Excerpt from Henry Miller's Visit

Henry Miller

Henry Miller says, " You know what's the problem with living? It's SO damn serious.

"Take death for instance. No worries, no problems. If the living would act dead, they'd have a lot more fun."

Henry takes another sip of coffee, another bite of cake, lights a cigarette
an pulls out his notebook.

Yesterday Henry stopped by the house. I didn't notice him at first.
You have to be in a certain space to see Henry, to notice his presence.

There is dead, and then there is Dead. Some people die to get out,
others die to get on, some die to figure the difference between the two.
And then there's the third way. The way of the determined.
They are the ones that hang out until the shift between limited and unlimited occurs.

Henry's hanging out. It's not a space of nothing happening, it's actually a space of intense creativity between his present world and ours.
Thiscafe, a cafe for the dead, allows the dead to find a voice, to be heard in this dimension, the one of the living.

Henry takes another sip of his coffee and reminds me that there are dragons out there in the business world.
"Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of good businesses, businesses that are good to people.
But boy, he says, there are bucketloads that are down-right mean."

What you'll find when you start entertaining the dead, is more of them show up.
And it will be in groups of like-minded people, those that you yourself are attracted to.

So here comes Gertrude Stein and Alice, they're loaded down with books.
They can barely see where they're going.

Gerturde says, " Don't you absolutely love books!"
Alice is grinning that big grinof hers and saying, "
We found so many stories we were looking for.
Histories and fairie-tales, biographies, and poetry."

"So many ways you can know the world, so many ways you can share insight.
So many works of fiction that are fact, and so many works of fact that are fiction."

Henry lets out a big hoot, and says, "Ladies, if that isn't the truth!"

Then they all start talking about the works they've done,
the works they came to be known for, and how the real work wasn't in the publishing,
it was in the writing of it.

This world that I'm talking about is just a molecule to one side or the other
of what you are used to seeing and hearing.

Nevertheless, its just as full and just as busy and full of life as the one you focus on.
And it is, it's a matter of focus to get in.

You can pop in and out of it at will, which is exactly what they do when they want to visit.
That said, they do not push their way in.
They're very patient and allow you to notice their hints of being nearby.

A song. A movie. A book. A photograph. A phone. A rememberance.
It takes very little to come here, if someone is open to it.

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