The movie Three Thousand Years of Longing has much to offer. Alas the ending is, in my opinion, just awful. It’s almost an insult the the djinn themselves! The scene that leapt off the screen at me is so masterful and so magical I had to write about it.
It is very short, unfortunately, for it is one of those haunting tunes one used to find in old music boxes.
UPDATE: November 13, 2025 Someone on YouTube commented on my video asking the name of the piece. At the time I uploaded the clip, I had sent emails off to the producer of the film and to the composer. I never heard back. Today, however, I found the song “Djinn Theme” on Spotify.
But I digress once again. It is the Djinn who make the harp in the movie COME ALIVE. If you do a search on King Solomon, you will find debates about how Solomon is portrayed in the Quran vs the Bible vs in the Jewish folktales.
The djinn are a very interesting group of spirits. Some traditions say they are neither good nor evil. They are invisible most of the time, but they can become visible. Netflix aired a series called Jinn in 2019. It starts off in Petra, a place I was invited to visit by one of my English as a Second Language students back in 1979. Petra leapt to fame in a series of movies. It was best portrayed by the blockbusterIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
King Solomon was supposed to be able to speak to birds and he had power over the djinn. A very odd coincidence is Solomon’s ability to talk to the ants. We assume those tiny little creatures that annoy everyone at picnics, are the bane of householders everywhere, and who can bite and torment and sometimes fly are the ants in the folktales. In telling the story about Solomon to a friend here in Nevada, I heard a first hand account of seeing the ANT PEOPLE in Osino, Nevada. The same ANT PEOPLE who the Late Notorious Doc’s father claimed HE MET. The same ANT PEOPLE the Hopi talk about.AND MAYBE MAYBE?????? The Ants . . . .
Gene D. Matlock, B.A., M.A.’s blog post “Is the Hopi Deity Kokopelli an Ancient Hindu God”? is a must read. I always wondered if Kokopelli was Shri Krishna because of the flute. Never made the connection between Lord KUBER and Kokopelli. It’s brilliant!
And then it hit me! The ants in the Surah An-Nami
Please if your a devout Muslim, do not attack me. This is conjecture. I wonder if this Surah is a vestige of an ancient tale from India which is why academics have not been able to make sense of it!
If you take the tale of King Solomon and replace it with Lord Indra, then the ants make sense in the story. It it a teaching tale about pride and greed and disdain for others. It is a teaching tale of humility and how the gods (Vishnu and Shiva) can take the form of anything they want and use any creature necessary to help a sentient being recognize his/her infinitesimally insignificance compared to the Creator.
But it also might serve a dual purpose and that is to remind the storyteller and his/her audience that ants might not be tiny creatures who live in tunnels and hills!
Harry Leo Duran (1956-2021) was a board certified occupational medicine physician and a board certified addiction medicine specialist.
He did a 6 year residency in neurosurgery, but was fired from the University of New Mexico within weeks of completing the program and being recommended for the boards.
Dr. Duran was a narcissist and a psychopath. He was also an art collector. I, his wife, inherited several extremely expensive pieces. These pieces are in a storage unit until I can find buyers.
One of which is a Jo Jo Jilbert scrap metal portrait of Duran.
This piece was believed to be a portrait of the hip hop artist Gwen Stefani. Veliz told me in person that it is a portrait of a model in California who looks just like Stefani. Duran paid $3,500 for it.
Veliz sold it to Duran for $6,100 and he wishes he could afford to purchase it back from me as he believes it’s his best work.
Duran also purchased an unusual work by Luisa Leal.
This work hung in a. restaurant in the Ogden called Itsy Bitsy. Itsy Bitsy is now closed.
I sent an email and text to the Leal, but never heard back.
He also purchased SEVERAL pieces of Lego art and had a few commissioned from Chris Ihle. One piece alone cost $3,500. I have the receipt.
Harry died penniless. I blog about his insanity and about his death. To promote the Tell All Book I’ve written about him which is being revised more into a memoir, I created an author platform and YouTube channel.
I am moving to Crossville, Tennessee.I’m having an Armstrong Steel 1800 square foot barndominium built on 4.3 acres in the woodson the Cumberland Plateau. On one trip across the country with a friend of mine, we plan on taking all of my books and small items and the art to put into storage in Tennessee. With luck and a lot of prayers, I hope to sell the art to dealers and collectors on the way.
Pray for me. Duran stole over $500,000 of mostly MY savings and spent it on a lavish debauched lifestyle. The book will reveal all the evidence I found on his phones, in his emails, and in his Facebook Messenger messages. It will fry most of your minds. Thanks to Brian Thomas Mott, the art was salvaged. I now need to find buyers so I can pay for appliances in my new home. A home in a state where I will have no memories of the Notorious Doc!
Well, after three months of research, I think I found two adjacent lots in Crossville, Tennessee. I made an offer but the seller countered by eliminating the two-week contingency period for me to get an appraisal and verify all the information. I refused to sign.I created this page so I can share all my research with home builders, fencing contractors, companies that clear forested lots, contractors that build driveways, and a landscaper who can install a sprinkler system and sod and maybe a couple of dogwood trees.
The land has to be mostly level because I want to have a barndominium or ranch built.When I click on the Realtor.com FLOOD MAP feature, there cannot be any signs of flooding on the lot nor on the street nor behind nor on each side. (I found a great lot but it would be surrounded by water in a storm.).The lot or lots cannot be in area with a crime rate that would keep me awake at night. The lots I found are across from a mom and pop gas station. I just learned that the truck stop designation is because they own a trucking company and the trucks in the video are THEIRS. I called the Sheriff and the Dispatcher told me the sheriff said the area is perfectly safe and not to worry.The land is DRY, next to a Baptist church, and the area between Tennessee Route 24 and the house lot belongs to a 32 acre farm which wraps behind the two lots as well.
The lot also had to pass a soil test (aka soil percolation rate which indicates how quickly water moves through soil and helps evaluate the ability of the soil to absorb and treat effluent — wastewater).The seller sent a soil test and I called the company that did it to make sure it is still good. It is but I’d have to purchase a new septic application for about $400.
I wanted a survey. This seller sent my realtor one on file.
I looked at plans, watched YouTube videos, did virtual tours, and downloaded software to try to teach myself how to create floor plans and blueprints. Did you know you can buy software to do that?
Or this
I wanted a lot with water, electricity, natural gas, AND fiber or copper cable Internet on the road. I found the Chamber of Commerce site and started calling utility companies to figure which ones service the property. Turns out I will have to fill out a lot of paperwork with the Volunteer Energy Cooperative. The rental I owned in Ely, Nevada was serviced by a co-op so at least this wasn’t a shock. They do not operate like the companies city folk are familiar with.
I called Frontier and was told the property already has copper cable and that within the year fiber is being installed so I can have high speed Internet.The Catoosa Utility District will charge $1,250 for the tap to be installed at the road so a water line can be run to the house. How much it will cost to run electric, cable, and water lines to the house I could not find out. The Middle Tennessee Natural Gas Utility District is three to five months behind. They can run gas up to 300 feet. I figure the house will sit about 75 feet from the road.The electricity should be run underground because of all the trees. I don’t want power lines down during storms. I don’t know how much that will cost YET.
I went on Angies List and found two general contractors. Now to get exact costs to build.
These are photos of a house built recently for a man in a wheelchair. I do not like stainless steel. I don’t want a microwave over the stove. Instead I want a microwave/air fryer that can sit on a counter. I also don’t want dual sinks in the bathroom. For the life of me I cannot understand how anyone would want to share a bathroom EVER.
This house has a really nice layout and it follows feng shui principles. I can’t find anything that violates the basic tenets. Nice foyer. Sink is near the stove and not opposite it – a flaw most American homes have. PERFECT for me to age in gracefully. IF I don’t need nursing home, I could live in a house like this with just help as I age.I don’t like one of the ceiling fans, but that is so minor I can upgrade to one I do like.
Cost to clear the shaded area for the septic field.
Cost to clear the land for a driveway and an acre of the land for the house, the “workshop”, and a yard for the dogs.
Cost to erect a No Climb farm fence around the perimeter both lots.I had this installed in Texas.
Cost to erect a No Climb farm fence around the “lawn” for the dogs with gates in the front and back.
Cost to clear walking trails through the rest of the property.
Cost to clear underbrush and to spray to prevent ticks and fleas.
Cost to install a sprinkler system for a small lawn in front of the house and a large lawn in the back for the dogs.Does the land need top soil for sod?? I don’t know YET.I’m guessing $4,000 for the sprinkler system and $3,000??? for sod.
Cost for a small patio in the back and a walk from the driveway to the front door. Could be gravel. I don’t plan on having guests but I want to use the front door to walk to the road, cross, and buy pulled pork sandwiches at the gas station!
Cost for a mailbox and a 911 postal address. I already have security cameras but I need security flood lights.
Cost to install a heated salt water above ground FitMax IPOOL 3 built with a deck around it so I can walk up a staircase rather than a ladder. I want the pool inside an insulated and heated/air conditioned “Workshop/Garage” with a window so I can look out while I try to exercise.Click on the photo to watch how to install one of these therapy pools.
Cost of a gas furnace assuming the federal government doesn’t outlaw them.
Cost of an air conditioner assuming the feds don’t ban those either.Don’t laugh. I just heard some in Congress are ranting about AC also!This looks like it’s both an AC and a furnace. Gotta ask.
Cost of a gas operated tankless water heater – the electric powered ones suck.
Cost of a new refrigerator. I plan on bringing my washer which I just bought in early 2000 and my dryer which I had repaired – it was a top of the line dryer and I saw replacement costs and almost fainted.
Cost of a microwave/air fryer that I can have on the counter.
Tomorrow (Friday, March 31, 2023) I will share this with the general contractors and get back on the phone and track down who installs septic systems. I also got leads from Facebook’s Crossville Chitter Chatter for locals who clear lots. There might be a way to save money. My realtor got a quote of $18,000 from someone he knows who viewed the video. The quote includes building a two car width 100 foot long driveway.
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To create the slideshow I used my trackpad to copy just the photo to my desktop, then I created a slideshow using Apple Photos and exported it to Rumble. I could have uploaded it to YouTube, but YouTube takes FOREVER and this is not a video I can nor would want to monetize.
On February 27, 2023 a vacant lot was listed for sale inCrossville, Tennessee. I did not find the listing until March 10th. I had a really bad bout of bronchitis and a sinus headache, so when I found the listing I jumped at it. I called the listing agent and asked all the standard questions.The listing agent’s husband drove over to the lot and made a YouTube video of the lot.It was perfect!
4.94 acres – 2 acres cleared, the rest were forest but not thick
Rectangular – not some weird narrow stretch, nor a weird shape resembling a strangled hernia, nor a decent shape marred by a one car width entrance to the lot from a cul de sac, and no shared driveway
LEVEL- not a steep slope either rising up from a street nor with a sharp drop off from a road
NOT a rolling landscape which would require a three story building built precariously sitting on a cliff
SAFE neighborhood – no drive by shootings, nor murders, nor auto thefts, break ins, nor reports of vandalism, etc
NOT in a flood zone. FEMA map showed no chance of flooding
NO creek nor pond nor lake nearby that might harbor standing water on the property during a storm
UNRESTRICTED LOT – ZONED Residential and Commercial and Agricultural. I could have built anything I wanted ANYTHING!
Not in a tornado belt nor hurricane path
Electricity and water hookups available at the street
Located 11 minute drive from the Lake Tansi Resort Restaurant and Bar!
Located 10 minute drive from the Cumberland County Public Library!
The seller had already turned down an offer so I made an offer of cash – full price BUT I wanted PROOF that the property could be connected to
HIGH SPEED FIBER INTERNET with a LANDLINE!
AND AND AND That the soil test – aka septic field soil test would reveal that a 3 bedroom 2 bath house could be built on the land!
The realtor’s husband had worked for Spectrum and he saw a telephone poll up the road with a spectrum sign. BUT, after the sales contract was signed by myself and the seller, I called EVERY SINGLE Internet and landline provider in the county and NOT ONE, save Earthlink satellite, would provide service and NONE would provide a landline – NOT ONE!
I called the County Planner, the local water company – yes I could get water for another $1,050 in construction costs, but no one knew about Internet.
I finally got a woman in the Spectrum Construction Department and she explained it.
The line ended more than 3,500 feet up the road. Yes the neighbor could get Spectrum and yes the realtor spoke with the neighbor across the street who had Frontier, BUT EVEN if I had money to set on fire to heat my house, to run the line to the property, she said it was
OUT OF FOOTPRINT – the signal was NOT going to reach the lot UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES and Frontier told me the same! Frontier had run a line from the end of the cul de sac and it ended 3,500 or more from the lot!
30 hours after signing a sales contract, I signed a cancelation notice.
Last night I had new Facebook friends who live in Crossville write to me and say:
I BET THERE’S NO TRASH SERVICE EITHER!
OMG I forgot about GARBAGE – In San Benito, Texas we had a DUMPSTER at the end of the long driveway. Here I have a large container on wheels. But I have always had trash pick up!
HAD I bought the lot and suffered with spotty satellite Internet, I would have been stuck with finding a way to store my garbage and then DRIVING it to a dump every few days! I have 3 cats and 3 dogs. NO WAY would I be able to stomach doing that!
And then a few hours after I canceled the news about bank failures dominated the headlines. I need to sit tight and get my house ready to sell. I will NOT try to buy anything until my house is under contract and the buyer has completed the process and we are just waiting for the title company to close.I hate doing it that way. I’ll need a contingency that I can find another home hoping the buyer will accept the terms of the contract.
Auggie and his sister Belbel and their best friend and mentor, Little Man, the aging orange tabby, Tiggy, the ever rambunctious and mischievous slate grey Vladimir Greystone,who loves to go for walkies when I can get him to hold still to hook a leash onto his cat harness, and the ever complaining and ravenous giant tabby, Higgston and I are in need of a new home.
We want a home where, when I open the garage door to try to get to the store, I don’t see this!
I will miss walking in the remote isolated cul de sac where we experienced the Great American Bunny Hop Hop Escape!
And I will miss the spectacular Ruby Dome glacier mountain.
Spring Creek often has sunrises and sunsets to rival Sedona or anywhere else on the earth, BUT there’s nothing for me to do here. I can’t hunt, nor fish, nor hike, and I want to be near water – lots of water!
At first, I did NOT want to EVER live in another HOA (Home Owners Association). I don’t use the facilities here except they do plow the roads. HOWEVER, I may have found paradise after all.
I found this video and fell in love – not with the driver, I have no idea what he might be like except he’s funny.
I found a perfect house on a half acre which is a bit too small but the trade off is I can take the dogs on the hiking trails on leashes once I get back into shape that is.
HOWEVER, I need to get my house on the market first and that’s going to be STRESSFUL – VERY VERY PTSD Flashback inducing, nightmare replaying next few weeks – with luck weeks and not months.Unless I can find a vacant lot and find a builder, I need to stay here until the house is under contract.
I know I won’t have enough time to learn how to fly a drone much less a FPV INDOOR one, but how cool would it be to do a video like this of my house ONCE assuming I could move out and show it empty!
Sigh, so I found a place I want to live and my friend, Brent, is going to get rid of all the carpet and lay vinyl tile, and with luck and using every manifestation tool and method, I hope to spend next winter in a one-story ranch on a large lot with colorful trees, and lakes within walking distance. Restaurants to explore within a two hour drive, and caves, and museums, and folk festivals and FUDGE SHOPS!
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