tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86715755818545142872024-03-16T06:52:22.127-04:00Three Simple Questions<i><big><big>Short essays or "slices of everyday life" written in the<br> "Who am I?", "Why am I here?", "What do I want?" format.</big></big></i><br>The format of the Three Simple Questions takes you by surprise and is an artful way to read and process thought-provoking concepts.<br><br><big><big><i> The eBook version is a great bedside reader! </i></big><big><br><br>"The poetry of your language was the story."</big> Larry Upshaw, Publisher <i>AGELESS AUTHORS</i></big><br>Jean W. Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344407323209013227noreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671575581854514287.post-50980506113183873752024-03-13T08:55:00.000-04:002024-03-13T13:33:28.645-04:00HEARTWOOD TIMING<p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">March 13, 2024 – Almost sugaring time. Daytime temperatures in the 40’s.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Early March is not
“sugaring” time in Vermont, yet. We’re still getting those polar vortexes and
Alberta Clippers which drop the temperature 40 degrees before you can bring in
the Brass Monkey. Surface water is frozen. You gotta watch out just walking on
the driveway. They’ll be ice fishing on Lake Bomoseen for some time yet. And,
the frost goes deep, we’re just on the 45” and 50” frost depth line. How deep
is that? Imagine a 3<sup>rd</sup> grader standing upside down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The roots of Maple
trees go deep, way deep. They are not shallow and horizontal like the roots of
the softwood species; Spruce, Fir or Pine. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ever pull up a
little Maple sprout?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s got a great
long root – 3 maybe 4 inches long - like Dandy-damn-lions. Mature Maples, the
40-year-old, 40-foot tall kind, have this big tap root that puts it really into
the earth, 8 maybe 10 times further down that that frostline, really into the
living elements.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">A 40-year-old
tree, 40 feet tall is maybe 1-foot in diameter. That’s the kind of tree that
the Vermont Maple Promotion Board say are the ones that are tapped in the
sugaring process. A tree-like that yields 15 – 30 gallons of sap in a season. It
takes 3 to 4 of such trees to get the 40-gallons of sap to boil down for a
gallon of Maple syrup.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">That season for
sugaring starts when the sap starts running, and the sap starts running because
the Maple wants to put on foliage and then put forth seeds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Maple trees don’t
give a flip about syrup. It’s the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">seed</i>
they care about. Maple seeds are called “samara” and they are composed of two
one-seeded cells which are in a wing form so they can be carried by the wind. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">That means those
very sensitive roots of the Maple tree begin a process of drawing water and
minerals from the earth and running that through its heart. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 6.0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
sap runs through a layer called the “heartwood”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 6.0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
Vermont, this species is called Sugar Maple, the Latin name is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Acer saccharine. </i>The Heartwood is that
layer called the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">duramen</i> and it is
this layer through which the sap moves. Moves? Hell, in the springtime, it’s
boiling!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 6.0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
not too many weeks, when the earth rotates just a half-degree or so further,
and when the wife and I are on our morning walk, we will look to the mountains
to the West, and the ugly winter-grey, Maple forest will suddenly have just an
impossibly light yellow-green “wash.” It’s almost time for “sugaring.”</span></p>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">WHO AM I?</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> I am
someone who believes that there is way too much “Moralic Acid” being thrown
around today and what we need is to be inspired to add “Moralic Catalyst.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> The term ‘Moralic
Acid” was coined by Frederiche Nietzsche (1844-1900) to describe a process of
getting free of oppressive moral influences the type of which guided many
moralistic social movements of the 19<sup>th</sup> century.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> According
to H.L. Mencken, Nietzsche said that these organizations “thought morally” and
judged people as either “good or bad.” And, they had a “moral way of acting”
economically, politically and socially as well through such movements as:
“Temperance”, “Social Purity“(birth control), “Eugenics” and Anti-Suffrage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> Nietzsche
was all about individual freedom. He said that these groups were a “moralic
acid” because they dissolved individual freedom through their actions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">WHY AM I HERE?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Moralic Acid” is again at play by groups who
insist on applying their “morality” to everyone. “Moral behavior” to them is
whatever they wish to do based on their religious beliefs. This applies to
individuals, small groups, political parties, states, countries; all of whom
are “morally justified” to take action against anyone else who is not within
the sect, church, or philosophical “stream.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Their morality fuels behavior through which
they seek to get obedience of those “others” to their particular creed. Today
“Moralic Acid” groups are working economically into public politics in states
like Indiana so that discriminatory actions may be legally permitted because of
“freedom” to have your own “religious morality”, and is politically armed as in
the case of Sunni vs. Shiite Muslims. This positional thinking justified by
morality” is at work around the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> Now that
“Moralic Acid” has surfaced again, it is time for us to call it what it is –
Morality used as a toxic weapon as justification for abuse unto death of
others.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> In life,
acid causes living micro-organisms to pull back from it in the physical
situation. In community life, “Moralic Acid” does the same. It causes people to
flee the social situation or get burned.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">WHAT DO I WANT?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I would like us to apply a “Moralic Catalyst”
to combat the over abundance of “Moralic Acid”. A catalyst is a substance which
when added to a chemical composition, causes a profound change to the mixture
without itself becoming part of the mixture. Many times it causes a separation
of ingredients.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nietzsche’s solution was to push toward individual
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">From 1968 to 1973 comedians Dan
Rowan and Dick Martin hosted the weekly comedy variety series on NBC called “<i>Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In</i>”. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_%26_Martin%27s_Laugh-In">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_%26_Martin%27s_Laugh-In</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> Each
week the, two presented an award for the most dubious achievement; the dumbest,
craziest news item of the week. The “<i>Flying
Fickle Finger of Fate</i>” Award was also called the “Rigid Digit”, the “Winged
Weenie”, the “Friendly Phalange”, the “Nifty Knuckle” or the “Wonderful
Wiggler.” The award was a Gold/Silver sculpture of a hand with its index finger
pointing, adorned with two small wings. It rotated in a circular “Whoopie!”
circular motion. Recipients included the City of Cleveland whose Cuyahoga River
caught fire (due to pollution), The Pentagon (5 times), and L.A. Police Chief
Ed Davis who wanted to install gallows so that hijackers could be more easily
hung. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_M._Davis">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_M._Davis</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> Esquire
Magazine ran “Dubious Achievement” awards annually for many years. You can
Google that title and come up with some laughers which many people post online.
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what others have said about “Fate.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Meaning is invisible, but the
invisible is not contradictory of the visible: the visible itself has an invisible
framework, and the in-visible is the secret counterpart of the visible.” M.
Merleu-Ponty, <i>Working <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">Notes</a></i><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if !supportAnnotations]--><a class="msocomanchor" href="file:///C:/Users/jwyeager2/Documents/00000WhoWhatWhy/flying%20fickle%20finger%20of%20fate.docx#_msocom_1" id="_anchor_1" language="JavaScript" name="_msoanchor_1">[JY1]</a><!--[endif]--> <!--[if !supportAnnotations]--><a class="msocomanchor" href="file:///C:/Users/jwyeager2/Documents/00000WhoWhatWhy/flying%20fickle%20finger%20of%20fate.docx#_msocom_2" id="_anchor_2" language="JavaScript" name="_msoanchor_2">[JY2]</a><!--[endif]--> </span></span><i> (The Soul’s Code, James Hillman, pg. ix)</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Nature magically suits a man to
his fortunes, by making them the fruits of his character.” – Ralph Waldo
Emerson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“He that waits upon fortune is
never sure of a dinner.” Benjamin Franklin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Fortune knocks at every man’s door
once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and
does not hear her.” Mark Twain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Are you living your fate or
destiny?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> Some will say there is
no such thing. It is all coincidence. That our brains are hard-wired to look
for meaning. This is all superstition. Baseball teams are not “fated” to lose.
Or win. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Or, is it actually possible that fate
is an agent that changes everything? Is it “fate” which causes my paramedic son’s
ambulance to arrive the moment before it is too late to save a life, and fate which
causes him to arrive a moment too late? Or are heavy traffic here, light traffic
there, the elements of fate?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Fate has been called the “guardian
angel” who at the last moment saves the child from plunging into the swimming
pool. The Ancient Greeks called fate “Okemah” and described it as the being
which carries you like a vehicle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Others have called Fate “Lady Luck”
or “Fortuna”. To Eskimos and others who follow shamanistic practices, fate is
your spirit, your free soul, animal soul, your breath soul. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Some call it luck. What would you
call it when a person in a trailer in Kansas and a tornado rolls through and
they survive despite the fact that everything around them is totally
obliterated? Luck, right? Fate, right? But, are the people who live in Oklahoma
“lucky” over and over again when the tornado goes just over there? Are they now
unlucky because of fracking earthquakes or does “fate” have anything to do with
that? I like the Forest Ranger who has
been struck by lightning 6 or 7 times and lived to tell about it? Maybe they’ll
live to tell about hundreds of tremors a week and their survival will the the
amazing thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The reality is that we believe that
fate <i>is</i> a quality of being a part of
our lives. Fate is something else which cannot be explained by the physicality
of life. There is more to our lives then meets our eyes. That’s what humans
believe, don’t let any smart phone tell you different. It is more fun and rich to live a
life which has the random and unexplained in it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Even mediocrity can be a “fate”,
right? It once was attributed to the “stars”.
Here’s Shakespeare’s “<i>All’s Well That
Ends Well</i>”: “We, the poorer born, whose baser stars shut us up in wishes…” Shuts
us up in wishes. Woulda. Coulda. Shoulda. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Mediocrity. Poor choices. Does fate
make those poor choices, or do I? Do we blame “fate” for our stupidity? Yes. I
can tell you that. Some people, let me raise my hand here, risk to draw on an
inside straight in poker, ignore symptoms in cancer (hand down), drive drunk
(hand down). We choose. Not fate. Duhh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Each individual has genius, their
own unique selves. Now we’re at the good stuff!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">But, genius belongs to everyone and
no person has all the genius or can be the only genius. What? But, I’m special,
right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Genius may be an invisible escort
for a whole group of people. That family. That band. That team. That school.
Those gals. They know how to do it. They are special. Unique. More than just
one person in whom genius or character lives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">If you are fated you know that it
is not you that makes these “fateful” things happen. But, when it comes to
genius, we seem to claim our genius because we are special! Oh, sure!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">WHAT DOES FATE WANT?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The “Flying Fickle Finger of Fate” sometimes points at you and
sometimes points away. It is important for you to look at your life and to
understand that there have been moments when fate has visited you and was with
you. Maybe saved you. Something impossible happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">You should look at your children
and imagine that they and their lives will have moments of fate in which things
will become radically different and they themselves will be able to release
their own genius, or sink back into depression and despair. It can go either
way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Fate wants you to know you can work
with luck, fate, destiny - work with others and help them understand that they
have gifts beyond belief locked in their little souls. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The intention is to broaden your
view of life so that you will not give up hope so that you know that your
genius in the right place and time can work miraculous things, can lift the
sinking spirit. So that, when you least
expect it, that winged weenie, wonderful wiggler and nifty knuckle will appear
for you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jean W. Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344407323209013227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671575581854514287.post-57579036745014577322023-02-09T01:00:00.005-05:002024-03-01T13:52:46.213-05:00ARDUOUS कठिन beschwerlich ardu 艱鉅 つらい и взрывоопасных مشکل<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">WHO AM I?</span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">This is an arduous time for many of us. Arduous,
or “tough” times mean you are being challenged and tested by life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">How much "grit" do you have?
Grit is comprised of determination, willingness to withstand the pain. To call
forth determination or courage means that you are willing to sacrifice for your
goal. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">The times have called forth significant
challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Those have been added to your personal
challenges which you have faced hanging
on to the big goals you had before the pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">That means you have had to rise to <i>all
</i>these challenges by growing, learning, and gaining experiences. This oh-so-difficult time has meant you have had to work perhaps the hardest in your life.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Is it any comfort to know that the
harder you have worked, the greater the capacities you developed? The more
exceptional capabilities you have earned so that in the future you will be able
to accomplish and achieve even more than before things became so arduous.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">That means your life may become more
abundant. The more abundant your outer life becomes, the more inner strength
you have. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: courier;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">WHY AM I HERE?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">The challenges we receive lead us to the
fate we have for our life. That fate and those experiences are directed by the Star
your Spirit-Self has chosen to follow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Is it you who is finding your fate, or
is your fate finding you?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Is it your Star that you are following?
Or, is the Star leading you, drawing you forward into the future you know
nothing about?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">As you move forward on your path, you
may begin to realize that we <i>must</i> have challenges, a path, fate, and a Star;
otherwise, our struggles seem random and meaningless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">WHAT DO I WANT?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">What is the gift your Spirit-Self wishes
to receive? What is the source of all this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Who is the Giver?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: courier;">As the Rudolf Steiner verse reads:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>“I feel my star,</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>My star finds me,</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>I feel my fate,</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>My fate finds me.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>My life and the wide world are one.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>Life grows more abundant for me.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>Life grows more radiant within me.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: courier;">Life grows more arduous for me.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: courier;"> This is a time of testing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: courier;"> Why in the world would
anyone want their lives to be more Arduous?</span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;">Taken from the collection of short essays:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i>Th3 Simple Questions: Slice Open Everyday Life<o:p></o:p></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><br /></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;">© Copyright 2015, Jean W. Yeager<o:p></o:p></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Icon is a solid, art object with no
moving or electronic parts which is comprised of linen stretched across a
specially routed board and painted with a special gesso (rabbit skin glue,
chalk and white pigment). This surface is sanded smooth and painted with layer upon layer of earth
and ground semi-precious stones mixed with special mineral oils. Gold leaf is
applied to specific areas with rabbit hair glue which is warmed with the human breath and burnished
with a polished stone. The paint preparation techniques and formulas have been passed down and were the same ones used to paint the Sistine Chapel and other revered works of art. The Icon images are drenched with layers of meaning from
spiritual symbolism designed with the intention of moving the soul and touching the heart of the viewer,
consciously or unconsciously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The “SmartPhone” is made of a motherboard
which is circuit board on which has been designed in a utilitarian, non-symbolic pattern. Gold is printed on the motherboard and
pre-drilled to receive electronic components which are comprised of silicon and
other precious earths (lead, silver and palladium). The screen of the “SmartPhone”
is a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) made up of layer upon layer of glass, plastic and liquid
crystalline. Lithium metal oxide batteries power the motherboard. Once powered, moving
images flutter on the LCD display in patterns guided by software written by engineers. No single image
ever really appears on the LCD display as the array of pixels are charged. The
rapidly moving image(s) cause the brain to work with extra intensity in order to
attempt the impossible - to fill in the blanks between the illuminated pixels and “make sense” out of what is moving so rapidly that it is a non-sensical
image.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">WHY AM I
HERE?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Icon has been around for centuries with
several specific and extremely meaningful roles to perform: first is to inspire
the devotees who create Icons – called Icon Writers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the outer Icon is written, an inner Icon is
inscribed into the heart and inner life of the Icon Writer – striving for
beauty, balance, harmony and skill is a challenge. Secondly, the Icon is
blessed by the Church and becomes a meaningful addition to the Community into
which it is housed. Thirdly, the Icon’s symbolism inspires the religious and
spiritual feeling life within the individual who behold it. And, Fourth, the
Icon is a portal through which the Spiritual Being depicted on the Icon is able
to perceive and interact with the physical world.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The “SmartPhone” runs application software
which is designed to perform specific tasks, gains energy from WIFI, and other
sources across networks and receives signals beamed by Low Earth Orbiting (LEO)
satellites which enwrap us all like a non-spiritual web. The LCD screen
contains a substance which is both liquid and crystalline (solid) and is
arranged in front of a thin film of transistors (TFT) which polarizes light.
This dancing light captivates the human cognitive functions with hyper-kinetic visual
activity and a dynamic multi-touch surface. Children, particularly, find these
screens as something which totally captures their attention and shuts down all
normal, natural thinking processes. For us, too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">WHAT DO I
WANT?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A Zombie is an animated corpse raised by
magical means. A Zombie is an animated, non-living entity which is will-less, speechless and
is able to function due to powers outside itself. If the forces
animating the Zombie are evil or malevolent, Zombies do their will, they are
powerless to do otherwise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The
same is true of a portable computer or “SmartPhone”. At a minimum , a “SmartPhone”
is an agent animated by forces far beyond the individual human. Once in hand,
the human consciousness is affected by the technology and we comes to rely on the technology for at least a certain portion of our
thinking, feeling and will life. For most of us, it takes a large effort to
disconnect totally from a "SmartPhone" as we consider them "important", even perhaps "essential" in our day-to-day
lives. We revere them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Are
they malevolent? In computer lingo, a “Zombie” is term used to describe a
computer or “SmartPhone” which has been accessed by a remote attacker in order
to forward spam, viruses, or other instructions and so becomes a technological malevolent or
evil force. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In
our lives today, “SmartPhones” with animated LCD screens are Zombies whose
dancing, images are corpses or non-living imaginations activated by technology
which capture the attention of adults and children and transform them into beings who
do the bidding of the technology (“Pay Attention to ME!”). They diminish or
do away with the key human function of thinking and questioning. Does this attack our free
will?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Icons
are quite the opposite. They use solid, fixed images created by a devoted human
with natural materials to put ancient symbols in front of us which pose a
question as to their meaning. Or the question may arise within us as to “Why we have no
feeling whatsoever for this object?” “Why is reverence so weak within me?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The
symbols on the Icon, even for a non-believer, may cause a “resonance” within
our minds and hearts and lead us to ask questions about how to understand the
meaning of images. “What are those lightning bolts coming out of St. Michael’s
neck?” They activate us rather than shutting us down. The Icon presents
questions or mysteries with which the human must work out the answers
themselves. Wrestling with these questions make us more human.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Zombie is about injecting information, data or pre-digested knowledge into the individual
in such a fashion that we do not question. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>The Zombie “SmartPhone” consumes our
consciousness making us un-dead and captured by technology.</span></div>
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Jean W. Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344407323209013227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671575581854514287.post-85988233249643233402022-06-13T06:52:00.003-04:002024-02-07T13:03:07.862-05:00 “WHAT IS THE FOURTH OF JULY TO THE SLAVE?” - Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852<p><br /></p><p><a href="https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/">https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #282828; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">…On the 2d of July, 1776, the old
Continental Congress, to the dismay of the lovers of ease, and the worshipers
of property, clothed that dreadful idea with all the authority of national
sanction. They did so in the form of a resolution; and as we seldom hit upon
resolutions, drawn up in our day whose transparency is at all equal to this, it
may refresh your minds and help my story if I read it. “Resolved, That these
united colonies are, and of right, ought to be free and Independent States; that
they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown; and that all
political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought
to be, dissolved.”</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21pt; margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt;"><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;">Citizens, your fathers made good that
resolution. They succeeded; and to-day you reap the fruits of their success.
The freedom gained is yours; and you, therefore, may properly celebrate this
anniversary. The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation’s history —
the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21pt; margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTm_yJrWkyUxcSn_a3iBzwj8g9TitwZpbZI80pIhu-2ixbT9LF9_9-ALmacPgBApggKF7baDwamJCbb-LA1W2ivw0NJBROYmQe1uH7r7-nY9_P8SM3bCsVz6ufCIB213uGxHClGamS5439oJz4tKm0G9nqTM4sNauPENBWMRW_1vhF7-U9S7OxCmLD/s4135/11x17%20red%20blue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4135" data-original-width="2839" height="809" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTm_yJrWkyUxcSn_a3iBzwj8g9TitwZpbZI80pIhu-2ixbT9LF9_9-ALmacPgBApggKF7baDwamJCbb-LA1W2ivw0NJBROYmQe1uH7r7-nY9_P8SM3bCsVz6ufCIB213uGxHClGamS5439oJz4tKm0G9nqTM4sNauPENBWMRW_1vhF7-U9S7OxCmLD/w556-h809/11x17%20red%20blue.jpg" width="556" /></a></p><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 21.0pt; margin-bottom: 18.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;">Pride and patriotism, not less than
gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I
have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of
your nation’s destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in
that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to
them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21pt; margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt;"><span style="height: 883px; margin-left: 84px; margin-top: 471px; mso-ignore: vglayout; position: absolute; width: 606px; z-index: -1895824384;"><br /></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;">From the round top of your ship of state, dark and
threatening clouds may be seen. Heavy billows, like mountains in the distance,
disclose to the leeward huge forms of flinty rocks! That bolt drawn, that chain
broken, and all is lost. Cling to this day — cling to it, and to its
principles, with the grasp of a storm-tossed mariner to a spar at midnight. …<o:p></o:p></span></p>Jean W. Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344407323209013227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671575581854514287.post-91564571699925888492022-05-26T19:02:00.000-04:002022-05-28T16:39:17.615-04:00JULY 2015 - OLDIES BUT GOODIES - "Why Do I Always Wind Up With Losers Like You?"<p> <b style="text-align: center;">2015 JULY</b></p><br /><b>Why Do I Always Wind Up With Losers Like You?</b><br />All addicts come to this point. “But I’m not addicted,” you say! And, what were you not addicted to? To the belief that you alone were in control of your destiny? This is the deception of the deception. Welcome to the path of initiation. Getting conscious of your deception is the first step in stopping your deception. "Pride goeth before the fall."<br /><a href="https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/07/pride-goeth-before-fall.html">https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/07/pride-goeth-before-fall.html</a><br /><br /><b>Questionable People</b><br />I want us all to be questionable people. Not only questionable, I want us to ramp up the amperage of our calling-forth from one another. Let’s live our lives so that others are a bit unsure about us.<br /><a href="https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/07/questionable-people.html">https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/07/questionable-people.html</a> <br /><br /><b>Which Corporate Logo Should Replace the Confederate Battle Flag?</b><br />While slavery is no longer actively conducted in South Carolina, it is still a modern economic business practice and South Carolina is “open for business”. The companies which currently use slave-like practices and sell in South Carolina (and the United States) and are “good corporate citizens". Their corporate logos should replace the Confederate Battle Flag and be hoisted at the statehouse. Or, should laws and attitudes change?<br /><a href="https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/07/which-corporate-logo-should-replace.html">https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/07/which-corporate-logo-should-replace.html</a><br /><br /><b>Beauty Aged</b><br />Winsome is Beauty Young, innocent and yet unvarnished. Filled with themselves and life. Curious, cute, constantly in motion. Like flowers, with hints of their future potentiality beginning to arise. Beauty Aged is a gift from life. Beauty Ripe buffeted, beleaguered and weathered by challenges have the eyes and the smiles that tell of lives which have experienced great testing, deep wisdom, tragedy, loss and love. Beauty Aged, upon death is a complex thing hard to totally comprehend. However, it was beautiful to behold.<br /><a href="https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/07/beauty-aged.html">https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/07/beauty-aged.html</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jean W. Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344407323209013227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671575581854514287.post-91639322607437572302022-03-12T15:45:00.002-05:002022-03-12T15:45:43.976-05:00SEASONAL IMMUNITY IN THE TIME OF COVID<p> <b style="text-align: center;">“With or Without Vaccination, <i>When</i> Are You Most Vulnerable?”</b></p><p><i style="text-align: center;">Based On CDC Research</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> According
to reports from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) important biological
mechanisms in each of us are synchronized or “entrained” with the seasonality
of the earth. This means we are more vulnerable (have lower immunity) or less
vulnerable (have higher immunity) at specific times of the year. CDC research has
identified these times so specifically that knowing them may be important for
you to make practical decisions which can keep yourself, your family, or
colleagues safer from illnesses including COVID. Vaccination does not alter
seasonal immunity.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SEASONAL IMMUNITY?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Our bodies respond to reduced
levels of light (called “photoperiods”) by reducing the function of our endocrine
system which affects our immune systems. This article puts data from CDC reports
against an astronomically based calendar which also has a simple introduction
to astronomy and an accurate ephemeris. Combined, this may help you know when
to take extra health-supporting measures by changing diet or behavior.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> PHOTOPERIODISM
is a scientific name for periods of the year in which we are naturally able to
resist viral infections and avoid colds and flu, feel better, and are actually
physiologically stronger than other times. We tend to be less strong at certain
times because of the reduced level of sunshine.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Photoperiodism
is a term that refers to seasonal fluctuations in daylight affecting disease
prevalence, and the function of human biological systems such as the endocrine
system as it relates to immunology.(1)<a href="file:///C:/Users/jean/Documents/PANDEMIC%20PHOTOPERIODISM/SEASONAL%20IMMUNITY%202021_22r4STELLA.doc#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">It is commonly accepted that the
link between human physiology and photoperiodism is a strong one and includes
long cycles such as seasons as well as short cycles such as circadian
(day/night) rhythms. These cycles are now a regular part of public health planning
and medical protocols as described in textbooks like <i>Seasonal Patterns of Stress, Immune Function and Disease</i>. (2)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Another CDC
study noted that a seasonally occurring spike in pneumococcal disease (colds
and flu) occurs in adults each year between December 24 and January 7. The
study said, “The reproducible seasonal patterns in varied geographic locations
are consistent with the hypothesis that nationwide seasonal changes such as
photoperiod-dependent variation in host susceptibility may underlie pneumococcal
seasonality…” (3)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>THE <i>STELLA*NATURA </i>CALENDAR – THE ASTRONOMY OF PHOTOPERIODISM<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> As an astronomically
based calendar, the <i>Stella*Natura</i> gives gardeners or farmers a guide to
full/new moons, and seasonal information for success in planting, growing, and
harvesting plants. The calendar also provides cultural events which support our
daily lives. Though the CDC research is not included in the calendar, it is in
this article and related material.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The tilt of
the Earth’s axis combined with the Earth’s rotation around the Sun results in
an apparent movement of the Sun over northern or southern latitudes resulting
in more or less daylight and called “seasons” on the Earth. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Thus the year is divided roughly
into two halves – one of increasing daylight for the Northern Hemisphere (and the corresponding decrease in daylight in the Southern Hemisphere), between Winter
and Summer Solstices where the sun is apparently moving from S. Latitude to N.
Latitude resulting in longer days as the Sun apparently climbs higher in the
sky. A balance point is reached at the
Spring Equinox (Mar. 20-22) where the days and the nights are the same lengths. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">The second half of the year is one
of decreasing daylight, between Summer and Winter Solstices when in the Northern
Hemisphere (and opposite in Southern Hemisphere) the Sun apparently moves from
N. Latitude to S. Latitude resulting in shorter days as the Sun moves lower in
the sky. A balance point is reached at the Autumn Equinox (Sept. 20-22) where
the days and nights are the same. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The six
months between the cross-quarter days of Hallow’een (Oct. 31) and Beltane (Apr.
30) is designated in the CDC research as a “photoperiod” because of lower
levels of light (shorter days and longer nights), our immune systems are less
stimulated than during the other six months of the year. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">CDC calls this is an “immunological
deficiency ‘trough’” which their research has identified. They commonly call it
the “cold and flu season.” In addition,
the photoperiod around the Winter Solstice, has been identified as a time of
especially increased levels of infectious disease (meaning reduced immunological
strength). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>THE ASTRONOMY OF THE IMMUNOLOGICAL
DEFICIENCY ‘TROUGH’<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The Nov. – Apr.
“trough” of immunological deficiency is a photoperiod whose mid-point is the
Winter Solstice (Dec. 20-22 – shortest days / longest nights). During this photoperiod,
the occasions of the new moon are periods of even less light during this
decreasing cycle. It is hypothesized that new moon events may act as “triggers”
for stress-related health events. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> New moons
are periods of total lack of illumination from the Moon due to its proximity to
the Sun during the daytime hours. The “immunological ‘trough’” Oct – Mar. may
be demarcated by seven (7) new moons with the new moon on January 2, 2022 being
the mid-point of the seven.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>New Moon Dates. (2021-2)1</u> (Source: <i>See Note 4</i>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> October 6<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> November 4<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> December 4<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Winter
Solstice – December 20-22 (shortest days / longest nights)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> January 2,
2022 - midpoint<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> January 31<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> March 2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> March 31<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>SUMMARY:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Our natural
biological mechanisms are “entrained” or synchronized with the seasonality of
the earth. Our bodies respond to reduced levels of light by reducing biological
system functions such as endocrine systems affecting our immune system
performance. This means we have the lower or higher immune system functioning at certain
times of the year. Our modern lives,
however, are not in sync with the seasons and so it is during certain time
periods as identified by the CDC studies that there are higher incidents of
infectious diseases (flu, colds, etc.) and higher incidents of heart attacks,
psychological breaks and major illnesses.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The
literature has identified important physiological stressors which should be reduced
or avoided during the Nov. – Apr. photoperiod which we have characterized as an
“immunological deficiency ‘trough’”:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Extreme
temperature reduction (lack of home heating)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Food
shortages <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Extreme
physical exertion<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Travel
across several time-zones<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Extreme
psychological strain<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Isolation
(homelessness)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Working
with photoperiodism is not difficult. Individuals striving for greater health
and well-being would do well to incorporate photoperiodism into their personal
planning. A lunar calendar like the <i>Stella*Natura</i> might be helpful in
this regard.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">NOTES:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. <i>Seasonal Variation
in Host Susceptibility</i>, S. Dowell, CDC, May/June 2001.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Center for Disease Control (CDC) Scott Dowell, Acting
Associate Director for Global Health, National Center for Infectious Diseases,
reported in 2002 that between the periods of November – April, 58% of
laboratory rats kept under constant atmospheric conditions became infected with
an influenza virus versus 34% between the periods of May through October. (<i>Seasonal Variation in Host Susceptibility</i>,
S. Dowell, CDC, May June 2001)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. <i>Seasonal Patterns
of Stress, Immune Function, and Disease</i>, R. Nelson, G. Demas, S. Klein,
eBooks, eBookMall, 2006.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. <i>Seasonal Patterns
of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease</i>, S. Dowell, C. Whitney, C. Wright, C.
Rose, A. Schuchat, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 9, No. 5, May 2003, p.
573.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4. 2021 report, Stella*Natura astronomically based planting
calendar.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://stellanatura.com/index.html">https://stellanatura.com/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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has many aspects: a basic introduction to astronomy, a simple ephemeris, a
planting guide, a star map, aid for following the movement of the planets in
the night sky, and articles by ten different authors. All of these attempt to
provide a true picture of the world outside us and ideas to assist in
developing a healthy relation to that world.” – Sherry Wildfeuer, Editor</span><o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">“JOAN OF ARC, GENE AUTRY
& NITROGLYCERINE” </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">–
Tennessee Williams description of Margo Jones<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> This is a phrase that Tennessee Williams used to
describe Margo Jones, the dynamic theatre visionary and producer who elsewhere
was called “The Sweet Tornado.” Jones, indeed, made a lasting impact on theatre,
but Williams’s trilogy is so powerful, I
thought to move away from her as a person and take a shot at re-stating these
three in hopes they will be revived and offer as inspiration for us all. It
does to me!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> <i>Joan of Arc</i> – A
visionary who was led by her Angelic, spiritual inspirers to do battle with the
forces seeking to dominate and control the free human being. We all need a
vision for our lives and our communities and freedom. We need courage. To have
courage means we, like Joan, need those imaginative sources and resources,
those ideals backed by the good Angels to which we can reliably turn, <i>without doubt</i>, <i>without worry,</i> when life gets tough because life <i>will</i> get tough. Probably tougher than it
is when you start out. Anytime you try to change your world, or yourself,
counter forces will arise to attempt to destroy your vision, cause doubt, fear,
anger. The bigger your vision, the bigger the counter forces. You need Joan of
Arc-sized spiritual inspiration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> <i>Gene Autry</i> –
The original “straight-shooting” cowboy star of radio, television and film. Autry
created <i>“The Cowboy Code”</i> for the “young”
(or old) listeners of his radio program:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit
a smaller man, or take unfair advantage.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. He must never go back on his word, or a
trust confided in him.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. He must always tell the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. He must be gentle with children, the
elderly, and animals.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. He must not advocate or possess racially
or religiously intolerant ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. He must help people in distress.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. He must be a good worker.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">8. He must keep himself clean in thought,
speech, action, and personal habits.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">9. He must respect women, parents, and his
nation's laws.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">10. The Cowboy is a patriot.<a href="file:///C:/Users/jwyeager2/Documents/00000WhoWhatWhy/JOAN%20OF%20ARC.docx" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> The Cowboy Path is a path of
self-directed moral behavior which we can use to guide our vision, our inspiration.
This is the kind of thing Aristotle would have suggested to young Athenian “cowboys”
with his admonition, to “Be Good, Do Good.” This also rolls alongside the “12
Steps” program or other moral anti-addiction programs practiced today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> <i>Nitroglycerine</i>
- Invented in 1847, nitroglycerine has
been an active agent in the manufacture of explosives since that time. Highly
unstable, it was terribly dangerous when first compounded and caused hundreds
of deaths before being controlled. For a while, it was banned in some parts of the
world. When mixed with organic substances, it can be more easily handled and
used in munitions as a propellant. This is one aspect of one form of
nitroglycerine –explosive, unstable, needs to be handled with care. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">But still, if required, nitroglycerine is what
you need for blasting the fixed, the stuck, the things which are in the way and
need to be removed. “Moralic Nitro” for destroying the large stoppers in life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> Another aspect is that for over 130
years, nitroglycerine has been used as a vasodilator to treat heart
conditions, angina pectoris, and chronic cardiac failure. It modulates the out-of-control rhythms of the
heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> So what in one place is useful for
blasting and destroying and may lead to tragedy and death if misused; in
another place, in a smaller dose, may lead to strength and health. We all need the capacity for maximum force,
on occasion; and, on other occasions, we need (dare I mention another cardiac
function) the ability to be tender - to love?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> Joan of Arc, Gene Autry,
nitroglycerine – thank you, Margo Jones for inspiring Tennessee Williams! Take
these qualities to heart and we all will be inspired, straight-shooting
firecrackers! Yee hah!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jean W. Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344407323209013227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671575581854514287.post-40042563903648441572022-03-09T07:04:00.000-05:002022-03-13T09:29:52.636-04:00 LIVING IN THE GREYNESS OF THE PANDEMIC<p><i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">NOTE:
I wrote this several years ago before the not being really alive and the “not dead yet” feeling of the
pandemic had arrived. I re-read this the other day and thought it was worth
sharing. Originally entitled GO DOWN, ARCHETYPAL MOSES.</span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">WHO AM
I?</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">Recently I flew from San Francisco to Washington D.C.
leaving SFO at 5 p.m. and arriving IDA at 1 a.m. I had to catch another flight
at 8 a.m. I was too cheap to spend the money for a few hours in a hotel room.
“Not enough time.” I thought. So, I spent the night in the airport sleeping on
the vinyl benches. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">The whole surreal experience reminded me of Dante’s
description of one of the rings in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Purgatorio</i>.
With the dim fluorescent lighting, I couldn’t even cast a shadow like a
"shade". It put me in touch with homelessness. I realized that a
great deal of our lives are lived in these in between places where we have to
spend time - the waiting rooms of life where we are stuck between things. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">That's why I admire my wife - she's a knitter and a
resourceful, practical person. She keeps herself occupied. Apparently knitters
do not suffer the agony of waiting. She just kept click-clicking away. Knitters
were not mentioned by Dante. (But knitters should not get the "big
head" they weren't mentioned in <i>Paradisio</i> either.) Eventually the
clicking of her needles only added to my misery.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">If I feel I do not have enough time available to
accomplish any one of my very self-important tasks, I'll sit in dull
resentment. Rather than computer solitaire, I’ll apparently take sub-loathing
in <i>Purgatory.</i> Not in the dark. Not in the light. Not quite living. Not
quite dead. To paraphrase Chis Kristofferson, “...not quite truth, not quite
fiction a walking contradiction taking every wrong direction on his lonely way
back home.”</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">WHY AM
I HERE?</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">Self loathing is boring. What does one do in such a
situation - and there are lots of us: the unemployed or underemployed, temp
workers, call backs, the wrongfully incarcerated, those awaiting medical tests
or treatments, those who must wait.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">
Well, I always think about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Archetypes</i>,
of course. Don't you? Archetypes are the real deal. They are the truth, even if
fictional. The original. The first. The mold out of which each and every copy
is formed. Each archetype has the full-power, the undiluted truth of the form.
The “full-tilt boogie” as the case may be.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">
Archetypes live in an infinite reservoir of meaning and power out of which the
streams of imagination flow. There is also the water-table of archetypes into
which one can tap when stuck in IDA for six hours.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">
When you deploy an archetype pick one that is really dramatic and interesting
because you have hours to fill. Rather than stay with Dante’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Inferno,</i> which I had explored in my
play, <i>“Dante In Jiffy Lube”,</i> I called in Moses. Whether you portray
Moses in a 6<sup>th</sup> grade play, or sit in the presence of one of
Leonardo’s sculptures, your ticket gets punched forever. The experience is your
ticket to revisit that archetype at any time in the future. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">WHAT
DO I WANT?</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">
Moses helped me move from my specific fate to the general and heightened my
interest in the godawful pit into which airline scheduling had put me. You look
at your experience of the Moses as an archetypal lens and through participative
interaction with archetypal forces and principles, things change. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">
Languishing in the gray airport gloom like the children of Israel who had
missed their last flight to the Promise Land? Enter Moses. Need a little
leading of your ancient Hebrew soul out of Dulles or Egypt? You bet. “Burning
bush” to fire things up? Why not? Let’s get some enthusiasm going for
Starbuck’s opening in 4 hours! Some Laws? “Thou shalt not schedule flights in
such fashion!” Born a slave and want to become a rich guy? Still a slave and
feeling oppressed? Have become a rich guy who is out of touch with your people?
Call down some plagues on the neighbors? Had a plague called down on you? We
can all relate to SOME aspect of the archetype in some way.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">
Even when our whole lives seem to be being lived "in between", in
some "waiting room" for the next phase, or in recovery, or we have
been "sold into bondage" in some fashion, archetypes can guide us and
give us new ways of interacting with our fate. They are universals which means
they are recognized and understood by others. They give us answers or provoke
questions. This is why they are so powerful – they are common “currency” for
ideas, ideals and feelings and forces and principles. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">
<i>"Go Down Moses!"</i> is a gospel song which I first heard when I
was just a kid. I sang it when I was working that midnight shift for UPS and I
was bone weary. You hum it – this is the “participative interaction” part -
trying to sooth your self on the benches at Dulles or at least I did. Slave
songs when we feel oppressed.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">
Having said all that, while the Archetype of Moses was comforting me on my
bench, I must admit that the one “courtesy” blanket I found stashed in a closet
was worth it’s weight Archetypes. They keep the a.c. blowing all night in that
particular corner of Hell.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">©
Copyright 2014, Jean W. Yeager</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt;">Al
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<i><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">DISCLAIMER:
This article makes no factual claims about BuzzFeed. As a matter of fact, I
find it difficult to read BuzzFeed. But, I use the name “BUZZFEED” in quotation
marks to symbolize “hip“, “trendy”, “social media” blogs who promote webinars
on how to write in their cool style.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHO AM I?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Apparently everyone under the age of 45 reads these, “hip”, “trendy”
“with it” blogs. Okay, I am someone older than age 45, that’s about 20 years
ago in my rear-view mirror. But, I blog. My blog has been pretty successful, I
think – 1,000 readers from around the world a month. Okay, that’s not actually
successful at all, even as Boomer blogs are judged. I’ve tried to promote it - I
use social media advertising, not effectively, but I do use it. That’s probably
why I’m “hot” in Pakistan. Also, China lifted its ban on my blog for using the
name: Tien**man Square. My readership in China plummeted from 13 to 0.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To get more readers, other than
Pakistan and the 13 regulars in China (I think it’s an ESL class), my blog
needs some youthful-ness like “<i>BuzzFeed”</i>, "<i>Bang Pop"</i>, "<i>Shenanigans"</i> or other popular blogs. Why not? I can do this. Like
they say: “pump the ride”. (<i>They</i>?
Like <i>I</i> say! And, why did I write <i>pump the ride</i> in quotes?) Let’s roll.
Let’s do this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“BuzzFeed”</span></i><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> has a
style, a less than age 45 style. The webinar was “all over” changing my style. I’m
a man 65 years old +. I’m in my <i>Mystic
Phase</i>, okay? Insight happens. It’s
hard to forget all your mistakes and get stupid again. Okay, that’s a lie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I can’t actually become younger.
Should I try? Does that mean I have to get into the lifestyle of someone 20
years younger? Wear a Red Sox cap backwards? <i>Only</i> wear my Bernie hoodie with the hood hiding my face? Pull my
cargo-shorts below my tidy-whities? Drink power drinks and eat pizza? (Uh, this
may not work. I’ve got just a lit-tle belly-fat and there’s always the
hypoglycemia. And, all the salt may fire off the blood pressure and nullify my
cardio-meds. I’ll call my Doc tomorrow.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Okay, safer to try to <i>write</i> younger. Change my style. Think
like a 40-something. Phase shift backwards in my mind. Change the topics I
write about: Cookie Math, Hilariously real Tweets, Kanye West celebrity orgy,
or Cat Memes. Use the word “whatever” a lot. Whatever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since I don’t have a consistent
style, it <i>couldn’t</i> be too hard to
change, right? After all, it’s not like I’m Ernest Hemingway or Hunter S.
Thompson (remember them? Anybody?). My subject matter is not highly focused
like Hemingway’s. At least I’m not consistently writing about bullfights or
marlin fishing and then have to try to change into a successful “<i>BuzzFeed”</i> format. I definitely will not
wind up with a headline like “27 Ways To Set The Hook!” or “9 Snarky Things To
Say To Sharks.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The webinar suggested I start by
re-writing the hedlines of my last three blog posts in “<i>BuzzFeed</i>” style. What were my last three posts? “<i>The Invisibles</i>”, “<i>We Pretend We Don’t Pretend</i>” and “<i>I Wrote This Post With Dahlias</i>”. Oh, boy... this is gonna be
brutal! Let’s “<i>BuzzFeed</i>”, ‘em, shall
we, let’s kick butt!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHAT DO I WANT?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I want what young readers want. My blog has been too
introspective, too personal, too old guy. Topics are reflections on aging. <i>My aging.</i> Greying. Slowly, creeping
decrepitude. Good god, nobody cares about this! I even wrote one whole post
about arthritis and my total knee replacement. Geez, Jean! Stop that! Young!
Write young! Think “<i>BuzzFeed” </i>style!
Young, bright, Kanye in bed with whatever! Okay. I got it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Statistics</span></i><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">. The
webinar said young people – meaning people alive - <i>love</i> statistics. Statistics make things relevant. Earthly. Useful.
People want to know the science behind the story. One side of my soul says
embrace the hard, the concrete, the practical, the day-to-day. That’s not you!
It’s what’s most relevant to 99.999% of
the people living on earth. The other side of my soul says I am tired of
material life and want the spiritual. <sigh> Change is hard. But, “27
research studies say using statistics in headlines captures attention.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Okay, <i>Bzzzzzzzz</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <i>“The Invisibles”</i> was about the life force called by Freud, “EROS”
and about the invisible force of Death, THANATOS. How about this “<i>BuzzFeed”</i>-style re-writes: <i>“3 Ways Hormones Go Wild! Thank You, Eros!”</i>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Blew your hair back on your shaved
head, didn’t it? Not your daddy’s kinda headline.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <i>“We Pretend We Don’t Pretend” </i>was about how society does not reflect
our personal values. The play on words was confusing. Get concrete, Jean! How
about:<i> “2 Reasons Your Neighbor Owns So
Many Glocks”.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Got the attention of you gun
toters, didn’t that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Next - <i>“I Wrote This Post In Dahlias”</i> and then
I posted photos of dahlias which I will re-photograph during the season. Oooh,
boy. This is a toughie! The webinar gave us very explicit instructions about using
sexual language (do it!). Flowers, after all, are <i>all about</i> sex. Not to mention the honey bees! I’ll revise this one
in a minute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Pump the ride.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHY AM I HERE?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, here’s how I will henceforth use “<i>BuzzFeed”</i>-style to pump this blog:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Step 1 </span></i><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">–
everything has to have steps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">First, like I said, statistics.
Where does “<i>BuzzFeed”</i> get statistics?
I started combing the daily paper and I started lurking and listening to people
at the brewpub. It’s easy! You just pay attention to life! Here’s what I got:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> “8 WAYS TO SAY
FAGETABOUTIT!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> “14 WAYS TO BECOME
VISIBLE TO SOMEONE UNDER 30!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> “4 POWER PHRASES TO
STOP TWEENAGERS IN THEIR TRACKS!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Oh, yeah, and don’t forget the exclamation point!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Step 2</span></i><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> – Use
Power Words like “carnage” and “brutal”. These are magnetic and draw readers.
Also, “doubt” is a great attractor. This generation feels put down. They read
anybody who tells them why they are failing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“10 REASONS WHY YOUR “5 REASONS WHY YOU DIDN’T DO WHATEVER” ISN’T
ENOUGH!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“THE NAUGHTY REASONS THE 3 BILLY
GOATS GOT GRUFF!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“RAINBOW CARNAGE – THE PRISM
BRUTALLY SHREDS WHITE LIGHT!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bet-ter? Is this Better? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Step 3</span></i><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> – Sexual
Innuendo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s a game of manipulation, isn’t
it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Buzz” and “Feed” create the buzz
and feed it with small facts. Innuendo is carefully constructed words. Not real
sexual descriptions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now, I need to dial up <i>sexual</i> references in my blog. Lust, sex,
passion, that’s what people are looking for, by “people” the webinar said that
the 20-30 year olds are actually “sexting” one another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sex-ting? Really? You 40-somethings
do that? O-kay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I really don’t think <i>any</i> readers of <i>any</i> age want a 67-year-old man sex-ting in a blog – <i>especially</i> my readers in Pakistan or
China. Besides, I think I can remember
what I think “sexting” <i>would</i> have
been if, and it’s a big if, we had the technology for selfies which we
thankfully didn’t. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Writing the sexy headlines are
tough enough. How will it read when I write “hot sex passionate deep wise
‘seasoned’ sexting headlines?” Here we go!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> “CANDY MAKER’S FUDGE
GETS HARD”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“FLOWERS “DEFLOWERED” BY LICKING
HONEY BEES –<i> “It’s just TOO good!” The
Big Red Dahlia Said.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Okay, that’s enough, Jean, stand down. (At my age, I probably shouldn't have written that.) Roll Viagra commercial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thank you <i>“Write Like</i> ‘<i>BuzzFeed’
Webinar”</i>, I can already imagine the six new reasons six new readers will
soon be flocking in to read my blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">© Copyright
2016, Jean W. Yeager<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All Rights Reserved</span>Jean W. Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344407323209013227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671575581854514287.post-55345436589595469712021-11-02T10:00:00.000-04:002021-11-02T10:00:10.398-04:00 Commentary by Malcolm Bell about Fresh Air’s recent review of ATTICA, a film by Stanley Nelson<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Commentary by Malcolm
Bell about </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Fresh Air’s</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> recent review of ATTICA, a film by Stanley Nelson</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“It was the lawless
police that made Attica a massacre.” Malcolm Bell<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By Jean W. Yeager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“A new documentary goes behind the walls of the
deadly 1971 uprising. More than a thousand prisoners organized to overtake the
notorious prison, hold guards hostage, and use them as a bargaining chip to get
better living conditions. Filmmaker Stanley Nelson and former prisoner Arthur
Harrison reflect on the five-day revolt, and its lasting legacy. The film is
'Attica.'”</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <i>Excerpt from the NPR ‘Fresh Air’ promo.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Malcolm Bell, a former New York State Special
Assistant Attorney General who sought to bring charges against Attica guards
and state troopers after the riot said, <i>“</i>Stanley Nelson and his
co-producer Traci Curry have made a powerful film about the five days of the
1971 uprising. At the end, the film notes that the police whose gunfire created
the carnage were never prosecuted; viewers may wonder why? Here is my take on how
the violence and attempted prosecution went down.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“During the riot, inmates savagely murdered one
guard and three inmates; and they injured thirty-two more prison employees,
many seriously. Claiming that four days of negotiations had failed, then
Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered an armed assault to recapture the prison</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">.
<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">At the outset, </span>police
snipers shot inmates who were holding knives to the throats of several hostages
in an effort to deter the assault. Those bullets saved those hostages’ lives,
though other bullets promptly killed two of them.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“The
inmates had many crude weapons but no guns, and teargas
dropped from two helicopters quickly immobilized most of them. Since they
offered little resistance, roughly half the assault force of 211 troopers
withheld their fire. But the other half plus several corrections officers fired,
mostly without justification, at least 450 rounds, including many multi-pellet
loads of buckshot, which sent at least 2,200 deadly missiles across the crowded
prison, killing 29 inmates and ten hostages and wounding 89 other men. The only
officer seriously hurt was a lieutenant shot through the leg.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Bell recounts the full story in his book <i>“Attica Turkey Shoot: </i></span><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Carnage, Coverup, and the Pursuit of Justice</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">” </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">published in 2017. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">“Troopers and corrections officers then tortured more than a
thousand inmates after they had surrendered. </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Terrible as the inmates’ riot was, it was lawless police who
made Attica a massacre.” (Turkey Shoot, p. 372)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"By the time I joined the Attica special
prosecutor’s office two years later, it had indicted (i.e., charge with a
crime) 62 inmates but no police. Given who had done what to whom, the disparity
was painful. The next spring, because I had worked hard and wanted equal
justice for convicts and law officers, I had become chief assistant to the
special prosecutor and was put in charge of a fresh grand jury." (Bio
Notes, p.1)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"The closer I came to securing the
indictments of a large number of troopers, though, the more obstacles my
superiors placed in my path, until I reluctantly concluded that they were
arranging for the prosecution to look honest but to fail, and there was no more
I could do from inside it to straighten it out. In December of 1974, I resigned
in protest and charged a cover-up, first by going through official channels,
and after three fruitless months of that, by going to the <i>New York Times’s</i>
Tom Wicker, who had been a negotiator at the prison during the uprising. The
cover-up story ran for ten days in the <i>Times</i> as officials scurried and
postured.” (Bio Notes, p.1)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The eventual result of Bell’s stand and the
information that he disclosed was that in 1976 then Governor Carey tried to
“close the book” on Attica by absolving all the inmates and police. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“This was a travesty of the equal justice I had
sought,” Bell says, “but far better than if I had played the official game. Had
I not spoken out, I am fairly sure that officials would have falsely claimed
that most of the law officers’ shootings were justified and that police
detectives had destroyed too much evidence to prosecute the proverbial ‘few bad
apples.’” (Bio Notes, p.1)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Malcolm Bell is an American hero, a brave man
who risked his livelihood, his profession, and the good opinion of his peers
for the sake of truth and justice.” wrote the late Tom Wicker (1926-2011),
award-winning political columnist for the <i>New York</i> <i>Times,</i> in the
forward of Bell’s book <i>The Attica Turkey Shoot: Carnage, Coverup, and the
Pursuit of Justice. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">As bad as the five days of carnage in 1971 were,
the more than <i>five years </i>of coverup from the “whistleblower’s” point of
view, recounted in Bell’s book, may as damning than Stanley Nelson’s film.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Malcolm Bell lives in Vermont.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">NOTES:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Attica Turkey Shoot: Carnage, Cover-up and the Pursuit of Justice</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">,
Skyhorse Publishing, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Amaryah Orenstein at GO Literary, am<span style="color: #0a0a0a;">aryah</span></span><a href="mailto:info@go-lit.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">@go-lit.com</span></a><span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> 617-981-5151.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">By Jean W. Yeager, Rutland, VT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><a href="mailto:jwyeager2@gmail.com"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">jwyeager2@gmail.com</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">, 802-855-8877<o:p></o:p></span></p>Jean W. Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344407323209013227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671575581854514287.post-40398299207646610422021-09-18T15:40:00.000-04:002021-09-18T16:48:04.532-04:00SLIDING INTO THE TROUGH AND THE REVELS<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We’re within a day or two of the Autumnal Equinox (September 21)
which starts the “trough” as the Center for Disease Control (CDC) calls it. I
wondered what was going on. I’ve noted that several Facebook friends just
reported feeling a bit discouraged, “I’m a coupla ticks off” one said. Another
said he was going to take a “time out” from his regular intense schedule of Facebook
commentaries “I just need a break. I’m gonna read a book.” And, as if to raise
my consciousness even higher, I saw my first TV ad for “Puffs” facial tissue. That’s
always a sign that we are entering the “trough”. Then I looked at the calendar and there it was
– the “trough”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Really, I didn’t need the ad, I
feel it too. I’m glum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> The “trough” is
between November and April. It is when the days grow shorter right up to the
Winter Solstice. Our bodies are synced with daylight, “entrained” as they say. According
to the CDC, research has shown that we are more likely to become ill in the “trough”.
It’s “a seasonal fluctuation” between health, disease prevalence, and the function
of the human biological systems, such as the endocrine system, which relates to
immunology. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Our entrainment to
daylight is called “photoperiodism”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHY AM I HERE?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Photoperiodism relates
to the length of day/night cycles. At the Autumnal Equinox, day and night are
equal length. But, every day after September 21, the daylight decreases until
the Winter Solstice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The tilt of the Earth’s axis
combined with the rotation around the Sun results in more or less daylight
called “seasons”. Thus the year is divided roughly into two halves – one of
decreasing daylight in the Northern Hemisphere (increasing is Southern
Hemisphere), and then they switch about. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> The old cultures call
path to the shortest day of the year, “the dying of the light.” The CDC calls
it “the cold and flu season”. The CDC notes a spike in pneumococcal diseases occurs
in U.S. adults between December 24 and January 7. Their study reports: “The reproducible
seasonal patterns in varied geographic locations are consistent with the
hypothesis that nationwide seasonal changes such as photoperiodism-dependent
variations in host susceptibility may underlie pneumococcal seasonality…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHAT DO I WANT?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This means that as our physical systems weaken, the viruses get
stronger. All of living organisms on Earth are “entrained” or synchronized with
seasonality. Our bodies respond to reduced levels of light by reducing our
immune systems’ performance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> We are no longer consciously
living in sync with the seasons of nature. But, because our bodies can’t help
but be in sync, they respond. We feel stressed, “a tick or two off” as my friend
said. We try to adjust ourselves and de-stress and perhaps get some rest, read
a book. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Maybe in the case of my Facebook
friends and I, we are entering the metaphorical trough of our lives, not just the
year. I really sense an autumnal feeling. These are people I met in the Spring
or Summer. But now... we are sliding into the trough. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thankfully, the ancient cultures
responded to the “dying of the light” and created festivals which bring us
inner light of Joy! Inspiration. Reverence. Warmth of soul. From the Autumnal
Equinox to the Winter solstice we go through bright, inner times of meaning and
celebration: All Hallow Eve / All Souls day, then Thanksgiving, Hannukah, Eid
ul-Adha and then Christmas before turning back to the Light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Welcome to the trough –
and our inner revels! Welcome Yule<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Jean W. Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344407323209013227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671575581854514287.post-29308087332716227782021-09-18T14:17:00.000-04:002021-09-18T16:55:21.291-04:00TIME IS A FUNNY PLACE<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>JANUARY</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "courier new";">HEART STRINGS AND GUILT – DYNAMIC HARMONY</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";">Between relationship and isolation, heart strings and guilt, we live. This is paradox. This is love – loose and tight.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><a href="http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/heart-strings-and-guilt-dynamic-harmony.html">http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/heart-strings-and-guilt-dynamic-harmony.html</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "courier new";">TAMIR, HUCK FINN AND THE SENSE OF ADVENTURE</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";">What part of the human spirit sends the Tamirs of this world to the most dangerous place near where they live, a small city park, so they can be alone and play and dream and imagine with a toy gun beneath a hard, bare, concrete picnic canopy littered with heroin needles? What sends the Tamirs or the Huck Finns into such a place where adults would not go alone? The sense of adventure.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><a href="http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/tamir-huck-and-sense-of-adventure.html">http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/tamir-huck-and-sense-of-adventure.html</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "courier new";">PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE – THINGS ARE TENSE</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";">Time is a funny place. There is time when you look back – memory. But, when you look forward, what do you see? A non-specific potential. An expectation of something that might happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plans. Hopes. Wishes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever traveled into the soul realm of Wishes?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s somewhere near the Neighborhood of Fear.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><a href="http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/past-present-future-things-are-tense.html">http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/past-present-future-things-are-tense.html</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "courier new";">KISS YOUR UNBORN GRANDBABIES</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";">I want to kiss my yet unborn grand-babies. So, I want the tools to harness the cosmic and the tectonic, to be able to predict the weather, understand the currents, manage the doldrums, to know when volcanoes will erupt and how to surf the crest of the tidal waves. Easy stuff. The stuff everybody does, right?</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><a href="http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/kiss-your-yet-unborn-grand-babies.html">http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/kiss-your-yet-unborn-grand-babies.html</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "courier new";">GIRLS-GIRLS-GIRLS</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new";">So, to all my friend girls, I don’t care how old you have become, I will always be looking to relate to the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>girl</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in you who you are beneath that mature exterior. That girl inside is the one who has always been<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>you</i>. So, if Jean with the girls name, calling you girl angers you a little, I have a suggestion which I ran across at a group of girls – “The Sisters On The Fly”...</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><a href="http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/girls-sisters-of-static.html">http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/girls-sisters-of-static.html</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "courier new";">WHAT LOCKS THE MIGHTY DREAM OF YOU AWAY?</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";">What do you use to wall-off your past? Alcohol. Oxy. Rejection. Ambition. Material wealth. Isolation. Sex. Gambling. Th</span><span style="font-family: "courier new";">e question still remains, what locks the mighty dream of you away?</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><a href="http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/12-pack.html">http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/12-pack.html</a></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "courier new";">KATABASIS – CONSCIOUS OF OUR FALL</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";">When our way of life falls because we are following Ash Roads to Sand Lands and economically tethered to blind Euro-Kings who put their eyes out so that they don’t have to see the Truth. Will the Greek Chorus will run from the wings shouting “Kata basis!”?</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><a href="http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/katabasis-conscious-of-our-fall.html">http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/katabasis-conscious-of-our-fall.html</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "courier new";">I’M NOT SURE ABOUT INDECISION</span></b><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><a href="http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/im-not-sure-about-indecision.html">http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/01/im-not-sure-about-indecision.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "courier new";">NEW YEAR FIRE</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";">As I sit in front of the fire I see that we burn our pasts. We release those seeds of the future by telling our past stories. And those are the fuel for the New Year’s fire.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "courier new";">WHY DO WE TOLERATE THE PUBLIC LIE?</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";">Who understands the source of their beliefs? Do the people who are supporting the different candidates know the source of their own beliefs? If so, are they willing to say that the candidates who utter the Public Lie are saying things they themselves stand for. If not, then why do we tolerate the Public Lie?</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><a href="http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-do-we-tolerate-public-lie.html">http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-do-we-tolerate-public-lie.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> “PICK AND ROLL” - RAGE AND COMPASSION</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I volunteer and teach a self-development program Stone Valley Correctional Facility. I like the name “Stone Valley” because usually when someone feels they are “between a rock and a hard place” they may take on the difficult work of changing their self, or their selves. Yes, selves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/02/pick-and-roll-rage-and-compassion.html">https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/02/pick-and-roll-rage-and-compassion.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>ARTHRITIS PIRATES</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now I have been captured. My freedom to ramble was taken away from me by a War Lord. Like the War Lords of the 1600s who came ashore in New England to “impress” or imprison landlubbers through force, and compel them to work on sailing ships, Lord Arthritis captured me, took away my freedom, and bid me do his service.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/02/arthritis-pirates.html">https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/02/arthritis-pirates.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>MARCH</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>LIVING ON LONGING</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">LIVING ON LONGING - A first visit to this blog lasts 15-seconds, enough to read a Tweet-length of words. If visitors don’t see what they’re longing for, they go! About now, 140 characters.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/03/living-on-longing.html">https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/03/living-on-longing.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>APRIL</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>S1 CAN'T HELP IT, IT'S TE WAY I AM</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We have in-built, automatic “selves” that are attracted or repulsed by in-built ways of being. S1 is biased by, attitudes, experiences. As the popular song goes, “S1 can’t help it, that’s the way I am!”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/04/s1-cant-help-it-its-way-i-am.html">https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/04/s1-cant-help-it-its-way-i-am.html</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>FIVE WORDS FOR FREE</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How are you with humor? I never was a comic. I wrote funny but am not a wit. Not witless, just not quick. Many of you are probably spontaneously funny. I have a 20-second delay between the moment in which a witticism is called for and the moment if finally dawns on me what to wisecrack. I’m a “wise-gap” guy filling moments with awkward silence, watching opportunities for quips and puns sail away.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/04/five-words-for-free.html">https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/04/five-words-for-free.html</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>WANT FRIES WITH THAT DAY?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ORDER HERE: Maybe you don’t think about it quite like this, but when you wake-up in the morning, and you open your eyes; it’s like you’re at the “Order Here” window of the drive-through of your life. Your Higher Self is waiting to see how your Lower Self is going to order the day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/04/want-fries-with-that-day.html">https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/04/want-fries-with-that-day.html</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>FRAGMENTS - GOT DEM OL' COSMIC BLUES</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sometimes you just gotta clear out a few of those things that hang onto your heart. Make room for new things. 'Nuff said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/04/fragments-got-dem-ol-cosmic-blues.html">https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/04/fragments-got-dem-ol-cosmic-blues.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>MAY</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>DICKINS’ SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT AND RUTLAND (VT) REFUGEES</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In spite of heavy anti-refugee sentiments, Rutland Vermont's mayor Chris Louras hopes 25 to 30 Syrian refugee families will resettle in Rutland by Christmas 2016. What option does anyone really have who has lost everything to intolerance, war, or famine besides to flee and throw themselves at the mercy of a community? Hopefully one with a big enough, generous Spirit. Otherwise, it’s Scrooge’s option which remains when time runs out in this next, frigid, bleak Vermont winter. What was Scrooge's option?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/05/dickins-spirit-of-christmas-present-and.html">https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/05/dickins-spirit-of-christmas-present-and.html</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>THE FLYING FICKLE FINGER OF FATE</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The “Flying Fickle Finger of Fate” Award was also called the “Rigid Digit”, the “Winged Weenie”, the “Friendly Phalange”, the “Nifty Knuckle” or the “Wonderful Wiggler.” The reality is that we believe that fate is a quality of being a part of our lives. Fate is something else which cannot be explained by the physicality of life. There is more to our lives then meets our eyes. That’s what humans believe, don’t let any smart phone tell you different. It is more fun and rich to live a life which has the random and unexplained in it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-flying-fickle-finger-of-fate.html">https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-flying-fickle-finger-of-fate.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> JUNE</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> I WROTE THIS POST IN DAHLIAS</b></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The real "story" here will write itself over the next few months. This is just an introduction to the characters. These Dahlias grow to be different sizes. If you see a cage around them now, when you come back another time, they will be larger. Eventually huge.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/06/i-wrote-this-blog-post-in-dahlias.html">https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2016/06/i-wrote-this-blog-post-in-dahlias.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">A friend and former
shipmate of mine and I, both of us old pirates on the sea of life did not pass
quietly as ships do sometimes in the night. We hove-to, dropped our sails and
spent a few hours juxtaposed and adrift together. It was not smoke and mirrors,
cannon blasts or fancy swordplay. It was genuine, problematic intimacy. She,
the world navigator reported a tumult of miracles, bombings, and Beruit taxi
rides. Always the positive. Always ahead of the games. On the way to care for
grandbabies between world-wide gatherings armadas of small pleasure craft-lives
into workshops in which she boards, and opens treasure chests of the heart in a
therapeutic ransacking.</span></div>
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and the others. Some were monks, are still monks, will always be monks out of
the flow. They loving their logic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
have left them in the monasteries while we freebooters cannot sit so still for
so long. We think better beneath the flysheets dealing with the flow, the
forces far bigger than ourselves, the gales, the currents, the tides, apparently
still surviving. Desiring for the difficult, the unsettled, the potential
exotic, the flesh. The vital words without logic. The rap of lives rhymed, and
always very much alive, very much flowing, flowing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">WHY AM I HERE?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">Freedom. We serve no
King nor flag except the tattered hearts and push the debate. There are hints
of prostitution but only from those who see life as a debit-credit scheme. We
are under the waterfall of life, pleased at all costs. Suspecting emotions. We
are linguistically in disarray rubbing up against our apparent feelings. There
are obvious conclusions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A glass of red wine. Two Margaritas.
Grilled fish. A large bowl. And the stories, always the stories. The pitfalls.
Blindsides. Near misses. We dissolve into tears. Touch as only old pirates of
the heart will permit themselves to be touched by another. There is no myth of
dominance. We plunge into desolation. Dive into the unfulfilled, never to be
fulfilled, what were we thinking?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We short-circuit
our best and most well-worn vanities. We imply old successes but tread on the
deck of tragedy. And laugh. We laugh. We know we will not stay. Cannot stay. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">Piracy is not
carried out in a monastic order. We are lonely. We turn our loneliness those
destiny moments with others - fierce and mad enjambments. Crowd scenes where
everyone but us is clothed in burkas where we only see their eyes and then
comes their revelations of secret, childhood (teenage, adult, mid-life, elder) abuse
they have held onto so tightly they have pressed into jewels. Their lives have
been arranged around these jewels to protect them because, they would be adrift
otherwise. The heart chests hold such awful jewels. And, pirates, well pirates
help the agonized victims open their chests and look at the jewels of great
value. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Like an oozing, unasked snake that is fascinating
and coils around us and between the piratess and I filled with venom and
investment, is the question, “So, how <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">are</i>
you, really?” with the drop into the abyss on the word “really.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But, we don’t pry. We are shy. We know the
awfulness we have in our chests and we presume the other has the same –
probably worse. After all, she is older, walking the plank of age, disease,
doubt, fear... or am I talking about myself again? Probably. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That’s why we move. Move away from the
coiling questions, which we give to others. We know the questions, we can shift
the wind, the currents, the question. We don’t want to be faced with actually
looking into what the other has in her heart. “Look at that, will ya?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What will I do about that fetid, stinking
treasure I love so much?”</span></div>
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chests. Better not hurt one another. Another day. Maybe a mooring in the
future. The note with the black dot. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Treasure
Island?</i> </span></div>
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</style><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WHO
AM I? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am just an old guy with a paper grocery
store sack out on his lawn at dawn on May 1, plucking dandelion flowers,
dealing with creaking knees and sciatica. I always hope to fill the sack
quickly, but the repetitiveness of the task makes it tedious to me, and I have
to focus on what I'm doing. That is my part of the alchemical nature of the
process – having to overcome tedium and remember the lofty spiritual process
which I am undertaking. While I am picking, I try to think about next Winter's
Solstice, how dark and cold it will be at that time of year, and to remember
all the blinking ice and snow which only melted a few weeks ago here in New
England. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As the kids begin to drift by on their way
to the middle school up the street, I realize just how slowly I have been
working, having to remember all these things and pick and keep reminding myself
I am doing a mighty and alchemical transformative task, a spiritual task. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Picking is a spiritual practice; I tell
myself. Just like Miguel Cabrera does batting practice to win a Triple Crown, I
do my spiritual practices in hopes of having a spiritual experience. Can't make
Dandelion wine without picking. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When the kids ask, “Whatcha doin’?” and I
respond, “Batting practice.” And they look up at the house and note its
features to remind themselves later where that “old nut-case” lives so they can
avoid this part of the block completely.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WHY
AM I HERE?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I gather the petals on May 1 because it is
a cross-quarter day between the Vernal Equinox in March and the Summer Solstice
in June. On or after May 1, alchemists for centuries have said that the dew on
the plants after dawn is a Holy Essence. Knowing this adds meaning to the task.
All of this is about adding meaning to life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">At the Vernal and Autumnal equinoxes, the
Sun and Moon stand with their arms out wide and balance the days and nights.
Coming out of the kind of winter we had this year, that was a significant
marking point for many of us. Winter lost its grip. Now we are facing a long
summer which many feel portends drought in some parts of the country the likes
of which have not been seen for decades.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Dandelion petals drink in the bright,
warm sunshine. This is one of the key alchemical components: Sunshine – and all
it means literally and spiritually. I want them filled with as much sunlight as
possible because I will be making wine out of the petals and want the essence
of all that sunlight to be released into the wine. Dandelions are also the
first flowers of affection and joy which children give their mothers or others
– an essence of childhood innocence. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Dandelion wine will be fermented with
a special <i>Saccharomyces</i> yeast and, in
the six months between the Summer Solstice and the Winter Solstice, I will call
upon the <i>Queen of the Saccharomyces</i>
to transform all this: the Dandelion petals and the sunshine they have
absorbed, Holy Essence, the love and joy of the children around the
world, the thoughts of the alchemist, and added sugar (or honey) – while doing
her mysterious work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In my basement work area I add all of
these ingredients, stir, pound, squeeze and all the other techniques while
holding all the other thoughts in mind as best I can, add purified water, and
call upon the <i>Queen of the Saccharomyces </i>to
come and multiply herself thousands of times over to do the task which no
person can.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My role is to serve the single-cell beings
who now do the work. When the primary fermenter is "boiling" with the
cold heat of fermentation, it is frothing and foaming, and the transformation
process is well underway. Yeast is a benevolent being, and if I have made a
mistake, they always have forgiven me. The Queen, like a queen bee, has created
a hive of single-cell beings who are serving the process and leaving nothing
untouched. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WHAT
DO I WANT?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By the time of the Summer Solstice, the
Dandelion Wine will be out of the primary fermenter and into the secondary
glass fermenter. It will be opaque
yellow, to begin with. The opaque plant matter will gradually settle, and the
wine will clarify. I will siphon it into
a clean glass fermenter several more times before bottling on or about another
cross-quarter day in September. Then the bottles will sit in my dark wine
cellar at about a 57-degree temperature. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">During the winter, we give bottles of our
wine as gifts. Then, on the Winter Solstice, when we are already tired of the
dark and the cold, we will remember that we have something very special in the
basement just for this occasion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So, we will bring up the first bottle, and
we will uncork it with anticipation. As we sip, the wine releases an inner
experience of sunshine and joy within us. We are flooded with memories of the
warm days that have disappeared, the warm friends we visited, the bright
moments and incidents of the year gone by. Even the dark experiences of the
year seem somehow brighter. The mystery is that this inner flame ignites our
will and helps us bear the darkness and look forward to the light of the new
year about to born. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And, each year, I pause to remember that
this total process from May Day to the darkness at the Winter Solstice is in
its own way a "batting practice" for my preparation to enter into the
Great Dark.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: .5in;"><i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Rudolf Steiner’s “Calendar of
Virtues” is a monthly practice. The virtue of the month changes on the 21<sup>st</sup> of
each month so that the power of regularity helps with maintaining the practice
over the months and years. </span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Each month a new virtue transition will
be offered for participants to consider. While considering a Virtue
transition, one is also asked to consider the opposite. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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the Virtue each month in nature, your community or yourself. Then journal
your experience in 100 – 150 words about what you observe – outer and inner.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #080808; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">VIRTUE OF THE MONTH:</span></b><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <i>DEVOTION
BECOMES SACRIFICE<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THE OPPOSITE: </span></b><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not
caring.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here is an example which I wrote in 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WHO AM I?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> I
am the Seed. I am all about Devotion. In me I have bound together all of the
genetic matter required to reproduce my species. This has been gathered over
successive generations of plants. Some qualities have stayed, others have
fallen away over time. And, I can protect this special cargo for a very long
time. Because I am a plant seed, I have enclosed the germplasm in a very hard
seed-case. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> NOTE: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Human Devotion is a virtue and gains strength
when one spends time with something or someone important to you- including your
future plans and dreams. Like the seed, a practice of Devotion is an
active gathering together all the knowledge, insight and experience possible within
yourself – and this can take time, lots of it. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WHY AM I HERE?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Sacrifice. The Seed is all about Devotion AND Sacrifice. When the time is
right, I have got to be able to transform myself – to sacrifice one form - the
form I am at the moment most comfortable with, have spent so much time
perfecting - to become another form – sacrifice my beautiful hard-shell
to become re-born, transformed as a plant. I'm gonna need some help. When I’m
planted in the dark earth and broken down by water, warmth, and life in the
soil, that to which I have been devoted – will be released. Without Sacrifice
the "new and improved me" cannot be re-born.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> NOTE:</span></i><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Self-sacrifice is terribly uncomfortable.
Sometimes if you are in the midst of personal change it can actually feel as if
something within you is dissolving, something hard or fixed is breaking down.</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THE OPPOSITE: Not Caring</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The
Virtues of Devotion and Sacrifice depend upon Care. There is a risk that they
can draw you in to a type of hyper-devotion such as dogmatism or fanaticism. To
guard against these excesses, many may develop an negative virtue of distancing
themselves by not caring or cynicism. The soul question is how to stay
objective but devoted and engaged. How to come close without merging.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WHAT DO I WANT?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The
questions I ask myself are: Has Devotion been easy? Hard? Has it gotten stuck?
And, how is it going with your self-transformation? Is it time to practice the
Virtue of Sacrifice and give up that to which we are devoted so that something
new can come into the world, and into yourself?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #080808; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">© Copyright 2014, Jean W. Yeager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">WHO
AM I? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Some say the heart is just like a wheel,
if you bend it, you just can’t mend it.” Some say the heart is just like the
sun, brightly raying and enthusiastic. Some say the heart is just like a young
girl doing cartwheels across the lawn on a spring evening. Some say the heart
is just like a fist, clenched tight, pounding on the chest, ready to strike.
Some say the heart is like an infant ready to be born, tender, vulnerable, open
to the future. Some say the heart is like a prisoner in lock-down, in seclusion
shouting all night. Some say the heart is two halves, two palms outstretched
to receive, open like an empty skull.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">WHY
IS THE HEART HERE?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some say the heart is here to be a
mechanical pump. Some say it is here to break and ache in youthful rawness.
Some say the heart is the foot-warmer of the gods, to create naive enthusiasm
for the cold, cold heavens. Some say the heart is to warm others with
generosity. Some say the heart is here to touch and be touched with tenderness.
Some say the heart is here to create joy, to hold the delicate place where all
creativity begins. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some say the heart is the place which
knows rather than thinks. Some say the heart is predatory, cold, hard and
lusting – the home of broken promises. Some say the heart bears our sorrows. Some
say the heart is the place where our blood runs cold with fear and dread. The
place of anger, rage, blame and retribution. The heart shows no mercy to the
eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">WHAT
DOES THE HEART WANT?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The heart wants to rhythmically give and
take in what is called loving mutuality. The heart sends you on journeys which
your brain never could have imagined. The heart weaves a web of mutuality to
others including your enemies. The heart wants the pride of ownership of your
share of the world but, once possessed the heart seeks humility and, wants you
to guard against lust and vanity. In this way, the heart wants you to sacrifice
yourself for yourself and for your brothers and sisters ruthlessly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The heart wants you to experience the
eternal moment between systole and diastole which is the doorway to the
mystical.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Jean W. Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344407323209013227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671575581854514287.post-85658296651988047762021-02-05T06:42:00.003-05:002023-03-04T09:35:57.189-05:00CULTURAL ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I am 1-billion Facebook users, 5.5 million
Twitter users whose Tweets or posts flow through our Technological Social Media
arteries. My virtual friends “share” items that flow through my Social Media
accounts. Because my “friends” are “friends” to others who are “friends” to
others, and so on to others; I imagine the sense of “self” of this largest
group is a giant cultural bloodstream of real-time, unedited, and uncontrolled
messaging. After all, the theory of “3-degrees of separation” might be in play
here. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Friend-to-friend, post-by-post we “share”
with one another good things and bad things: nice celebrations, reports of wrongs
by governmental agencies, pictures of my vacation, death by cops, violence and
corporate greed; incidents which none of us individually, our family, or
friends, can control in any way. We are really sharing cultural powerlessness.
We are powerless over what technology reports, and in some cases causes to
happen in and to our culture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In many ways, we are powerless over our own
bodies as well. In the physical disease of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(AIDS) the body’s capacity to resist “foreign” cells or “infection” fails
because the number of white (defensive) blood cells is diminished. The white
blood cells defend the overall system by going to all of the cells in the body
and determining which are “me” and which are “not me” (foreign). The white
blood cells destroy the “not me” cells (the infection) and protect the
integrity of the body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What plays out day-to-day in Technological Social
Media are reports of political gridlocks, terrorist attacks, protests, fear
over anger, and hatred which go against our personal values, ideals or morals
which once we shared with genuine friends before “virtual friends”. That’s what
made them friends. We shared values and priorities. Once it was genuine and real. Now it is pretense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">There
is no technological “white blood cell” mechanism (no Technological Immune
System) to test whether or not the things flowing along via Social Media are
“me” (my values) and they go unfiltered and unchecked directly into my
consciousness. Many are false posts. Some are real ads. Some are lies consciously
planted by provocateurs who wish we would buy their “remedy” to the fear they
promote, support their “cause” so they can “save” us, or work for someone else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This media stream is overloading my heart.
Sometimes I feel revulsion, sometimes my “friends” say they are going out to
buy guns, sometimes I get a dose of fear, my heart grows hard, my capacity to
know my community as genuine “Friends” is compromised, my life is gerrymandered
away by foreign (“not me”) forces. I am losing my strength. Am I suffering from
technological Social Media AIDS?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">WHY AM I
HERE?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The French Revolution happened within a
society when one sub-culture within that country was overwhelmed by the values
and priorities of another, more dominant culture. The peasants got out their
technology – the guillotine - in order to eliminate the overly pernicious,
fiercely greedy, aristocracy. They performed “Cultural Surgery”. It was a
revolution that instituted the “rights of men.” “All the Kings horses and all
the Kings men could not put Humpty-French-Monarchy together again.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">We
don’t have Monarchy – we have Corporatism. Technological Social Media serves
Corporations and the message flow down the technological arteries show that the
“old order” of “me” values like citizenship, brotherhood, equality, and civic
power is being swamped or infected by economic priorities, partisan values, and
sectarianism. Regardless of which cultural values you treasure, you probably
rarely see yours reflected on technological Social Media. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are unraveling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When you treat actual AIDS you may find
that the amount of medicine and its power may kill the patient. Treating
technological Social Media AIDS, if such a thing were possible, maybe so
painful and require such sacrifices many citizens would object, the same way “loyalists”
defend the “crown” in previous revolutions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Those in control, sometimes called
“tyrants”, never want to lose control, and so respond, gain strength and push
back against any attempt to curtail their power. The AIDS virus actually
degenerates all parts of the body to feed itself. The Social Media AIDS will do
the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">WHAT DO I
WANT?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Resist the urge to blame: we are not the
only “Social” who have chosen to use “Social Media”. The Media serves multiple
corporations, governmental agencies, international states, and their paid
provocateurs, who are your and my friends and relatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Data gathering, based on words we use is
shared to marketers and Governmental Security agencies. So, there are very
large, powerful entities who value technological Social Media and they arise from
multiple directions at once. But, this is only technology. You control all
technologies by using the “off” switch. Or, you can change the dynamics in the
technological stream by flooding social media with messages of other principles and values. You as an individual
choose to change the message.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The
U.S. was founded on universal spiritual principles: religious liberty, economic
brotherhood, and equal rights. If we, each of us as individuals, reclaim these
principles in our own non-technological, human lives; our own personal actions
with one another, we can, from the inside, build a new <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Human Social Media </i>which will create <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cultural White Blood</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cells</i>
and our renewed Culture will reject the forces of greed, fear and hatred, the
“not me” forces of the oligarchy and their supporters which flow through the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Technological Social Media.</i></span></div>
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Jean W. Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344407323209013227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671575581854514287.post-91625221987994396112020-12-03T07:34:00.002-05:002021-02-08T05:07:25.924-05:00TAMIR, HUCK FINN AND THE SENSE OF ADVENTURE<div class="MsoNormal"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 11.75pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">By Jean Yeager</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WHO AM I?</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What part of the human
spirit sends a Tamir Rice to the most dangerous place near where they live, a
small city park, so they can be alone and play and dream and imagine with a toy
gun beneath a hard, bare, concrete picnic canopy littered with heroin needles?
What sends Tamir into such a place where adults would not go alone?</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Young boys, the
Tamirs, like the Hucks of previous generations, have an indefatigable sense of
adventure up until the time grown-ups shame it, blame it, or otherwise
constrain it out of them. Adventure is the air which children breathe, they
“sense” adventures like people with eyes can see or people with ears can hear.
Children are a receptor for the spiritual medium of adventure which exists
around us all.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grown-ups sense the
danger in adventures.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grown-ups know the
reality. Grown-ups have grown into reality, have created the reality in which
they live. Grown-ups try to numb ourselves to adventure because life has
damaged us, beaten us down, told us we can’t win or covered up our adventure
senses.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grown-ups are jealous
of kids who still walk hand-in-hand with Dame Adventure. Grown-ups warn
children against small cottages made of candy in the dark woods and the old
people who live there, of dealers in old houses with broken windows, of the
wild beasts who lurk and wish to devour them, of black sedans or squad cars;
and always, always grown-ups tell stories of young children who were never
clever enough, never strong enough, never brave enough because grown-ups want
the child to be what? Cowardly and fearful like ourselves? To avoid risk like
us? To not get involved?</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WHY AM I HERE?</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Young boys, like Tamir
and Huck believe themselves brave enough, clever enough, strong enough to
overcome an addicted Pappy, a lack of privilege like our friend Tom, a lousy
education from a poor school, a heartless community of auntie Pollys, and the
dangers of the River. Like Tamir and Huck, we started our journey breathing
adventure floating on a raft down a big, big river with deadly currents and
dangers. We loved it.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are now grown-ups
who breathe anxiety. We are afraid to look upstream. We know what we will see.
Our River has been dammed and diverted. The water of our lives is now used for
watering golf courses, McMansion suburbs, and factories whose technologies
transform the living into plumes of acrid, killing smoke into the air and
dumping toxic effluent back into our lives.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Education for what? For a maintenance job that kills the soul and pays so
little, we have to get a second job or a third? How did we become fearful
Aunties or absentee Paps drunk on our self-importance?</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adventure in our
neighborhoods has been transformed into racial profiling sludge, Army-style
cops, soul pollution, and community doubt; far deeper and more treacherous currents
than ever ran in the River before.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why can’t we
grown-ups be brave enough, clever enough, and strong enough? We live on
the River of life, too.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WHY AM I HERE?</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We can breathe
adventure again, too. And, when we do, our spirits will light up. We have arrived
at a place downstream from where we started that we never imagined, at a future
we now dread. In a strange land with which we must cope. But, why?</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We can put the past we
could not imagine, our fears we wished we could avoid, our shame, our blame, our
failures, scars, and weaknesses into the soles of our Nike’s and walk, like
Tamir into the park, the garden, the dark woods, away from our homes, in our
’hoods, away from the self-made prisons in which we have locked ourselves away.
Give away our privilege. Go where it is not safe. Go meet the danger we have
created, you know it well – it matches up perfectly with our personal
short-comings.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Go for adventures.
When you feel fear, you will know you are close. You have hidden long-comings
to transform the fear. Be a lonely Huck on a raft, floating away from un-civil
civilization. Be a Tamir and take a walk into the park.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Things will be
different when Tamir, like Huck, has a companion to journey with him. He needs
a powerful individual, once enslaved, but now free - <i>you</i>. You can
be free and strong.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tamir would not be
dead if he had not been alone and someone like you was with him.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">American
Heritage Collegiate Thesaurus, page 616.</span></i><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A
situation that presents a difficulty, uncertainty, or perplexity. Sample case: a
hornet's nest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Informal: a bind, can of worms, tight
spot. See also <i>predicament.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Something
that obstructs progress and requires great effort to overcome. Sample case:
complication, hardship, rigor. See also <i>difficulty.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Informal: a feeling of uncertainty
about the fitness for the correctness of an action – misgiving, reservation,
scruple. See also <i>qualm.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">An
unfavorable condition, circumstance or characteristic – drawback, handicap,
minus. See also <i>disadvantage</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I AM YOUR PROBLEMS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WHO AM I? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
am the problem that defines you. I may be that sudden automobile accident, that
diagnosis, that unexpected email rejection. I can be as quick as a slap
across the cheek. Or, I may be one of those slow-moving crises that seem to
eat away at your gut day after day. That step off the edge of the pond you were
two years old and went in over your head and gave you the fear of water for the
rest of your life. That poker game in which you were suddenly in way over your
head. I am the panicky business investment which you have made and you're about
to lose it all. The lie that came back to you. The little mistake that
now has gotten out of control. Remember me? I took your beautiful watercolor life
and slopped indigo paint on it - trailed it across your pretty, youthful bright
colors. I am the splash of darkness in your life – your heart attack, your
cancer, the fall, the abortion, the one too many drinks, the perfect relationship
gone wrong. There go your plans. Your hopes! Your dreams! Shot to hell.
Fucked. And you are left with what? Broken dreams? broken idealism? You’re left
broken.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WHY AM I HERE?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
bring you choices you would never make for yourself. I come to you and your
higher self offers your weaknesses up to me, just like Father Abraham. You are
the son I must slay. I take you and I break you so you can have a choice.
I give you choice, just like God gave Abraham that choice. I un-fix the fixed.
I cause you to consider tightening up what’s loosey-goosey. What will you do?
Will you blot up the indigo paint on your pretty colors? Pretend I never
happened? Will you give up? Cry over your broken dreams? Get corrective
surgery? How will you hide a broken heart? Get ‘tude? Look for a White Knight?
(You know, that indigo will never TOTALLY blots up! Everyone can tell. Everyone
knows.) The memory will always be there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Why did
you get these problems? Was it something you did? Or something you ARE? Are you
guilty? Have something to hide? Were you broken to let something OUT? Or to let
something IN? Is being broken the end of something else? Or, is it only the
beginning of even more problems? How do you respond? How will your higher-self respond?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Everyone
starts with “naïve idealism.” But, once you’re broken you have the possibility
to create “achieved idealism” out of the ashes of your dreams that went down in
flames. “Achieved idealism - the second marriage of you and you’re disillusioned
self. It’s discovery, recovery, learning, and the lesson. You and your problems
are not a glossy, untouched pretty couple, not light, not bright. Deeper. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A little indigo around the edges - imagine
deep dark indigo mixing with the crimson, yellow, and blue – new hues appearing
stronger deeper powerful than you ever imagined. That's why I’m here. To create
the new, improved, and damaged you! The unique you. Experienced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WHAT DO I WANT?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I what
to live, and love, in universal imperfection. Couch surf with your karmic
carpool. I am in the limbless arms of another who holds you. I am the ravaged
face. The blind eyes. The drooping stroke smile. The limp. The drooling happy
friend. I bring the impossible together with the improbable. I want you
with me. I want you never to forget me, and I want you to carry me in your
heart... right where Abraham was aiming the knife.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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Copyright 2014, Jean W. Yeager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Reserved<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS WRITTEN ON T-SHIRTS
WHICH MAY BE RECITED IN RESPONSE TO CONFRONTING A PROBLEM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Confer
Thy Querulous Blatherings Upon The Palmar Fascia”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(TALK TO THE HAND)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I
Find Myself To Be Exorbitantly Superannuated For this Feculence!” (I’M TOO OLD
FOR THIS SHIT.)<a href="file:///C:/Users/jean/Documents/SHORT%20WRITINGS/Brainz/PROBLEMS.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I
am not a failure! I know 10,000 things that don’t work.” <i>Thomas Edison upon
finding the filament for the electric light bulb<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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Daedalus Books, Holiday III Catalog, pg. 67<o:p></o:p></p>
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</div>Jean W. Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344407323209013227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671575581854514287.post-66915159173186388052020-10-10T07:00:00.003-04:002020-10-10T07:00:40.696-04:00SHOCKS AND SHOCK ABSORBERS<p>SHARED WITH MY FRIENDS IN THE <b>BRAINZ GROUP. W</b>anna be a Brainz Group writer? Let me know.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Last week an article was written in a regional
publication which noted that I had received a writing award for “elderly
authors”. I must say, that even though I am now 70, that was the first time I
had seen myself described in print as “elderly” and I was a bit shocked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The next day I was in conversation with my wife and
wanted to comment about the leafy green plant in our garden which has big
leaves that are very toxic (but the stem is very nice when put up as a jam) and
I had a brain-fart and even though I reached around on the cluttered desk of my
brain, I could not find that plant’s name. Okay, I was shocked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">A
few days later I was telling someone about Mark, and I watched Mark’s last name
launch itself into the air flutter over my head, squawk a few times before flying
completely out the window! Dang! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
was another shock. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Allegedly,
unless I take some kind of medication made from octopus gonads, this mental
bucking bronco will continue. Last week I decided that the best way to handle
this is to create <i>shock absorbers.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Here is my first weekly<i> shock absorber </i>- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from last week – <b>the list of words which I
would not remember</b>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When each of the
above happened, I just looked down at my list of words to be forgotten <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and resumed my conversation easy-peasy!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Perhaps
some of you in the “whatever the hell the name of this group is”, might like to
use this technique for easing these kinds of shocks yourself. This is cheaper
than octopus gonads.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">WORDS TO BE FORGOTTEN
THIS WEEK:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 200%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The name of the leafy green plant in our
garden is Rhubarb.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 200%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Mark’s last name is Philips spelled with
one “L”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 200%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I am entering this in ‘whatever the hell
name of this group is’ Fractured Lit Flash Fiction Prize | $3,000 | Judged by
Meg Somebodyorother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 200%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The morbidly obese guy on the television
every day is Donald.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 200%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I am writing this list because… Oh crap.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 200%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Where did I put it my list? Anybody?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Copyright 2020 Jean W.
Yeager All Rights Reserved<o:p></o:p></span></p>Jean W. Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344407323209013227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671575581854514287.post-44391486073738567232020-08-21T19:10:00.006-04:002020-08-21T19:10:58.313-04:00JULY 2014 - BLOG POSTS - "LET'S BE BRUTALLY HONEST AND CREATE A REVERENT MOMENT"<p> <b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">JULY 2014</span></b></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">7/4 – </span><a href="http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2014/07/little-act-of-kindness.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">LITTLE ACT OF KINDNESS</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Remembering one another is a celebration - let's practice little acts of kindness and love.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">7/6 – </span><a href="http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-river-of-life.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">THE RIVER OF LIFE</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I feel compelled to search for the River of Life and my personal contribution to the richness of our existence. Can I be happy with shallowness and gravel?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">7/14 – </span><a href="http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-things-we-dont-talk-about-when-we.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">THE THINGS WE DON’T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE DON’T TALK</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is all about Love and Armor and Tenderness. Vulnerability and Brokenness. Maybe we can meet in our Brokenness. Neither one of us is good at giving or receiving. We need practice. Meet in our brokenness and practice Tenderness.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">7/23 – </span><a href="http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2014/07/message-in-bottle.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mine is a very small, digital boat called a blog which sails on a very big electronic ocean called the World Wide Web. It seems like many of us are castaways in our digital age. It's almost as if the LEO net over our head and the gizmos which capture our attention, create in us a deep longing for the truth - for the real - for authentic relationships. Enter Biodynamics - authenticity in a bottle?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">7/28 – </span><a href="http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2014/07/lets-be-brutally-honest-and-create.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">LET’S BE BRUTALLY HONEST AND CREATE A REVERENT MOMENT</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If we are brutally honest, others create us. Let's create a reverent moment to recall them and be grateful for their gifts.</span></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></div>Jean W. Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344407323209013227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671575581854514287.post-41910495285046929292020-08-21T18:58:00.002-04:002020-08-21T18:58:48.208-04:00 Drinking Straws, Archimedes, and Tax Dollars.<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I live on
Kendall Avenue, not far from the Middle School. For the last two months, our
tax dollars have been at work with the Belden Construction company, which has
been separating the stormwater system and the sewer system. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The new
stormwater pipes are glories of modern technology. They are made of plastic –
probably recycled pop bottles. They are light and huge. The diameter of the
tubes is over 40 inches. But they are light enough for two men to lift and
carry. The design is such that they have ribs on the outside of these giant
pipes. The ridges add strength and probably are filled with air or gas. That
means that when they're covered with the sand, soil, or rock that they won't
collapse—a very innovative design.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The project
started in front of the middle school and crept up Kendall Avenue, where they
have dug up our sidewalks down to a level of about 5 to 6 feet deep. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then they
added a layer of crushed rock onto which they lay these giant pipes. I have
been told that the crushed stone acts like a "French Drain" and that
stormwater which is not captured in the system and flowing through the pipes,
may flow around the tube underground. Then it will be carried away because the
pipes and rock angle down towards a big collecting area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When I step
back and look at these massive pipes, they remind me of giant plastic drinking
straws. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It's almost
as if we have 1/4 of a mile of 40-inch diameter giant plastic drinking straws
running underground about 6-feet down. The difference between these giant
drinking straws and the standard concrete pipes usually used for stormwater
carriage is remarkable. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They are
much, much <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lighter, less costly, and, as
I said, able to be handled and connected by a smaller crew than those other
giant concrete pipes. So, tax payers must be saving money! Saving tax dollars!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But it all
leaves me wondering. With 40-inch pipes, somebody is expecting a lot of water!
After all, this is northern New England, and hurricane season is just starting.
I watch the morning weather reports and see those tropical water/cloud storm
systems forming and churning around down by Africa and heading towards the
Caribbean. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I know that
their track is north, up the East Coast! We catch more than a few of them up
here in Vermont, dumping buckets and buckets of rain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My house on
Kendall is lower than the land behind me on Burnham Avenue. When those floods
come, all those properties drain onto my property and then towards the front of
my house on Kendall Avenue. I try to<i> help</i> that stormwater move into the
street at Kendall Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All of the
water that comes down my driveway and out my gutters flows into the street. And
the construction crew has patiently explained that this is precisely why
they're putting in these massive big stormwater pipes to carry a tremendous
amount of water <i>away.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If I’m not
wondering about giant drinking straws, I wonder about Archimedes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A few years
ago, we had a mighty hurricane come up the east coast – Hurricane Irene - and
some of our friends were farming/gardening not far from here. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Archimedes
Effect befell their farm - all subterranean rocks hidden under their fields “floated”
to the surface. So many stones which were so heavy that they couldn't be
cleared, leaving the land useless for working as a garden. That's the
Archimedes effect. It makes everything underground float upward. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That leaves
me wondering about what's going to happen when a hurricane hits Kendall
Ave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much of the surface water will go
into the new stormwater system and flow into those massive new pipes, I'm sure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But there may
be more water, which runs underground and into the rock beneath those giant
underground drinking straws. And, after a few years, will that stone sink into
the clay and no longer be a drain of any sort? Will the water cease to flow?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I wonder what
the force of the lift the Archimedes Effect will have on those, light, plastic
giant drinking straw pipes beneath Kendall Ave? Those straws are in no way
anchored to anything underground – just placed there. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The power of
a flood and flowing water in the pipes is nothing to be trifled with. Forty
inches of storm water in the pipes flowing, and forty inches below the pipes
lifting. Could we wind up with brand-new giant pieces of sidewalk blown apart
because the pipes are rising, breaking apart at their joints like plastic
drinking straws? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">After that, where
does all the freed stormwater go?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Stay tuned.
This is the first of many hurricane seasons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ah, for the
simple joys of concrete! Maybe that’s why the Pharos built their pyramids out
of concrete and not pop bottles …or am I thinking about asphalt?</span><o:p></o:p></p>Jean W. Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344407323209013227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671575581854514287.post-12789985863439758722020-06-29T06:27:00.002-04:002020-06-29T06:49:07.279-04:00JULY 4 - FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1850) "The Meaning of July Fourth To the Negro"<br />
A great man, a great speech. Still pertinent.<br />
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