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
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