The house was built like an enormous frying pan.

Hot on one side, cool on the other and with a huge door handle the size of a senior elephant’s trunk.

On being invited inside my coat was taken by a tall, lean man who handed it to a tall, lean woman who handed it to an attendant wearing red and green silk layered garments.

The sun shone through enormous spherical-paned windows, the cool came from monumental decorative ceiling fans.

Next, we hoped to meet someone, somewhere inside.

Sealed in a moire patterned envelope with a ribbon and sporting a wax seal.

That was the observation.

The question we ask is why and where and when?

Who did this and did anyone else know?

Secrets kept for decades, revealed at last.

Just want to drive it before there are none left.

Well…we’ll leave that to the imagination.

And no, it’s not hard work.

Imagination is the most effective multivitamin and longevity-booster.

If you want proof, don’t ask, just try.

Here we are treading carefully, taking steps from waterlily to waterlily.

The sun, at the peak horizon of the sky, the fog hardly filling the valley, and coffee bubbling and ready to share.

We see the cacti are flowering, some of them anyway.

Deer roam in and out of small, scrubby trees and people on horses fill the distance with activity.

Good to be here, we’ll welcome you soon.

Start by breathing, then ice cream. We wish for that simplicity.

The wisest instruction this side of the fence.

But. Then. What?

Create Your Own Sage.

That’s confusing, if you want to be puzzled permanently.

Make that change.