This morning I awoke with words from my Muse.
“You were my first friend in the world. My best friend.”
After rescuing Rena from Los Angeles, and after spending two nights in a tent in the backyard of a friend in Oakland, I suddenly asked this beautiful young woman;
“Would you like to see Heaven? I can take your there. Help me take down the tent.”
Three hours later we parked my 1950 Dodge on Mount Tamalpais, walked up this hill, and – BEHOLD!
We stood in reverence silence looking down on the very godly scene in the photo above. I scanned the panorama, and the world was mine. I looked to my right, and beheld the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. We were beautiful beyond belief. The world was made that more beautiful. We were beautiful friends taking ownership of the Creation. Tamalpais means “sleeping maiden”
Rena had no girlfriends growing up. Her peers were jealous of her. Even her three older sister, who were beautiful fashion models, shunned her. She had no brother, and did not grow up wth a father.
Rena was beautiful and very smart. Rena’s lovers just wanted to sexually conquer her. It was a war they conducted with themselves. I now understand that I was her first idea that someone could be on your side.
All my life, people have been jealous of my gifts. Everyone I knew wanted to separate Rena and I. We were too much.
When I called Rena in Nebraska two years after we seperated, she said;
“If you were here with me I would give you such a kiss. I love you more from afar, then when you were near.”
Jon
The name Tamalpais was first recorded in 1845. The meaning of the name is not well-established and there are several versions of the etymology of the name. One version holds that the name comes from ostensibly Coast Miwok words for “coast mountain” (tamal pais). Another holds that it comes from the Spanish Tamal pais, meaning “Tamal country,” Tamal being the name that the Spanish missionaries gave to the Coast Miwok peoples. Yet another version holds that the name is the Coast Miwok word for “sleeping maiden” and is taken from a “Legend of the Sleeping Maiden.”[13][14][15] However, this legend actually has no basis in Coast Miwok myth and is instead a piece of Victorian-era apocrypha.[15][16][17]
The Coast Miwok are said to have believed that an evil witch dwelled at the top of Mount Tamalpais and therefore never set foot on the peak.[15] However, it has been said the Miwoks did this in order to keep settlers off the sacred mountain.
Tamalpais was home to the Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway, also known as “The Crookedest Railroad in the World,” a railroad which meandered its way up to the peak from downtown Mill Valley until a road was constructed to the peak, and automobiles gained popularity. The 8-mile standard-gauge railroad required geared steam locomotives and operated from 1896 to 1930.[18][19]
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