Do things ever just recklessly pop into your head…. and you think…. “Now where the CRAP did that come from?”

Like today… I was chopping up some cauliflower… and all of a sudden out of nowhere…   “Jessica Hahn” pops into my head.  I know the name but can’t remember exactly who she is.  Finally it comes back.

She hasn’t been in the news in a couple of decades.  She is best known for a sex scandal involving televangelist Jim Bakker while she was employed as a church secretary. Hahn first came to public attention following Bakker’s announcement in 1987 that he was stepping down as head of PTL (Praise The Lord Network), pending the imminent disclosure of the sexual encounter.  According to Hahn, she was drugged and raped by Bakker and another preacher, John Wesley Fletcher.

But why did it just come to mind… right here and  right now.

A little later in the day, I am doing some work on a project and here comes another word… out of nowhere.  “AstraZeneca”

Again, I ask you… what the heck?  AstraZeneca is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the discovery, and  manufacturing of prescription medicines.

Next on the lineup.   “Horse Hockey”   That was the third one.   In the middle of washing up some dishes… it came down upon me.  I wasn’t around horses.  I wasn’t watching hockey.  But there the word came… like a flash of lightning from the sky… “Horse Hockey.”

Does anyone even still use the phrase horse hockey?

I don’t know why this happens to me, but it does.  Most of the time the culprit comes in the  form of  someone’s proper name.    Buster Keaton.  John Hinckley Jr.  Evander Holyfield.  Bea Arthur.  My brain just clicks along with an endless barrage of useless information and random thoughts.

And, I don’t really know why I am writing about it tonight.  There is not moral to the story… or any catchy phrase.  It is just that some days… I feel like I am from another planet.  That planet could be a place where random people all gather at a really big arena… to watch Horse Hockey.

But this much I swear to you.  I am not taking any mind altering drugs made by AstraZeneca.

“Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be…Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.” – Erich Fromm

“What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.”  –   Eileen Caddy