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Squirrel Babies
June 22, 2017 There is a new clutch of baby squirrels in the garden, just recently arrived. A tiny tribe of four wild foragers, marauding the bird feeder and surrounding greenery with gleeful abandon. These same four, I’m quite sure, were raised in a nest on the roof above my bed, or more precisely, over my bedroom, in a space unable to be found from within the house, or from above, on the rooftop. An almost mythical space which seems to reside somewhere between the bedroom ceiling and the high ceiling’d livingroom rooftop. The sound of their night-time antics as they grew from helpless sightless newborns to adventurous young squirrel…
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The Ides of July: A Family Remembrance
Over the years I never put the pieces together consciously, or actually noticed that it was July that often felt so sorrowful. Perhaps it was just the heat. I never did like hot weather. A sort of malaise seemed to hang in the air… Then, in 2008, all the pieces fell into place at once. It was a grey and overcast day in early March and I was on the Cape again after many years absence. I was standing in the cemetery where my grandparents are buried. My brothers and I were there to bury our mother. 54 years ago, when I was 3 years old, my grandmother was killed…
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Tragedy and Hope – Taking Another Look…
This video, created by a young Australian, depicts the message that is there for all of us to awaken to. Will we awaken? I do not know. Do I hope we do? Most certainly. The message in this video is well over half a century old – ti took a young man barely 2 decades old to hear it and translate it into this powerful message for all of us. What will you do with it? What will any one of us, or all of us, do with it? It is our choice. Time to choose. Should we choose to wake up or stay asleep? This is the question each…
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Alan Watts – Time to Revisit a Powerful Perspective
Looking backwards in time to get to the now moment is an interesting experience. When Alan Watts is involved it seems to work quite well, however. This one may be even more powerful than the first. If you can imagine your dreams…
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Two Excellent Young Men and Their Video
Post by Joe Bailey.
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Vandana Shiva in London October 12, 2013 Required Viewing
If you are unclear, or need some education on the reality of food and seed freedom, then you need to watch this video. GMO’s have failed. Over 284 thousand of farmers have committed suicide in India. Watch this video. Watch this video. It’s time for us to Round Up Monsanto. Because we do better with our seeds, our soils, and our knowledge. It is time for a knowledge of liberation of our minds and our bodies and our food. The vast majority of food produced in the world today is coming from our free, private and unrestrained gardens and farms. We must reclaim our government and gardens. We will NOT…
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Insect Eating Birds are Starving in UnPrecedented Numbers Across the US – You Can Help Save Them with Suet
We have lost tens of thousands of swallows in Oregon in the last WEEK. The neonicotinoids are killing off the insect populations across the board in all inland waterways near agricultural areas. They are also directly toxic to our birds. Here is the documented evidence: http://www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/policy/toxins/neonic_final.pdf Here is the local news headline regarding Oregon swallows: ‘Windy and Stormy Weather Killing Swallows This type of mortality event is unprecedented’ I sent a copy of this local news article to Dr. Henk Tennekes in the Netherlands. Tennekes has documented a mass die off of inland waterway birds, farmland birds, song birds, swallows and all other wild birds in the Netherlands over…
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Oregon Oak
Consider the Oregon Oak Vast and strong Upright yet yielding She rises Branches turning This way and that Finding her bearings Home to Lichen Bees Birds and squirrels A myriad of insects Her wisdom Encompasses more time Than any of us Observing her can match She strides the hillside Motionless and in motion The wind sings through her extremities Sending her tiny children and leaves Tumbling to earth in a cascade of life giving bounty Is her speechlessness confounding? Is her solid form a sign of inferiority? Or is she Like God itself Standing erect and watchful upon the land?
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This Furrowed Brow and Lined Face
I know these features so well, I no longer see them. That permanant crease between my eyebrows; perhaps more a result of reaching to see, eyes squinting on the horizon… or not. no matter, never mind… they have been with me nearly since birth. the contorted face of someone peering into the visual world, awestruck working out just what it was, that was being seen Or those grooves around my mouth and eyes The ones that come to life in a smile Or seem dead in a frown Reminding me which way I can choose To go look be The lines don’t change only their direction Looking back at these…
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Fast Food “Alliance for Shared Prosperity” Announces new Income Potential for Fast Food Workers
Washington, DC July 22, 2013 Byline: The Daily Thistle, Because Everyone Needs a Poke now and then. In a never before seen show of mutual support for the working class, a group of fast food giant executives have set aside their differences in order that they might “Come to the aid of our employees and personnel in a meaningful and useful way.” The press announcement from Idleman and Slavery, of NYC named Jack in the Box, McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Carl’s Jr., Denny’s and International House of Pancakes as co-founders of the Alliance. The release, which comes on the heals of mounting pressure by extremist groups calling for exorbitant increases…
