"Less a refutation..."

patterns on a pine tree stump...

 

egg on the top of my black beans...my favorite breakfast

some people think three is a magic number...or not...

as i sit here watching a woman on C-SPAN saying she was a 21 year old who was "trafficked" by J.Epstein et.al...21?...but not 12 years old...when does a woman become responsible for her own actions?

i watched a good interview @unherd "The porn emergency" with a professional philosopher named Kathleen Stock...she spent about 31 minutes commenting on the sex worker Bonnie Blue AKA Tia Billinger who is famous for not discriminating against any mans copulatory organ...she be wealthy due to the amount of publicity she has cultivated... Ms. Stock says she is "depraved and reprehensible" (and wealthy) i have to wonder about why more attention is not focused on the extreme violence which has proliferated on the internet...i turn it off and look at something else...my computer has button that allows me to do that...try that...

i am watching a mr. Decker on C-SPAN who is head of the business "HomeDepot" he says the USA needs a lot more houses and he says there is a shortage of 300,000 construction workers...i have spent a lot of time working on construction sites and for the last 40 years or more many of the construction workers i have seen were Hispanic...so mr. Deckers complaint should be recognized as a result of greedy construction companies allowing people to take over the construction jobs because they have to pay less money to undocumented workers for the work being done... 

speaking of work "Lumber capital log yard" has several good youtube presentations about a couple of women and their "woodmizer" sawmill...i don't see much concern with safety equipment...earplugs, steel-toed boots, long sleeve shirts and at least safety glasses!...i could not have worked on any site without those PPE...

and last but not least some more youtube videos "THE FEYNMAN WAY" are by the physicist Richard Feyman who apparently spent a lot of time studying human physiology as well as physics and has some interesting recommendations...like jumping on a trampoline and taking a 20 minute nap...

"Less a refutation than a new set of doubts..." said of Al-Hazen's refutation of Ptolemy's world view...way back when...

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"We really feel a desire..."

 baby bunny hopped over from the woods where his mama was to check things out

this flicker has a nest in the hollow of this pine tree next to the truck...nice to see

SEX...has been on my mind...due to some of the youtube presentations i have come across...one interesting presentation is "HIGH CLASS- the dark reality of the las vegas escort business"...this video is well...lets say it has good production values..that is to say the sound is good and it is in focus... these folks interview several women who went to las vegas and became "trafficked"...they all admitted that they went to this city to experience the "good life"...they met men who recognized their potential to make money from prostitution (sex) and put them to work...none of these women appeared to be of deficient intellect...they wasn't retards...it seems that the problem is that these women were not allowed to keep the money they were paid to engage in sex...or what ever was required by the client...i have met several women who had sex for money, saved their money and invested it...they had few regrets...the problem is that by marginalizing sex workers in society they are not afforded  the same protections other workers get from exploitation...this particular video has some aspects which seem to be of dubious validity,,,anyhow, all women should know that men have copulatory organs which are seeking an orifice and women have three orifices or is it orifii? anyhow as my grandaddy told me once "a hard peter has no conscious"...yep, this be the truth...women do not need pimps they need protection from exploitation...i lived in a casino town and they do not like cheaters and i doubt that in vegas they would allow wholesale exploitation of sex workers...i give this presentation an 8 on the bullshit scale...(thanks sabina) but on a more science based view there is dr david BUSS who's field of expertise is human sexuality..."What science actually says about men and women"@triggerpod(one hour and 21 min) a very informative video that puts male/female relations in perspective (he does not attempt to analyze gay relationships) "Memoirs of a former adult talent agent" from softwhiteunderbelly is a very informative interview with a guy who seems pretty damned honest about sex work from his hands on (so to speak) experience...he be against it now...(about 57 min)...so as to give equal time to the males i would like to recommend this video "3D sperm production; prepare to be amazed" (1 min 31 sec) worth the time...and more science is "A completely unknown form of extinct life discovered" (16min) from 7 days of science...who knew! and ms emilia evans has a good presentation called "5 extinct animals that never existed" (18 min)... a rather long but well done interview is on Lex fridmans podcast entitled "FFmpeg: the incredible technology behind video on the internet"...this is about the people who developed VLC and other software FOR FREE open source to view what you are watching right now...hats off for these folks,,,unless it is the orange cone hat which dr fridman wears throughout the interview,,,i watched a couple of good robert mitchum films  recently,,,"The amsterdam kill" (1hour and 30 min) about a dea agent who travels between holland and hongkong and even better is "The man in the middle" (1964) (about one hour and 30 min) which was renamed "the winston affair" about mitchum as an attorney in the military who is trying to represent a guy who killed a man and mitchums character tries to save him from hanging by proving him to be insane...well done...some good music is "The most fearless voice in jazz today; veronica swift (1hour and 54 min) @ emmetCohen...another swift with talent...

"We really feel a desire to talk on many subjects, to all the people of Brooklyn; and it ain't their ninepences we want much either. There is a curious kind of sympathy (haven't you ever thought of it before?) that arises in the mind of a newspaper conductor with the public he serves...Daily communion creates a sort of brotherhood and sisterhood between the two parties." walt whitman june 1 1846

i think the internet serves the purpose of mass communication newspapers once provided for the public...but much precaution must be taken to sift out the crap!

"What Constantine discovered...."

I found this beautiful obsidian tool yesterday after the rain washed the pine needles away and exposed it...i am parked in a place where a large number of indigenous people lived...i asked the government archaeologists if these tools are 200 years old or 2000 years old and they said they do not know...however they can determine where the obsidian came from... 

lots of news in the news in the last couple of weeks...it's one damned thing after another...as always...

i was interested to see that the several hundred "humanitarians" who were going to Gaza  managed to come away with their lives...i guess they forgot that the IDF has already killed tens of thousands of folks and tens of thousands of children...a few hundred more innocent deaths  would not be beyond their possible actions...you have to keep your humanitarian deeds within the scope of probability...they could have dropped off a few thousand rat traps and done a lot of good...maybe...check out "Neturei Karta. the ultra orthodox jews, Israels others" (14 min)...i became interested in elon musk's various projects and taken as a whole it seems between the AI stuff and the space stuff and the many more projects he has undertaken to work synergistically (nothing seems to be an isolated endeavor) "Tesla Giga Press 4.0 (13min) is a good example of how all things musk need to be practically undertaken. this press or machine molds the telsa car body in such a way as to reduce time and materials by as much as 40%...this mans endeavors are of historical significance...it's not the fact that the financial aspects of this mans life are unprecedentedly large it's that the ideas he seeks to promote in a concrete way are unique...

another attempt to terrorize me recently as the gun goobers decided to spend a lot of money blasting away with thousands of shells from a multitude of firearms within a very close proximity... i have been subjected to "intimidation by gun-fire" for several decades now...from florida to oregon to idaho and all places in between...and of course i come into town today only to be stalked and harassed some more...maybe it is the yellow turtle-neck which is offensive,,,

there are a couple of good youtube sources of information about pot, weed, marijuana (full disclosure...i smoked a lot of pot from the age of 17 and was a confirmed stoner until about the age of 33 when i became aware that my consumption of alcohol and weed was killing me...death, sobriety or insanity were the choices which were described to me...not everyone is a practicing addict...i was..),,,"Marijuana; all facts and numbers" Sabine Hossenfelfer (21 min) and "How marijuana affects the brain and body" (22min) dr andrew huberman...lets face it, lots of people use pot and have no addictive tendencies,,,and some people like me... become stoners...i like being straight now...Ms Itchy Boots has been busy since she left her Yamaha in Mongolia for the winter and got some R&R in Bali and hit the weights (this woman has made herself very strong) and then returned to Holland to participate in her first Hyrox, an athletic competition..."The Grand Finale- my first solo Hyrox" (25min)...(she apparently came in first place for women but was too shy to say so....another spectacular athlete is "Annie Sanders: Athlete of the week" world climbing champion...an excellent example of strength to weight ratios... also ms "little Chinese everywhere" goes near myanmar "This is the real rural china that nobody sees"(26 min)...she tours several tea plantations and shows how tea is grown and processed...she uses her internet presence to  promote the these small time tea growers...Flo is not present... Ha Thi Muon has many youtube presentations about her life in the rural mountains if vietnam...this woman's videos become pretty addictive as she seems to have some inner strength which guides her life with her 5 dogs and a goat...she treks into the mountains to wild harvest many plants and she uses her dogs and goat to help her pack her plants into town to be sold...she is devoted to her animals and they are devoted to her...it is one of the most endearing animal/human symbiotic relationships i have ever seen...and i have enjoyed the music of "the rainbow girls" and "nora jones and "hillbilly moon explosion has a new video called "1979"...quite interesting... got to go wearing down...

"What Constantine discovered...is that the meaning of a text is enlarged by the readers capacities and desires..."alberto manguel (from a history of reading)

                                     

"FAME IS PROOF..."

water for a desert animal...drop by drop..much can be provided in small increments

it has come to my attention that there are those persons who have sought to steal my intellectual property...and monetize it...therefore...as of this date and time i am going to copyright all photography. writing and other creations that appear on this blog, or my notebooks or the contents of my storage unit which was recently stolen from me...durn their scurvy butts!...anyhow, obviously i can hardly enforce this copyright, but i intend to target those who have spent much time and effort to cancel me and promote themselves...and punish their criminality...also as of this time the name "TEATSQUEEZER" is my exclusive property and i don't give a damn who says otherwise...some people are sick and refuse to acknowledge that they cannot appropriate another persons work...

"FAME IS PROOF THAT PEOPLE ARE GULLIBLE." R.W. Emerson

 

"Mankind have a great aversion..."

i bought this book yesterday from the local library for two bucks...support your local libraries and make sure you know what they are doing...they have a lot of influence in the community...

i picked up a book last week which is one of the best books i have ever read..."A history of reading" by Alberto Manguel...this author grew up in Argentina and used to read to Borges the author after he went blind...Manguel has a very detailed account of reading from the time when writing was only some marks on clay to designate how many sheep and how many goats were in the flock...along the same vein is "Linguistics vs Musicology; basically identical" (16min) from cartoons in the fog...one of the reasons i bought the field guide is i watched "Jumping Spiders shouldn't be this smart" Stephanie-Sammann (40min) also "The wild side of our Planet" (3hours) narrated by david attenborough...some of the best nature video i have seen...this guy just turned 100 years old..nature keeps a human being dynamic...usually..."The Malankovitch cycle Timeline-where are we now?" (4min) and "Fungal freaks ep1- Guttation" fungus with red (5 min) this is very interesting because this mycologist reveals some of the chemicals found in the small liquid drops on some mushrooms...startling stuff...also some esoterica..."The evolution of telepathy" by rupert sheldrake (1 hr )...and "Every Ancient tradition described quantum field- here's what they called it" (16min) Quantum Gnosis...and some fantastic art "She painted a selfie in 1909 then lost everything (19min) @ Art_Deco this is a great artist Zinaida Serebriakova and there is a more complete showing of her work in "Zinaida Serebriakova: a collectionm of 364 works" (35 min) learn from maestro...a humorous scientist posted  "My first "only fans" video and some other science" (15min) anton petrov...i watch a couple of well done australian serials...
"the doctor blake mysteries" and "Miss Fishers murder mysteries"....miss fisher is a modern woman who has libertine tastes (she is no stranger to casual sex)...and i watch a lot of music video but one of my favorite artists is Loudon wainwright and his thoughtful composition "When you leave" is somewhat disturbing...

"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily obtainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."   Samuel Johnson

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"The great hope of society..."

 image from a few years ago when i was at squaw lake desert campsite...name has been changed to something more "woke"...i used to live in a cabin across the road from squaw valley on the trukee river...(calif)...not sure about what the "correct" name would be,,,i talked to a guy who said he grew up in squaw valley where his dad had dairy cattle...now it is all "developed"...too damned bad!

for whatever reason i have had several females who specialize in "competitive coitus" brought to my attention...the latest is a young woman named Annie Knight from australia who distinguished herself by engaging in coitus with 583 men in 6 hours (that's one intromission every 37 seconds if your calculator is not handy)...she was employed in "marketing" prior to her work as...what do you call a woman who specializes in "extreme coitus"...anyhow she said she was not satisfied with her 40 thousand a year paycheck so she went to "onlyfans" (onanly fans?) and began a lucrative career in sex work...however,,,she apparently suffered some medical setbacks from her marathon sex work...according to her she is now a wealthy woman...i am not sure what the appeal is to watching that many men having sex with a single woman might be...i am of the opinion that variety is what appeals to men...anyhow i think there is a misconception about the biological "imperative" which causes males of all species to sacrifice beyond all "reason" in order to inseminate yet another female...but as i look around at 8 billion humans i think perhaps one of the reasons that the unreasonable quest to inseminate has gone awry is due to a lack of understanding of "human reproductive biology"...there was a woman who was on a radio  show recently whose work is to make "period" products more available to women...if women have periods maybe men have question marks...anyhow the correct word is menstruation...i came across a very good short youtube video called "The menstrual cycle explained: a guide to the 4 phases and hormones" (3min 46sec) it is an animation which is clear and well done...if more men knew these facts about female fertility perhaps there would be fewer unwanted pregnant females...perhaps...

"The great hope of society is in individual character." W.E, Channing

"I would not be accessory..."

top image is a spent shell of a 300 Winchester magnum i found on the pipeline....one of the larger and most powerful cartridges available...the bottom image is of a large flower pretty early in the morning...in a couple of hours it was all droopy....

as i sit here writing this blog i am listening to the news on the television which is reporting that the central intelligence agency employees have entered the offices of the head of the national security and removed files pertaining to some of the most notorious activities which the agency has implimented in the last 50 years or more...some of the commentators are saying it is a "constitutional crisis",,,yep if it aint one damn thing it's another....

well i must apologize to my 12 readers maybe down to eight readers now...perhaps two readers with "quadrophenia",,,anyhow i started to look at the youtube presentations of "FEDERAL ACTION REPORT"...these folks have only been putting videos online for a short time...one of the more outlandish titles is "FBI & ICE storm secret bunker of democratic congressman-29 girls rescued $125 million seized" ...whoa buddy!...i looked around for any other news agencies that reported on this historic event...needless to say there are no references to any of these heroic rescues...i was PUNKED...damn!...so i was wondering who might have the resources to put together this many outlandish reports...i guess the friends of the FBI and ICE would do it...maybe even the CIA!...anyhow, i apologize for recommending an obviously false report....

"I would not be accessory to the propagation of falsehood." Samuel Johnson
 

"Invasion of privacy..."

12 year old game camera image...heard what sounded like a fox barking last night! not bloody likely here on the edge of the city...but i did see a prairie dog here last year before the construction company bulldozed the entire lot...too damned bad...

so before i am implicated  in too many crimes i must document what is happening to me...look-a-likes are used by the corrupted government  to make a person seem a criminal...there is a person in this town who grew his beard and went to the place where the Nike shoes were sold and demanded money and got it..Mr. Kai said "if you don't write about it, it never happened."..OK...there is another person who has a truck that looks like mine...complete with with white tailgate and topper...no bike hauler though...same color vehicle and topper....so i guess there is a pretty good budget to burn me...sad as it seems there is a large contingent of "ORGANIZED CRIME" in this city/county/state...and nation  also i suppose...an unfortunate number of these people have affiliation with government and have badges...Pappy Jack spent 13 years working for an outfit that had the motto 'ORGANIZED LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST ORGANIZED CRIME"...well guess what, you will not get too rich with that motto!...there is a fellow who i became acquainted with back in the 1970's who morphed into a bit of a scumbag...after being denied his degree  when he was caught mailing cocaine back from a country in south america i guess he was recruited into the murky "company" of folks with no guidelines...anyhow he put his face right close to mine and said "you  are a schizoid nobody" wow! such a friend!...this alerted me to the reality of his mindset...he also said i could have anything but money...wow!...i did not realize i had reached such a level of importance!...i suppose since i was stalked all across Australia, Mexico and elsewhere i should realize  that this vendetta is personal and not based on any real evidence of crimes committed...anyhow the amount of crime in this country warrants much caution from the honest citizens...i watched an impressive  youtube presentation this morning which i hope many people will watch and take to heart,,"FBI and ICE raids Chinese nail salons in Texas" @distortedjustice (17 min)...this is a nauseating account of how Chinese mafia was /are buying and selling sex  of young women and children and murdering those  who did not make a profit...and also "FBI storms 14 hidden bunkers under hardware stores " these enterprising folks sold billions of dollars worth of arms and drugs...it should be an eye opener for citizens of the USA that there may be serious crimes being  committed right under their nose...so when you hear  that ICE or the FBI need to be shut down...DON'T BELIEVE IT!...

"INVASION OF PRIVACY=THE UNWARRANTED APPROPRIATION OR EXPLOITATION OF ONES PERSONALITY..."
 

"...pain is the price..."

 as can be seen from the date on this image it is from 2019...pre-covid   

there are a lot of stories about sub-standard law enforcement on youtube...and if you look there are also many law enforcement as heroic stories...there was a gruesome mass killing a while back involving kids in Shreveport ,La...cops in this town make $33 thousand bucks a year...a paltry amount considering what these people have to deal with daily...no wonder the suicide rate in first responders and cops is so high...

i listen to very little American rap...but i came across a couple of presentations i liked recently "THRIFT SHOP" is by some guys named Macklemore and Ryan Lewis...the video is a must see...i thought i had stumbled across an unknown gem until i saw that is has been viewed 1.9 billion times...hardly an obscure offering..."I had a broken keyboard, I bought a broken keyboard..."this line illuminates perfectly what millions and millions of people do every day...the "hunter/gatherer instinct is just too strong not to hunt and gather...i know well how this compulsive behavior manifest itself...after 55 years of gathering i think i may have some control...bought a new north face fanny pack today and a small hammock and some thick socks and a pair of glasses and glasses case..eleven bucks total...what a bargain!...also i saw where "EMINEM" has a new offering called "Unstoppable"...he looks like he has been taking damn good care of himself and is reaping the rewards ...

an excellent but scary youtube presentation is "An AI just retaliated against a developer" (13 min)(that is a software developer) by Hey Tech...this machinery decided to do dirty to the person who manufactured it..."Human Evolution has sped up, new study finds" (16 min) by "seven days of science" this is presented by a new "science communicator" named Miss Emilia Evans...her enthusiasm is large and here pronunciations are good...

"...pain is the price..(quitting costs more")...eminem

"...a static species..."

 missed raising my earth flag on earth day...so i bought the overpriced hat for 3 bucks...i identify as an EARTHLING...it's the least i can do...

Greater short-horned lizard at 7300 foot elevation...Phrynosoma hernandesi    i have seen a couple of these juveniles on this pipeline clearing

i found an old photo album in the dumpster it is from this woman's family...this image is from the 1940's when she was in Scotland...the great grand-kids would like these

i found two memory cards in a camera case from the thrift store...hundreds of family pictures from all over the world...i choose this one because it is one of the most distinctive...not likely to mistake this lass for someone else...bikini on the snow bowl ski area...i need to take these memory cards to someone who can do the detective work to find this family...after many years these are still important images

i can't help but believe that some organizational help from artificial intelligence would be useful as i watch the C-SPAN coverage of the congressional debates...one of the things that is apparent is the lack of addressing specific problems that need to be resolved...i don't mean to be the bringer of bad news but time is not on our side...invest in a garden to help feed the family when the crops fail...not if but when...

i read an excellent article called "Livelier than the living" in the "New York Review" by Catherine Nicholson who wrote reviews of "A marvelous solitude: the art of reading in early modern Europe " by Lina Bolzoni" and "Untold Futures: time and literary culture in Renaissance England" by J.K, Barret...sounds kind of like dry reading except that the enthusiasm of the readers is pretty remarkable...today people have an enormous amount of material to peruse in many formats,,,there was a time when a book was the only access to someone else's world...i sort of liked this description given by Petrarch..."Here I have established my Rome, my Athens, and my spiritual fatherland; here i gather all the friends I now have, not only those ...who have lived with me, but those who died many centuries ago, known to me only through their writings...I am where I wish to be..."(1348 AD) letter to Seneca...a interview with Dr. Erich Jarvis by Dr. Andrew Huberman called "The evolution of speech and language" (35min) gives some useful insight into how the brain reacts to reading, listening, and speaking...some animals have brains that respond similarly to human brains but human brains and the capacity to understand written language is unique...

"A static species in a dynamic environment is an extinct species..." from  "The real reason humans evolved to walk" (30min) @ evolve.2
 

"I met an elephant friend of mine...."

 

a bit of snow on the ground yesterday morning...it was all melted in a few hours

it was colder this morning at around 17 degrees...all you can do is "handle your business"...when i crawl out of "beggers tomb" I make hot beverage and turn on the truck crank up the heater cook and eat some breakfast...then packed up the truck in about 4 hours and head into town...11 days in the forest...saw pronghorn, chipmunks, kaibab squirrels, robins, juncos and a bluebird kept me company for a few days,,,the raven friend visited several times a day to see if i had a spare mouse or chipmunk...what with the cold temperatures virtually no flies or mosquitoes...cold is survivable...heat is not...

seems there was another lame-brain with delusions of being an assassin...knives!?...this guy needs to be stood up in front of a firing squad within a month or so...i saw where on this date of april 28 Mussolini the Italian fascist leader was shot dead along with his girlfriend...i wish more people knew the definition of what a fascist is since the term gets used a hell of a lot incorrectly. 

going to write more later as i am fatigued after an early morning wake-up and a full day of laundry and groceries etc etc etc…

“I met an elephant friend of mine,                                                                                                                         I said to him, “You’re looking fine”                                                                                                                   He mentioned that he had lost some weigtht                                                                                                      And i asked him to breakfast at half past eight                                                                                                    That sounds good but now i must run                                                                                                                  And for breakfast I like a hot buttered bun                                                                                                          Of course I like two buckets of grain                                                                                                                   And a bale of hay, that should  be plain                                                                                                                 Half a barrel of water should be quite enough                                                                                                       I’m on a diet and it’s been pretty tough                                                                                                                  I’ll be there tomorrow and we’ll have some fun                                                                                                   But perhaps I’ll forgo that hot buttered bun….

i will call this poem “The elephants diet”….i came across a musician/poet online last week name jesse welles who writes a lot of songs in the style of Dylan/Prine etc etc and he wrote one called “Fat” to chastise the many chubby folks…his song called “Weed: has some pretty interesting lyrics not often heard …”give air a chance…."                                                                                                                            

"External things are not the problem..."

an image that is by chance...most of life is "a-causal" by chance I think
 

much said about the population of domestic bovines,,,perhaps too may people!

i think the nature of humans interactions with the world they live in is in the process of changing in somewhat the same way that it changed as spoken language developed and then written language developed...in the early morning there seems to be a lot of "electronic" information (i.e. the internet) which if not viewed with some degree of constraint will devolve into a morass of muck (bullshit) however if you view the right things in the right  order (like math...first addition, subtraction, multiplication, division then calculus etc, etc etc,) you are better able to understand the large amount of information... i am interested in the many predictions that folks are making about "the future of artificial intelligence" which seems to be the devil incarnate in some peoples view...although i was somewhat alarmed at a very cryptic dream i had which indicated that AI will indeed become all powerful...so what if this all powerful math based tool arranges things so the humans become extinct...sounds like a good plan to me...i predict ants or spiders or maybe those spiders that mimic ants will reign supreme...makes no difference to me...humans as they exist now will go extinct like every other living thing...goes with the territory...

a lot of the people in the federal legislature which is broadcast daily on C-SPAN bring up the term "PATRIOT"...in an interesting small pamphlet entitled "The Lexington-Concord Battle Road" published by the Concord Chamber of Commerce...it is a minute by minute account of what transpired in April  1775 in Massachusetts USA...this was before the USA was united and separate from England...the revolution of the USA began ...blood was shed, 73 British killed, 49 Americans (colonials) killed that day and the two forces would clash until it was resolved...there were American patriots and English patriots...innocents killed and brutal acts committed...yep that "revolution" stuff can get pretty messy...perhaps less revolution and more revelation would be helpful...

i came across some good youtube stuff such as Dr. Andrew Huberman's interview with Marc Breedlove "How Hormones Shape Sexual Development" (about 2 hours and 11 min) i recently heard a moron who was in government saying something about how god only made males and females..what a sadly uninformed view!..had this guy listened to this Marc Breedlove interview he might be better able to make intelligent decisions about the legal ramifications currently being adjudicated concerning so called "Trans" citizens...also "Hidden chamber found under Sedona" (AZ.) (11 min)" this is an interesting presentation by Luke Rockwalker who is a teenager on a bicycle with a pretty good camera...it is actually a sort of sinkhole and these guys had to climb down a tree to get into this crack in the earth..."Philosophize this #245" (30 min.) is a long awaited presentation entitled "The rival moral approach of the modern world-Alasdair Macintyre"...i am going to have to listen to this a few more times as it is pretty thick with information and ideas...i came across some music...actually it came across me as is often the case when the web world recommends various offerings..."The Rainbow Girls" have a bunch of good stuff and are accomplished musicians and vocalists not to mention sometimes politically strident...they do a good job on "Don't think twice" which has a bit of dancing by miss Cheyenne ...i also came across a song from long ago by Desmond Dekker who recorded "Israelite's" in 1969...very interesting fellow...and a very interesting video...there is a 3 hour video which i did not watch all of but it may be of some interest " 3 hour heavy rain walk in Shukugawara Japan" this will alter your psyche for sure...

"External things are not the problem. It's it is your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now." Marcus Aurelius "meditations"

"The heart thinks constantly."

 what remains of my wool gloves i found in a snowbank on the Siuslaw river at a boat launch near the mouth of Wittaker creek...some years ago in oregon

i picked up a great DVD collection for a buck at the pawn shop yesterday by the band the "Eagles" live from Melbourne, actually 3 DVD's...Joe Walsh sings a song he wrote called "One day at a time" about his getting sober...there are more vices in the world than most people know...

I'll start with some music recommendations...well hell there ain't no music recommendations in the notebook ...however there is an interesting presentation by Sierra Ferrel..."Let me show you my thingies"..she has a collection of stuff which she has gathered around herself to bring her comfort and solace...i also recall Florence Welsh inviting us into her home to have a look see and she had diaphanous gowns hanging all over the place...which is why she goes on stage with bright lights behind her revealing...well whatever...as i have brought up before some men seek "victims" more than lovers and i think a good example of this is the Vuecrypt presentation "This painting hides a sickening reality" (10 min)...this site has a lot of good art history...Fact Quickie has a good presentation called "The truth about Houdini's death"...who knew! ...also Gutsick Gibbon has some pretty academic presentations such as "New smallest human relative discovery. What does it mean?" (41 min) pretty detailed..."Japan zoo! Inside the worlds most interactive park feeding 2000 animals" maybe if you count the sparrows and the carp in the ponds..and the last image at the ringtailed lemur exhibit is a mongoose lemur i think certainly not a ringtail..."How gasoline is made, why it expires and what if it runs out."  (23 min) History of simple things...these folks make some great short videos about a lot of stuff...i worked in the petro/chemical industry quite a bit but never knew exactly how gasoline was made...now I know!...one of my favorite songs by elvis costello is "A good year for the roses"...i thought he wrote it but "The story behind "a good year for the roses" shows otherwise.from Tennessean(10 min)..."I rescued a wild roadrunner" from the Sweet hug (7 min) is pretty extraordinary video of a bird i thought was pretty dumb...i was wrong...if you haven't got a belly full of Epstein yet this is some interesting information...""Where did Epstein's money come from?" "If your'e listening" an Australian news presentation i think..this guy was a school teacher!...who knew!...

 "The heart thinks constantly. This cannot be changed. But the movements of the heart- that is, a persons thoughts- should restrict themselves to the immediate situation. All thinking that goes beyond this only makes the heart sore." from the I ching or book of changes

"Death: something like birth,..."

 soooorry!...this is the san francisco peaks as of this morning...the SNOW BOWL is open...

well, off this morning, knowing my room would be entered...same old, same old...i am trying to curb my thrift store habit...not to great success but sold my 5 dollar purchase at the "vintage" store for 10 bucks and donated a dozen DVDs to other thrift stores and picked up 5 free books on antique furniture and pottery etc and took them to the estate sale store where they need all the help they can get...then to the grocery to check out the scratched and dented reduced fare and got some muffins for 2 bucks and some peanuts for a buck sixty etc etc etc...the undercover personnel were leaving as i pulled into the parking lot which is standard for this town...did i mention i was on the "grassy knoll"...yeah that was me...made a mug of fresh brewed coffee at lunchtime...may make another...well enough chit chat let get down to the "nut cuttin'"...i probably shouldn't be eating a blueberry a pie while i write this but...a very interesting youtube presentation i recently watched is "Something non-human has been here a long time." (one hour and 30 min.) this is Jordan B. Peterson in and interview with Dr. Garry Nolan...both of these guys are respected scientists and the information is pretty amazing...i have only had two experiences in my life when i was unable to discern what it was i was seeing...both times i was in the desert and there were "lights floating in the air" above me...i have no idea what they were...along the same lines is from Wiley films "You eat other animals? Aliens question Humans (6 min)..."Night in space" is pretty funny as a science fiction comedy "12 min)..."little Chinese everywhere" (32 min) Yan and Flo tour Damascus, Syria which has been around for 11 thousand years...the food and crafts which they film sort of gives perspective to how long they have been around...why anyone might need a wooden inlaid chess set that has been in construction for 20 years i cannot imagine but they have such things...if you have the money...if you want older "Toumai" the new ancestor" (54 min.) Best documentary and two more." this is sort a "docu-drama" but has some great video of how a fossil skull when subjected to all the latest scientific tools can be re-created...even with flesh and hair!..

"Death is something like birth, a natural mystery, elements that split and recombine. Not an embarrassing thing. Not an offense to reason, or our nature. from "meditations of Marcus Aurelius  

"Nothing in the world is weaker..."

 yesterdays view of the "peaks"...ski slopes will be opened for a few more days

so now i can get a little "scribble therapy" done as i have rented a room in a motel...i notice on this mornings news that 2 elected officials have resigned their positions due to "sexual indiscretions"...perhaps more consideration should be paid to governing this country and less attention to the private lives of those elected...but then what would the 24/7 news machine use for fuel?...glad to know that i live in a country that has not been restricted in their quest for "NEWS!"...however...these news people do not tell you what to think but what to think about...therefor it is needed that people have a broad "frame of reference"...i still shudder at the notion of censorship of the internet insofar as to obtain a broad enough view of the world and an accurate understanding of what goes on  we need to rely on others to show us...from where i access the world it is apparent to me that such information that can be utilized in decision making can be had via the electronic media...i am partial to "YOUTUBE" as there is enough accurate information via the presentations to keep me intellectually stimulated..i have never seen twitter, or tic toc, or any other format but i have noticed that there are an increasing number of youtube presentations that are false and AI generated... alas this is always the case...since the government that i have paid my taxes to is currently contemplating "destroying the civilization" of Iran...(Persia has been around for quite a long time!) i would like to cast a vote to not destroy said civilization...one of the most engaging presentations i have seen recently is "Village life in Iran...making cheese and cheese bread" @ kand.matbaxi  (45min)...these lovely women are featured in several presentations...milking the cow, feeding the chickens starting the wood fire and making the bread...lovely sight and illustrates a people who seek independence not the overthrow of the world...also Huberman labs has a great interview called "The biology of aggression mating and arousal" with Dr. David Anderson (about 30 min),...also i was interested in the fate of "Itchy Boots" as she makes her way across Mongolia on her faithful steed "Frankie" the motorcycle...she almost got her ass in a jam when her bike became stuck in a mud hole...she managed to lay down the bike and collect some wood and get free from the quagmire and eventually get to her yurt hostel...she has overcome so many adverse situations i feel silly even mentioning this but a come-a-long might be a good addition to her "kit"...anyhow she is a true adventurer and i think has become quite addicted to the "adventure"...and i came across a good musical presentation at "Floyd Country Store" with Sarah Kate Morgan playing and singing "Single Girl"...this is not a view that favors marriage...(about  5 min.) great singing and playing... 

"Nothing in the world is weaker than water,/ But here is no better in overcoming the hard"...Lao-tzu

"I am defeated..."

surrounded by crooked timber....

if you have been paying attention...and why not, it cost little and may have great reward...there is good news and there is bad news...as always...the bad news is the same as it has been for thousands of years...humanity is being inhumane to the planet and its inhabitants...the good news is that humanity has managed to hurl 4 humans into space, further away from planet earth than any humans have yet to travel...sounds promising...however those of us who will remain committed to sustaining a comfortable life on planet EARTH realize that the surface of this planet will need some more nurturing as it has been abused for a long long time...to that end i would like to recommend some you tube presentations which promote planet earth..."growtreeorganics" has dedicated his time to making his property in the high desert of arizona more conducive to plant growth...also "A life on the sea/ the meateater podcast" is a good introduction for Heather Douville who is a Tlingit native alaskan who left that place where her ancestors lived to see some other places and came back to embrace the Tlingit culture...she has some excellent presentations, unblinking and unhesitant about what that entails...her cinematographer is Mary Margarett Smith Genett who does a great job...i was inspired by Bruce Mitchells presentation "Sous Vide Steak" about cooking a steak...thick and juicy...and bought a package with 2 and a half pounds of beef steaks...ate said meat over a five  day period and enjoyed it much...my blood work indicated that a component was lacking which is derived from meat mostly...i will have more blood work today which should indicate that component is no longer deficient...of course tony santoro has continued with a scathing evaluation of common practices which destroy the planets surface..."Crime pays but botany doesn,t" has some really good footage of how bulldozers are used to destroy one habitat to install another less appropriate habitat... also Gisele Benoit has some great footage of moose in "In the company of moose" which illustrates what patience in the field with a camera can achieve...on a social criticism observation i would like to acknowledge the work of Joseph Foreman AKA "Afroman" who documented how his home was invaded as he was targeted by dim witted government employees who described him as a kidnapper and drug dealer...he had the foresight to have his home surveillance cameras up and running and documented his front door being kicked in and his cash being stolen etc. etc etc...the story here is that rather than going into a violent lather he wrote humorous songs and put them online and for this he was sued by the guilty cops for 3.9 million bucks for defamation and they lost but he was required to pay half of the court costs...malarky!...if he has a go fund me site i might put a buck into his coffers...now there is a subject which is of vital importance and it seems to me the current view in some places is that "SOCIAL MEDIA"...(what in the hell is that!) is being condemned as responsible for harming children...first of all these children have, or should have, parental guidance...375 million bucks paid out by META for said "harm"...i can understand how watching enough of the wrong social media might make your judgement skewed towards depressing thought...however, the antidote is not no social media but better social media...more positive social media...more empowering social media...when i was about 19 years old i told my house mate that i had depression at times..."nausea in my brain" is how it felt...he was a psychology student and suggested that i read "I'm OK you're OK" was popular and he suggested that i read that...so i did... so i was better able to mange my depressive thinking...you have to balance the bad input into your brain with positive input or the depressive input dominates...i have been watching "Roads and Roads" which is a podcast with Jorma Kaukonen and john whats his face about Kaukonens work as lead guitarist with the "Jefferson Airplane" and his work with Jack Cassady the bass player in their incarnation as "Hot Tuna"...Kaukonen is now 81 years old and quite articualte as is Jack Cassady...i saw these two guys in Seattle in 1994 in what i think was a gymnasium with no seats...but i was able to stand next to the foot tall "stage" and enjoy a good concert...even worse accommodations were to be had when me and my girlfriend ms Debra (camp counselor) walked across new orleans to see Paul Butterfield with the band Kilimanjaro at Tipitinas...no seats so we sat on upturned beer boxes...Paul was pissed off and not much fun but his band was great...never went back to Tips again...i came across a good independent film entitled "Miss Meadows" which is about a school teacher...sort of...a school teacher who carries a pistol...and a grudge...sort of...you go girl!...i read a couple of good short stories recently...a Raymond Carver story entitle "A small good thing"...excellent...might make you cry...and "Babylon Revisited" by F.S. Fitzgerald has a single incident which i found quite depressing...there are some interesting biographies by KAZ ROWE including one of mr. Fitzgerald...well there is a lot left in the notebooks but the coffee is depleted and the fingers are cramping so i will close here

"I am defeated all the time, yet to victory i am born." R.W. Emerson

 

"I think about how many times..."

 television on the news channel...I think there are only three wars...yesterdays war, todays war, and tomorrow's war...except for that...there is much speculation about whether the commander in chief of the USA has made the right decision about whacking the leaders of Iran etc....I remember when I was about 4 or 5 years old and it was Christmas Day and I was laying on the floor of our little house while my father was assembling the Lincoln logs which Santa had brought...pappy had put a leadership figure on top of the plastic hill that came with the "cowboys and Indians" toys and said we need to take out the leaders first...good lesson...so when I think about whether the leadership of the country here I live is doing the right thing I always figure that if I can sleep at night without fear of being attacked  the leadership is doing their job...also when I hear about this country or that doing this or that thing it must be remembered that "Iran", china. Russian etc etc etc are geographic definitions and do to represent the inhabitants of those geographic places...the governments, and the persons who have political power in those governments are the ones who declare war, declare peace, declare how the resource are to be used...I think too few resources are used to promote art and music...and the trillions used to promote war might be used to promote health and education also...the newly formed DEPARTMENT OF RECYCLING (just kidding) has been so successful that there is enough money to have a musical instrument in every Childs hands that wants one...I watched some of my favorite movies again last week..."The cheap detective " always makes me laugh out loud, and "Captain Ron" does the same and now I watch "The Planters" which is a masterpiece also....not very highbrow but very entertaining...like the croissants and chocolate I eat is not very nutritious but makes me happy inside..."What 400 prostitutes taught Machiavelli about male weakness"(15 min) is an informative piece about humanity...and lets not forget about our reading..."Under the spotlight" by Simon Callow (10/17/24 New York review) is a very good article about how much people are on "stage"..."performance allows one to transcend ones physical and mental condition." I looked up on YouTube how many places there are to post blogs..it seems that video blogs are most popular and everyone wants the most "subscribers" they can get and to "monetize" their work...I have to be content with my 12 readers and two sponsors and maybe someday someone will give me my dime...probably not...however as long as I enjoy the scribbling I will continue... and as long as it allows me to transcend...the video is of one of my "assistants" who came around to see what I had left beneath the tree in the sandy wash..."I think about how many times I have fallen/spirits using me, larger voices calling..." Stephen Stills "Southern Cross"

"Not always do we seek..."

 this old heel found at the homestead is too far gone even for cobblerG

eight days in the mesa country  revitalizes my spirits...20 degrees above "normal"

symbol on the bottom of a can...how old?...what does it mean?

Arthur S....not the pessimist he is often described as...

i will see if this blog is allowed to be posted...the close surveillance has followed me north...i think i have been banned from the dollar a pint grocery stores in yumertonville under suspicion of "reading the labels on the food"...maybe it is more than that which makes me "persona non grata"...here now so i need to adjust to this locale again...i have been watching the green clad folks who celebrate the "emerald islands" far away...i think people get too emotionally involved with their so called "identity"...i was thinking of a speech i heard recently..."i would like to thank all those who came before me..." yeah me too...like the denisovans and the neanderthals and the homo erectus and the "ghost" ancestral DNA (thanks ms Lindsay)...where does it start?...where does it end?... anyhow "be here now"...i got a new phone for $39 and got the no limit data package for $50 plus tax so i can look at youtube without being cut off...this make viewing more productive as far as informational access goes...i watched some strong stuff last week "Spiritually depraved misery inducing landscapes of north america" (18 min)@"crime pays but botany doesn't" in this critical view of current landscaping trends mr Anthony rips the landscapers a new asshole...they deserve it...i worked for three landscapers at once back in about 1973...Charbel, Walter, and Eduardo...these were good guys just getting started and i was a skinny kid trying to make enough money to get out of town...i hated laying sod but Walter used to pick up a roll and say "life is no joke! you have to make it count!"...he is an old man now and he doesn't lift the kind of weight he used to..."The woman who shook Nietzsche" is an excellent short piece about Lou Andreas Salome who lived her life independently and attracted a lot of attention from some of the most intellectually prominent men of her time...Nietzsche wanted to marry her, and she influenced S, Freud and the poet Rilke... strong stuff!..."Lets GO Geo" (Heather) has a great piece on creosote bush and "Itchy Boots" makes it to mongolia with a bad shock absorber and "Little Chinese Everywhere" Yan eats very well in Iraq.."All that is sacred" is a short documentary about the "HAPPENING" that was key west in the early 1970s...Lafayette, Louisiana had some of that fibe at that time....but with a cajon accent...i heard where one of the crew on "The deadliest catch" was drowned on the job...i cant get too excited about groceries that people have to risk their lives for..."Not always do we seek a solution, while of the truths we cannot do without." Lou Andreas Salome...

"It is very easy to mistake..."

                       leaving behind desert sunsets for a while as I migrate north cooler temps

                           this is Ernie the pampered pet (even the dogs don't use their real name)

in keeping with thousands of years of migration tradition I am moving north away from the intensity of the desert heat...temps to top 100 degrees in 4 days...much snow still in the destination site.... I bought new snow boots last month at the thrift...8 bucks for the boots and 2 bucks for the new bootlaces...have pretty good winter clothes...lots of sweaters and long underwear....every time I have made this journey either headed north or south I have been stalked by one of the numerous government workers who's Jobe it is to keep me in "THE BOX"...I wassubjected to much harassment at the government run river control site

the new lens apparently can detect alien beings...or maybe I just shook the camera....whatever

                                              angular fencing everywhere I go...

and angular fences

 

I just spent several hours writing my blog and all of the written portion was deleted when I attempted to post it...a I have heard many times someone simply hacks my computer and appropriates my intellectual property...this is a felony...but here in outlaw land there is not much care taken to protect the unpopular like myself...sooo I must make arrangements to dissuade this sort of crime agains me...maybe I can get my blog published intact next time....

"We called her the woman..."

                    TAFT california coke bottle...from the WW2military dump.              

the above coke bottle looks silly compared to those watched unearthed  by Adventure Archeology too damned hot!...predicting 96 degrees F today in and around Yumertonville...too damned hot...I hear the news about the serious cold weather along with snow and ice and much lamentation and gnashing of teeth...It used to be said "cain't do nuthin' about the weather"...however it is becoming increasingly apparent that the weather "norms" are changing...I disparage of those folks who have not incorporated the possibilities of "extremes" in the weather and it suddenly occurred to me that the temperatures in the mid 90s here are not what I have experienced in the last ten years...so rather than be a good example of a bad example I awoke at a little before 4am this morning and made my cup of coffee (found a couple of cans of Cafe du Monde with chicory at the scratched and dented store) and managed to get on the road by 9ish...figured if I was hurting yesterday at 94 degrees I would be going down for the count today at 96 degrees...also I had to figure in the fact that the near black rocks and gravel which make up the majority of the area around where I stay probably push the temps north of 100 degrees and my age and "co-morbidities" make me a  good candidate for a body bag...but...I came into town and dropped off a couple of items at the storage unit and went into the thrift store  behind the VFW place and bought 3 pairs of like new dollar each pants two of which were ripstop nylon which I have been looking for since my last ones wore out a year ago I also picked up a couple of DVDs for 50 cents each and something I have been looking at for several months a MIKE PENCE doll still in the box for 2 bucks...anybody who has a malevolent mob trying to lynch them and they still do their duty is high on my list of honorable people! then to check the mail ,then to the thrift near the library and as it was half price day and I got lucky and found a like new 50mm prime Nikon lens for 12 bucks! at the Wally World  grocery I bought a dozen green seedless grapes for  67 cents so I could get cash back then went to the scratched and dented grocery store and bought 4 avocados for 50 cents each and a can of tuna for 67cents then went to the library where I sit even now in the air conditioning...there is a lovely young lady at the scratched and dented grocery who looks remarkably like a 16 year old Salma Hyak... she needs more intellectual stimulation than a cash register and stocking shelves can provide so I gave her three books which I was culling from my truck...the "Oxford book of the English  language and a large collection of "sayings" and the "Anti-memoir"...all of which had ragged or no covers...good brain food if she will read them...being young and beautiful can be a one sided affair unless one can also cultivate ones intellect...from looking at some of the women who are interviewed by L.Fridman and A.Huberman beauty and intellect can certainly be found in the same person... speaking of which...well I had to scroll through a lot of my YouTube history before I came to this great interview "Genes sinning and morality: how genes shape your risk taking and morals" Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden with Dr. Andrew Huberman...(2hours and 42minutes)..yep I knew it, I need gene therapy!...however, I sort of got back into a "compulsive/addictive" mode when I came across "Adventure Archaeology" YouTube site...I watched for hours as these people dug into old garbage dumps and pulled out beautiful glass bottles older than 100 years from Coca Cola and various other products...this guy knows more about bottles than anyone I have ever heard of...I think my fascination stems from when I was about 3 or 4 years old and we lived in an old plantation style home in Dutchtown...the house was in pretty bad shape but roomy enough for a family of 4 kids and two adults...50 yards behind the house there was a barbed wire fence but just before the fence there was an ancient trash pile which I used to go and sit in and pull out broken glass and bits of metal and other treasures a 3 year old boy might be enthralled with...until mama spotted my my excavations and vetoed this treasure spot from my recreation...alas the bug was in me and I have been partial to garbage dumps ever since...on a more current note I hear about the "deposition" of ms. H. Clinton by persons interested in GOD KNOWS WHAT!...UFOs?...democratic child sex rings?...these are clowns in a circus sideshow asking these sorts of questions...I think they should dig up mr. Epstein and hang him some more until they get this absurdity out of their systems and can get down to governing the USA...he perhaps needed gene therapy too!...I have a good question for a well informed artificial intelligence program....how many people in business and government have been implicated in "sexual" misconduct in the last hundred years?...it ain't too uncommon that's for sure...common as dirt I imagine..."Growtreeorganic" is still making the earth more plant friendly...the government of the USA needs more input from people like this...also I watched and was amazed by "300 pregnant sheep, one mile of terrain, 3 sheep dogs."  these border collies are trained to perfection by this woman on the remote "isle of Bute" Scotland...(8:31) she also has some other presentations...I watched a DVD about Dorthea Lange the lady photographer and her companion/co-worker/husband...there is sign which reads "Tractored Out" which laments the fact that on this plantation there were 22 tractors and 13, 4 row cultivators which replaced 130 families that lived and worked on the plantation...it made me wonder how many people will lament their lack of employment when artificial intelligence gets more widely used...I think those folks who unload ships (longshoremen?) and who insisted that the machinery which can do the same task much faster (and safer) must not be used...what a load of crap!...these longshoremen minds can be used for a better purpose I think..."What was maslin? the medieval bakers famine proof  bread you've never heard of." this is about mixing rye and wheat crops so they have a better chance of producing...I expect there will be famine in the future because of the mono-cropping currently being practiced...speaking of protests the first protest in America was apparently when h.d. Thoreaus grandfather organized a protest when he was at Harvard university because they served rancid butter...who knew!...there are a couple of YouTube presentations which I do not agree with...one being about a young camel which is rescued from a life of giving rides...this is an Arabian camel and this species of camel has been domesticated for a long time...I know the camels I worked with had better health because they exercised regular...I switched them up every other day so they had one day off then they worked...I often got asked about whether the camels got tired but I never was asked whether I got tired...work animals like to work if they are worked well..."dangerous shelter dog reveals hilarious habit in loving home" GeoBeats animals...well a lot of good music was listened to also...Mel Tillis "Who's Julia" is an odd tune but interesting...and Joan Chamorro who is a Spanish lady has some great presentations many of which are of women she "presents"...I especially like "My baby just cares for me" ms Chamorro plays trumpet and sings with a great backup band...I have seen her play violin and I think trombone also...she has been making music since she was quite small so she now is band director also...also I heard of Lalala and Y2k who put out a musical? piece of rappish/hiphoppish sort of thing which got a lot of recognition...but I don't get it...even with the lyrics on the screen...however I did find an interesting presentation by"Broken Peach" called F*ck you (ce lo green)...can't understand many of the words but the idea comes across well...these girls will F*ck you up!..got to go and de-pressurize as the buzz is hostile....the books I gave ms.lovely seem to have metastisized into something horrid...I keep getting slandered by the local constabulary which "diminishes" my standing in the community....these clowns need to explain themselves in a court of law...they have no compunction about terrorizing little children with tales of my evil...I need compensation...and an public apology...

"We called her the woman/ Who did not care /But the fool called her/ His lady fair. / (Even as you and I)...poem called "A fool there was"

"Wisdom cannot be conveyed:..."

 

why would the ants pile all the dirt from their hole on one side only?

mysteries abound...much about J. Epstein in the news this morning...as usual...the most interesting thing I have seen about this never ending drama is a YouTube presentation called "Jeffery Epstein: the autopsy no one is talking about" (19 min.) by Lauren the Mortician...too many "non standard" events here to ignore...this guy appears to have been murdered...the magic bedsheet will go down in history with the "magic bullet" in the j.f.k. killing...

I felt silly when I tried on the Nike trainer II shoes knowing I would not wear them and they might get me conked in the head...better stick with my $3.50 shoes and let others deal with ridiculously priced collectables...my income has increased by about $20 bucks a year but my expenses has increased by more!...damn!...

WWII era improvised cook stove left behind in the desert...one of the secrets to contentment is knowing how to improvise...

life is not all sand and rocks...there are flowers to be found also...be patient...

"philosophize this" latest presentation is kind of dense but worth the mental effort...episode #244 "after virtue"-alasdair Macintyre and the philosophy he promoted...also @LindsayNikole two latest presentations explained some things I had often puzzled about...such as Bryozoa colony's which I had often seen in fresh water but never understood and her very didactic pursuit of human origins "How we became humans"...good work!..."The tanner. Transforming raw hides into leather...the shocking process..." yep it is pretty shocking and makes me think maybe an alternative should be sought...that said I just bought a used leather belt...I am sometimes long on intention but short on practice...I started looking at "Itchy Boots" (Rebecca Noraly Schoenmaker) from the Netherlands who has been riding her highly rebuilt Yamaha around Asia for several years...she has a Chinese guy who rides a Triumph riding with her...good drone footage and she overcomes many challenges..."The bizarre world of mummy tattoos" by  "miniminuteman" AKA Milo (minderbender) Rossi is well researched...(modern tattoo culture is also pretty bizarre)...I like to look at the videos which have documented how long abandoned practices have been continued by a few special people..."The old man and the sawmill' landline abc Australia (4:24) is about an old codger who has built a sawmill he can operate by himself...a genius at work...I have worked in three "sawmills" but only one was to saw logs...it was called a "ground hog" sawmill and was put together by a fellow who was an enthusiast...there is something rewarding about watching a circular blade open up a log...and if you wan even more "primitive" ways of doing things "Before electricity: How saw blades were sharpened:hanging a massive grindstone by hand (1971-38min) Raw Machines...these people put out some great videos!...I came across the practice of "therianthropy" recently I can't say that I am favorably impressed..."Cymatics: science VS music' by Nigel Stanford (6min) is very interesting..."everything owes its existence solely and completely to sound..."...he says that there are three times as many neural connections from the ear to the brain as from the eye to the brain...thats something to think about...speaking of which I have been listening to a lot of Raymond Chandler detective stories read by Elliot Gould lately...great stuff...and David Wengrow: "the history of human civilization "@doomscroll (2 hours) is very interesting...he says that "reparations" must be considered for the people who have been historically and systematically "dis-possessed"...this is a bit of a joke as 70 thousand dead and more people every day are killed in Gaza...and the power brokers are lining up to divide the spoils...anyhow I agree that it would be worth looking into devising a way to make everyone have an equal chance at gaining economic independence...Wengrow says everyone should have the opportunity to ..."move away, disobey and create alternatives..." yeah! not bloody likely mate!...need some music..."the hot sardines" video of "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" (means To me you are beautiful) this is a great music video...Amber Rachel and "the sweet potatoes" also do this tune well...I watched "Dark passages" with H. Bogart and L. Bacall (1941 106 min)...not the best but ok...

got to get packed and back into the desert...

"Wisdom cannot be conveyed. The wisdom a wise man tries to communicate always sounds like foolishness. True knowledge comes from experience, from union with the world." Herman Hesse

(there was a poster of a man dressed in a tuxedo and tails in a rubber tube floating in a swimming pool ...the caption was "Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgment"

I found that if I search for this blog on Yandex browser it comes up like it used to on google...Yandex is Russian...I have been canceled in America?!