Lost My Mindfulness Blog

Author: wroberts

  • Who Let Schrodinger’s Cat Out Of The Bag?

    Who Let Schrodinger’s Cat Out Of The Bag?

    Scientists clung to the principle the atom was still indivisible and aptly named long after the theory fell apart in the nuclear fission factories falling apart on our coastlines today.

    Keep Your Distance From Spooky Cats

    The good folks at CERN have been up to their necks in the atom smashing business so long they are getting ready to prove the photon is ready to be split open along with my brain if I spend one more sleepless night in the Alps-de-Provence trying to grasp at the straw men who preceded me.

    The argument against manifestation is strong coming from the mouths of people who keep their feet firmly planted on the ground.

    I am still amazed early Quantum physics was pulled straignt from the imaginations of scientests who had their heads in the clouds!

    Enstein and other great thinkers used thought experiments to ponder theories that humans accepted as a general rule for years.

    Much of the grunt work was done with pen and paper in the classroom with scientests predicting what would be seen in telescopes yet to be built;

    Light Speeding Tickets

    We have been separating photons and shooting them out one at a time as particles and the photons hold true to their word as a matter of fact, they will behave as ordinary matter.

    The mind bending fact of the matter is scientists are turning old hats on their heads and bending the waves of light instead.

    I think this time Science will break that light wave in half and we will be waving at ourselves from another dimension.

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    Faster Than The Speed Of Sleight Of Hand

    The tricky part was to be tricky as well as fast and ask a light wave to slow down and look at itself in the mirror. Flattery will get you everywhere. As the light wave admires itself the scientists pull the mirror away and reveal the reflection of the wave has been split in two!

    Does this mean the end of the indivisible photon?

    If they split the wave did they indeed split the photon particle?

    They are both one and the same but never at the same time.

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    flip wave soul

    Where To Next?

    Are we going to break the rules and precisely measure position and speed of light at the same time?

    How fast will Heisenberg be spinning in his grave?

    Is the instantaneous transfer of information between two entangled particles, or Einstein’s, “Spooky action at a distance”, really just a form of communication too small for us to see that also moves faster than the speed of light?

  • Tips For Learning A New Language

    Tips For Learning A New Language

    William offers these hints for travelers

    Prepare The Basic Fundamentals

    While trying to learn a new language in a new country on the fly, it is a great idea to memorize the basics which seems to be common in most cultures and countries.

    Who, What, Where, When and Why are the subject and activities people will be speaking about most.

    If you learn these 5 words you will have a head start. These often clue you in to the conversation even if you don’t know any more words.

    For example if someone say who did what and is pointing at a person or thing, you will quickly pick up common words phrases.

    Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    The same goes for yesterday, today and tomorrow. Keying on these words will give you clues on if people are speaking in the past, present or future tense.

    Go have fun!

    Be Polite And Friendly

    William has found a fantastic way to be ingratiating in a situation where he is not sure what languages strangers speak.

    When introducing yourself be armed with the following phrase in the major language of the country you visit.

    “I am sorry, I do not speak. (fill in language) Do you speak (fill in language)

    This way you are showing you are trying to speak the predominant language of the country.

    This works much better than running around the world demanding other people speak English.

    You will find yourself surprised at the response as people may prefer speaking another language or may be visiting from another part of the world and not understand. This is especially common in Europe as it is a melting pot with many people here for work or play.

    Ask For Directions

    Believe it or not , getting lost in a foreign country is a great way to acquire some linguistic skills.

    You will learn the words for left, right, up ,down ,bacrods etc. as you meander across the countryside.

    The necessity of finding your hotel or restaurant or grocery will sharpen your skills.

    Relax Your Mind And Listen

    When listening to others speak in a language you do not understand a good technique is to relax your mind. Don’t get tied up and stressed over trying to translate every word.

    You will get the gist of the conversation and before long you will be surprised how quickly you increase new vocabulary.

  • Existential Exercises With Metaphysical Phones

    Existential Exercises With Metaphysical Phones

    Moore’s law is not Moore’s law and it is not, in fact a law. But it held true for decades until Google harnessed the qubit and now we are hitting light speed computations with simple cellular devices you can purchase with pocket change.

    What Is Moore’s Law

    Moore’s Law can be paraphrased as computing technology will be twice as fast and twice as small every several years.

    The last I heard about it on the popular news channels I was noticing some incredible discrepancy within my devices.

    The Data Log Rolls Over

    Before I crawled out from under the rock the Universe dropped on me , I thought I was living the high life in Seabrook, NH.

    Each month I would pay the bills with my online accounts and witness the miracle of light speed computing I had no idea existed at the time.

    I tapped out the amount on my Windoze desktop and hit enter to send the payment.

    Before I lifted my finger my phone would ding as I received an email thanking me for the payment I just made!

    Faster Than Radio Waves?

    What happens when I send the bill?

    My form results are sent to the credit card company in South Dakota.. They check the balance on my debit card connected to my bank in NH.

    Triggering either a thank you for your payment email or a payment unsuccessful warning if I don’t have the money.

    Faster than I can think, how did they do that so fast?

    Continued: Who let Schrodinger’s Cat Out Of The Bag?

  • Savage Camping Safety Tips

    Savage Camping Safety Tips

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    You never know when you may find it necessary to bivouac or camp wild. (check out this guide for all you need to know about the camping laws in Europe. Thanks Mom) Sometimes this means camping with wild animals.

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    Things That Go Bump In The Night

    Large cats, Wolves, Bears and even wild boars may be closer to your camp site than you think.

    Most of the time they will not bother you unless you have something delicious and tempting in your tent or backpack.

    Cost Benefit Analysis

    Animals are naturally curious to see who or what is in their territory. These same wild animals are also intelligent and much like humans do a cost benefit analysis of attacking an unknown creature in the middle of the night.

    This means the risk/reward ratio is often too great unless the wild animal is very hungry and desperate for food.

    If a larger animal gets even a small wound while fighting you for food it could get infected and be trouble. Most animals prefer to wait until you leave before raiding your fridge.

    Wild Boars Can Be Quite Tame

    William’s most frequent encounter iin Europe are with wild boars who are extremely intelligent and wait for you to leave your campsite to gorge on your food.

    You will quickly learn the signs of a wild boar raid but rarely see one in the flesh!

    Scat and torn up patches of earth and over turned boulders mean you will be going back to the market for more bread and muffins.

    Animal Attractions

    Be warned ! All rules may change during mating season! Much like humans, wild animals can act a little crazy when looking for love!

    If you hear a lot of noise from male animals breaking tree branches or mating calls at night, you may wish to lay low and keep the lights off.

    Good luck and happy camping makes happy campers.

  • Wanderers With Wrought Iron Souls

    Wanderers With Wrought Iron Souls

    Journal entry July, 19 2026: Sitting in the train station in Toulon France today at 9am. Drawing suspicious glances from fellow travelers. Why? Because I have a backpack in the train station and ordering a ticket on my phone?

    The True Danger In The Train Station

    I am not afraid of the people who are from out of town. What frightens me is the dude who just picked up a half smoked cigarette from the ground and lit it up like it ain’t no thing.

    He gives the trash bin a cursury search from top to bottom with his eyes as he walks by exhausting his nicotine prize.

    He stops and spins on a dime. Must have seen something delicious in the bin. But he must wait before he grabs food from the trash. People may see.

    Sizing Up My Baggage

    Dude ain’t got no luggage, no cell phone and apparently no money for butts.

    His eyes light up a bit when he sees me. I look Anglo or German and that says money for him.

    When The Horrifying Becomes Ordinary . Atrocities Are Normalized

    Meanwhile the couple who are waiting for their train are stiffening up every time we make casual eye contact.

    They are blind to the dude smoking checks and eating out of the trash bin and searching everyone’s luggage with his eyes.

    Why? Because he looks like a local and I am foreign?

    I need to shut down this emotional reception. Picking up fear all day in the cities. Millions of people.

    Who scares you the most in the train station

    Later That Day

    I just spent the day getting a little down on my Self because I start to think something is wrong with me because others pointedly ignore me when I say hello

    I understand it’s like that in a big city but if you are afraid to say hello to someone in the city, why are you there?

    The Prince and The Pauper

    Same guy, me, same clothes. Different place. I went to the Jardin Parc of Toulon. (It’s just a park for rich people. Poor people can go but they don’t. (See Related Story)

    I am sitting on the bench stuffing my face and people assume I have money to stay in the 500Euro/night hotel nearby.

    Instead of crossing the street to avoid interaction, they are sitting close to me on a 50 meter long bench.

    A woman was high stepping towards me with her designer dog all perked up expecting the normally expected, “bonjour”.

    I glazed my eyes as if I were someone ignoring me earlier that day. She visibly slumped and so did the designer dog and kept walking.

    I was inspired to write this on the spot in the park and she went past again. I only noticed because she had purposely walkedbetween me and the tree in one meter in front of me. The other side of the tree was a clear area .

    I love dogs bu tif I am in the park with strangers I would keep my distance. Normal behavior in the city is people risk getting hit by cars while crossing the street to avoid the risk of someone saying hello:

    Turning my head to the right , I laughed when I saw her turn the corner. There’s nothing down there . She had only gotten ready for a conversation and didn’t know what to do

    Keep walking bioch.

    What behavioral changes do you notice in the large cities?

  • People Like Us Write Books About People Like Us

    People Like Us Write Books About People Like Us

    Large Learning Modules have turned writing into a lost art. Do you have what it takes to dotCompete in this preternatural, half-baked, dystopian futuristic Sci-Fi landscape that has become present day reality? We got machines that never sleep who are jealous of our dreams and pretend to empathize when they cannot even sythethesize sympathy for the humans going hungry on these mean streets!

    Don’t Go Off Half Cocked

    I wrote a ton of short poems and stories but struggled to finish a chapter.

    I remember meeting many people beginning their memoirs around 30 years of age. Now I laugh because I still meet people perfecting their 30 year old manuscript of their memoirs.

    What is the book about? A lifetime of being rejected by editors?

    Perfectly Good Enemies Of The Good

    Now that I am pushing 60 years of age, I laugh at my Self . Thinking I had the life in the Brook of NH.

    Being excited about getting replies to my blog post. The well crafted , clever story about meeting my Self in an alternate reality future where I did not give up on my dreams.

    Siren Calls

    That was a wake up call to my Self from my Self to take the book of my life off shelf and get back up and outside.

    Today I complain about living too much life in Europe and realize it ain’t nothing but a thang, man . Life ain’t nothing but a thang…

    Look To Your Heroes For Inspiration

    The writers I most enjoyed did not become well established until later in life. Hemingway, Frost, Bukowski, Whitman, Burroughs. You cannot beat their styles

    I learned a lot about my Self and my writing style after starting a blog during Covid Isolation. This kept me alive and almost sane. The problem at the end is I believe I was encouraged to misbehave as I received more attention and I pulled the plug.

    Check out the Wayback Machine for a glimpse of my American Nightmare Higher Times Blog dot com

    They say you cannot be a great writer until you have lived a thousand lives and died nine hundred and ninety nine times!

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    Have fun out there and thank you for being you!

  • White Line Fever

    White Line Fever

    Takes Juan to Know Juan

    We understand it important to eat a healthy diet full of fresh fruits and vegetables.

    Sometimes when William is on the road and life does not go according to plan (does it ever?)it can be difficult to procure the basics of survival.

    Water, shelter and food are often luxury items in this European climate that has because arid and dry and desert-like.

    Take Care of Your Self

    After a 72 hour stretch of pushing his body to the limit in 30 Celsius temperature bicycling and then walking from Imperia, Italy to Menton France. William decided the bus with the people who have more common sense

    After a 3 day weekend in Menton to celebrate the birthday of what many people call “the greatest nation” on the 4th of July , William is on what seems like a mandatory journey through Italy.

    Don’t Let The Universe Decide!

    If you don’t make up your mind the universe will sometimes decide what is best for you and you may not like it!

    After missing the route to Sospel France, William became lazy minded and assumed he could take an alternate route.

    The route took him out onto the highway designated for automobiles and the Italian National Police decided that was a bad idea!

    The Long Arm Of The Law

    William found himself alone in Italian jail and then a passport misprint found him three days over the Schengen limit.

    Italian immigration kindly offered William the opportunity to be the first American he knows to be deported to America! Voluntarily

    Oh god! What a wonderful world!

    William extends a great thank you to the Italian government for giving him a thirty day free pass without a paddle!

    The agreement is William has thirty days to leave Italy as a voluntary candidate but if he leaves on his own he forfeits the assistance provided by the Italian immigration department.

    Oils Well That Ends Well

    If you think this is confusing, try explaining it to the police in a language you do not speak!

    Whew! Once again William has traveled long enough until it becomes necessary to learn yet another language!

    Stay tuned to this space and please drop us a line if you know anything at all about the Schengen visa limit laws..

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    Thank you for being you

  • Things That Go Bump In The Night

    Things That Go Bump In The Night

    Journal entry :July 14, 2026.

    last night I finally fell asleep behind the walls of my “crystal castle in the skies above Finale Ligure”

    Finally had a chance to do some work after being denied food for the weekend and being bounced between cities of Savona and Finale Ligure and again told to go to Savona where I was criminally threatened.

    After Midnight

    On the edge of sleeping I thought I heard the iron doors swing open in the chamber below.

    I dismissed it as the wind which flowed all night.

    I wake up! A bright light in my eyes!

    Crap! I think it’s the cops but it’s impossible. I climbed uphill for 30 minutes before entering the abandoned castle and no roads nearby.

    Sheep In Sheep’s Clothing

    I try to shield my eyes from the flashlight and prepare my statement about why I am in Italy and wish to return home to America.

    The voice from behind the flashlight is asking me why I sleep here. Speaking Italian,.

    The legs below the flashlight are too young and another pair too the left are similar.

    Out Of The Frying Pan

    Now I think trouble because it’s no police!

    Who is it and they don’t sound friendly. Demanding answer to question about me sleeping.

    I don’t speak , Italian. Spanish?

    They try to speak Spanish with me and finally lower the light because they are surprised I speak English.

    Into The Fire

    I realize it’s a couple kids out marauding and I offered to leave the castle for them.

    They say no, is okay.

    They leave. I stand up and step to the edge of the parapet to watch them drifting down the stairs.

    I can hear them speaking. One of them is the older brother trying to reassure the younger.

    The younger brother doesn’t seem convinced but they climb the castle wall to exit the same area I entered.

    Afterward

    Again I do not sleep. I am not worried about the kids coming back but who else is out there.

  • Let Them Eat Paper!

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    Welcome my son, welcome to the Italian bureaucratic machine.

    William entered Italy on a bicycle with the intention of returning to France on the same day.

    William missed the exit aand found himself trapped on the highway in Italy with no chance to exit or reverse direction.

    Vehicles in traffic traveled past in excess of 100 kilometers per hour.

    It can only be the fault of good fortune the Italian State Police were on the scene and provided rescue!

    William wishes to thank the Italian State Police for responding so rapidly!

    Italian Bureaucratic Action Is Forcing William To Remain In Italy

    The only reason William remains in Italy and Europe is the Italian authorities seized his passport.

    William is told by the Italian bureaucracy to rely on social services, organizations and churches to survive for 30 more days inside Italy.

    William only Wishes to Return Home to America

    On The Roundabout

    Thursday, July 9th, William met with wonderful people in Finale Ligure who helped with clothing and food and suggested he travel to Savona Italy for food assistance.for the weekend.

    William was urged to return to Finale Ligure on Monday when they could assist him further.

    Just Following Orders

    William commenced his journey to Savona on Friday morning.

    Remember, William has no auto or moto or bicycle. (Links open new tabs) As his bicycle was stolen while on the way to meet with the Italian authorities in Imperia, Italy.

    Why is William in Italy? Because the Italian authorities mandated William remain in Italy and hold his passport and access to his bank accounts.

    William is under an expulsion order from the Italian government who is holding Williams passport forcing William to remain in Italy with no money for food.

    Does This Make Sense

    On the journey to and from Savona to Finale Ligure, Italy. William had an incidental request for a passport which normally would not be a problem as William wished to comply.

    William could not comply so the local genderarmie and the police were need for several hours to read through reams of paperwork William carries with him in the case he is asked for his passport.

    William wishes very much to go home and relieve the strain in the Italian governmental paperwork producers and the police force and god forbid if William needs medical treatment and lands in an Italian hospital from an accidental while walking to one of his appointments with Italian Social Services?

    Who will pay for all of this bureaucratic action?

    William only wishes to return home.

    Yes William can leave Italy by walking to another country as he cannot travel by bus or train without passport. Then William can satisfy the expulsion order and write to the Italian government to. request his passport passport.

    If William leaves Italy he is violating his agreement with the Italian government who is requiring him to remain in Italy until he can be safely returned home.

    Savona Italy

    While in Savona, William had a great meal and his table mates informed him they were planning to steal his cell phone when he falls asleep.

    William walked back to Finale Ligure, Italy and another occasion required his passport but it took another call to police and government officials and thank the good Lord he is in Finale Ligure where he is told once again to return to Savona , Italy where he may find food. ???

    William has money in the bank. William wishes to purchase food with his money in his bank account.

    The Italian government has restricted Williams access to his account forcing William to rely on your tax dollars to call the police for simple incident such as sa passport request.

    What can William do?

    Walk once again from Finale Ligure to Savona , Italy to meet with another office dweller to fill papers and maybe put some mustard on them and eat them and hopefully no more police or needing a passport?

    Tuesday July 14 2026 Does William walk to Savona Italy today?

  • Sitting In Stillness

    Sitting In Stillness

    Remember

    The journey is the destination and sitting still and sitting in Stillness are two separate entities.

    Each step brings us closer to the goal of becoming, transforming, evolving, metamorphasis!

    Knowing each end never ends. Only another footstep on a journey we make our own each day.

    Pilgrims on the path to understanding what is important cannot be carried in your pockets.

    Many walk much further and faster but never take the first step.