Who is Flapjack?

Who is Flapjack?

I am. But I wasn’t always.
I  evolved into it.

My daughter came up with “Flapjack” as a nickname for me, an allusion to a cartoon character who hung out with a pirate.  I went along with being my daughter’s Flapjack (was she the pirate?) and as a kind of private joke, I started using Flapjack for my passwords and signing off emails. Maybe her calling me Flapjack was an insult … you be the judge! Click on this song, below.

One day I took a radical step. I used Flapjack as my Username for a Match.com account (don’t judge me!, I was lonely.) “Are you Flapjack?,” one of my two actual dates mumbled as he approached me in a west-end Second Cup. He was rotund and snarling, with jittery hands and missing teeth,  and as broken down as  the old  pick-up truck he arrived in,  but when he mumbled, “Are you Flapjack?” my heart lifted.

So what if he was a nail in the coffin of online dating? It was he who opened the window onto something seriously exciting.  It was he who bequeathed me with my avatar, which I could use both to reveal my true self and to disguise my earthly one.

The Sanskrit word avatar (or avatara) literally means “descent.”
It refers to the descent of divinity from heaven to earth, and is typically used to describe an incarnation of God. 
Paramhansa Yogananda explained that the term avatar refers to a soul who has been freed from maya (delusion) and is sent by the will of God back into manifested existence to help others.  Excerpted from Ananda Sang Worldwide

So I am Flapjack and here are my stories.