Day: August 12, 2026

Brandon was so enamored with Carmilla that he couldn’t wait
to give her the beautiful red roses he bought for her.

But when Carmilla saw the roses, she hissed like a cat
and backed away from them and fell into a chair.

Brandon rushed to help her with the roses in hand, and
he touched her with the roses by mistake.

The roses caught fire and crumbled into ashes, just as
fangs appeared in Carmilla’s mouth and she passed out.

Brandon ran out of her house just as the sun coming up
and never saw Carmilla again

but heard of her death when townspeople killed her
with a stake through her heart.

Bob Boyd

When he died he had a surprise.
He didn’t die like most people do.
He flowed up out of the crown of
his head and merged with the
cosmos into eternal bliss. He
was surprised because he had
felt he’d go to heaven or to hell.
Yet there he was in a state of
consciousness beyond heaven
and beyond hell, and he knew
that infinite, eternal place was
the apex of spiritual evolution,
and the destiny of all humans.
And that he had come home.

Bob Boyd

I read that plants can recognize their relatives,
and that sounded bizarre to me

because I know plants don’t possess a
consciousness,

so how can they possibility have an awareness
of family members?

And does that mean they have sisters, brothers,
aunts, uncles and grandparents?

It all seems so absurd and unbelievable to me,
yet I just read plants can recognize relatives

by “chemical cues released by their roots,” and
can distinguish their relatives that way.

Now I wonder if plants have family picnics
and family get togethers?

Bob Boyd