"Welfare payments and policies..."

                                          one of about 8 of the short-horned lizard babies i saw

                                           baby next to a ruler to see size

                                           these obsidian chips lay about 20 steps from where i cook

                                          don't know if this is the male or the female...was very near babies

                      found hundreds of these "edged" obsidian tools...only one "arrowhead" and it was broken

robbie robertson dead...got out my "festival express" DVD and "the last waltz" DVD to watch this very talented entertainer do his guitar magic..

.been raining some and frogs are vocalizing after dark...for a while it was only common night hawks doing their bizarre noise making...well worth listing to...big meteor showers for the next few days...but more rain so might miss that nature show..

watched a very good but depressing movie last week "Tom and Viv" (1994)about the T.S.Eliot and his first wife Viv...(115 min) Willem Dafoe and Miranda Richardson...Viv was kinda wild then she was kind of crazy (or so the "LUNACY LAW" would have you believe) she was incarcerated in a very nice facility but was locked up none-the less...mental illness is much more common than most people would like to admit...and much of it chemical imbalance related...it should be called mental "dis-ease"...my mother was "institutionalized" at east louisiana state mental hospital at Jackson...the same place where the jazz musician buddy bolden was locked up and apparently died there...there is some good research about what triggers schizophrenia in some people and according to work done by R.D. Laing, family members are very likely to cause susceptible people to exhibit schizoid behavior ...

 read (again) "Mans search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl...i highly recommend this book for it's description of how millions of people were treated in the concentration camps in WW2 by the Germans....and how Dr. Frankl's "logo-therapy" was meant to help people get over the traumas in their lives...i heard where some Japanese are upset  about the movie "oppenheimer"...the complaint is that it ignores the results of the nukes dropped on japan... i read a book about an american guy who was a prisoner of war in japan...i think they should have dropped half a dozen more nukes on japan...so as to get the point across thoroughly...

when i was getting my tire changed i asked the clerk if they had EBT (food stamps) but i meant Wi FI...i was looked at like i had a disease...i have gotten food stamps for years...when i started working the minimum wage was $1.60 an hour...not a lot of social security coming out of those wages...minimum wage not only keeps people poor when they work but just as poor when they try to retire...

"Welfare payments and policies, too might be seen through a hierarchy lens, with some assuming that lines between rich and poor often reflect meaningful differences in peoples work ethic, talent, morality or value to society." this from an very good article in scientific "american" last month (more info next time)