The Message of the Accidental Mystic: Think about Becoming a Prepper

A long time ago, back in the 1960s, a close friend asked me to go along with him to a book signing in Sausalito, California. I was introduced to the author. He was a recognizable and quite famous old man. As a portrait artist, I looked closely at the bright blue eyes of a once-handsome man.
He said, "Will you come and visit me in San Francisco sometime?"
"Yes, I will," I replied and didn't think much about it.
But within a few weeks my friend was asked by the old author to visit, and I was ...