When I decided to rededicate myself to blogging, I discovered that it was important to publish something everyday. But sometimes The Universe doesn’t see it that way. Yesterday was one of those days.

The plans for this day had been laid out for me in my recent past. My wife made plans to drive from Atlanta to Apalachicola, Florida. Once there, we would check into the hotel, she would relax and I would meditate and write my daily blog.

For unforeseen reasons, it didn’t happen that way. After 6 hours or so in the car, I was “saddle sore.” I was a little hungry and a little tired. We also soon learned that internet service in our room was very unreliable. I decided that I would figure that out later. I was even more hungry now.

With our geographic location, I had gotten in my head that I wanted to go to a raw bar and have some raw oysters and a glass of bourbon. On my GPS, I saw a place called Boss’ Raw Bar. Something in my head attracted me to it. (Even though several people gave it two out five stars.) We passed several raw bars to get to this one.

When we got there, it seemed really ragged. We went straight to the bar and sat down. There were two middle aged men there, not together. They said nothing. After a pretty long wait, a waitress appeared behind the bar. My wife ordered one of their specialty cocktails. I ordered a half dozen raw oysters and a glass of Scotch. She grabbed a highball glass and filled it 3 quarters full of Scotch. (I asked for no ice.) with about half an ounce left in the bottle, she shrugged her shoulders gave me the rest. I happy but astounded. I knew I would be no shape for any decent blogging. Since the next day was my birthday, I looked at it as the Universe saying to me, “Enjoy your birthday and take the night off.” I decided to listen to this Divine guidance.