Wrong Line Insurance

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As I found myself in the wrong line at the DMV last Friday, I recalled an idea offered by Mad magazine some fifty years ago, “Wrong Line Insurance”. After waiting in the wrong line for some twenty minutes, I was told that I should have been at a far-off other window.

Poetic questions

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Where?
Where were the stars when you were born,
Exalted and bright or low and forlorn?
Do they tell the tale of your past birth,
And how you’ll pass your days on earth?
Where was the life-giving Sun in your chart?
Effulgent and strong, blazing forth from your heart?
Powerfully-placed in the mid-point of day,
Or lost in the cold [...]

Remarkable Encounters

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And now for the first in a series describing strange run-ins on the winding road of life:
Remarkable Encounters
One Day in 1971, While Out Walking Around Deva Prayag—
One day long ago while hiking the forested hills above Rishikesh, I chanced to meet a golden skinned Vaishnava yogi who was walking the [...]