWS...
TO COVER THE ARK INSIDE AND OUT WITH 'PITCH'[BILLY PITCHER] PITCH OF A BITCH IN FLIP A BITCH GET A FREE CAR WASH DISPLAY...
CYPRESS WOOD...SIGH PRESS WOULD...INTO THE WOODS...ZONINGS OF COMPRESSIONS FOR DUALITY...BAOKA DREAMS AND AVATAR MEDIUM SAVANT CHANNELLINGS OF ...
TO ESTABLISH A COVENANT...NEW DAY...END/BEGINNING OUT OF 2012 12/21/12...2 OF EVERY KIND AND ALL FOODS TO STORE ..7 PAIRS WITH ADVANCE WARNING OF 7 DAYS IT WILL RAIN

NOAH WAS 600 YEARS OLD AT FLOOD TIME IN THE 2ND MONTH AND 17TH DAY ALL THE FOUNTAINS BURST FORTH AND WINDOWS OPENED...40 DAYS  AS THE ARK ROSE UP IN THE SWELLINGS ABOVE THE HIGH MOUNTAINS[WATER OVER MOUNTAIN-I CHING AND FENG SHUI]...ALL OF FLESH AND NOSTRIL BREATH WERE OVERWHELMED BY THE WATERS[SORCERORS APPRENTICE-MICKEY/MINNIE NOAHS ARK]...PAIRS IN PARIS

THE WATERS SWELLED FOR 150 DAYS AFTER THE 40 DAYS OF RAIN...40 FOETAL GLASS CASE PARALLELISM PARALLEL BARS...FIREWATERS OF THE DELUGE IN AL CO HALL DREAM FLOODINGS OF BREWINGS, GETTING SLOSHED IN TAIL-GAITS AND TAILGATINGS...
AN EMOTIONAL DESERT COOL FIRE RAININGS WITHIN AND IN THE GLOBAL ORDER...

A MIGHTY WIND CLEANSED AND AWE RESTORED AS FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP[COSMIC WATERS] AND WINDOWS OF HEAVENDOME OF THE SKY] CLOSED...ANAL AND ORAL...THE SENSAMORA CONSUMPTIONS OF BUY AND BECOME...THE MIMESIS GODS OF EMULATION IN SEXOMONEY...

THE PITCH COATED ARK...THE LAST WAVE OF THE DREAMTIME SOUTH PACIFIC...FIJI HEALING OUT OF THE SPLIT OF SOLOMON STAITS OF BLACKETTS PT BOAT SPLIT IN TWO...ASS SASS SIN NATION...PSYCHE TSUNAMI OUT OF AB ORIGINAL TIME...IN BACK BREAKING AND REARINGS OF GREER AUSTRALIA RELEVANT GERMAINE TIME...FULLNESS OUT OF G DEPTHS OF ORGASMIC CONVULSIVENESS ...OUT OF SELF ABSORBED AUTO EROTIC IN JULIA KRISTEVA ABOUT CHINESE WOMEN IN SENSES OF MIDDLE KINGDOM FOOT BINDINGS OF HIP WARS CURLING DISTORTIONS OF POWER GREATER THAN LOVE AS INTENSITY DENSITY GREATER THAN PRESENCE...

IT WAS THE FLOOD OVER THE LEVERAGED BURSTING THE SOAP OPERA BUBBLES OF REFLECTION...
A TRUTH OF URGENCY EXPRESSION WILLING TO BE ALONE IN A RHYTHM OF REAL SENSES DEMANING AUTHENTICITY IN 'FELT' OUT OF DEEP THROAT ILLUSIONS OF 'W' MARK FELT TIMES OF MEDIUM CONDUITS OF RACING EDGES OF PSYCHE DRAMAS...GOSSIP LAWS OF FLAWS AND APPLAUSE

FOR AT THE TENTH MONTH[10TH LUNAR MONTH] ON THE FIRST DAY THE WATERS CONTINUED TO ABATE AS THE TOPS OF THE MOUNTAINS APPEARED...

THE RAVEN RELEASED...THE RA VENT... AS EGYPT RA OR POE QUOTE SENT OUT AND THE WINGS DRIED UP THE WATERS YET THE DOVE MADE TWO TRIPS UNTIL FINDING AN OLIVE LEAF...THEN SENT THE DOVE AGAIN AFTER 7 MORE DAYS AND THE DOVE RETURNED NO MORE...MORE RA YA


IN THE YEAR 601...THE WATERS DRYING UP...2ND MONTH...27TH DAY...TIME TO LEAVE THE ARK...BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY...AS THE 'FEAR AND DREAD' IS IN ALL THE ANIMALS AND BIRDS AND CREEPS...
FOR BLOODSHED SHALL BE BLOODSHED CONSEQUENCE  TO TRANSGRESSORS...AND THE BOW IN THE SKY OF STORM AND FLOOD SHALL BE REMINDER..THE COVENANT

COVE N ANT...

IT IS THE DIONYSIAN 'NOAH' PLANTING A VINEYARD AND MAKING WINE AND GETTING DRUNK AND BEING SEEN BY THE SONS IN HIS NAKEDNESS...SHAME FORTRESSING AND THE GARMENT TO COVER THE FATHER[SHEM AND JAPHETH TOLD BY HAM,[ THE FATHER OF CANAAN] AND TOOK A GARMENT AS THEY WALKED BACKWARD AND TOOK THE GARMENT OFF THEIR SHOULDERS AND AVERTED THEIR FACES PLACING THE GARMENT ON NOAH...WHEN NOAH WOKE FROM HIS WINE AND KNEW WHAT HIS YOUNGEST SON HAD DONE HE CURSED 'CANAAN' TO BE THE LOWEST OF SLAVES TO HIS BROTHERS AND SHEM WOULD HAVE CANAAN AS HIS SLAVES[DOMINO SALES MGR AND SYCOPHANTS] AND SPACE FOR JAPHETH LET CANAAN BE HIS SLAVE...
NOAH LIVED 350 YEARS AFTER THE FLOOD TO 950

HOT ISLAND HOTTIE...HAM IS HOT IN HEBREW...HE 'BREW' OF CREATIVE YIN BECOMINGS...HAM LET AND HAMLIN...THE PORK SANDWICH SAND 'WHICH' OF CONSCIOUSNESS DELINEATIONS OF MOISTURES OF DIFFERENCES

TO ENCOUNTER THE TOWER OF BABEL IN 'DUBAI' OR 'DEW-BI' EMPIRE

REAGAN DRUNK FATHER ON FRONT LAWN...TIM DALTON DEATH
PATRICK MOWS LAWN AND LAW'N...MOHS LAW OF HARD/SOFT/ CHUKCHEE SHAMAN BEING SOFT TO DIE RECEPTIVITY...,

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PORK FEST PICNIC AWE DAZE  DUH
Are you kidding? It would be an honor,” the governor of Florida tells a guy wearing a kilt who had asked for a photo.




“Thank you for coming to Pensacola, Governor,” a woman says.



“Call me Charlie,” he insists. “Please! Just call me Charlie. It would be an honor.”



Many things are an honor to Crist — if they are not a “pleasure” or a “privilege.” On a chilly-for-Florida Thursday night in early December, Crist was addressing the annual Lincoln Day Dinner for the local Republican Party in the northwestern outpost of Escambia County in the Florida Panhandle — nearly as close to Cincinnati as it is to Miami.



“God bless you here in the Panhandle, for your values,” Crist tells the crowd.



Crist, who is 53, is a compact and sunbaked raisin of a man with a shock of white hair, a beak nose and dark Mediterranean eyes. His grandfather, a Greek immigrant, shined shoes for $5 a day in Altoona, Pa., after leaving Cyprus at age 14; his father, a family doctor, shortened the last name from Christodoulos and settled in St. Petersburg when Charlie was 4. If the Crist family owned a Greek diner, Charlie would be the maître d’ who delivers you to your favorite table, asks about your mother and tells you to not miss the rice pudding.



The people of the Panhandle are “the greatest people I have ever met,” he says. He likes people, no doubt — “the people’s governor” is always reminding “people” how driven he is to help “the people” of Florida, in accordance with the “will of the people” who gave him “the pleasure, the privilege and the honor” to be their governor so he can “help the people.” As recently as last spring, Crist’s standing in Florida and with Republicans nationally was as golden as his skin. But these days not all of the people are happy with Charlie Crist. And a lot of them are in his party.

IT IS A TRUTH THAT PEOPLE ONLY LEARN WHAT THEY DISCOVER FOR THEMSELVES…MANY WILL ACT IN WAYS THAT MAY BE CONTRARY TO THEIR REAL NEEDS…THERE IS AN INERTIA OF CULTURE SPLITTING THE COUNTRY INTO DIFFERENCES…IT IS MORE THAN THE FRAGMENTATION OF MARKET SHARE AND THE UGLINESS OF THE GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR…IT IS A SPIRITUAL GAP BETWEEN THE WILL OF THE HEART AND THE SELFISHNESS OF A SELF ABSORBED ENVIRONMENT…







‘…AND THE TIMIDITY OF MEN ACTS AS A MULTIPLIER OF TRUTHS AND UNTRUTHS’… CLAUSEWITZ






‘THE FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS’…JOHN ADAMS


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ANIMALS HAVE BEEN USED AS SYMBOLS OF IDENTITY AND SPIRIT…ANIMALS HAVE BEEN USED TO REPRESENT CHARACTER AND TEMPERAMENT…ANIMALS ARE USED FOR INDIVIDUAL STATES OF ‘VISION SEEKING’ AND PERSONAL POWER AFFIRMATION…HUMANS HAVE WORN SKINS AND FEATHERS…. CONSUMED THE ENERGIES OF BEASTS AND BIRDS…LEARNED TO IMITATE THE WAYS OF ANIMALS AND TOLD STORIES OF CREATION AND THE FORCES OF NATURE USING ANIMALS…


ANIMALS HAVE BEEN PAINTED ON CAVES AND SACRIFICED FOR THE FERTILITY OF THE COMMUNITY…


ANIMALS ARE USED TO MEDIATE THE DIVIDE BETWEEN THE POWERS OF THE GODS AND THE REALM OF HUMANS…SHAMANS AND SPIRITUAL LEADERS ENTER THIS TWILIGHT WORLD AS THE INTERPRETERS OF THE MEANINGS OF THE LIFE FORCE ENERGIES…






‘BILLY NOAH’ IS A DIALOGUE JOURNEY INTO THE ECHOES AND DREAMS OF A YOUNG BOY TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE CORPORATE REALM OF HIS FATHER…THE CORPORATE JUNGLE WITH ITS LOGOS AND LOW GHOSTS, POWER ANIMALS AND EROS IMAGERY…IT IS AN IMAGINARY JOURNEY SEEKING TO KNOW THE WAYS OF THE WORLD…






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BILLY NOAH






‘DID YOU GET CALLED BY A REAL ‘HEADHUNTER’?’…BILLY NOAH EXCITEDLY ASKED.






WILL NOAH LAUGHED






‘Y’KNOW, A REAL HEADHUNTER LIKE THE KIND THAT ‘EAT PEOPLE THAT THEY BOIL IN BIG POTS’’






‘NOT EXACTLY’ …WILL NOAH RESPONDED






‘WELL WHAT KIND OF A HEADHUNTER WAS HE DAD? IS IT THE KIND THAT JUST TORTURES YOU AND THROWS YOU TO THE WOLVES?’






‘BILLY…YOU HAVE SEEN TOO MANY MOVIES…THESE HEADHUNTERS ARE JUST SEARCHERS WHO GET PAID TO FIND THE RIGHT PERSON FOR A JOB’






‘AH…SEARCHERS WITH FLASHLIGHTS …’






WILL NOAH INTERRUPTED HIS SON BEFORE COULD RUN OFF ON INTO ONE OF HIS TANGENTS… ‘OKAY BILLY…IT IS TIME FOR SOME BREAKFAST’






A VOICE FROM THE KITCHEN ASKED ‘WHAT’S IT GONNA BE?’…DARA NOAH, BILLY’S MOTHER WAITED FOR THE ANSWER.






‘MOM…ITS’ GOTTA BE EGGS…ALL SCRAMBLED UP WITH ALL KINDS OF PEPPERS AND SOME SWEET MELON ON THE SIDE …’






‘WE WANT EGGS TOO’…THE SIMULTANEOUS VOICES OF AMY AND CINDY…BILLY’S TWIN SISTERS






‘OKAY, SURE, FINE, WHATEVER…’ WILL NOAH LAUGHS.






‘HEY DADDY…BILLY SAID THAT THE HEADHUNTERS WERE GOING TO EAT YOUR ‘BRAINS’…THE TWINS SPOKE EXACTLY IN HARMONY.






‘BILLY…DID YOU SAY THAT? ASKED DARA






‘MAYBE’…






‘BILLY… I SAID THAT THEY WERE GOING TO ‘PICK’ MY BRAIN…’ SAID WILL






‘WELL YOU ALWAYS TELL ME TO NOT ‘PICK AT MY FOOD’ EXCLAIMS BILLY.






‘BILLY YOUR FATHER SAID THAT THEY WEREN’T REALLY INTERESTED IN HIM AS AN IMMEDIATE CHOICE…THEY JUST WANTED TO CHECK HIM OUT…YOU KNOW… ‘TO PICK HIS BRAIN’…DARA SMILED.






‘WELL THAT’S GOOD, ISN’T IT? BILLY ASKED.






‘WE LIKE YOUR BRAIN, DADDY’ THE TWINS SMILED SIMULTANEOUSLY.






‘WELL THEY DO PAY ME TO USE MY BRAINS’…SAYS WILL NOAH.






‘THAT’S WHY YOU ARE THE V.P.OF H.R. AT C.P.I….SAYS BILLY.






THE TWINS MOCK BILLY… ‘VPHRCPI’…






ALL RIGHT IT IS TIME TO EAT…SAYS DARA






‘WE HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM’…SAY THE TWINS






‘I WILL KEEP IT WARM FOR YOU TWO…BILLY, YOU AND WILL GO AHEAD’…






‘TICK, TOCK…TICK,TOCK…TICK,TOCK…THE TWINS SING AS THEY GO OFF TO THE BATHROOM.






‘IT IS A GOOD THING WE HAVE TWO BATHROOMS---WHY DO THEY HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME?’ BILLY SOUNDED A LITTLE FRUSTRATED AS HE LOOKED AT HIS MOTHER






‘I’D SAY THEY ARE A BIT ‘IN TICK-TOCKS A KATED’ SAYS BILLY






DARA SMILES AND LOOKS AT BILLY…‘BILLY… TRY TO BE A LITTLE MORE UNDERSTANDING… THEY WILL GROW OUT OF THEIR SAMENESS AND LEARN TO DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY…IT JUST MIGHT TAKE SOME TIME’






‘BEST EGGS I HAVE EVER HAD…WILL NOAH PATS HIS STOMACH AND SMILES AFFECTIONATELY AT DARA.






BILLY GROANS ‘OH YOU SAY THAT EVERY TIME THAT MOM MAKES EGGS’.






‘GOOD OF YOU TO NOTICE MY FINE FEATHERED FRIEND’…WILL RAZZES BILLY.






‘I’M DONE’.






‘OKAY, GO WASH AND STRAIGHTEN UP YOUR ROOM IF YOU WANT TO GO TO THE ZOO’.DARA SPOKE PROVIDING DIRECTION TO BILLY BEFORE HE COULD RUN OFF ON ANOTHER FLIGHT OF FANCY…






‘AH YES…MY FINE FEATHERED FRIEND…GO GET READY’ …SAYS WILL






BILLY TOOK OFF AND ARRIVED AT THE STAIRS JUST AS THE TWINS WERE COMING DOWN… HE GREETED THEM… ‘IT’S ALI AND NAVI…THE GATOR SISTERS…’






‘DADDY… MAKE HIM STOP CALLING US ALLIGATORS AND NAVIGATORS’… THE TWINS WHINED’.






‘WELL YOU TWO DID SOUND LIKE CROCODILES AND ‘CLOCKADILES’ WHEN YOU ‘TICK, TOCKED’ YOUR WAY TO THE BATHROOM A FEW MINUTES AGO’…


WILL NOAH LAUGHS SOME MORE






BILLY CALLS OUT ‘TICK TOCK…TICK TOCK..LOOK AT THE TWO OF YOU… YOU ARE BOTH ‘IN TICK-TOCKS A KATED’






THE TWINS CALL BACK AT BILLY… ‘WHAT TIME ARE ‘YOU’ WHEN MOM SAYS THAT YOU ALWAYS LOSE TRACK OF TIME’?






‘I’M THE MAN FROM MARS AND YOU TWO ARE ‘MOON GIRLS’ WHO ARE ALWAYS LOST IN SPACE’…BILLY SAYS AS HE OPENS HIS DOOR AND GOES INTO HIS BEDROOM.






BILLY’S BEDROOM HAS ANIMALS ON ALL THE SHELVES AND WINDOW SILLS.THERE ARE ZOO PICTURES FROM SEVERAL DIFFERENT ZOOS…BILLY READS THE QUOTE NEXT TO AN OWL…






… ‘THE WISE OLD OWL SAT IN AN OAK…


THE MORE HE KNEW…THE LESS HE SPOKE’






BILLY STRAIGHTENS UP HIS ROOM AND THEN DASHES DOWN THE STAIRS… ‘HEY DAD, HOW DO YOU KNOW THE OWL IS SMART IF HE DOESN’T SAY ANYTHING’?






‘WELL, THE OWL SEES IN THE DARKNESS AND BIDES HIS TIME… SORT OF LIKE YOUR MOTHER’ SAYS WILL NOAH






‘IF HE BIDES HIS TIME…HOW MANY WATCHES DOES HE WEAR’ ASKS THE TWINS.






‘NO MORE THAN 24’ SAYS DARA






‘24?’…WHY ‘24’…BILLY ASKS THEN ANSWERS ‘OH YEAH…TIME ZONES…ALL AROUND THE WORLD.






‘OWLS DON’T WEAR WATCHES, DO THEY MOM?’ THE TWINS SAY KNOWING THAT THIS IS JUST ANOTHER GAME…






‘NOPE, THE OWL IS A ‘WATCH’ BECAUSE HE ‘WATCHES’ ALL THE TIME’ PUNS DARA.






‘WHY’ ,EXCLAIM THE TWINS.






‘BECAUSE HE DECIDES ‘WHO’ AND ‘HOO’… ‘WHO, WHO ARE YOU?’ EXPLAINS DARA.






‘THAT’S RIGHT’, SAYS WILL NOAH. HE KNOWS HOW TO WATCH AND HE ASKS ‘WHO’ TO FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE….HE KNOWS HOW TO BE PATIENT AND SILENT.






‘IS MOM AN OWL?’ ASKS BILLY






‘YEAH, SOMETIMES SHE JUST WAITS AND WATCHES…BIDING HER TIME…THEN SHE SUDDENLY SWOOPS DOWN, DARES AND DOES…’ WILL NOAH GLANCES FONDLY AT HIS WIFE DARA.






‘MOM, IS THAT WHY YOUR NAME IS LIKE ‘DARE’? ... BILLY ASKS.






THE TWINS SPEAK PROUDLY AND LOUDLY… ‘MOM CLIMBED THAT MOUNTAIN LAST YEAR…WHEN HER BOSS DOUBLE-DARED HER TO DO IT…’






DARA SMILES… ‘OKAY…OKAY…THE TRUTH IS THAT IT IS TIME FOR YOU TWO TO GET READY TO GO TO THE ZOO WITH BILLY AND YOUR FATHER’.






‘WE WANT TO PLAY IN THE YARD…WE DON’T HAVE TO GO… DO WE MOM?’






‘OKAY…OKAY…YOU TWO HAVE TO PROMISE THAT YOU WILL NOT DISTURB ME …I HAVE A LOT TO DO AND I WAS PLANNING TO SPEND THE DAY BY MYSELF’.






‘WE WILL’.






BILLY LAUGHS AT THEM…NO YOU TWO ARE NOT ‘WE WILL’…DADDY IS HE ‘WILL’






EVERYONE SMILES…AS DARA SPEAKS ‘BILLY, YOU AND YOUR FATHER ARE ON YOUR OWN…DON’T GET LOST AND FORGET TO COME HOME’…






‘YEAH, BILLY AND I ARE OFF TO FIND THE ‘BOTTOM LION’…SAYS WILL






‘YEAH, WE ARE LOOKING FOR THE PROPHET WHO LIVES NEAR THE ‘BOTTOM LION’ SAYS BILLY






‘OKAY…I HAVE TO MEET A ‘DEAD LION’ IN ORDER TO GET A PROFIT…THAT’S THE ‘DEADLINE’ THAT MATTERS TODAY…






‘THAT’S WHERE THE ‘BOTTOM LION’ IS SOMETIMES THE ‘LYIN’ LION…THE TWINS SINGSONG AND LOOK AT THEIR MOTHER… ‘ISN’T THAT TRUE? MOM.’






‘ENOUGH’… SAYS DARA.






‘NO WONDER WHY THOSE HEADHUNTERS ARE LOOKING FOR YOU…THERE IS NO PROPHET AT THE BOTTOM LINE BECAUSE THE ‘LYIN LION ATE HIM’ SAYS BILLY






‘THOSE HEADHUNTERS ARE LOOKING FOR WILL BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT HE IS NOT A PARROT’…AND THAT’S WHAT MAKES US ALL PROUD OF HIM…DARA HUGS BILLY AND THEN KISSES WILL…HAVE A GOOD TIME.






‘BYE BILLY.BYE DADDY’ SAY THE TWINS.










‘HOW DO YOU KNOW WHO IS A PARROT AND WHO IS REAL? ASKS BILLY AS WILL DRIVES PAST SOME LIQUOR BILLBOARD ADVERTISING.






‘MOST OF THE TIME YOU HAVE TO TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS AND MAKE GOOD CHOICES…DECISIONS THAT ARE PROFESSIONAL NOT POLITICAL…DECISIONS CONSISTENT WITH YOUR PURPOSE NOT DECISIONS TO TRY FOR ‘SPOTLIGHTS’ OR ‘WINNING CHEERS’…SAYS WILL






YOU MEAN LIKE WHEN YOU TELL ME TO PLAY THE BALL GAME AS IF YOU WERE PLAYING IN FRONT OF AN ‘EMPTY STANDS’…SAYS BILLY.






‘YEAH…YOU HAVE TO STAY FOCUSED AND TRUST YOUR ‘INSTINCTS’…WILL POINTS TO THE ZOO SIGN…WE ARE ALMOST THERE.






‘INSTINCTS’? ...TELL ME ABOUT ‘INSTINCTS’, DAD.


‘IT IS YOUR BALANCE MOVING THROUGH A SENSE OF TIMING AND RELEASE AS YOU FOCUS ON YOUR INTENTION…PLAYING,WORKING,DRIVING AND LEARNING… IT IS AN AWARENESS OF THE ENERGIES AND MOTIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENT…’SAYS WILL






‘THAT’S WHY THEY CALL IT A JUNGLE’…LAUGHS BILLY.






‘IT IS THE INNER SENSE OF BEING WHEN YOU DECIDE …TO CHANGE…TO MOVE...TO STAY IN YOUR SPACE…IT IS YOUR DANCE THAT GETS YOU TO WHERE YOU WANT TO BE…’SAYS WILL.






‘SO WHEN I RUN WITH THE BALL I HAVE TO SENSE ALL OF THE OTHERS AND TRUST MY INSTINCTS AS I MOVE TOWARDS THE ‘TOUCHDOWNS’…SAYS BILLY.






‘YOU HAVE TO KNOW YOUR PARTNERS…YOUR TEAM MATES…YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHO BEST TO RELY UPON WHEN THE FORCES AGAINST YOU ARE VERY COMPLEX’ SAYS WILL.






‘PASS, HAND-OFF,TAKE THE EXTRA BASE, FAKE LEFT…GO RIGHT, MAKE A LATERAL…SAYS BILLY






‘BEING SILENT OR SPEAKING UP’ SAYS WILL.






‘LIKE MOM…WHEN SHE IS AN OWL’. SAYS BILLY














BILLY AND WILL ARRIVE AT THE ENTRANCE AND GO INTO THE ZOO…






‘I GUESS HE GOT ‘OUTFOXED’…WILL SAYS TO BILLY AS THEY PASS A SILVER FOX IN A CAGE …






‘HE KEEPS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO ESCAPE…TO GO HUNTING FOR SOME CHICKS AND HENS’…LAUGHS BILLY






‘HE IS THE PRIZE OF A FOX HUNT… ‘HOUNDED’ INTO CAPTIVITY…LONGING TO BE IN HIS OWN ‘NATURE’…HIS TRUTH.






‘SO HE GOT CAUGHT…TRAPPED…’SAYS BILLY.






‘THEY USED HIS ‘INSTINCTS’ TO TRAP HIM’ SAYS WILL






‘HOW WOULD THEY DO THAT?’ ASKS BILLY






‘THE OLD ‘BAIT AND SWITCH’…THEY TRICKED HIM SAYS WILL






‘THEY TRAPPED HIM BY TRICKING HIM’ SAYS BILLY






‘THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF TRAPS…HUNGER CAN BLIND YOU TO WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON…EVERY ONE OF US IS HUNGRY FOR SOMETHING’ SAYS WILL






‘SO THEY TRAPPED HIM WITH ‘FOOD’? ASKS BILLY






‘WHO KNOWS…HE CERTAINLY DIDN’T SURRENDER…WOULD YOU?’ ASKS WILL






‘NO…AS LONG AS THERE IS A CHANCE TO WIN THE GAME I’LL KEEP GOING’ SAYS BILLY






‘THAT’S WHY YOU PRACTICE AND DO YOUR HOMEWORK…TEMPERING YOUR INSTINCTS’SAYS WILL






‘YEAH,LIKE MOM SAYS ‘LIONS WILL ALWAYS BE LIONS’






‘…AND THAT’S THE BOTTOM LION’…THEY BOTH LAUGH










‘HEY, LET’S GO OVER BY THE MONKEY MOUNTAIN…WE CAN WATCH THEM MONKEYING AROUND’ SAYS BILLY






THE MONKEYS ARE ALL RUNNING AROUND…PLAYING, FIGHTING ,


AND GROOMING… ONE MONKEY SEEMS TO BE DASHING ALL AROUND WITH A PIECE OF RED CLOTH…USING IT AS A SCARF OR A HAT OR A FLAG OF SOME SORT…MAYBE IT IS JUST SOME PAPER OR A RED BAG OF SOME KIND… ALL THE OTHER MONKEYS ARE FASCINATED AS HE CLIMBS AND JUMPS ALL OVER THE MOUNTAIN….






‘IT IS LIKE HE IS WAVING IT IN FRONT OF THE OTHERS’…SAYS BILLY






‘YEAH…THEY SEEM ALMOST HYPNOTISED BY THE FLASHING OF THE RED FLAG…LIKE A BULL WHO JUST KEEPS CHARGING AS IT IS GORED BY THE MATADOR.’SAYS WILL






‘THE BULL DOESN’T KNOW WHEN TO STOP ‘CHARGING’ SAYS BILLY






‘IT IS LIKE YOUR MOTHER SAYS…TOO MUCH CHARGING CAN GET YOU INTO TOO MUCH DEBT’ SAYS WILL






‘‘DEBT’ OR ‘DEATH’?… ASKS BILLY






‘WELL, DEBT IS A FORM OF DEATH…YOU HAVE TO USE SOME OF YOUR LIFE ENERGIES, YOUR VALUABLE TIME… JUST TO GET MONEY TO PAY OFF YOUR DEBT...SAYS WILL






‘A DRAIN…’SAYS BILLY






‘SEE THAT BIG MONKEY OVER THERE…HE IS ABOUT TO TAKE THAT FLAG AWAY FROM THE MONKEY THAT KEEPS RUNNING ALL AROUND…SAYS WILL






‘HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT? ASKS BILLY






‘JUST WATCH HIM…LOOK AT HIM…HE IS GETTING ANTSY…HE IS JUST WAITING FOR THAT RED FLAG MONKEY TO COME CLOSE AND HE WILL TAKE IT AWAY’ SAYS WILL






‘HEY,HE TOOK IT AWAY AND KNOCKED THE MONKEY DOWN WITH ONE SWEEP OF HIS ARM… HE JUST GRABBED IT AND ALL THE OTHER MONKEYS JUST WATCHED…SAYS BILLY






‘NOW THE OTHERS ARE AFRAID…AND THE BIG MONKEY HAS THE RED FLAG…HE IS JUST SITTING ON TOP OF THAT HILL SHOWING THE OTHERS THAT HE CAN TAKE WHATEVER HE WANTS…SAYS WILL






‘WOW, HE PUT IT INTO HIS MOUTH AND HE IS CHEWING ON IT’ SAYS BILLY






SUDDENLY THE BIG MONKEY TAKES THE RED FLAG OUT OF HIS MOUTH AND ‘SCREECHES’ AT ALL THE OTHERS…THEY JUST LOOK ALL AROUND AND QUIETLY CHATTER WITH ONE ANOTHER…






‘NOW TELL ME HOW THEY SHOULD DEAL WITH THAT ‘BULLY’? ASKS WILL






‘JUST LIKE THE TRAPPED FOX’ SAYS BILLY






‘WHAT DO YOU MEAN?’ ASKS WILL






‘USE HIS INSTINCTS AGAINST HIM’ SAYS BILLY






‘YEAH, HE HASN’T LEARNED THAT HIS STRENGTH AND PATTERNS CAN BE USED AGAINST HIM…LIKE SUMO WRESTLERS WHO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE FORCE OF THE OTHER GUY…’ SAYS WILL






‘THEY TRICK OR TRAP HIM USING HIS OWN MOMENTUM AGAINST HIM’…SAYS BILLY






‘SO HOW WOULD THEY DO THAT?’ ASKS WILL






‘TEMPTATION…HUNGER…WHAT CAUSES HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE?’ ASKS BILLY






‘MONKEYS ARE PRETTY BALANCED AREN’T THEY? ...SAYS WILL


‘THESE MONKEYS HAVE ESTABLISHED A WELL DEFINED PECKING ORDER…HE IS THE BIG MONKEY…HE IS A BULLY MONKEY…SAYS WILL






‘SO HOW DO THE OTHERS DEAL WITH A BULLY MONKEY’ SAYS BILLY






‘YOU MAKE HIM PAY A PRICE’ SAYS WILL






‘THE PRICE? SAYS BILLY






‘THE PRICE’…EVERYTHING HAS IT’S PRICE…‘SO THEY LET HIM KNOW THAT IT IS GOING TO COST HIM TO ‘BULLY’ AND GET HIS WAY’ SAYS WILL






‘HOW…ASKS BILLY






‘WELL THEY MAKE HIM REALIZE THAT IF HE GETS INTO A FIGHT WITH THEM IT WILL COST HIM…THEY CAN’T BEAT HIM…HE IS LIKE ‘KING KONG’ YET THEY CAN DAMAGE HIM MAKING HIM MORE VULNERABLE…THE BROKEN BONE MAY MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT EACH TIME HE WANTS TO PREY UPON ONE OF THE OTHERS’ SAYS WILL






‘MAYBE IT IS A DAMAGED EYE OR A SLASHED HAND’… SAYS BILLY






‘MOST OF THE TIME ALL THE MONKEYS AGREE UPON AN ORDERING…


HOWEVER, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN A ‘BULLYING TYPE’ INFLICTS FEAR CONSTANTLY…EVERYONE IS AFRAID…SAYS WILL






‘SO THEY NEED A MONKEY DAVID TO TAKE OUT A MONKEY GOLIATH’ SAYS BILLY






‘NOT EXACTLY, ALTHOUGH THAT WOULD SEEM TO BE AN EASY SOLUTION’ LAUGHS WILL






THEY BOTH LOOK OVER AT THE BIG MONKEY WHO CONTINUES TO RUB THE RED FLAG ALL OVER HIS BODY…






‘IS THE JUNGLE JUST A CONSTANT BATTLE OF TRAPS, WEBS AND TRICKS?’ ASKS BILLY






‘NO. THERE IS COOPERATION, KINDNESS AND LOVE AS WELL AS RAW FORCE AND PREDATORY STALKING…MANY DIFFERENT ANIMALS LIVE AS NEIGHBORS AND GET ALONG…MOST OF THE ANIMALS ARE NOT ‘NATURAL ENEMIES’…SAYS WILL






‘LETS GO SEE THE TIGERS…THEY ARE RIGHT OVER THERE’…EXCLAIMS BILLY










[A DISTANT THUNDER RUMBLES ACROSS THE SKY AND THERE SEEMS TO A SLIGHT CHANGE IN THE WIND]






‘MAYBE WE CAN BEAT THOSE TIGERS THIS YEAR.THEY JUST SHUT US DOWN AND SHUT US OUT IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP LAST YEAR’…SAYS BILLY






‘MAYBE THEY WERE THE BEST’…SAYS WILL






‘IT WAS THAT ‘BIG KID’ PERKINS…NOBODY COULD GET A HIT OFF HIM. I’M GLAD HE WON’T BE BACK THIS YEAR.THE TIGERS ARE JUST AN ORDINARY TEAM WITHOUT HIM…SAYS BILLY






‘WHO IS IT GOING TO BE THIS YEAR? ASKS WILL






‘THE HAWKS OR THE CROWS’ SAYS BILLY






‘WELL IT HAD BETTER BE THE HAWKS CAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THE CROWS ARE SIMPLY THE BEST GOSSIPS’…






‘WHY DO YOU SAY THAT’?






‘WELL IF IT IS IN THE AIR THEY ARE THE FIRST TO KNOW…THE FIRST TO TELL THE OTHERS’…






‘SO THE CROWS CAN TALK A GOOD GAME BUT THE HAWKS KNOW HOW TO PLAY A GOOD GAME’…










[THE THUNDER IS CLOSER AND LOUDER…THE SKY IS GETTING DARK…THE WINDS ARE REALLY KICKING UP]






‘MAYBE WE BETTER CALL IT A DAY’ SAYS WILL






[SUDDENLY THE RAIN STARTS TO POUR DOWN…BILLY AND HIS FATHER START JOGGING OUT OF THE ZOO INTO THE PARKING LOT…GETTING TO THE CAR AS THE RAINS BECOME MONSOON LIKE AND TORRENTIAL]










[BILLY HAS PULLED HIS JACKET UP OVER HIS HEAD TO PROTECT HIMSELF FROM THE RAIN…AS HE GETS INTO THE CAR WILL SAYS ‘YOU LOOK LIKE A TURTLE WITH YOUR HEAD TUCKED INSIDE’]






‘JUST ANOTHER WAY TO PROTECT MYSELF FROM THOSE HEADHUNTERS…SAYS BILLY






THEY BOTH LAUGH AND DRIVE ONTO THE HIGHWAY…HEADING HOME…










‘MOMMY… BILLY AND DADDY ARE HOME’ THE TWINS GLEEFULLY SHOUT.






‘HI DADDY’ THEY SPEAK AT THE SAME TIME






‘SO WHAT DID MY FAVORITE DAUGHTERS DO TODAY? ASKS WILL






‘WE CLEANED THE BACK YARD AND LOOKED AT MOM’S PHOTO ALBUMS’…THEY HAPPILY EXPRESS






‘AND WHAT DID YOU SEE?’ ASKS WILL






‘WE SAW BILLY WITH ALL HIS MONKEY FRIENDS’ SAY THE TWINS






‘WELL,I SAW YOUR FACES ON A PAIR OF ORANGUTANGS…THEY LOOKED ‘JUST LIKE YOU TWO ‘DOUBLE GIRLS’…SAYS BILLY






‘OKAY BILLY ENOUGH TEASING…SAYS WILL






‘WE ARE NOT DOUBLES…WE ARE TWINS…SAY AMY AND CINDY






‘OKAY BILLY TIME FOR A HOT SHOWER AND SOME WARM CLOTHES’ SAYS DARA






‘WHATEVER YOU SAY MOM…IT IS TIME TO DO WHAT GEORGE EAGLE DOES… BILLY WRYLY SPOKE






‘WHAT’S THAT BILLY?’DARA ASKS






‘TELL HER DAD’…SAYS BILLY






‘GEORGE EAGLE SOMETIMES ‘HIDES IN THE WEEDS’ WHEN TROUBLE IS BREWING OR WHEN JACK BOAR SAYS THAT ‘THE POWERS THAT BE’ ARE LOOKING FOR SCAPEGOATS’ SAYS WILL






‘IT’S TIME FOR ME TO BECOME INVISIBLE’ LAUGHS BILLY AS HE GOES UP THE STAIRS.










AFTER A SHOWER AND A CHANGE INTO SOME COMFORTABLE SWEAT CLOTHES BILLY GOES TO HIS COMPUTER AND STARTS TO EXPLORE…HE GAZES OUT THE WINDOW AND SEES THE DOWNTOWN SKYLINE IN THE DISTANCE…HE GETS UP AND GOES OVER TO HIS ASTRONOMY TELESCOPE AND DIRECTS IT TOWARDTHE COLLECTION OF GLASS TOWERS…HE FOCUSES ON A CONSTRUCTION SITE WITH LARGE CONSTRUCTION ‘CRANES’ AND ‘GIANT CAT’ CATERPILLARS…


HE LEANS BACK IN HIS RECLINER CHAIR AND DRIFTS …HE STARTS TO FEEL SLEEPY…HE GETS UP AND PICKS UP A BOOK ABOUT WOLVES FOM HIS ANIMAL BOOKSHELF COLLECTION.HE STARTS TO FLIP THROUGH THE PAGES BUT GRADUALLY FALLS ASLEEP…






‘HMMM…..DREAMTIME….. ‘CATNAP’ TIME……’






WE SEE THE REFLECTIONS OF THE CITY IN THE LARGE GLASS TOWERS…THEN WE ARE WALKING TOWARDS THE FRONT ENTRANCE OF ONE OF THE BUILDINGS THAT HAS ALL KINDS OF TREES AND SHRUBBERY …


BILLY WALKS THROUGH THE ENTRANCE…THERE IS NO ONE THERE…THERE ARE LOTS OF TREES AND PLANTS ALL AROUND THE LOBBY AREA…AS BILLY WALKS IN HE SEES OFFICES AND CORRIDORS IN MANY DIRECTIONS


SUDDENLY, THERE IS SOME KIND OF MOTION IN THE DISTANCE…NEAR THE ELEVATORS…IT LOOKS LIKE A LARGE CAT WALKING ON ITS HIND LEGS…


THE PHONE ON THE DESK NEXT TO WHERE BILLY IS… RINGS IN RAPID RINGS…






BILLY PAUSES AND THEN PICKS IT UP AND SAYS ‘HELLO’






A VOICE SPEAKS ‘MEOW… MEOW… MEOW… MEON’






BILLY LOOKS UP AND SEES THE BIG CAT HOLDING THE PHONE TO ITS EAR


‘HEY COME HERE’ SHOUTS BILLY






THE BIG CAT PUTS THE PHONE DOWN AND PRESSES THE ELEVATOR BUTTON…THE DOOR OPENS AND HE GETS ON AS THE DOOR CLOSES VERY QUICKLY






HEY WHERE ARE YOU GOING? ASKS BILLY AS HE SEES THE FLOOR INDICATOR OF THE ELEVATOR REGISTER AT THE 6TH BASEMENT LEVEL


BILLY GETS ON THE OTHER ELEVATOR AND GOES DOWN TO THE 6TH BASEMENT LEVEL…WHEN THE DOOR OPENS…THERE IS A LOT OF LUSH FOLIAGE…JUNGLE FOLIAGE…THICK AND DENSE…HUMID AND ONLY PARTIALLY LIGHTED…






‘GEE,I MUST BE IN THE CORPORATE JUNGLE…’






SUDDENLY A BIG WIND BLOWS THROUGH THE JUNGLE AND BREEZES THROUGH BILLY .


THERE IS BEAUTIFUL AND LUSH VEGETATION…EARTHY SCENTS AND A BROAD SPECTRUM OF COLORS…


BILLY LOOKS DOWN AND SEES AN ‘ANT’ THAT APPEARS TO BE CARRYING A LARGE ‘BACKPACK’…THE ANT IS BLACK AND WHITE AND IS MOVING PRETTY FAST FOR AN ANT CARRYING A LARGE ‘BACKPACK’…






‘WHAT ARE YOU CARRYING?’ ASKS BILLY






THE ANT DOESN’T STOP BUT SLOWS DOWN AND LOOKS UP… ‘IT IS A BLOCK OF ICE FOR MY FRIENDS…SOMETIMES IT GETS TOO HOT’.






‘DO YOU HAVE TO DO THIS ALL BY YOURSELF?’ ASKED BILLY






‘ALL MY FRIENDS ARE BUSY BUILDING ‘FAKE HILLS’ TO KEEP THE ANTEATERS CONFUSED…THERE IS ONLY TIME FOR ONE OF US TO GO TO THE ‘ICE STATION’?






‘WOULD YOU LIKE SOME HELP?’ ASKED BILLY






‘NO…YOU WOULD JUST SCARE AWAY THE PENGUIN ANTS WHO BUILT AND LIVE IN THE ICE STATION….THEY LIKE TO BE COLD AND FRIGID ALL OF THE TIME…EVEN THOUGH I PAINTED MYSELF BLACK AND WHITE TO LOOK LIKE THEM… I AM REALLY A ‘FIRE ANT’ WHO LIKES THE HEAT…SAYS THE ANT WHO SPEEDS UP AND HEADS INTO THE NEARBY BUSHES… ‘WE JUST NEED A REFRESHING ICY DRINK AFTER DIGGING ALL DAY’...






‘THIS IS A VERY STRANGE PLACE’…BILLY WHISPERS TO HIMSELF… ‘WHERE IS THAT BIG CAT?’…I DIDN’T KNOW THAT ANTS COULD TALK LIKE US.’










A LOUD CRACKLING SOUND…THEN ANOTHER ‘CRAAACK’….AND ANOTHER ‘CRAAACK’ STARTLES BILLY






THERE IS A RUMBLING LIKE THUNDER YET IT SEEMS TO BE COMING FROM THE GROUND…OVER THERE BEYOND THOSE TREES AND PAST THAT SMALL HILL IN THE DISTANCE






…ANOTHER LOUD ‘CRAAACK’ RUMBLES THROUGH THE AIR…






BILLY WALKS AROUND THE SMALL HILL AND SEES A LARGE EGG AND SOMETHING STRUGGLING TO EXTRICATE ITSELF… THERE ARE MORE CRACKING SOUNDS AS THE SHELLS ARE BREAKING…


THERE IS A LARGE [BIGGER THAN BILLY] ‘DINOSAUR-TYPE’ ANIMAL BREAKING OUT OF IT’S SHELL






‘GOSH’ BILLY LOUDLY WHISPERS…AS A SUDDEN BURST OF FLAME COMES OUT OF THE ANIMAL…IT IS A ‘FIRE BREATHING DRAGON’…A VERY LARGE ‘BABY’ FIRE BREATHING DRAGON…






BILLY SLIPS BEHIND SOME LARGE BOULDERS TO WATCH YET STAY OUT OF HIS WAY…THE ‘BABY’ WAS STILL STRUGGLING AND COULDN’T GET ITS TAIL AND BACK LEGS OUT OF THE MESHED FIBERS OF THE FRACTURED EGG… ‘MAYBE I SHOULD HELP’ BILLY WHISPERED OUT LOUD…BILLY WAS AFRAID YET HE FELT THAT ‘HELPING WAS PROBABLY THE RIGHT THING TO DO’…


‘AAARGH’ THE BABY DRAGON SPEWED OUT MORE FIRE…ANGER AND FRUSTRATION FIRE…






‘THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE EASY…’ BILLY LOOKED AROUND AND SAW A LONG THICK BRANCH LAYING ON THE GROUND… HE QUICKLY PICKED IT UP AS HE KEPT ONE EYE ON THE DRAGON…






THE DRAGON WAS STILL PREOCCUPIED WITH TRYING TO EXTRICATE ITSELF FROM IT’S EGG…BILLY COULD SEE WHERE THE WEBBING WAS ENTANGLING THE DRAGON…BILLY MOVED SWIFTLY USING THE BRANCH TO PRY THE FIBERS AWAY FROM THE LEGS…






IN A MOMENT…THE BABY DRAGON WAS RELEASED AND MOVED OUT OF ITS SHELL…






IT TURNED AND STARED AT BILLY WHO WAS STILL HOLDING THE BRANCH IN HIS HANDS…THERE WAS A DEEP SILENCE…BILLY DID NOT KNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT…HE WANTED TO PROTECT HIMSELF AND HE FIGURED HE COULD USE THE BRANCH AS A LARGE SWORD IF HE HAD TO…


THE BABY DRAGON ‘ROARED’ AND SPIT FIRE INTO THE SKY…THERE WAS STEAM AND SMOKE COMING OUT OF ITS NOSE MOUTH AND EARS…


THE ROAR WAS SUDDENLY ‘MATCHED’ BY A DEEPER AND DISTANT MORE FEROCIOUS ROAR…THE BABY DRAGON TURNED AND STARED AT BILLY FOR A MOMENT…THEN IT TURNED TOWARD THE BIG ROAR AND RAN OFF IN THAT DIRECTION…






IN A MOMENT ALL WAS QUIET…






BILLY LOOKED DOWN AT THE BROKEN EGG SHELLS… THEY WERE SCATTERED ALL OVER… ‘THEY LOOK LIKE A GIANT COLLECTION OF PUZZLE PIECES…ALL BROKEN APART YET SOMEHOW SEEMING AVAILABLE TO BE PUT BACK TOGETHER AGAIN…






‘CAW CAW’… ‘HE DOESN’T KNOW’…






‘CAW CAW’… ‘HE JUST CAN’T GO’…






BILLY LOOKED UP TO SEE TWO LARGE CROWS WHO SEEMED TO BE LAUGHING AT HIM






‘WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?’ BILLY LOOKED AT THEM AS THEY JUST KEPT GIGGLING…






‘WE ARE JUST ‘CAW CUSSING’…THEY CONTINUED TO LAUGH…YOU KNOW LIKE ‘CAUCUSING’ WHEN ‘BIRDS OF A FEATHER GET TOGETHER’ EXCEPT NO ONE LISTENS TO US ANYWAY… SO WE JUST HANG AROUND AND ‘CAW CUSS’ BY OURSELVES’…






‘CAW CAW…NOW DO YOU KNOW?’ THEY LAUGH AGAIN






‘YOU TWO SOUND LIKE MY SISTERS WHO ALSO TALK AT THE SAME TIME AS ONE ANOTHER’ SAYS BILLY






‘WE ARE A DIFFERENT GAME…WHO IS THE SAME…WHO IS TO BLAME… IT IS ALL IN THE BIG FRAME’… THE CROWS LAUGH UPROARIOUSLY… ‘SO DOESN’T THAT MAKE YOU WANT TO CROW?’






‘OKAY, SO HOW DO I GET OUT OF THIS JUNGLE’ ASKS BILLY






‘…AS THE CROWS FLY…’ THEY BOTH ALMOST FALL OUT OF THE TREES AS THEY ARE LAUGHING SO HARD…






‘SO WHAT ARE YOUR NAMES?...






‘I’M MACK CROW AND HE IS MIKE CROW… ‘MACK TAKES CARE OF THE ‘BIG PICTURE’ AND MIKE TAKES CARE OF THE ‘DETAILS’ ON THE ‘GROUND FLOOR’…SAYS MACK.






‘YOU TWO SOUND LIKE ROOSTERS WHO ‘CROW’ TO WAKE EVERY BODY UP… ‘COCK A DOODLE DO’ SAYS BILLY






‘WELL… WE ARE MORE THAN ROOSTERS… WE KNOW HOW TO STAY AWAY FROM THE ‘MUDSLINGERS’… THOSE ‘PIGS IN SHIT’ WHO GET EVERYONE DIRTY… WE TRY TO STAY ABOVE IT ALL… SO TO SPEAK…’






‘OKAY, WHAT IS THE BEST WAY FOR ME TO GET OUT OF HERE?’ BILLY ASKS






‘NO ONE GETS OUT OF ‘HEAR’ IF YOU KNOW WHAT WE MEAN… ‘DO YOU ‘HEAR’ WHAT WE ARE SAYING?’ SAY THE CROWS TILTING THEIR BODIES AS IF THEY WERE TRYING TO HEAR…






‘ALL RIGHT I GUESS I’LL FIND MY OWN WAY...SAYS BILLY






‘OKAY…WHAT IS YOUR NAME?’ ASK THE CROWS






‘I AM BILLY NOAH…’ANSWERS BILLY






SUDDENLY THERE IS A VERY LOUD ‘RAT-A-TAT-TAT’ POUNDING SOUND THAT STARTS THEN STOPS THEN STARTS UP AGAIN… ‘RAT-A-TAT-TAT’






‘SEE YOU AROUND BILLY NOAH…THAT’S OUR CUE…WE ARE OUTA HERE… ‘OFF WE GO AS THE CROW FLIES’… WITH THAT THE CROWS CIRCLE AROUND AND DISAPPEAR INTO THE SKY…






‘RAT-A-TAT-TAT’… THE NOISE CONTINUES… BILLY WALKS IN THE DIRECTION OF THE SOUND…THERE IS A WOODPECKER HAMMERING A HOLE INTO THE TREE… ‘RAT-A-TAT-TAT’






‘WHAT ARE YOU DOING?’ BILLY ASKED THE WOODPECKER






‘I AM WORKING ON THE LINEUP…THE PECKING ORDER’…LAUGHS THE WOODPECKER






‘FOR WHAT’ ASKS BILLY






‘FOR THE GAME OF THE DAY…THE ‘WHO GETS HEARD’ AND THE ‘SECRET WORD’ … SAYS THE WOODPECKER






‘DID YOU MAKE ALL THOSE HOLES IN ALL THESE TREES? ASKS BILLY






‘I’M DOING THE RAT-A-TAT-TAT FOR THE RAT RACE…IN THIS JUNGLE YOU HAVE TO FIT IN…YOU KNOW…FIND YOUR OWN PLACE…MAKE YOUR OWN ‘NICHE’…SAYS THE WOODPECKER






‘SO ALL THESE ‘NICHE HOLES’ ARE YOURS?’ ASKS BILLY






‘WELL,I WOULD GLADLY SELL ONE TO YOU IF YOU ARE JOINING THE RAT RACE’ SAYS THE WOODPECKER ‘ALTHOUGH THE SPEED OF THE GAME DEMANDS THAT EVERYONE KEEP THE PACE…OR LOSE MORE THAN THEIR FACE’…SO NICHES ARE ONLY LEVERAGING SPACES TO BRIEFLY REST…AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO ESCAPE’






‘SO EVERYONE DREAMS OF ESCAPING WHILE THEY RUN FAST IN THE RAT RACE EVERYDAY? ASKS BILLY






‘RAT-A-TAT-TAT’… ‘YOU GOT IT’ SAYS THE WOODPECKER






‘WELL IF EVERYONE IS TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM THE ‘RAT PACE’…WHY DON’T THEY MAKE IT INTO A ‘DANCE’ SAYS BILLY






‘THAT’S WHAT MY COUSIN THE BARBET SAYS’ SAYS THE WOODPECKER






‘WHAT IS A BARBET? ASKS BILLY






‘WELL CONTRARY TO YOUR WAY OF THINKING…A BARBET IS NOT A BET BETWEEN TWO DRINKERS AT A BAR…SAYS THE WOODPECKER…HE THINKS WHEN COOLER HEADS PREVAIL WE WILL BE DANCING RATHER THAN RACING WITH THE RATS’…SAYS THE WOODPECKER






‘MEOW, MEOW, MEOW, MEON’ IS HEARD COMING FROM JUST BEYOND THE NEARBY BOULDERS






BILLY LOOKS OVER AT THE WOODPECKER WHO HAS JUST LEAPT UP TO A HIGHER PLACE ON THE TREE…






‘IT IS THAT GREAT BIG CAT THAT GOT ME INTO THIS JUNGLE IN THE FIRST PLACE’ SAYS BILLY






‘YEAH…THE KATDOLOGO CAT’…SAYS THE WOODPECKER. ‘THEY ARE LIKE THE ‘FAT CATS’ THAT EAT ALL KINDS OF BIRDS’






THE KATDOLOGO CAT WALKS UP TO BILLY AND POINTS HIS PAW AT HIM… ‘DID YOU BURN DOWN THE BARN TO GET TO THE MICE?’






‘I DID NOT.’ SAYS BILLY






‘WELL DID YOU EAT ALL THE MICE?’…ASKS THE KATDOLOGO CAT.






‘NO. WHY WOULD I WANT TO EAT MICE? .... ASKS BILLY






WELL, YOU KNOW THE ADAGE… ‘YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT’….


MAYBE YOU ARE JUST A BIG MOUSE’…SAYS THE KATDOLOGO.






‘SO IF YOU EAT MICE… WHY AREN’T YOU A BIG MOUSE?’ ASKS BILLY






‘I LIKE VARIETY’… SAYS THE KATDOLOGO CAT AS IT SUDDENLY BOLTS INTO THE BUSHES…






‘RAT A TAT-TAT’ SAYS THE WOODPECKER FROM UP IN THE TREE…






SUDDENLY A LARGE HAWK COMES SWOOPING IN AND LANDS NEXT TO BILLY…






BILLY SMILES AND SAYS ‘HELLO’…






‘ARE YOU A LIZARD’ OR ARE YOU A ‘TURTLE DOVE’? ASKS THE HAWK






‘WELL I AM NEITHER…RESPONDS BILLY AS HE NOTICES THAT THE HAWK IS WEARING A HELMET…AND ASKS ‘WHY ARE YOU WEARING A HELMET’?






‘THE EAGLE SAID I HAD TO WEAR IT AND ONE DOES NOT WANT TO BE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF GEORGE EAGLE’…






‘THAT SEEMS SCARRY…MY FATHER SAYS THAT ‘THE EAGLE FLIES ON FRIDAY’ BECAUSE THAT’S WHEN PEOPLE GET PAID…IS THAT TRUE’?






‘IS WHAT TRUE’?






‘DOES THE EAGLE FLY ON FRIDAY’?






‘THE EAGLE LIVES AND RULES 24/7’…






‘IF HE IS THE RULER THEN HE MUST MANAGE THE ‘BOTTOM LION’…






‘HE SURE DOES…THE ‘BOTTOM LION’ IS SINKING IN ‘RED INK’…HE IS GETTING DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO DEBT’…






‘WHY’?






‘WELL EVERYONE SAW THE GREAT COLLAPSE NEAR ‘THE CAMEL LOT’ AND THEY ALL GOT DESPERATE AND TRIED TO GET ‘CREDIT’ TO GET IT WHILE THE GETTING WAS GOOD…IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN’…






‘WHERE IS THE CAMEL LOT’?






‘IT IS JUST BEYOND THE GIANT PYRAMID…IT IS WHERE THE ‘GLOW BULLS’ DO THEIR ORDERING’…






‘YOU MEAN LIKE ORDERING UP A PIZZA FOR DELIVERY’?






‘NAH…THE ‘GLOW BULLS’ AND THE ‘GLOW BEARS’ ARE IN ‘THE WALL STREET’?






‘WHY DO THEY ‘GLOW’?






‘BECAUSE THEY ARE VERY BRIGHT AND THEY MAKE THE CURRENTS’…






‘ELECTRICITY’? …ASKS BILLY






‘YEAH…THEY SET THE PACE…SORT OF A WALL OF SPEED’ SAYS THE HAWK






‘HOW CAN YOU HAVE A ‘WALL OF SPEED’ ASKS BILLY






‘WELL ITS’ LIKE THE CURRENTS OF A RIVER EXCEPT THAT IT IS MORE LIKE A CONSTANTLY CHANGING WIND THAT GOES RIGHT THROUGH YOUR BRAIN’ SAYS THE HAWK






‘IS THE RAT RACE IN THE ‘WALL OF SPEED’? ASKS BILLY






‘YEP…YOU CAN’T ESCAPE FROM IT…MOST OF THE ANIMALS WOULDN’T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY’? SAYS THE HAWK






‘I LIKE TO RUN BUT I ALSO LIKE TO REST…DON’T THEY GET TIRED OF RUNNING ALL OF THE TIME’ ASKS BILLY






‘A FEW TRY TO ‘GET AWAY FROM IT ALL’ AND MANY JUST ‘NUMB OUT’…HEY WHAT CAN I SAY…IT IS OUR JUNGLE’… SAYS THE HAWK






‘YOU COULD CHANGE IT’… ‘DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE ‘DOG EAT DOG’ SAYS BILLY






‘THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST’… ‘THE ADAPTATIONS’ AND THE ‘FITTING IN’… ‘THAT’S THE WAY IT IS AND THAT’S THE WAY IT IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE’ SAYS THE HAWK.






‘MAYBE THERE COULD BE A BETTER PURPOSE…A BETTER FOUNDATION’ SAYS BILLY






‘ARE YOU QUESTIONING THE SACREDNESS OF THE MARKET PLACE’?…






‘WELL…MY FATHER SAYS THAT IT’S JUST THAT THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE THAT DON’T GET DONE BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT IN THE MARKET PLACE’ SAYS BILLY






‘THAT’S THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE’…SAYS THE HAWK






‘YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT ALL THOSE OTHERS WHO DO NOT HAVE THE LIFE THAT YOU HAVE…YOU CAN FLY ANYWHERE YOU WANT’ SAYS BILLY






‘THAT’S MY NATURE…THAT’S WHAT I DO…I FLY AND SWOOP DOWN…TOO BAD FOR YOU IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT’?SAYS THE HAWK






‘OKAY…YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE BUT MAYBE SOME OF THE OTHERS WOULD LIKE THINGS TO WORK DIFFERENTLY’ SAYS BILLY






‘I WISH YOU ALL THE LUCK IN THE JUNGLE’ SAYS THE HAWK






‘WELL I HAVE GOT TO GET GOING’ SAYS BILLY






‘WHAT’S THE RUSH MY LITTLE SLEEPY HEAD FRIEND’? SAYS THE HAWK






‘I AM GOING TO LOOK FOR THE ‘LIGHT SOURCE’? SAYS BILLY






‘THE LIGHT SOURCE’?






‘WELL AS LONG AS I AM IN THIS JUNGLE I WOULD LIKE TO GO TO THE ‘LIGHT SOURCE’…MY FATHER SAID THAT IT HAS TO BE NEAR THE ‘PROPHET AT THE BOTTOM LION’… SAYS BILLY






‘MY GUESS IS THAT IT MIGHT BE EASIER TO GET A CAMEL THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE THAN IT IS TO FIND THE ‘LIGHT SOURCE’? SAYS THE HAWK






‘YOU HAVE TO GET A CAMEL THROUGH A NEEDLE’? ASKS BILLY






‘YEAH FIRST YOU GO TO A CAMEL LOT…THEN YOU GO TO A SEWING SHOP’…THE HAWK STARTS TO LAUGH AND FLAPS HIS WINGS… ‘COME ON KID…THIS IS FUNNY…YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO LAUGH’…






‘’I GUESS I THOUGHT YOU WERE INTERESTED IN HELPING ME FIND THE ‘LIGHT SOURCE’’…SAYS BILLY






‘OKAY…A KID WITH NO SENSE OF HUMOR…YOU ARE GOING TO MEET A LOT OF CROWS ON YOUR JOURNEY…IF THEY DON’T GET YOU TO LAUGH YOU WILL NEVER FIND YOUR WAY ANYWHERE LET ALONE TRY TO FIND THE ‘LIGHT SOURCE’…SAYS THE HAWK






‘HEY…MY FATHER AND MY FAMILY ARE VERY FUNNY…WE LAUGH ALL OF THE TIME’…OKAY SO CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME HELP OR NOT’?






‘YOU GO TO THE ‘CAMEL LOT’ AND ‘YOU CHOOSE’ A CAMEL TO GET YOU ACROSS THE ‘EMOTIONAL DESERT’?






‘THE EMOTIONAL DESERT’?ASKS BILLY






‘JUST GO TO THE CAMEL LOT AND GO FOR A CAMEL RIDE’…SAYS THE HAWK






‘THE CAMEL WILL SHOW ME THE WAY’? QUESTIONS BILLY






‘ONLY IF YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TO RIDE OUT ALL OF THE STORMS’ SAYS THE HAWK






‘WHAT KINDS OF STORMS’? ASKS BILLY






‘IT IS AN EMOTIONAL DESERT…YOU WILL ENCOUNTER ALL KINDS OF EMOTIONAL STORMS’…SAYS THE HAWK






‘IS IT DANGEROUS…COULD I DIE’? ASKS BILLY






‘I GUESS THAT YOU COULD…BUT I THINK YOU MIGHT GET THROUGH THE EMOTIONAL DESERT AND THEN CLIMB UP TO THE TOP OF THE ‘WONDER MOUNTAIN’…THEN YOU WILL BE ON THE CRYSTAL PLATEAU’…SAYS THE HAWK






‘OKAY…OKAY…SO HOW DO I FIND THIS ‘CAMEL LOT’?






‘YOU HAVE TO CATCH A GREENBACK LIZARD’…THERE IS A MAP ON HIS BACK…IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO GET TO THE ‘CAMEL LOT’?… WHATEVER YOU DO THOUGH… YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL OF THAT ‘KATDOLOGO’…HE IS MORE DECEPTIVE THAN ONE OF THOSE ‘TRICKSTER COYOTES’… ‘HE PARTICULARLY LIKES TO STALK ‘CANARIES’…YOU KNOW THE LITTLE ‘EARLY WARNING’ BIRDS…IF HE THINKS THAT YOU MIGHT SCARE HIS FOOD AWAY HE WILL TURN ON YOU’…






‘HE’S THE REASON THAT I GOT INTO THIS JUNGLE IN THE FIRST PLACE…HE ENCOURAGED ME TO FOLLOW HIM…MY CURIOSITY TOLD ME TO FOLLOW HIM…HE SEEMED SO FRIENDLY…IS HE REALLY DANGEROUS? ASKED BILLY






‘WELL YOU SEE THERE ARE QUITE A FEW OF THOSE KATDOLOGO ‘FAT CATS’… ‘FAT CATS’ THAT WANT TO HAVE EVERYTHING FOR THEMSELVES… THEY ARE GREEDY’… ‘THEY TAKE MOST OF THE FOOD AND THEY CONTROL MOST OF THE PLACES TO LIVE’…YOU ARE EITHER WITH THEM OR AGAINST THEM’… SAYS THE HAWK.






‘I HEARD THAT IN MY FATHER’S COMPANY ‘ONLY THE PARANOID SURVIVE’…SAYS BILLY






‘THERE IS A LOT OF TRUTH IN THOSE WAYS…THEY SAY THAT EVERYTHING IS EASILY REPLACED’ SAYS THE HAWK






‘MY FATHER SAID THAT IT IS WORLD THAT IS ALWAYS CHANGING AND THAT ‘NOTHING’ BECOMES THE ONLY THING THAT YOU CAN RELY UPON’ SAYS BILLY






‘WELL IT’S GOOD TO HAVE SOME FAMILY AND A FEW ‘FINE FEATHERED FRIENDS’…AT LEAST YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS A LITTLE MORE ‘SAFETY IN NUMBERS’…SAYS THE HAWK






‘MY FATHER SAYS THAT ‘THE FEW’ CONTROL THE BREW’ AND THAT ‘FRYING THE FAT’ IS THE ‘CONVENIENCE’ THAT PEOPLE LIKE BECAUSE IT IS ‘FAST’ AND ‘INSTANTLY AVAILABLE’…SAYS BILLY






‘WELL THEN YOU KNOW THESE ‘FAT CATS’?






‘NO…I ONLY KNOW THAT THEY LIVE IN ‘FAT CITY’…






‘YEAH, THAT IS WHERE THEY WALLOW IN THE MUD WITH THE ‘FAT PIGS’…IT IS WHERE THEY LEARN ‘MUDSLINGING’…






‘MY FATHER SAYS THAT ‘THE POLITICOS’ ARE ‘MUDSLINGERS’ BECAUSE THEY ‘DIG UP THE DIRT’ AND ‘ONLY PRETEND’ TO GO TO THE GRASSROOTS’…SAYS BILLY






‘WELL THE ‘GRASSROOTS’ IS WHERE THE ‘ELECTRONIC HERD’ OF COWS AND CATTLE GRAZE, GLAZE AND DAZE’…THEY GENERALLY HAVE ‘HEARD IT ALL TOO MANY TIMES’…THEY ENJOY ‘DIGGING UP THE DIRT’ BECAUSE IT TAKES THEIR MINDS OFF THE ANGER THEY FEEL WHEN THEY SEE WHAT THE ‘FAT CATS’ DO…SAYS THE HAWK






‘’MY FATHER SAYS ‘THE POLITICOS’ FEED EVERYONE ‘PORK’ AND JUST ‘TELL PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR’ TO GET A RISE OUT OF THEM’ SAYS BILLY






‘IT’S LIKE THE LATEST FASHION…THE MORE THINGS CHANGE…THE MORE THEY REMAIN THE SAME’…SAYS THE HAWK






‘YEAH…THE POLITICOS AND THE ‘FAT CATS’ USE ‘THE GROUNDSWELLS OF EXCITEMENT’ TO HYPNOTIZE MOST OF THE PEOPLE…MOST OF THE TIME’… SAYS BILLY






‘YOU CAN’T FOOL THEM ALL THOUGH’…SAYS THE HAWK






‘MY FATHER SAYS THAT THEY FOSTER ‘CONSTRUCTIVE DISCONTENTMENT’ TO KEEP IT ALL GOING AND THAT THE ‘GOSSIP LAWS OF APPLAUSE’ KEEP THE ‘OPPOSITION FROM GROWING’ SAYS BILLY






‘IT SOUNDS LIKE A DEPLETION OF ENERGY FEELING OF ‘QUIET PANIC’…YOU ARE FORCED TO EXPEND YOUR ENERGY JUST ‘TAKING CARE OF YOUR OWN’…NO ONE HAS EXTRA ENERGY AVAILABLE TO ALTER THE INERTIA’…SAYS THE HAWK






‘MY FATHER SAYS ‘IF YOU CAN’T BEAT THEM DON’T JOIN THEM’…SAYS BILLY






‘SO THERE YOU HAVE IT…IT’S LIKE THE NEVERENDING WAR BETWEEN THE ‘POLAR BEARS’…IT IS ALWAYS ‘WIN-LOSE’ INSTEAD OF ‘WIN-WIN’…IT IS THE PERFECTION OF ‘DIVIDE AND CONQUER’…EVERYBODY TRAPPED IN THE GAP WATCHING THE FAT CAT ‘CIRCUS OF THE EXCESSES’…SAYS THE HAWK






‘SO NO ONE IS ABLE TO CHALLENGE THIS’? SAYS BILLY






‘RESOLVE…IT IS THE PROBLEM OF ‘RESOLVE’… ‘IT IS A LACK OF BELIEF IN A ‘COMMON GROUND’… ‘THAT IS WHY THE ‘JUNGLE IS THE JUNGLE’… ‘THEY ALL ARE DOING THEIR THING’ AND THEY WANT TO JUST ‘KEEP DOING WHAT THEY ARE DOING’… ‘THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW, NOR DO THEY SEEM TO BE INTERESTED’ IN BUILDING A NEW FOUNDATION’… ‘THEY ARE ALL STRUGGLING TO GET OUT OF THE ‘GAP’…SAYS THE HAWK






‘THE GAP’? SAYS BILLY






‘THE GREAT GAP’ THAT IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ‘EMOTIONAL DESERT’…IT IS THE GAP IN BETWEEN THE ‘HAVES’ AND THE ‘HAVE NOTS’…IT IS WHERE MOST GET TRAPPED WHEN THE STAMPEDES OCCUR’ SAYS THE HAWK






‘STAMPEDES’? SAYS BILLY






‘IT IS THE AFFECT OF THE HERDING’… ‘CORRALING’… ‘GETTING THEM INTO THE PITS’ SAYS THE HAWK






‘WHY DO THEY FOLLOW THE HERD’? ASKS BILLY






‘IT’S THE THE WAY OF THE ‘MASS’…YOU KNOW HOW EVERYONE REACTS TO ‘MASS-OCCUR’ MOMENTS’? SAYS THE HAWK






‘YOU MEAN LIKE THE 9/11 TERROR ATTACK’?SAYS BILLY






‘JUST WATCH WHAT THE ‘MASS’ DOES WHEN IT HAPPENS…IT’S LIKE WATCHING PIGEONS ON A LINE WATCHING ONE ANOTHER…THERE ARE FEW INDIVIDUALS…EVERYONE IS ‘STOPPED IN THEIR TRACKS’ GETTING READY FOR THE NEXT CRISIS’…SAYS BILLY






‘SO SOME ARE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE ‘MASS-OCCUR’ MOMENTS’ SAYS BILLY






‘SURE…JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL’ SAYS THE HAWK






SUDDENLY MIKE CROW AND MACK CROW LAND IN THE TREES UP ABOVE…THEY SPEAK IN A SING-SONG WAY AT THE SAME TIME…






‘HALF A TRUTH IS LIKE HALF A BRICK---YOU CAN THROW IT TWICE AS FAR’…






THE WOODPECKER DOES A ‘RAT-A-TAT-TAT’ THAT SOUNDS JUST LIKE THE SPEECH OF THE CROWS AND THEN FLIES OFF…






THE HAWK LOOKS AT BILLY…DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO THOSE TWO COMEDIANS…THEY ARE ALWAYS DOING ‘HOOTS’ AND ‘CATCALLS’…






‘WATCH OUT BILLY…IT GOING TO RAIN CATS AND DOGS…MAYBE A HAIL OF ‘DEAD CATS’ WILL FALL FROM THE SKY’…THEY ARE PRACTICALLY FALLING OFF THE BRANCHES OF THE TREE AS THEY DO THEIR PERFORMANCE…THEY GO ON…






‘A TRUTH THAT’S TOLD WITH BAD INTENT BEATS ALL THE LIES THAT YOU CAN INVENT’ [*WILLIAM BLAKE-AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE]






BILLY NOAH LOOKS AT THE HAWK AND THEN LAUGHS AT THE CROWS…






‘DOES ANYONE AROUND HERE KNOW HOW TO PLAY ‘CROQUET’?






THE HAWK PICKS UP THE CUE… ‘WE COULD USE THESE CROWS AS MALLETS TO SMACK THE WOODEN BALLS THROUGH THE WICKETS’…






‘YOU TWO ARE DEFINITELY A SCREAM’… ‘WE WILL LET YOU KNOW THE NEXT TIME WE GET ‘STIFF’ AND FEEL LIKE WE WANT TO ‘CROAK’…






BILLY NOAH LAUGHS… ‘AS MY FATHER SAYS…ALWAYS CLOSE THE DOOR BEFORE YOU LEAVE, BUT NEVER LEAVE AFTER YOU HAVE OPENED THE WINDOW’…






‘WE ARE OUT OF HERE…IT’S CAW-CUSS TIME’…THE CROWS TAKE OFF…






THE HAWK SPEAKS… ‘IF YOU SUCCEED IN CROSSING THE EMOTIONAL DESERT…YOU WILL NEED MORE DISCIPLINE TO OVERCOME THE LACK OF FOODS AND FAMILIAR FEELINGS TO GET TO THE CRYSTAL PLATEAU…


‘I AM ALWAYS GOOD AT CONCENTRATION…AT FOCUSING’






‘WELL THIS TREK WILL PUSH YOU BEYOND YOUR IMAGINATION…YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE ENOUGH STRENGTH AVAILABLE WHEN YOU FACE THE FACETS OF LIGHT IN THE CENTERING CRYSTAL…THAT IS IF YOU REALLY WANT TO SEARCH FOR THE ‘LIGHT SOURCE’…






‘I KNOW HOW TO PACE MYSELF’…SAYS BILLY






‘YOU ARE FORGETTING THAT YOU WILL NOT BE SETTING THE PACE’…SAYS THE HAWK






‘YOU WILL BE RACING IN THEIR SPEEDS…THEIR CURRENTS…THEIR WHIRLS AND SPIRALS…IF YOU GET THROUGH THE ‘LAND OF THE LAWST’ YOU MIGHT SUCCEED’…MOST NEVER GET THROUGH ‘THE LAND OF THE LAWST’






‘THE LAND OF THE LOST’?






‘NO… THE LAND OF THE ‘LAWST’…IT IS THE INNER SPACE WORLD OF ALL THE OTHERS WHO ‘ZONE OUT’… ‘SLEEP’ AND ‘DREAM’ IN ORDER TO KEEP PACE WITH THE ‘SPEED OF THE WALL’ CURRENTS…IT IS DEEP IN THE GAP BETWEEN ‘THE HAVES AND HAVE NOTS’…IT IS THE WAY THAT MANY ENDURE AND SURVIVE BY LIVING IN ‘OOH’ AND ‘NUMB’…SAYS THE HAWK






‘YOU MEAN I WON’T BE ABLE TO DREAM’? SAYS BILLY






‘WHEN YOU ARE IN ‘THE GAP’ YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF ‘BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY’ SAYS THE HAWK






‘BUT ONCE I GET THROUGH THE ‘GAP’…THEN WHAT’? SAYS BILLY






‘THE CLIMB UP ‘WONDER MOUNTAIN’ WILL HELP YOU TO BE MORE INDEPENDENT…MORE PRESENT…SO THAT WHEN YOU GET TO THE CRYSTAL PLATEAU YOU WILL KNOW THAT YOU HAVE TO BE TOTALLY CONSCIOUS AND AWAKE…THERE IS NO WAY TO SURVIVE THAT JOURNEY IF YOU ARE NOT TOTALLY PURPOSEFUL’…SAYS THE HAWK






‘DO I GET TO REST’ ASKS BILLY






‘CATNAPS’…






‘CATNAPS’? THAT’S IT…






‘DO YOU REALLY WANT TO GO TO THE LIGHT SOURCE’






‘I THINK SO’






‘YOU THINK SO’? WELL YOU BE SURE IF YOU GO ON THIS JOURNEY…THERE WILL BE ‘THINGS THAT GO WRONG’ EVERYDAY…AT A CERTAIN POINT ‘YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GO HOME AGAIN’…






‘I CAN ALWAYS GO HOME’…






‘NO BILLY… THERE IS NO TURNING BACK…EVERYTHING WILL BE DIFFERENT…EVERYONE WILL BE DIFFERENT’…SAYS THE HAWK






‘I CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON MY MOM AND DAD TO BE THE SAME’ SAYS BILLY






‘’YOU’LL SEE BILLY…THE CHOICE IS YOURS’ SAYS THE HAWK






‘SO HOW DO I FIND THAT GREENBACK LIZARD’ WHO WILL GET ME TO THE ‘CAMEL LOT’…SAYS BILLY






‘TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS BILLY…HE WILL SHOW UP WHEN YOU NEED HIM’ SAYS THE HAWK






‘INSTINCTS…MY FATHER BELIEVES IN INSTINCTS WHEN HE DOES HIS JOB…ARE THERE ANY HEADHUNTERS AROUND HERE? ASKS BILLY






‘THERE ARE LOTS OF DANGERS IN THIS JUNGLE…WALK CAREFULLY AND TUNE INTO YOUR INSTINCTS’…AND REMEMBER THERE ARE ‘BUGS’ EVERYWHERE’ SAYS THE HAWK AS HE TAKES OFF… ‘I’VE GOT TO GO’…






BILLY LOOKS AROUND…SEEING ONLY TREES AND BUSHES…ALL IS QUIET…






‘BILLY… WAKE UP…IT’S TIME FOR DINNER’…






‘OKAY MOM’…BILLY MUMBLES TO HIMSELF






BILLY TURNS OVER AND DRIFTS INTO SLEEP AGAIN…HIS MOTHER DARA COMES TO HIS DOOR LOOKS IN AND SEES THAT HE IS SOUND ASLEEP…SHE PUTS A BLANKET OVER HIM…KISSES HIM GENTLY ON THE FOREHEAD AND GOES DOWNSTAIRS…






‘WHERE’S BILLY’ ASKS WILL






‘WHO KNOWS’ SAYS DARA… ‘HE COULD BE ANYWHERE KNOWING THE WAY THAT HE GETS INTO THOSE DREAMS’…I GUESS HE WILL ALWAYS BE A ‘DREAMER’…






‘THAT’S OKAY AS LONG AS HE IS ABLE TO MAKE A LIVING AND NOT BE DEPENDENT OR GET HIMSELF INTO DEBT’…SAYS WILL






‘WELL HE IS PRETTY THRIFTY…HE KNOWS HOW TO CLEAN UP AND FIX UP SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE RESELL AT OUR GARAGE SALES…HE ALSO SELLS HIS TOYS AND EQUIPMENT WHEN HE HAS GROWN OUT OF THEM’…SAYS DARA






‘TRUE…BUT HE IS GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE HIS OWN WAY…


HE IS GOING TO HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO GET SOME OF HIS OWN ‘GREENBACKS’…SAYS WILL






………………………………………………………………………………………………………………






BILLY IS WALKING THROUGH THE DENSENESS OF SOME BUSHES…THERE IS ONLY THE SOUND OF SOME WIND…


THEN THERE IS A SUDDEN SHIFT IN THE WIND…A STRONG BREEZE COMES DIRECTLY AT BILLY…IT IS DIFFICULT TO BREATHE BECAUSE OF THE SMELL IN THE AIR…






‘WHAT IS THAT SMELL’ MUTTERS BILLY






‘THAT’S THE SMELL OF OPPORTUNITY MY BOY’…






BILLY LOOKS AROUND AND SEES NO ONE…






‘THAT’S THE SMELL OF ALL THOSE HOGS HAVING THEMSELVES A ‘BARB…BEE… QUE’…






‘WHO ARE YOU’? ASKS BILLY






THEN A LARGE GOOSE COMES OUT OF THE BUSHES…






‘I’M THE MOTHER GOOSE…I AM THE QUEEN OF THE GOSSIP…AND THOSE HOGS ARE HAVING THEMSELVES A GOOD TIME AT THE ‘FAT CAT’S PORK FESTIVAL’






‘WHY ARE YOU THE QUEEN OF GOSSIP’? ASKS BILLY






‘ALL OF MY GEESE CHATTER UP STORMS CONSTANTLY…IF IT’S NOT ONE THING IT’S ANOTHER…THERE IS A NEVERENDING STREAM OF HONKS’…SAYS MOTHER GOOSE






‘YOU MEAN LIKE CAR HONKS’?SAYS BILLY






‘WHAT’S A CAR HONK’? ASKS MOTHER GOOSE






‘OH NEVER MIND…I’M LOOKING FOR A GREENBACK LIZARD TO GET ME TO THE CAMEL LOT’ SAYS BILLY… ‘AND BY THE WAY IS THERE A WAY TO GET AROUND THIS SMELL’…






‘IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE WINDS…YOU MIGHT FIND ONE OF THOSE LIZARDS HANGING AROUND ‘CATCHING FLIES’ NEAR THE PARADE GROUNDS AT THE PORK FESTIVAL…YOU WILL HAVE TO BE CAREFUL THAT YOU DON’T ‘SPOOK’ THEM…THEY LIKE TO WATCH BUT THEY DON’T LIKE BEING WATCHED’…IF YOU ‘SPOOK’ THEM THEY MIGHT THINK YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE ‘FAT CATS’ OR ‘HOGS’…THEN THEY WON’T HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU’…SAYS THE MOTHER GOOSE






‘IS THERE ANY OTHER WAY’?






‘WELL THERE ARE SOME INDEPENDENTS… YOU MIGHT GET SOME HELP IF THEY HAPPEN TO BE GOING YOUR WAY’…SAYS THE MOTHER GOOSE






‘I AM NOT SURE OF MY WAY…ALL I KNOW IS THAT I HAVE TO GET A CAMEL TO CROSS THE EMOTIONAL DESERT’…






‘OKAY…I CAN SAVE YOU SOME TIME…THAT IS IF YOU HAVE A STRONG STOMACH?…YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BREATHE THE BEST THAT YOU CAN BREATHE BECAUSE THE SMELL WINDS OF THE PORK FESTIVAL ARE BLOWING IN THAT DIRECTION’…






‘WHICH DIRECTION’?






SUDDENLY A PATH APPEARS WHERE THERE WAS NO PATH BEFORE…






‘NOW WHO IS THE ‘SILLY GOOSE’?






‘SO THAT PATH WILL GET ME TO THE CAMEL LOT’?






‘DEFINITELY…THOUGH IT WOULD BE A LOT EASIER IF YOU GET A GREENBACK LIZARD TO CARRY YOU THERE’






WITH THAT THE GREAT GOOSE DISAPPEARED INTO THE BUSHES AGAIN AND BILLY WALKED ON INTO THE FOREST HOLDING HIS NOSE AND CLASPING HIS HAND OVER HIS MOUTH… ‘THIS STUFF SURE SMELLS BAD’ HE MUTTERS






‘COME ON I WILL GIVE YOU A LIFT’…






THERE RIGHT IN FRONT OF BILLY WAS A ‘GREENBACK LIZARD’…






‘CAN YOU TAKE ME TO THE CAMEL LOT’?






‘YEAH…YOU CAN SCRATCH MY BACK WHILE I CARRY YOU…SOMETIMES IT ACHES FROM TOO MUCH SUN’…






‘IT’S NOT VERY SUNNY HERE IN THE FOREST’?






‘IT IS NEAR THE EDGE OF THE DESERT WHERE WE ARE GOING’?






‘OKAY SCRATCH MY BACK FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES…THEN I WILL TAKE YOU THERE…






BILLY CLIMBS ON AND DOES A SORT OF MASSAGE AND A SCRATCHING… ‘YEAH THAT FEELS GOOD’ SAYS THE LIZARD…






AS BILLY SCRATCHES A MAP APPEARS ON THE BACK OF THE LIZARD…THERE IS A FOREST TRAIL THAT GOES NEAR TO THE GREAT PYRAMID BEFORE IT TURNS TOWARD THE CAMEL LOT AND THE EDGE OF THE EMOTIONAL DESERT’…






THE LIZARD SPEAKS AS IT WALKS…‘WHERE ARE YOU REALLY TRYING TO GO’?






‘THE CRYSTAL PLATEAU’






‘WHY DO YOU WANT TO GO THERE’?






‘BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE THE ‘PROPHET’ IS…THAT’S WHERE THE ‘LIGHT SOURCE’ IS’






‘SO WHAT…WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO GO THERE’?






‘NO ONE BELIEVED MY MOTHER DARA COULD CLIMB A MOUNTAIN YET SHE DID IT’






‘WELL…SURE…I KNOW BECAUSE IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME’…THIS IS A LOT DIFFERENT’






‘WELL I GUESS THE REAL REASON IS ‘COURAGE’… AND ‘HEART’ SAYS BILLY






‘WELL WHICH ONE IS IT’?






‘MY MOTHER SAID THAT TRUE ‘COURAGE’ IS IN THE DEPTH OF ONE’S HEART…IT IS IN THE EVERYDAY…IT IS THE LIGHT OF COMPASSION AND GENEROSITY’…






‘SO WHY GO TO SEEK THE SOURCE OF THE LIGHT…WHY NOT JUST LIVE IT EVERYDAY… YOU KNOW LIKE SCRATCH MY BACK AND I WILL SCRATCH YOURS…






‘MY FATHER SAYS THAT I SHOULD LISTEN TO MY ‘INNER NECESSITY’ THAT IS JUST BEYOND MY NOSE’






‘HOW CAN YOUR ‘INNER NECESSITY’ BE OUTSIDE YOUR NOSE’?






‘WELL IT IS…MY FATHER IS A SMART MAN…HE IS NOT LIKE THOSE PARROTS IN HIS OFFICE’…






‘PARROTS’? YOUR FATHER WORKS WITH PARROTS’?






‘HE SAID THAT’S WHY THE HEADHUNTERS WERE TRYING TO GET HIM’






‘HEADHUNTERS’?






‘OH NEVER MIND’…SAYS BILLY






‘HEY I WAS JUST TRYING TO PASS SOME TIME…WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT’?






‘IS IT OKAY WITH YOU IF I JUST TRY TO WORK ON MY BREATHING…THE SMELLS IN THESE WINDS ARE TERRIBLE’






‘WHAT SMELLS’?






‘THE SMELLS OF ALL THAT ‘FAT FRYING’’






‘AH IT IS SO NORMAL AROUND HERE…YOU GET USED TO IT AFTER AWHILE’…






‘I DON’T WANT TO GET USED TO IT’…






‘OKAY…LOOK OVER TO YOUR RIGHT…THAT’S THE GIANT PYRAMID WHERE THE POLITICOS AND THE FAT CATS FOLLOW THE DREAMS OF THE KATDOLOGO CAT’…






‘THAT’S HOW I GOT INTO THE JUNGLE IN THE FIRST PLACE’… ‘I WAS CHASING THAT KATDOLOGO CAT’…






‘WELL SHE DOES HAVE AN ENORMOUS FOLLOWING…SHE IS VERY SEDUCTIVE…SHE WATCHES THEM ALL AND THEN GETS THEM TO CHASE AFTER THE DREAMS THAT SHE PUTS IN THE ‘AIRWAVES’…






‘MY FATHER SAYS THAT ‘THE KATDOLOGO CAT’ HAS CAUSED SO MUCH ACCUMULATION AND STORAGE THAT PEOPLE DON’T EVEN REMEMBER THE THINGS THAT THEY ‘HAVE’…SAYS BILLY






‘THOSE FAT CATS NEVER SEEM TO GET ENOUGH’…THEY TRY TO ‘OWN’ AS MUCH AS THEY CAN’






BILLY AND THE LIZARD SEEM TO ACCELERATE AND IN A BRIEF AMOUNT OF TIME THEY ARRIVE AT THE ‘CAMEL’ LOT…






‘HERE WE ARE’…






THIS IS IT’? WHERE ARE THE CAMELS…THERE ARE NO CAMELS IN THE CAMEL LOT’…






THE GIANT LIZARD SEES AN OLD CAMEL AND ASKS ‘WHERE HAVE ALL THE CAMELS GONE’?






‘THEY LEFT A FEW DAYS AGO…THERE’S A DESERT WAR AND THEY ALL WERE ‘ORDERED’ TO ‘SIGN UP’ SAYS THE OLD CAMEL






‘SO THERE AREN’T ANY CAMELS TO GET ME ACROSS THE EMOTIONAL DESERT’






‘OH I CAN TAKE YOU ACROSS THAT DESERT’…






THE GIANT LIZARD LAUGHS AND SAYS ‘YOU ARE TOO OLD…YOU SHOULD JUST GO LIE DOWN AND TAKE A NAP…YOU WOULD DIE AND LEAVE MY FRIEND STRANDED’…






‘I MAY LOOK OLD BUT I’M STILL VERY STRONG AND HEALTHY AND BESIDES I KNOW THE EMOTIONAL DESERT BACKWARDS AND FOREWARDS’…






‘WHAT CHOICE DO I HAVE’ SAYS BILLY






‘HOW CAN I MAKE SURE MY FRIEND CAN RELY ON YOU TO GET HIM ACROSS THE DESERT?






‘SO MY WORD IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH’?… ‘YOU WANT PROOF’…OKAY I WILL GIVE YOU SOME PROOF’… ‘DO YOU SEE THAT EMPTY CONTAINER OVER THERE’?






‘YEAH’






‘I CAN FILL IT WITH THE WATER I AM HOLDING INSIDE RIGHT NOW…ONLY A REAL CAMEL HAS THE CAPACITY TO MAKE THE JOURNEY YOU ARE LOOKING TO MAKE’…






‘NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT I FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM’ SAYS BILLY






BILLY SORT OF SLEEPWALKS IN A TRANCE TO THE BATHROOM…GOES TO THE BATHROOM…WASHES HIS HANDS AND GOES BACK TO BED WITHOUT WAKING UP…IT IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT…IT IS DARK AND OBVIOUSLY EVERONE IS ASLEEP…






THE LIZARD LOOKS AT BILLY…WHAT DO YOU THINK’?






‘I THINK HE CAN DO IT’… ‘I BELIEVE HIM’






‘ARE YOU SURE’?






‘THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES IN LIFE’ SAYS THE CAMEL






‘HE IS JUST A BOY’






‘HE IS MORE THAN A BOY…HE GOT THIS FAR DIDN’T HE’?






‘I CAN GET HIM THROUGH THE DESERT…IT IS THE CLIMB UP THE WONDER MOUNTAIN THAT HE WILL HAVE TO DO ON HIS OWN…THAT WILL BE HIS REAL CHALLENGE’?






‘HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT I WAS GOING TO CLIMB THE WONDER MOUNTAIN’






‘WHY ELSE WOULD ANYONE CROSS THE EMOTIONAL DESERT’? ‘THERE IS NOTHING OUT THERE EXCEPT THE WONDER MOUNTAIN’…






‘YOU MEAN THAT THERE HAVE BEEN OTHERS WHO HAVE GONE THERE’?






‘MANY HAVE TRIED…MOST TURN BACK…IT IS A PERSONAL ARENA…EVERTHING IS SAND…SAND…SAND…IT GETS IN YOUR LUNGS AND EVERY BREATH’






WELL IT’S GOT TO BE BETTER THAN THAT ‘SMELL’ OF THE ‘PORK’ FESTIVAL’…






‘IT IS’… ONLY THERE IS MORE OF A PERSONAL RISK…YOU CANNOT BUILD YOUR LIFE WITH SAND…YOU NEED BRICKS…YOU NEED STRAW…YOU NEED FIRE AND WATER AND AIR AND A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER THINGS…THIS DESERT ONLY HAS SAND…






THE GREENBACK LIZARD LOOKS AT BILLY… ‘HE IS JUST TELLING YOU WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW’…






BILLY PATS THE LIZARD ON THE BACK…AND SAYS ‘THANKS FOR THE RIDE’ THEN LOOKS AT HIS HANDS…THEY HAVE A GREEN COATING ON THEM…






THE LIZARD SMILES AT BILLY AND SUDDENLY TURNS AND LEAVES…






THE CAMEL SAYS… ‘I NEED SOME WATER…YOU BETTER STORE UP SOME FOR THE JOURNEY’…






‘WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO EAT’ ASKS BILLY






‘NOT MUCH…JUST NIBBLE ON THE CACTUS FLOWERS AND TRY TO NOT GET ANY OF THE NEEDLES IN YOU’…






THEY BOTH DRINK PLENTY OF WATER AND EAT FROM THE LUSH CACTUS






‘THIS IS THE LAST OF THE LUSH CACTUS…TAKE A FEW PIECES AND PUT THEM IN THIS SADDLEBAG…ONCE YOU ARE OUT IN THE DESERT THIS STUFF WILL TASTE LIKE MANNA FROM HEAVEN’






‘HOW LONG OF A JOURNEY IS THIS GOING TO BE’? ASKS BILLY






‘THE DESERT WILL HELP YOU TO FIND YOUR OWN PACE’…






‘I’M IN KIND OF A HURRY’…SAYS BILLY






‘WELL…HANG ON…IT IS GOING TO BE HOT AND COLD AND VERY DRY’…






‘HOW CAN THE DESERT BE COLD’?






‘THAT IS THE MOON TIME WHEN THE GROUND LOSES HEAT TO THE AIR AND THERE IS NO SUNLIGHT TO KEEP THINGS WARM’…






‘ARE WE GOING TO TRAVEL IN NIGHT AND DAY’?






‘WE ARE GOING TO GO THROUGH ALL TEMPERATURES OF THE EMOTIONAL DESERT’ THAT ARE IN THE DAY AND IN THE NIGHT’…






‘I DON’T LIKE SOME EMOTIONS’…






‘DO YOU WANT TO GET TO THE CRYSTAL PLATEAU’?






‘YEAH’






‘THEN YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO SEE YOURSELF IN REAL WAYS IN ORDER TO GET RID OF ‘IMAGES’ THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE’…






‘I LIKE BEING BILLY NOAH’…






‘BILLY NOAH IS GOING TO SHED HIS OUTER SNAKESKIN’






‘I DON’T HAVE A SNAKESKIN’






‘OH YEAH…JUST TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR HANDS’…






BILLY FREAKS OUT… ‘WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME’… ‘WHY IS MY SKIN LIKE THAT OF A ‘SNAKESKIN’?






‘BREATHE DEEP BILLY…YOUR IMAGINATION AND YOUR DREAMS MAY GET THE BEST OF YOU’…






BILLY TRIES TO BREATHE BUT HE IS STRUGGLING…HIS SKIN IS CHANGING COLORS…






‘BILLY…FOCUS FORWARD…LOOK IN FRONT OF YOUR NOSE… BREATHE… CONCENTRATE ON THE PRESENT…MAKE YOUR IMAGINATION WORK FOR YOU’






BILLY IS SHUDDERING AND CHANGES COLORS FROM GREEN TO SHADES OF BLUE AND BACK AGAIN…






‘TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS…BE YOURSELF’ SAYS THE OLD CAMEL






‘YOU MEAN LIKE MIND OVER MATTER’…AS BILLY COMPLETES HIS SENTENCE THERE IS A SUDDEN RELEASE AS HIS ‘SNAKESKIN BLOWS OFF INTO A WIND’ AND DISSIPATES INTO DUST…






‘WOW…THAT WAS AMAZING’… ‘I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR COACHING ME THROUGH THAT…WAS THAT REAL OR JUST MY IMAGINATION’?






‘WHAT DO YOU THINK’? ASKS THE OLD CAMEL






‘I KNOW I SAW MY SKIN LOOK LIKE A SNAKESKIN…OR AT LEAST I THOUGHT I SAW MY SKIN LOOK LIKE IT’






‘WELL SOMEWHERE INSIDE YOU WAS AN IMAGE THAT BLINDED YOU FROM SEEING WHAT WAS IN FRONT OF YOUR NOSE’…






‘MY IMAGINATION GOT THE BEST OF ME’?






‘YOU WILL HAVE TO LEARN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A ‘KAIR’ ACTOR AND ‘CHARACTER’? SAYS THE OLD CAMEL






‘IMAGINATION CAN BE PRETEND WHILE WHAT YOU DO EVERYDAY IS REAL’ SAYS BILLY






‘IMAGINATION MAY BE THINGS THAT ARE GOOD AND BAD FOR US…IT MAY ALSO BE A WAY TO ESCAPE BEING PRESENT’…SAYS THE CAMEL






‘SO WHAT IS A ‘KAIR ACTOR’? ASKS BILLY






‘A ‘KAIR ACTOR’ IS A ‘ROLE PLAYER’…KIND OF A ‘MEDIUM’ WHO USES A ‘PERFORMANCE’ WAY TO GET SOMETHING IN EXCHANGE’…SAYS THE OLD CAMEL






‘…AND ‘CHARACTER’ IS WHO ONE REALLY IS’…SAYS BILLY






‘IT IS CHARACTER TO BE PRESENT AND SEE WHAT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR NOSES’ SAYS THE OLD CAMEL






‘YOU MEAN TO BE ABLE TO TRULY SEE YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR’ SAYS BILLY






‘WE LIKE TO SEE OURSELVES IN ‘PRETEND WAYS’ …THAT IS ONE OF THE USUAL BLOCKS IN ‘IMAGINATIONS’…EVERYONE HAS THEM…THERE IS A ‘BLIND SPOT’ SOMEWHERE IN THE ‘HEART OF YOUR DREAMING’ BILLY’…SAYS THE OLD CAMEL






‘YOU MEAN THAT IT IS WHAT I DON’T SEE THAT IS KEEPING ME FROM DOING WHAT I REALLY NEED TO DO’ SAYS BILLY






‘SOMETIMES IT IS ‘WISHFUL THINKING’ OR MAYBE ‘WILLFUL BLINDNESS’ SAYS THE OLD CAMEL






‘YOU SAY THAT I TRY TO CONTROL WHAT I EXPERIENCE BY MAKING IT FIT A CERTAIN IMAGE’…SAYS BILLY






‘NOT EXACTLY…THINGS TAKE TIME TO GROW… ‘CHOOSING’…MAKING GOOD CHOICES IS THE ‘TALENT’ OF GROWING…THE MORE FLEXIBLE YOU CAN BE…THE MORE DEPTH AND COMPLEXITY YOU WILL UNDERSTAND’…SAYS THE OLD CAMEL






‘SO WILL THERE BE MORE TIMES LIKE THIS AS WE CROSS THE DESERT’?






‘NOTHING WILL BE THE SAME’… ‘EACH NEW ENCOUNTER WILL BE A DEMAND’… ‘A NEW CHALLENGE OF WITHDRAWAL OR PRESENCE’…






‘MIND OVER MATTER’?






‘MORE LIKE THE HARMONIZING OF MIND, SPIRIT, BODY AND MATTER’…






‘WILL YOU HELP ME TO GET THROUGH ‘THE GAP’?






‘HOW DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ‘THE GAP’?






‘I MET A HAWK’…






‘YOU MEAN LIKE THIS’…SUDDENLY THE OLD CAMEL LOOKS LIKE THE HAWK FOR A MATTER OF SECONDS AND THEN BECOMES AN OLD CAMEL AGAIN’…






‘I MUST HAVE BEEN HALLUCINATING…I THOUGHT YOU WERE THE HAWK THAT I MET IN THE JUNGLE’ SAYS BILLY






‘WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET’ SAYS THE OLD CAMEL






‘YOU MEAN THAT I WANTED THE HAWK TO BE THERE…THEN HE WAS…JUST BECAUSE I WISHED HIM TO BE THERE’? SAYS BILLY






‘DREAMS ARE POWERFUL WAYS TO STRENGTHEN YOUR FEELINGS BILLY’…SAYS THE OLD CAMEL






‘BUT THEY ARE JUST DREAMS AREN’T THEY’ SAYS BILLY






‘NO…DREAMS ARE LIKE STORIES AND BOOKS…IT IS HOW YOU LEARN TO BECOME MORE LIKE WHO YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE… SAYS THE OLD CAMEL






‘EXCEPT’…






‘EXCEPT THAT THEY ARE YOUR DREAMS…YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO BE IN THE GAME TO REALLY PLAY THE GAME…OKAY…THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ON YOUR OWN…YOU SEE THAT STEEP MOUNTAIN UP AHEAD’? SAYS THE OLD CAMEL






‘YEAH’…SAYS BILLY






‘WELL I CAN’T CARRY YOU OVER IT…YOU AND I ARE EACH GOING TO DO IT ON OUR OWN…DO YOU THINK YOU CAN DO IT’?






‘IS THIS A ‘DOUBLE DARE’?






‘NO THIS IS JUST REAL…CAN YOU DO IT’?






‘OKAY…LET’S GO’…






‘BILLY THIS IS A TIME WHEN WE DON’T TALK…WE SIMPLY CLIMB AND WE WILL REST WHEN WE GET TO THE OTHER SIDE’…






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BILLY AND THE OLD CAMEL CLIMB STAYING WITHIN EYESIGHT OF ONE ANOTHER…THE JOURNEY IS STEEP AND THE TERRAIN HAS MANY CACTI…BILLY HAS TO STOP A FEW TIMES TO GET CACTI NEEDLES OUT OF HIS ARMS AND LEGS…BY THE TIME BILLY REACHES THE TOP THE OLD CAMEL IS ALREADY THERE…






‘GEE…IT LOOKS LIKE THE DESERT GOES ON FOREVER’…SAYS BILLY






‘HOP ON…WE ARE GOING TO COVER A LOT OF DISTANCE VERY QUICKLY’…SAYS THE OLD CAMEL






BILLY CLIMBS ON AS THE OLD CAMEL KNEELS TO SCOOP HIM UP… ‘YOU LOOK A LOT YOUNGER NOW’…BILLY LOOKS AT THE CAMEL






‘WELL I ENJOY THE JOURNEY…IT KEEPS ME FIT AND ACTIVATES ALL MY JUICES’… ‘HAVE SOME WATER AND TAKE A BITE OF THE CACTUS LEAVES’ SAYS THE CAMEL






‘WHAT’S YOUR NAME’ ASKS BILLY AS HE CHEWS AND DRINKS HIS WATER






‘YOU CAN JUST CALL ME ALKIN’…






‘OKAY ALKIN’ AS BILLY AND ALKIN SPEED ACROSS THE DESERT PLAIN






A LOT OF TERRAIN SORT OF ‘BLURS’ UNTIL BILLY SPEAKS… ‘THERE IS AN OASIS OVER THERE…WE CAN REST AND GET SOME SLEEP’






ALKIN DOESN’T ANSWER AND KEEPS GOING…






‘WHY AREN’T WE STOPPING’ ASKS BILLY






‘IT IS A TRAP OASIS’ SAYS ALKIN






‘YOU MEAN THAT THERE ARE BAD BEINGS LIVING IN THE DESERT’? ASKS BILLY






‘SCORPIONS’… ‘THEY JUST HANG OUT IN THE SHADOWS AND UNDER THE ROCKS’…SAYS ALKIN






‘THEY STING AND POISON TAKING EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE’…SAYS ALKIN






‘SO WE BEST JUST KEEP GOING’ SAYS BILLY






ALKIN NODS AND STRETCHES OUT HIS NECK TOWARDS THE SETTING SUN…WE HAVE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE BEFORE IT GETS DARK…THERE IS A ‘MONSOON STORM’ COMING’…






HOW DO YOU KNOW’? ASKS BILLY






‘I FEEL IT WITH MY SKIN…WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BE ON SOME HIGHER GROUND’ SAYS ALKIN






THEY SPEED UP SOME MORE AND THE DESERT IS A BLUR ONCE AGAIN…






BILLY SEES SOME CLOUDS IN THE DISTANCE… ‘IS THAT WHERE THE MONSOON IS GOING TO BE’?






‘MONSOONS’ GATHER UP ENERGY SLOWLY AND THEN THEY BREAK FAST…HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A MONSOON’?






‘I ONLY SAW ONE THAT WAS ON ‘TV’’






ALKIN LAUGHS… ‘YOU SAW ONE ON ‘TV’ DID YOU? WELL THAT IS BETTER THAN NOTHING ISN’T IT’? YOU ARE IN FOR A REAL TREAT MR.BILLY’…






THERE ARE A LOT MORE CLOUDS GATHERING AND THEY ARE ALMOST DIRECTLY OVERHEAD…SUDDENLY THERE IS A FLASH OF LIGHTNING ACROSS THE SKY






‘IS THE MONSOON STARTING’?






‘WELL THERE IS A LITTLE MORE TIME TO GET TO A SAFER PLACE…WE ARE GOING TO GO TO THAT SMALL MOUNTAIN OVER THERE…






‘WHY DIDN’T I SEE THAT MOUNTAIN’? SAYS BILLY






‘DID EVERYTHING SEEM TO BE A BLUR WHEN WE WERE GALLOPING ACROSS THE PLAIN’?






‘YEAH…A ‘BLUR’…EVERYTHING LOOKED THE SAME’…SAYS BILLY






THEY RIDE UP THE SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN AND FIND SOME LARGE BOULDERS THAT PROVIDE SOME OVERHANGING SHELTER JUST AS THE CRACKLING LIGHTNING BREAKS THE SILENCE RELEASING A DOWNPOUR…






‘WOW’…BILLY SEES THE STREAMS OF WATER RUSHING DOWN THE SIDES OF THE MOUNTAIN A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY…THERE IS STILL ENOUGH LIGHT TO SEE THAT THE PLAINS ARE BECOMING A MYRIAD OF STREAMS…AS THE RAINS GET HEAVIER THE STREAMS SEEM TO MERGE INTO A VAST FLOOD PLAIN…






‘ARE WE SAFE UP HERE’? ASKS BILLY






‘THIS IS THE SAFEST PLACE BUT YOU NEVER KNOW…THE WINDS CHANGE AND THE EARTH MOVES’…JUST THEN A LARGE SECTION OF THE SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN BREALS DOWM AND WASHES INTO THE FLOOD PLAIN






‘ARE YOU SURE WE ARE SAFE’? ASKS BILLY AGAIN






‘TAKE A DEEP BREATH BILLY…I AM A GREAT SWIMMER IF IT BECOMES NECESSARY’…SAYS ALKIN






THEY ARE SILENT AS THE WET SWIRLING RAINS DRENCH THEM…THE OVERHANGING BOULDERS PROVIDE VERY LITTLE PROTECTION…






‘HOW MUCH LONGER’? ASKS BILLY






‘IT’S HARD TO SAY…IT HAS TO RUN IT’S COURSE’… ‘ARE YOU OKAY’?…SAYS ALKIN






‘JUST AS LONG AS I KNOW THAT THIS WILL BE OVER SOON’?






‘WELL, YOU KNOW THESE MONSOONS DON’T WORK ON ANY SCHEDULE…SOMETIMES THEY CAN GO ON NIGHT AND DAY AND THEN SOME MORE’






‘IS THERE NO REST’?






‘ARE YOU TIRED’?






‘I AM WORRIED THAT I AM GOING TO BE TIRED’?






‘OKAY…WHY DON’T YOU JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES AND JUST TRY TO ENJOY THE WINDS AND THE RAIN…I HAVE BEEN THROUGH FAR WORSE MONSOONS… JUST STRETCH OUT AND LAY ON YOUR BACK ON TOP OF MY BACK…FEEL YOUR SPIRIT IN THIS TURBULENCE…SEE IF YOU CAN HEAR A SILENCE IN THE MIDST OF THIS STORM’…SAYS ALKIN






‘HOW DO I DO THAT’? SAYS BILLY






‘CONCENTRATION’… ‘FOCUS YOUR HEART INTO YOUR SPIRIT’… ‘YOU WILL SEE EVERTHING YET YOU WILL BE AS IF YOU ARE IN ‘THE EYE OF A HURRICANE’ SAYS ALKIN






‘OKAY…I WILL TRY’…






THEY BOTH SEEM TO GO INTO A SILENCE AT THE SAME TIME…