"Authenticity..."

some of us need to do a reality check

this ant was about an inch long with much smaller room-mates just below a cow pie

this spider was under the same cow pie

this small stink bug looking creature was enjoying the last of the summer

two species of chipmunk which seemed to get along well

old fence,,,what do we still need to know of the "old" technology?

 round or square we still need to work together 

snow will probably fall within a few days at this elevation (7200 feet) so i am going to wander down to a lower elevation...spent $851 for new tires for the journey headed to the big sandy desert...again...some more...trade pine needles for sand...missed my blog therapy last week...i have read that "talking'" is a good therapeutic for schizophrenia and neurosis...either way i supplement my talking to the chipmunks the squirrels, the jays and the ravens with writing....with a more  or less satisfactory result....

i watched some elevating youtube presentations this week..."Breaking the Habitual Pattern" terrence mckenna (1989 one hour) this guy is very enthusiastic about psychedelics used as a tool to change...he also has a good lecture in 'most people see it too late"...also "the human ape" trenton holliday about 45 minutes...he also wrote a book about cro-magnun man...he teaches in new orleans...

ralph nader radio hour #553 should get you angry,,,nasty stuff,,,"The intertwined story of china and mexico in north america" is a good account of an aspect of history which is seldom brought up....the woman lecturer also points out that the japanese  were the first to export tequila hundreds of years ago...as the Chinese became more populous in mexico and the usa they became the "yellow peril" and were much abused..

i watched sabbatical tom in poland and russia...he likes poland a lot and is cautious in russia...he pointed out a unique "burger king" which reminded me of two chicken sandwiches i purchased last week in one of their stores...horrid horrid stuff!  "little chinese everywhere " yan has left the many husbands settlements and went to a higher elevation and has planned a lengthy trip to Mongolia etc...she looked especially happy after leaving the polygamous community and i could not help but wonder if one of the women there with several husbands might have shared one of them with her...just a thought...i think i may be experiencing "phantom limb" syndrome...after nearly two years with little testosterone nostalgia for a missing limb is possible i suppose....

i watched some good music also... the j.j. cale and leon russell in paradise studios was very good as i like both of these guys a lot...i think they are both from oklahoma...i came across a mention of claire chase who plays the contrabass flute...then i found Dai Fujicura (?) Glaicier for bass flute (international contemporary ensemble) which is very interesting...

every time i listen to the news it is overwhelmingly about extreme violence being done to some members of the human species...the species is not endangered but it is certainly endangering...i keep telling myself that i am not there and that is not me...and try not to become to distressed about humans inhumanity to humans

politics is reaching a crescendo in this country as the two candidates for the executive office seem to be about equal in support...the worst fights are always between two evenly matched opponents... i will not vote again as i fall into the category of "NO FIXED ADDRESS"...

i feel compelled to comment on some music which i read about in a popular periodical then I looked up on the internet...a fellow who goes by the moniker "savage 21" who was reported as "authentic" was one performer...ok...then i read about a tommy richman...both of these entertainers are hip hop artists...mr richman uses a lot of "hand jive" in his "million dollar baby' video...perhaps he could do like ms swift has done by putting the lyrics of her songs with her performance of them...i could use some explanations of what the various hand signals etc. mean...but the general "tune" if you could call it that seems to be very very much like what i was seeing 20 years ago in this genre of performance...but i perhaps am not qualified to speak about hip hop or opera as i do not listen to much of either....

some interesting things i heard or read recently...the interest that the usa pays on the national debt is now more than the military budget...columbus may have been a sephardic jew...fentanal deaths in persons over 65 years old has increased by 400% russian citizens are being gifted land in extreme eastern russia to homestead, tic tok is being sued for being too addictive to younger people, as many as 100 raccoons attacked a woman at her home after she feeds a few and others show up for the free grub ( i doubt that 100 raccoons exist in one spot ) jews make up 2.4% of the usa population but get 60% of the hate crimes, nobel prize winner warns against (some more) "thinking machines" or artificial intelligence...(listen if humans are incapable or unwilling to think about the hard reality of surviving on planet earth it might be useful to enlist the help of the objectivity of machines to come up with solutions) hotter summers and more dead people. stronger storms and more dead people (but! once again...human species are not endangered...yet....)

"Authenticity consists in having a true and lucid consciousness of the situation, in assuming the responsibilities and risks that it involves, in accepting it in pride or humiliation, sometimes in horror and hate." Jean Paul Sartre