Just a few random thoughts that all bring about in me the same two word response. And you know the two words. It has a hand gesture that only uses one finger. $15 to $30 sandwiches. $5,000 a month rent and you’re happy about it. And the cost of that house is what? And you…
I have a friend who has immigrated from Russia to Norway. I am told she loves how modern it is despite how cold and long the winters are. But my thoughts are always how they should communicate with their neighbors, the filth. You don’t have to name them the filth but it’s a good name…
There was some baseball literature one time called A False Spring. This was written by Pat Jordan who for a moment, considered that he might actually be of Major League quality as a pitcher. The book was about his downward spiral as the weight of competition and his own feelings of inadequacy made him realize…
Phaedrus simply isn’t having it this evening. Hillel feels the need to explain himself again as is usually the case. Thus, the apothecary shop is either drawing or chasing away customers as the argument goes. There is a small silence and then phaedress makes his opening jab. So these are the words that come into…
I have to start this brief narrative with two disclaimers: this is not about psilocybin mushrooms and it is also not about exotica in the fungus world. I am not a mushroom connoisseur. Perhaps, given an alternative life with more sensitivity in it, I might have become a chef. Perhaps I had the patience for…
Thinking of growing things in my field, I’ve come to understand what has happened to the region over the last couple of decades. Perhaps 15 years ago, we had a similar place in a similar village a similar distance away. And I remember being able to put things in the ground and they would grow….
Well, that was interesting. Maybe unexpected is a better way of saying it. Do you have profound moments in your life? I remember thinking about this when I was a teenager. I started smoking. I really don’t know why I started smoking except I felt a pull to do it because it was a part…
It’s Tuesday morning just before noon in Belarus so I am a little preemptive here. A glance at the poles shows that things are going to be tight but that Harris is going to be the winner. You never can tell. You never can’t tell the level of honest excitement and you never can tell…
The whole of this saga has been cataloged in my journal. I suppose that’s another something I could collect into a singular story. It seems to be odd though to do that because often the writing that happened around the cat stories was of interest or connection. It’s hard to say what’s right or wrong…
I just want to talk about a piece of writing that really was important to me. This is the two stories of Hillel the scribe. In the first episodes, he and his friend Phaedrus The apothecary would gather in the apothecary’s tent to smoke over the days events. Neither of them was pleased with how…
Two interesting videos showed up in my YouTube algorithm and I thought I would share these. The first is my man earthling Ed who has been practicing his rhetoric for years now. He simply walks the AI through the logic and by the time he’s done, our logical super robot is indeed agreeing that a…
It’s hard to express disappointment such as I feel. There are plenty of pretty miserable things to complain about over the last few years of my life. Let’s say the entire presidency. And now we are coming up on another group of elections and again we have to sit through these painful demonstrations of exactly…
In a self-funded, completely independent study of a small group of people, I found I liked fucking very much. I want to be clear that I am new to this game. The boy who was generous enough to donate his time and energy to the project agreed that fucking was a very pleasurable way to…
Forget about modern Life. Let’s just say we go camping and we are next to a river that’s running very quickly. You can smell the water and see a lot of life I suppose. Or maybe it’s in the mountains and it’s very very cold. Take a little drink. I bet it’s really good. Not…
I still have not watched the entire thing but I have watched this podcast enough to believe it’s worthy of discussion here. Why it is worthy of discussion is interesting. The point of view that one should take when discussing someone who is literally, an icon to a great percentage of the society. In India…
Here is a collection of stories from this last week. From Ecopolitic.com.ua In Germany, ecoactivists stopped the work of the largest airports for two days in a row To me one of the greatest public choices that need to be made is to what length we agree that people can vote. What these people are…
To get the picture out of the way, I don’t know what this is except when I put a query up to get a cover photo of Kamala Harris sexy. This was photo number one. If it’s a series of fakes, and I do believe it is, that’s okay. They are gender appropriate and they…
If mulch is all you need and grass has sufficient everything, let’s do it. So we take down all of the plants that have grown tall with us that are not particularly our food and we put them on top of the gardens as soil amendment. We can let them dry for a few days….
Welcome to our coverage of this year’s longest day celebration. The time according to the internet is 11:50 p.m. just before midnight. It seems a strange time to celebrate the Sun but that’s exactly what we are going to do. This being said, this is a fertility festival for without the Sun, we do not…
I have been a dedicated bicyclist for a very long time. They didn’t have blogs around when I quit my car or maybe I would have done a whole series about it. It was a pretty easy decision. If I made a list of all of the things it did that were good and all…
From Chabad.org: Behar in a Nutshell. Leviticus 25:1–26:2 The name of the Parshah, “Behar,” means “on Mount [Sinai]” and it is found in Leviticus 25:1. On the mountain of Sinai, G‑d communicates to Moses the laws of the Sabbatical year: every seventh year, all work on the land should cease, and its produce becomes free…