Divine Providence Arranges The Appointments

Uncle John's Band-The Grateful Dead

 The Pursuit Of Happiness (The Olympic Venue's Are Chosen)

Everything up to this moment has been Of Life And Liberty

Providence Arranges The Appointments

From this Day Forward It Shall Be

The Pursuit Of Happiness 

2026 Winter Olympics- Milano-Cortina (Confirmed)

       2030 Winter Olympics The French Alps (Tentative)

       2034  Winter Olympics Salt Lake City (Confirmed)

 Self-Realization Meditation Alter, Paramahansa Yogananda- Encinitas California

Swami's Star-Swami's Beach 

(Sunset Beach)

(Picture-Self-Realization Fellowship)

When Divine Providence Appointments Are Shown To You-You Accept The Divine Gift!

Photo-Krishna Das Enterprises-Krishna/Rahda
The Quest For The Mountain Pearl

Accepting The Art Of Divine Deliverance

The Lure Of The Mountain King

The Last Of The American Poets

How Kriya Yoga Imparts Soul-Realization, Paramahansa Yogananda

From Spirit Mountain -Perseverence
The Colorado Bay Club
Photo James A. Bilbray
Spirit Mountain Wilderness
Spirit Mountain is the center of creation for all Yuman speaking tribes and is considered a sacred area.^[11][18] The 506,814-acre national monument (205,100 ha) is managed by the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and Bureau of Reclamation.^{[19]
Wikipedia
A Gift Of Sacred Spirit To Europe From North American Mountains}

Beyond The Appletree Lane
(A Poem About It)
A Simple Man Of Dreams
In Honor And Glory
Bowed His Head To Divine Providence
Accepting The Appointment
 Of A Destiny Arranged
Love Song, Tumbleweed Connection, Elton John

SrI Joseph Elijo

Further Questions To Expose The Truth Of The Lure- Thoughts On Future Alternative Historical Work

There are a lot of unanswered questions that are arising through research that will need to be answered in order to be factual and truthful. Asking them is the first step into resolving them.

I was not aware of Alternative Historical Fiction nor was I aware of alternative or more than one ending or reader write your own ending. It addresses my writing rigidity and has stimulated my creativity. Interesting. Here at the end is some Alternate Benjamin Franklin History Thoughts.

 Time Period 1978  Dillon Colorado, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area

What were the thoughts of the day?

Who were the escapists?

What were they escaping from? Family Business? Law? School? Failed Marriage? Failed Business/ Love of Mountains and Skiing?

Why did Keystone Ski Area and its Parent Company want the Ski Area Arapahoe Basin so badly.

Why did Joe Jankovsky sell the Mountain. It would have been hard to raise 5 million dollars in the 1978 economy but did he even try?

Who was Senator Dansforth? What generation of Dansforth was he?

Was he an all or nothing at all individual?

What part did the politicians of the day have to do in orchestrating the circumstances of the sale?

Did the Senator or the Politicians have anything do to with the passage of the Skier Safety Act of 1978 the would cause Joe to sell.

Who passed the Act? The U.S. Forest Service?

Why did the laid back attitude of the Basin attract so many wandering hippies and soul searchers? What was it about the mountain that filled the hippies and lost souls with joy, happiness and pride for an American Nation? Was the fact that the bragging rights of the Highest Lift Serviced Mountain In North America actually mean that much (too as Gertrude Stein would have said Another Lost Generation) (Of the VIetnam War) Politics of the era?

Why after 46 years am I still obsessed with writng the story? How did my friends that I skied with there feel? How did all the people I brought there over the years feel? What did the story mean to them? Were they as affected by the sale or did it mean anything to them? I am a lover of Mountains and the American National Forests and the Disappearing Wilderness, how did Joe, his nephew Tom and my friends over the years feel about the ski area and sale to Keystone Corp?

The setting for my Historical Work would be just prior to June 10, 1752 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and Benjamin Franklin is considering his theory on electricity, he believes that there is some form of energy but he is not exactly sure what that energy is. He spends hours in his study designing ideas of how to figure out what this source of energy is. He begins conducting experiments. He is not sure if storms, with lightning or the sun with it’s rays, or rain with a deluge of water is a creative force.

The alternatives are evident, we all know that Benjamin chose to hook a key on a string that was struck by lighting and how that scenario ended. What if instead he had taken a dark piece of metal and exposed it to the sun’s rays and found out it became very hot and he wondered how he could transfer the heat or a way that he could store the heat generated by the sun. He could have invented a small cube of material that harnessed the sun’s energy and could have been brought into a house to heat them. The cube. if attached properly could have also generated the electricity he was searching for. The possibilities of Benjamin’s Cube could have revolutionized the world and given access to heat and power to all people of all nations. From the largest of mansions in the city to the remotest straw hut in a village in Africa, Benjamin’s Energy Cube could have powered the largest of factories for free. (When the sun shone) Of course Benjamin would have discovered a way to not only harness the energy he would have come up with a way to store it or that the cube could be set in a receiver to be recharged from the (Mother Cube) that had all the energy if you will.

If our friend Benjamin had been flying his kite with his key and the rain had been coming down exceptionally hard the force of the water may have moved the key that was not tied properly down the string and he would have thought that water is pressure and is a source of power. They already used it to move grinding wheels for Grist Mills. What if he came up with a way to use the water force for something else. He already had the concept of electricity, he may have invented the turbine engine to generate power years earlier than it was invented.

New Info on The Lure.

The Times They Are a Changin', Bob Dylan

 Second Draft Outline and Additions With New Research References. In my research I have found a Historical Flaw in my premise. The senator was a motivating factor in the purchase but My hero Joe was facing the enactment of the National Skier Safety Act in 1979. It would have cost about 5 million dollars to upgrade the lifts to the new standard. Facing that problem and knowing he had paid 860 thousand dollars, it probably was prudent for him to sell to Keystone and Ralston Purina for 3 million and retire. I have been in contact with Tommy J Joe's nephew, who has managed Ski Sunlight in Glenwood Springs for years, and I have Joe's contact information as well as other great leads for research. Things are certainly moving a long. I always knew writing was hard, but just how difficult is enlightening in itself. No matter we are Goliath Slayers after all. 

Chapter I-Begin at the beginning Joe and Tom meet. Tom secures seasons pass.(The Lure Of The Mountain King.)

Chapter II-November - Joes Office And The General- Joe attempts to enlist General Dowe in his fight to save the mountain. 

Chapter III-Tiger’s Moose Jaw Saloon Tom meets Sara, Jilly, and Toby-The Olympic Skier. Jilly has an apartment for the boys. 

Chapter IV- First Runs- Joe, Toby and Tom Ski Together and Lean the Mountain- encounter skier cutting out of bounds.

Chapter V-Skier Dies-Skier that was cutting out of bounds is found dead by the road. Coroner and Sheriff meet with Joe and Tom.

Chapter VI- The Newspapers- Headlines Of skier death in all newspapers, Denver, Summit County. Tom and Joe meet to discuss it.

Chapter VII- The Senator-Jilly is Revealed to be having an affair and in league with the Senator to obtain the Basin

Chapter VIII- David- Tom’s best friend from New York a successful Insurance Man shows up to see Tom and Reveals Joe is trying to sell the Basin.

Chapter IX-Joe and The Bank- Joe meets with Banker and finds out the Senator is inquiring about Joe’s loan and how to prematurely make it come due.

Chapter X- The Meeting at the Moose Jaw. Joe explains to everyone what he is up against and why he might sell. The group takes it poorly.

Chapter XI- The Mountain Picnic- Sara and Tom meet Ski on the mountain and have a romantic picnic. They explore young love. Interrupted by Lance.

Chapter XII-The Plan- Joe and Tom plot to Include General Dowe from Tenth Mountain on a plan to stop the Senator and Keystone from taking over.

Chapter XIII- David and Tom- David meets with Tom and attempts to talk him into returning east and joining the Insurance business. Tom takes exception and refuses. 

Chapter XIV-January-Tom spends the .New Year alone- reflects on his life and tries to sort things out.

Chapter XV-Toby- Toby reveals his past and has problems with alcohol. Tom and Toby have a blow up. Tom is left unappreciated. 

Chapter XVI-Sara - Sara and Tom see cowboy boots in the window of Brannigans store. Tom talks her into trying them on and Mr. Brannigan gives her a deal. They all discuss history of the Valley.

Chapter- XVII- The Corporate Lawyers-Joe meets with the Lawyers to hear proposal for sale. Has an aside with his lawyer and resigns himself to the thought of selling. 

Chapter XVIII- The Betrayal- General Dowe is on the phone with the Senator and he shows his fear of his power and agrees to betray Joe and the Basin.

Chapter XIX-Lance- Lance an ex-military Arms specialist is shown with a map and plan to blow the number III lift station in retribution of Joe selling the Basin. 

Chapter XX-The Corporate Offices and The Takeover. Jilly arrives at the Denver Corporate head quarters and is setting about to meet with them to plan the takeover.

Chapter XXI- Sara and Tom have dinner at the Old Dillion Inn and Sara discusses a future with Tom. She is looking for a commitment and Tom is hesitant. It ends poorly.

Chapter XXII- The Olympic Training- Tom works with Toby to train for his Olympic Dream. Tom and Toby argue and Tom is left feeling used. 

Chapter XXIII- Tom Leaves- Tom feels pressured by everyone and cannot handle the stress. He decides to run.

Chapter Chapter XXIV- Tom’s Sojourn- Tom leaves on a greyhound to Vail and thinks about his life’s journey.

Chapter XXV-Tom’s Reckoning- Tom arrives in Vail at his friends John and Dawna. They hash out old times but confront Tom with his alcohol problems. They talk him into going to A.A. and Telemark skiing at Ski Cooper with Dawna. John will go to meetings with Tom. 

Chapter XXVI- March- Tom’s Return- Toby is skiing sees Tom returning to the Basin, Skis down to Lift Station III and gets caught in Lance’s explosion and is injured. Tom and Joe see him leave in ambulance as Lance is arrested. 

Chapter XXVII- Toby is alive-Tom and Joe visit Toby in hospital and Tom struggles with the weight of everything. He leaves Joe at hospital and has difficulty in dealing with it all. He is ready to break. 

Chapter XVIII-Jilly and The Moose Jaw- Jilly arrives st the Moose Jaw and is confronted by Sara about not visiting Toby. Jilly surprises Sara with her engagement to the Senator. Sara takes down Jilly.

Chapter XIX-April-Joe Receives Bad News- Joe finds out his Insurance is being cancelled because of the skier death and( excessive claims) orchestrated by the Senator and Keystone.

Chapter XXX-Providence Shows Its Hand- Tom waits at the Basin in parking lot next to a closed sign for mailman. Mailman arrives but the letter Tom waits for is not there. Special delivery letter arrives from David. It is a letter to underwrite Insurance for the remainder of the season. 

Chapter XXXI-The Senator is Foiled-Tom arrives at the meeting room where Joe is meeting with The Corporate Lawyers to Close the sale. He interrupts and gives Joe the Insurance Waiver. The sale is off Tom explains to Joe how he pulled it off. Since you can ski there until late June. The Mountain is saved this season.

Chapter XXXII- It’s Never Over- Tom and Joe stand at the base of the Mountain and say their goodbye’s. The both reflect on the Mountain and their time together there and the deep bond that was forged. They separate and go their own paths. Tom says good bye to the Mountain. 

Chapter XXXIII-Until It’s Over- Sara is at the Moose Jaw working and the door opens and Tom walks in. She reflects on her life Of season after season at the same bar. They stand at the end of the bar Tom and Sara make up.
Tom says their is a little restaurant for sale in Alta, Wyoming called Wild Bills at The Grand Targhee Resort (Grand Targhee’s claim to fame is that it is the first and last with the snow.) Sara and Tom embrace and they agree on no promises but to go and look at Grand Targhee. They walk out with their backpacks holding hands.

 

Need addition of 1979 Skier Safety Act That Would have Caused additional 5 Million Dollars to Update Mountain

 

 

Summit County- A Gold Rush History by MaryEllen Gilliland

 

Arapahoe Basin Ski Resort/ A Legend Since 1946 by Cathleen Norman and Alan J.  Henceroth 2020

 

Interviews Tom Jankovsky nephew of former Arapahoe Basin owner Joe Jankovsky

 

Interviews Joe Jankovsky former owner of Arapahoe Basin

 

I have contacted Tom Jankovsky the nephew of the owner in 1978 who was the manager of Ski Sunlight in Glenwood Colorado and I have his phone number and e-mail and he was able to give me the information for Joe Jankovsky also. Tom agreed to do phone interviews as of yet I have not contacted Joe until I’m sure how to approach him. He is still alive but older and it should be done soon.

 

Tom suggested several names from the National Ski Hall of Fame and thought it might be a good reference.

 

Recently I have gone on line and found a trove of information about Ralston Purina Corporation. There was a great amount of information of the original Senator Dansforth and the beginnings of Ralston Purina.

I will hang my Lucky Dun Ranch  Sign again!

 

The History of Keystone- Keystone’s Beginning on line information – Keystone’s Mining History.

If all goes well, I may again see The Lucky Dun Ranch banner wave. If not in Snowmass then in Oregon, not time for rigidity, just go with the world's flow. My Kingdom for Horses!

Paris Olympics 2024-A Protest Against The Use Of Explosives For Terrorism

 I'll Stand By You (The Pretenders) 

(In Protest of the use of explosives for terrorism)

 

Paris, France. Wednesday September 17, 1986 Tati Discount Department Store 3:28 pm

Blast. 53 wounded 5 dead mothers and children.

 

The report of a one hundred and five millimeter recoilless rifle

echoes through Big Cottonwood Canyon of

The Wasatch National Forest of Utah

gently awakening avalanches

rumbling through snowfields

above the timberline

of a sleeping Brighton and Solitude mountain sides

snow shifting, sliding, slicing, slamming, snapping

down among hundreds of year old pines.

We all wish for change and a shift in the world and its vitriol. Where did it take such an ugly turn toward hate speech, hatred and violence. Call me a tree hugger, who cares about the little people and the little countries and populations and refugees that are being starved, slaughtered and persecuted. There must be a shift in the world and it cannot be violence. It really has never been an impetus for great change. My belief is if you want change, change yourself and the world around you. It is easy to say this because I am not suffering great oppression nor am I persecuted. I understand the need for retribution if you watch your children, grand parents, wife, son, daughter or neighbor being slaughtered raped or stolen. It would motivate me to want revenge. How do you change World Consciousness? 

You do Not Allow Individuals like Donald Trump to become President of the United States of America to start with. If what he and his party is truly putting forward is Project 2025 there is something seriously wrong with their thinking and being. We must have a serious Cultural Revolution. I call it Our Great American Glow Up. Who knows if we are successful maybe the World will get on board. I write because I had a Professor that told me to Write A Poem About It. She Loved Poetry and Prose and passed that love on down to me. So I once again call for everyone to join me in my Cultural Revolution and create Art, any Art, Poems, Stories, Novels, Songs, Paintings for the Olympics these and future ones. We don't have to Accept People like Mr. Caligula (Donald Trump) and his Minions in our lives and especially not in MY America. I love it and refuse to leave it. If you question my love for it read my poems, stories, and free thought ramblings.

Once again I ask all Children to Join Me in Creating A Change. My Goal is to see if One Person with a Desire to Alter The Course Of Present Day History Can Accomplish It. When my Revolution is Finished, We will be Operating a Healing Arts and Equine Rescue Ranch in Smowmass, Colorado, at a 3700 Acre Former St Benedict's Monastery, where People from Across The World Can Come and Touch Horses and Heal Themselves. Please Join Me! After you have used your Talk Boxes, Watch Boxes And Think Boxes, to repost these posts, set them down and create a World we can all live peacefully and joyfully in!

Joseph Elijo

Tupelo Honey- Van Morrison

Diablo Ranch Scene for She Sells Sea Shells, An Upcoming Short Story

 The Nevada bred wild stallion Diablo stood in the loafing shed of the Colorado Rescue Ranch. His stark white freeze brand stood out brightly against his shimmering dark black body, he nervously tugged at the lead rope that was holding him to the wooden side panel. Katie Stanton reached up and ran her hand just under his thick jet black mane in an effort to calm the tense and jittery animal. It had snowed several inches overnight and she had called the farrier to pull the shoes of the horses to prevent the snow from forming an ice ball on the cold metal. Diablo was extremely nervous.

 

     “Easy boy,” she tried unsuccessfully to ease his fear.

 

He was snorting and beginning to pace back and forth jerking on the rope. He was normally relaxed and calm. She was having a hard time with him. Katie had brought his companion Shilo in also. Shilo a 16 hand chestnut with a white blaze and four white stockings was starting to act up. She noticed that Diablo’s lead rope was coming undone. Reaching up she loosened it to retie the rope more securely.

 

Will Stanton, Katie’s partner was working at straightening the cover over the haystack. It was slid back and crooked. Something or someone had created a real mess of it. He reached down loosened the tie ropes and pulled the cover back. He heard the deep throaty growl of the mountain lion before he saw its big brown crouched body. Dropping the rope Will turned yelled out to Katie and headed toward the shed and a pitch fork leaning against it.

 

Diablo exploded back at the commotion and jerked the rope from Katie’s hand. Both, Will and Katie looked at one another at the same time that they heard the downshifting of the water tanker’s diesel engine. The tanker was rolling into the big sweeping curve before the fenced lined entrance to the ranch. It was headed to the gas well just down the road. Katie moved quickly in an attempt to grab the rope, just as Diablo wheeled about and took off like a shot down the narrow lane. He was accelerating rapidly as the tanker came around the bend.

 

The driver realizing the animal was loose slammed on the brakes and the tanker swung around and began jack knifing and sliding toward the cab and driveway entrance. The entire vehicle was precariously bearing down on the frightened animal galloping head long toward it and its demise.

 

“Will, Will, he’s going to hit him.” Katie screamed.

 

The wild stallion tossed his head high as it saw the truck bearing down on him. The lead rope slapped down on the ground just as the horse was stepping forward and it became caught under his hoof. The forward momentum coupled with the abrupt pitching down of Diablo’s head sent him tumbling and sliding down the lane. He slid to a halt several feet before the oncoming truck.

 

The driver realizing the horses forward momentum had stopped, accelerated and the rig righted itself and the driver gave several short tugs of the air horn as it rolled down the road past the ranch entrance, the stunned horse, amazed ranchers and the horrific scene that almost occurred.

Million Dollar Cowboy Bar (Jackson Wyoming)

 Elfie, Mr. Tweedy, and the Missing Insurance Claim Check

 

She is world renowned,

for her stained glass skiers in

Vail Village she cuts colored

pieces of glass places them carefully on

patterns of white Styrofoam

numbered in sequence, one

two, three in her shop she

fluxes between the cracks

before soldering with her hot iron

she reads novels in German

with and accent says,

“I still haven’t received my

insurance claim check for

Mr. Tweedy’s broken

World Alpine, 1989 piece.”

 

We had packed it and shipped it

ever so painstakingly in

bubble wrap, wrapped twice

after cutting foam panels for ends

and carefully placing it in cardboard,

suspended in foam peanuts

Taped in double boxes, prudently.

 

I should have known when

Mad Maxine the crazy U.P.S.

driver in her brown uniform

and red laced hiking boots

black smudged hands, from handling cartons

would come in to the pack-n-ship

telling dirty jokes,

“Do you know why Jewish women

have wrinkles around their eyes. It’s

from squinting at their husband’s

penis behind closed doors.”

Saying, “You want me to do what to it?”

 

She looks at the parcel with

the “This Side Up” and “Fragile”

stickers plastered all over it and

says, “Hey, what state is

the city of “Fragile” in anyway,

and did you know these

are supposed to be packaged

so that they can be

thrown at least ten feet.”

The, “Oh, My God,” Refrain

 The, “Oh My God!” Refrain

 

I have not many material possessions

material possessions are balls and chains

But, I know every inch of every trail

and every mountain peak in America.

 

I once walked from Dillion, Colorado over

the Continental Divide through Loveland Pass to

stop at Central City the oldest City in Colorado.

 

Where God made all men,

but Commander Colt made them equal

To meditate upon Virginia Canyon,

nicknamed, “Oh My God Canyon!”

after the first words that are

uttered by the view

of it’s grandeur.

 

Before continuing through Nederland

and the mountain tunnels of route six

where the prairie dogs play

at the base of the Flat Irons

rising out of the Gold Hills

to welcome you to the Valley floor of Boulder.

just to get the zipper on my tough traveler

knapsack repaired for free at the factory.

Suddenly Life Was Turning Out To Be More Than Mashed Potatoes And Gravy

 Suddenly Life,

Was Turning Out To Be,

More than Just Mashed Potatoes and Gravy.

 

Leaving Denver’s

snow capped mountain peaks,

tearing, tugging at my heart.

 

A slick, sleek, silver jet streaks,

over Pac-man like farm fields,

flying towards Charleston, South Carolina.

 

May, Friday the thirteenth,

me, joking with my travel agent.

Saying, “as long I am not

on flight thirteen,

in the thirteenth seat.

Why yes, you certainly are

professional for only

your first week on your new job.”

 

Changing flights in Atlanta’s

soft computerized woman’s

voice saying, “Concourse B-

Use shuttle platform C.”

 

I deplane in Charleston,

walk out of the airport,

into the evening setting sun,

standing with by blue suitcases,

in Charleston, West Virginia.