A Whether Experience

Not a typo



Merely a contemplation

Of choosing to decide a far

From Sophie’s choice decision

To experience the weather

As it is in the moment

Or to experience the weather

As it is allegedly forecast

Which is a gamble at best

Either way, both are illusions

The choice then becomes

To live in the forecast by

Spending attention on that

Or living in the actual moments

The “weather” is occurring



“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life,
most of which never happened.”

– Mark Twain



Whether driving down the road

Or living life as it occurs

It is best to be prepared for

The actual conditions and

Circumstances that arise



Better than hopeful projections

Or assuming everything will

Go horribly wrong and proceed

From vague hypotheses of

What may happen as opposed

To what happens in each

Subsequent moments

Played out in “real” time



The inspiration for this…..



I watched a group of drivers

Facing a “Winter weather advisory” *

(It may snow and be very windy)

It was interesting to watch them

Live in the moment and speak of

How they might react to something

That was occurring in their heads

“Guaranteeing” what will happen

If, then, what, maybe of possibilities

Due to figments of wild imaginations



Did I have concerns, of course

However, their projected plight

Of maybe……. doom and gloom

Tipped over trucks, lost jobs

Fatherless families, dead dads

Helped guide me to live / be

In the moment that was happening

In the now, in a warm dispatch office

Instead of gazing into a nonexistent


“Crystal Ball”


“I wonder what tomorrow has in mind for me
Or am I even in its mind at all
Perhaps I’ll get a chance to look ahead and see
Soon as I find myself a crystal ball
Soon as I find myself a crystal ball, “


– Styx



The weather experience

As woefully expected

Never came to fruition



“Human sacrifice!

Dogs and cats living together!

Mass hysteria!”


–  Bill Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman

“Ghostbusters”



Could we have run? Probably

Did layers of management

Make the right decision? Probably

The interesting parts were the

Multitudes of experiences experienced

Without having any actual experience

Save that so few seemed to be

Living in the moment of now



* “Winter weather advisory” used to be

Tomorrow’s forecast

Simple, honest, direct language

(Even with all the best technology

It winds up being their best guess)

Unfortunately, the word advisory

Portends the illusion of authority



It still is coming from

The same weatherman

Ooops, “Weather-person”

Ooops, meteorologist

Or….teleprompter reader



“People like to sound important; weathermen on television talk about “shower activity…” sounds more important than “showers”.

I even heard one guy on CNN talk about “a rain event.” Swear to God,” he said “Louisiana is expecting a rain event.” I thought “holy shit, I hope I can get tickets to that!”


… “Emergency situation…” News people like to say “police have responded to an emergency situation.” No, they haven’t. They’ve responded to an emergency.

We know it’s a situation… Everything is a situation!”


– George Carlin



And lately, since people are programmed

To trust authority, regardless of its skills

They surrender their intuition and gut instinct

Blindly away from their internal knowing of

Any outcome or an experience to be had / have

Backing it up with fearful projections to

Scare the shit out of themselves of

What is not actually happening in the first place



“The phantoms
Of our imagination
Are as real as the
Beliefs in our brain”


– Angelo Devlin