missed opportunity for solutions
comes from overzealous debunking

What is the reason for the inexcusable abundance of nature? Take for example the number of seeds in a pod, and the number of pods on a red bud tree, or the number of keys from a maple tree, or seeds in a sunflower, or eggs thrown off by a frog in the water.  What is the reason that the countless brilliant thoughts and creative and wonderful ideas of humans are just lost to the “forever” star dust as each artist, craftsman, builder, and scientist and educator and poet dies.

Overzealous Debunking

Love it,  totally true of the anti-  and advocate- personality types. It is the world in “two words”, the subject matter matters not.  It is the dicotomy in political “religiosity”.  It is the heubris of “i am on the right side,  you are not”

“Sometimes the Remedy Is Worse Than the Disease” a new version of that is “Avoid any remedy that is worse than the disease” and I guess it is different enough from the original to merit a link.  “Aesop”, but then there is 19th century doctor Sir Robert Hutchinson “And from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the Endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.” and the NYTimes, in 2019, “When the Cure Is Worse Than the Disease”
So while this is an oft modified phrase, it delivers a good message.

And another “It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it was worse than the disease.” which was said of “liberty” i believe (dont quote me) in the Federalist papers. And reported in Politico in 2016 “The Cure for Fake News Is Worse Than the Disease”

I get the feeling sea salt is just code word for MSG, umami, glutamine, glutamate, and glutamic acid….  typically when i read about MSG or glutamate or glutamine, there is hostility sensed especially in the food-writing group.

I have nothing against high glutamine/glutamic acid/glutamate foods, i just dont eat them past about 4 pm or i will spend the night awake….  to me it is a stimulant.

The new American Dream: I run a pattern business, stained glass patterns, cross stitch patterns, peyote stitch beading patterns.  I found some images of my patterns skimmed by a site called “second life”, they were valentine pictures, goodness, each sold (or brought value) of $100 of their “whatever” currency.

Of course there was no comment about where they came from, or reference to where to buy the patterns, they were just used without permission.  Then came a thought, of course. They are living the ——-

new american dream

uselessness  –  fantasy – unearned wealth – unmerited power

recycle reuse respect reduce refuse reclaim repurpose refurbush replenish react reassess reaffirm

OK, you get it,  it is the universal  ‘RE‘ principle —  is REquired for a sustainable world-culture:  Here are 11 REasons to think about tomorrow with the today’s earth in mind.

refuse products packaged in non-recyclable containers

recycle everything possible, including left over food in composts, leaves, twigs and branches, dead houseplants, etc

reuse everything possible, even if it is to be used for something other than it was intended (use common sense)

respect the environment – it is the only earth we have at this time

reduce purchases and frivolous wants and trips and dumb stuff, you dont need a bigger TV or new phone if the old one works

reclaim areas of concrete, blacktop, unkempt public land for green zones,

repurpose clothes, and posessions for other uses, eg, clothes shaped into rags, shoes into highways,

refurbush what you own, rather than raze and build new

replenish areas depleted from misuse and misguided utilization with green space

react  to violations in clean air and water legislation from corporate greed

reassess your habits and determine areas where you can be more effective with purchase and waste control

reaffirm your commitment to NO single use plastic containers

I don’t understand these three critical things:

1. how my children are at once my greatest pleasure and greatest pain

2. how i can have so many ideas and not enough years left to work on them

3. how i can neither love nor be loved

There must be an afterlife
Because this life sucks.

said with all due respect to the eternal, mm

Free Weather Call, Cincinnati.

Last week (the -6 degree week end of december 2022) i called free weather call about 10 times, in one morning, trying to watch the temperature to determine whether i could safely let my cats outside for a little while. It was a perfectly innocent event for me to monitor the temperature hourly.  Little did i expect what happened.

Interestingly, after 10 calls i got blocked. I could not understand why for a minute, and then knew this wasn’t free weather call at all, it was an advertising money making deal… and each time i called the free weather call must receive a sum of money from each advertiser and a “fail safe” number of clicks from each caller was part of their algorithm.  screw them.

I will not click to listen to viagra being advertised….  or any other of their advertisements, and it is a fake news item that they call it free weather call…. ha ha…. dont you just love how people scam us for our “minds” “money” “personal data”  free weather call is not free, they are monitoring you….  they must subscribe to the trumpian idea that “if i say it enough, it becomes real, whether it is real or not”