Road to Elsewhere, Excerpt #26: The Jesus Color-Wheel

Another sign that God is merciful: S/he didn't smite me in Jardin du Luxembourg.

MY ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS IN PARIS were all self-imposed, and thus rather an adventure, steeling my resolve without any real risk that I might go hungry or spend a night with rain clouds as my duvet.

I did spend money on books, including George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, which I picked at a used-book shop near the Jardin du Luxembourg; it fl…