The Wizard and the Witch by John C. Sulak & Oberon Zell & Morning Glory Zell

Author:John C. Sulak & Oberon Zell & Morning Glory Zell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: oberon zell, oberon zell-ravenheart, green egg, morning glory zell, pagan
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2014-01-02T16:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 13

The Old Same Place

(1985–1986)

Through bitter strife, as man and wife,

We started life anew as friends.

I’d do things better over again;

I’d do things better over again.

—from “love of my life” by morning glory zell, 1993

MG: As exciting as it was, I had been deeply worried that we might end up footing the bill for an expensive expedition that would siphon off the nest egg that we had managed to build out of the Unicorn project. I wanted to use that money to buy land, to pay Alison for half of Coeden Brith so that we would finally be landowners and not just tenants. But we never could manage to set up a meeting with her to discuss this. Partly it was the eternal problem of no telephone, but we also got the impression that she might have been dodging this issue with us.

More and more it seemed that Otter was more interested in listening to Orion’s grand plans for spending our money to fund the expedition and then trying to recoup the money by selling a documentary. I remember a huge argument where Orion accused me of selling out the future if I didn’t go along with this plan. Why was I so opposed? Well, for one thing, we’d had some hard recent experience in trying to interest either Hollywood or the scientific community in real live Unicorns to no avail, even when the animals were standing there and crapping on their floors, so I seriously doubted that there would be a great overwhelming rush to buy a video of real live Mermaids from us, whatever they turned out to be. Otter originally proposed that we would create a complete budget for the entire expedition and then all the members of the expedition would contribute equal shares for making this thing go forward. But it quickly became apparent that most of the friends who wanted to go along could barely afford the airfare and maybe to pay something for their berths on the dive boat; but no way could this bunch of fellow Hippie explorers pull together enough dough to invest in renting a whole boat to sail a very long distance, as well as all the equipment, and to pay professional photographers to shoot a film. We were able to get a few outside friends to invest some money in buying shares of the profits (if any) of such an endeavor; but at the most, when the deadline came for putting the down payment on the dive boat, we only had raised about $12,000 additional funds for all our efforts.

Oberon told me at that point that he had talked to his father and that after the financial success with the Unicorn, his dad was considering funding this trip. He went off to talk with his father, and when he returned he told me that everything was taken care of and that we had a green light to go forward. As it turned out, that was not in fact the case, but I will be generous and say that there was perhaps a miscommunication between them.

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