NoJoMo 20 in Book Five: Working Through the Maze 2018

NoJoMo 20 Prompt 1: What is your idea of luxury?

NoJoMo 20 Answer 1: Lets do a bad High School speech approach to this
“The dictionary defines luxury as the state of great comfort and extravagant living.” Which actually fits rather well into what my own definition of luxury would be.

To me: Luxury is the state of being absolute and entirely without want. No, that isn’t right. I was going to delete that sentence as I contemplated it but… why not share my thoughts? This is my place to do it after all. But it isn’t right because want is experienced by all but the most enlightened of holy men. Hell, the entire goal of Buddhism is to free yourself from want (arguably). So to be entirely free of want may be a worthwhile goal but it is not luxury… it is enlightenment.

Thus, what is luxury? Perhaps it is the highest feeling of comfort and pampering. Even when one is being waited on hand and foot, they may have unmet desires, but truly that would be seen as luxury. So luxury can be understood to be the pinnacle of comfort. What would that look like to me?

An enormous bed perfectly attuned to my sleeping needs. Allowed to sleep as late as I want with no interruption. Wake to a pre-prepared breakfast of tasty goodness. Have no immediate responsibilities to concern myself with. Do as I pleased until Lunch. Eat a pre-prepared lunch of tasty goodness. Go for a swim for leisure, take a walk through a beautiful English garden. visit with people then pop off to a total full body healing massage. After the massage, go to a pre-prepared dinner of tasty goodness. Chill in a jacuzzi overlooking the ocean and drink with good people before returning to the enormous bed and sleeping well. That is my definition of luxury.

NoJoMo 20 Prompt 2: What would you do if you found a magic wand?

NoJoMo 20 Answer 2: This question calls for a lot of framing.
PRESENT DAY, NON MAGICAL REALITY: I find a magic wand lying on the ground at the courthouse, I take it to Lost and Found and hope that the child who dropped it will be reunited with it.
MAGICAL REALITY of BRIGHT: I call my FBI contact and get that fucking thing in Federal Law Enforcement Custody right quick!!!
MAGICAL REALITY of HARRY POTTER: I’d give it a few flicks to see if it responded then I’d store it in my desk drawer (if it didn’t) and wait for the wizard who dropped it to come by.
MAGICAL REALITY of LEGEND: I’d say a few rhymes to see if I could make something happen
OTHER: If it was the kind of thing where anyone could just grab a magic wand and perform magic with it… I’d keep it tucked in my coat like my wallet or cell phone. If I saw someone (say) stuck in the snow, I’d clandestinely wave the wand to fix it. In Court, I’d do an invocation on the Witness Stand itself so that all who sat in the chair were compelled to speak the truth. I’d determine the spells needed to conclude my body pain and grant Wife the health she seeks. Lastly, I’d probably try to determine if there was a way the wand could let me temporarily transform and shape-shift so I could look like whoever or whatever I wanted.