Prompt and title: Are you in Transition?

It’s as if I am on a bus all the time. I am always in transition. We all have so much to learn. I arrived into a family of science and engineering. I followed astronomy. But my social life sucked. So I asked questions. I got on the magic bus. It was colorful, and every time it went a different way. The bus was fueled and ran on love and all its colors. I became an artist on the bus, and every work of art was a trip. The bus driver was cool too. The bus fare was not a coin, but a promise to create art during the ride.

He even created music by honking the horn. He invited others and myself to honk the horn too. It was even more fun than playing a ukelale. I decided I like horns so much that I learned to play pipes. I was in a transition and I was riding the music to new places. It was like a pipe dream, playing the organ. I felt so organic when I played, but it was not the final destination I wanted. I had to get off the bus to play better. So I got into my own car for my trips on the pipes. I enjoyed honking on it. I felt like I was in a pipe dream. But it has never ended.

I wrote Fantasy in E Minor on the old pipe organ at the First Unitarian Church of San Jose starting in 1986, and finished writing it at home in 1990 on the organ I bought from fellow Unitarian Church organist Libby Codd.

Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady and the Merry Pranksters take a magic bus trip in 1964

Neal's Fandango by The Doobie Brothers