Basement Scene, week of November 19, 2008

November 23, 08
9:33 AM

Well, there you see it!
A Visual Virtual Progress Report on
the Great Earth Cleanup in our Neck of the Woods
here at the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community
in San Diego.

That's the shelves over to the left.
Chef Jem, the Son of Truth,
spent about ten hours doing two coats.
He says he is a bit Virgonian...detail oriented.
He had to call me in for my O.K.
If we left it to Chef Jem, the shelves would be
clean enough to serve dinner without a plate.

He admits he at times gets a bit anal,
or maybe I better check that.

The whole Process has been going on for about
three months....It took us that long just to clear the
Stuff out of the Basement. Some of it is already
creeping back!!!!! We will have to check that...
I can see having a Basement Party with a Live Band.

We have some real Clutter Heroes of the American Dream
Living on Site,
including her Highness, A#1 who lives
as an Enchanted Garden Heiress,
claiming tons of former Basement base as well as kitchen
space.

To say the least she has been living a bit above her means
and now is being asked to Pay Up one way or another for all the Space
she inhabits.

How much would the storage charges be I wonder
if she had to pay elsewhere for that much space?

I say to witness the Enormity of the Incredibly large piles
collections of former Basement Clutter, and Treasures is a site
equal to going to visit the Watts Towers,
another site of fame in in the L.A. Area.

The Enchanted Garden Clutter Collect is now on view in
our backyard, but you better hurry.

Scottie of the Old West is reeling in emotions
as the Canyon has more clutter than plants on display
he feels.

Chef Jem says you better hurry up and see our exhibit
cause this Enchanted Garden Installation of "ART"
will only be "showing" for a limited Time Period--
IT has got to be gone by year end or sooner!

A#1 considers herself an Artist,
and so having so many boxes filled
with old magazines is part of her palatte
to make an occasional art piece.
I would thing those Art Pieces ought to sell
for about $3000.00 each to help cover
costs here of the impact of Having Too Much Stuff.

Why do we do it? Why are we so Possesses
to have so much??? A think we need to have
a Salon here and discuss the "Matter."

Second on the panel in amount of Stuff is
Your Enchanted Gardener. My stuff has
tons of Archival materials, some from Dr. Bernard Jensen.
Other collections are Essene materials from the 70's
and two large plastic boxes on the Harpo Manuscript
that will likely turn into an Academy Award Winner scriipt
one of these days. Then there are the photo collections....
How do you throw out or store a photo of the Dalai Lama
at the press conference where it was announced he had won
the Nobel Peace Prize? How do you throw out photos
of Carl Rogers taken at his last Birthday before he died?
Those are just two photos in my collectiion.....I was the
photographer.

The theme of Value is coming up for me.
If I am going to Claim Space in the New Basement Layout,
I had better anticipate creating Cottage Industries out
of the Treasures I am saving in this Prime Space.

There are also some difficult communications upcoming
that make me gulp in the throat. How do I break the
news to A#1 that parts of her vast Office Space
down there--including her Defunct Computer Collection
is a has been? Some of the desks she has been using,
currently taking up space, need to be removed.
Chef Jem is moving down his own assortment of
Possessions and is going to get space in trade
for the incredible job (and hours given) he has.
The Chef has been coordinator of the Cleanup.

The drama continues:

Virgonian Chef Jem has called in Jason
to give estimates for repairs including
leaky walls. Is that something like leaky gut symdrome?

More than $1000.00 has been invested in this
Great Earth Cleanup that ties in with the Thirty Years of Purification
as detailed in the Book of Revelation.

I borrowed those funds from other accounts.
The money to be borrowed from them is starting
to pull on my head. The decline in funds is not
as bad as those who have tanked on the Stock Market,
but I am starting to see a real decline in cash reserves.

"The Lord Cometh!" says Chef Jem,
or some quote like that regarding the Great Purification
on site.

I am not sure where the funds are coming
for other repairs. Maybe from the Lord?

The Ultimate Plan would be to have
Commenorative events as Fun Raisers,
as well as Products.

Lord Scottie, a King of Hearts in the Love Card Deck,
has cornered part of the Microfibre Market.
I can see a Special Edition Microfibre for sale on the web
with a Special Art Piece I have in Mind.
The insert reads; Holy Schmattah!
Thanks for supporting the Enchanted Garden
Great Earth Cleanup! $5.00-$10.00-$25.00
sliding scale.

Another Item might be selling off some of
our Artifacts. I have some old antiques
to offer up, including an Icebox circa 1904,
as well as a wooden piece we had at Harpos
Health House by the Sea. Harpo, you may recall,
was the Originator of the word Smootie, the
now popular fruit juice drink. Maybe I could
make a Harpo poster.

Other Fun Raising Item.
Maybe A#1 would concent to sell off some
her boxes of mazazines, and/or I could get rid
of more of the Enchanted Garden Library Collection
stored in the Old Basement Design.

Maybe our President Elect can come out and give a
speech from our Basement to give the Nation Hope.
We certainly need more Hope here that this Necessary
Clean Up is Possible!

Shannon Foley, the Beet Keeper of Cocolalla, Id
gave 25 cents admission to receive Healing from visiting
OUr Clutter Collection. She visited a few weeks ago,
playing hooky from her workshop at the Pac Sym '08.
Shannon said she got a lot of healing viewing our Clutter Collection.
I realize I am not the only one with clutter. Other good people
have clutter too, she said.