Yellow Bear Journeys

What if, we&';re really living in Paradise and just don&';t know it?

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Paradise needs you! As much, if not more, than you need Paradise

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I want to see you enter into Paradise
Dance with the elves and ride the whales
Play with the trees and laugh with their children
Enter into the starlight of night

A wonderful world awaits you
In Paradise, Land of Grace
Land of Plenty and Beauty
Paradise, Paradise, Paradise

This world is just an illusion
The truth is in your heart
Paradise is reality
Jump in! Let&';s start!

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There&';s a grove in Paradise where the mangoes whisper - Find it!

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Paradise &n-; Silly Bob&';s Visit to (A story told to Yellow Bear)

It had been a good week for Silly Bob.
It had been a very good week!
A MIRACLE had happened and he was caught up on all his work at work. Further, he had nothing he really had to get done at home this weekend.

So, Silly Bob was just going to laze around, chill out, and take it easy.
Well, maybe he wouldn&';t laze around. Perhaps he&';d putz around instead.

Yes, this was great!
Silly Bob could relax, for the first time in he couldn&';t remember how long. Just relax, and actually, maybe, get some good sleep; some real sleep.

And then what happened?

[Yawn]. Well, I&';ll tell you what happened. He snored! It wasn&';t just any snoring either. It was almost as if he was snoring a tune, a happy tune.
The next morning, Silly Bob awoke, got out of bed and went to the window. Strange, he hadn&';t remembered there being a window here; and he certainly wouldn&';t have left it slightly open. But there was a nice breeze blowing through it, and he could hear the birds singing because the window was open, so he left it that way.
Then he went downstairs to fix himself some breakfast.

I&';ll bet he had blueberries!

Why yes he did! Blueberry pancakes with Blueberry syrup. He didn&';t remember having any blueberries in the fridge, but there they were!
This was turning into just a wonderful, wonderful day!
Then he went outside and just walked around admiring all the bushes and plants and birds and animals that he had never noticed before.

My, oh My! It was already time for lunch. Yellow Bear would have had blueberries again, but Silly Bob didn&';t.

Well what did he have?

Something equally delicious. Today was nice, but Silly Bob thought perhaps he should do something. So he looked around the house for something to do &n-; nothing too difficult or that would take too much time. Just something. He passed by a mirror and noticed that the person in the mirror was smiling. Then Silly Bob realized that the person in the mirror was himself &n-; funny how that works. And there was that darn smile on his face. Silly Bob went and got a washcloth. Then he stood in front of the mirror trying to wipe the smile off his face. But try as he might, the smile just wouldn&';t go away.
This would never do. Silly Bob was going to have to wear a balaclava (ski mask) to work.
Well, it was nothing to worry over. He still had another day and a half to figure out how to get rid of that smile before he had to go back to work. Might as well enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Well, the next day came and things were pretty much the same. The main difference was that when Silly Bob saw his smile in the mirror, he started to like it. That would just never do. Smiling was one thing. Enjoying things was one thing. But enjoying smiling!?! There was no way in The Forbidden Word that Silly Bob was going to enjoy smiling.
Silly Bob went looking for something to cover his smile with. What he found was a brochure on the kitchen table. Funny how he hadn&';t noticed it when he was eating. The brochure cover said, Hi, Silly Bob!
He thought, That&';s nice. A brochure addressed personally to me.
He opened the brochure. Inside it said, Welcome to Paradise! Enjoy your stay.
What was this?!? He didn&';t live in Paradise. And he hadn&';t taken a trip. But things were different. Nicely different. Too nice in fact, and Silly Bob just didn&';t like it. Silly Bob was going to put a stop to this! He would leave Paradise!!!
But how had he gotten here? Where was the exit?
He read the rest of the brochure, but it didn&';t say.

Silly Bob really wasn&';t prepared for the next thing that happened. Somebody was laughing, very loudly. Somebody very close by.

Who was it?

Silly Bob realized that he was the one who was laughing. And when he realized that, he laughed some more. It was so loud, we could almost hear him from here. He laughed for a very long time.
After 1764 seconds of laughing, Silly Bob stopped.
Then he stopped trying to do anything. He just waited. Waited to see what scrumptious thing would happen next. Somehow he had stumbled into Paradise and he would just have to live with it.

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Say Yellow Bear? Did you put more blueberries in Silly Bob&';s fridge? It&';s almost time for his supper.