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Happy Mothers Day!

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We are all related, descended from a common Mother sometimes called Eve. We all share the same mitochondrial DNA. Despite all our differences, we really are a single human family. If only we could view our tribe as being all of humankind, wars might become obsolete, and we all might rest in the bosom of Gaia.

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Rock Me to Sleep
Elizabeth Akers Allen - 1832-1911

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
Make me a child again just for tonight!
Mother, come back from the echoless shore,
Take me again to your heart as of yore;
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care,
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair;
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep;—
Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep!

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears,—
Toil without recompense, tears all in vain,—
Take them, and give me my childhood again!
I have grown weary of dust and decay,—
Weary of flinging my soul-wealth away;
Weary of sowing for others to reap;—
Rock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep!

Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue,
Mother, O mother, my heart calls for you!
Many a summer the grass has grown green,
Blossomed and faded, our faces between:
Yet, with strong yearning and passionate pain,
Long I tonight for your presence again.
Come from the silence so long and so deep;—
Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep!

Over my heart, in the days that are flown,
No love like mother-love ever has shone;
No other worship abides and endures,—
Faithful, unselfish, and patient like yours:
None like a mother can charm away pain
From the sick soul and the world-weary brain.
Slumber’s soft calms o’er my heavy lids creep;—
Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep!

Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with gold,
Fall on your shoulders again as of old;
Let it drop over my forehead tonight,
Shading my faint eyes away from the light;
For with its sunny-edged shadows once more
Haply will throng the sweet visions of yore;
Lovingly, softly, its bright billows sweep;—
Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep!

Mother, dear mother, the years have been long
Since I last listened your lullaby song:
Sing, then, and unto my soul it shall seem
Womanhood’s years have been only a dream.
Clasped to your heart in a loving embrace,
With your light lashes just sweeping my face,
Never hereafter to wake or to weep;—
Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep!

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The term Mother is a bit over used to my thinking. we've got the MOAB, the mother of all bombs. George Galloway calls his Sunday Podcast MOATS, the mother of all talk shows. However, I do like the idea of Mother Earth or Gaia.

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Much like the term Mother Nature.

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She is the Mother we all depend upon and need like a two way street care for.

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Many cultures over time have worshiped the Earth goddess in various ways. One way was with cave art. Recently a large assemblage was revealed in Alabama using high tech photography.
Alabama cave reveals mysterious new images traced by ancient hands
There's an Ancient Art Archive where you can search your state for examples of paleolithic works.
https://archive.ancientartarchive.org/?search=Alabama
Was this art created as a form of worship or is it just ancient art? We don't know. The knowledge and mystery of the ancients is intriguing to me.

We all can do at least little things to minimize our impact on the natural system, or even enhance the environment. One of my primary relationships with the planet is through the garden. However compared to Jim Kovaleski, I'm a mere amateur. He makes the case that his small scale production methods are the future of farming and food.

I understand those farming for a living have to look at the economics of production. Being a homesteader focused on self sufficiency removes the production pressure, but to realistically provide every community local fresh produce would require adoption of Jim's small scale local approach.

So I want to wish all the Mothers a wonderful day as well as all who care for and steward mother earth. If your Mom is alive be sure to give her a call or visit. Without her there would be no you. This is an open thread. Any and all topics acceptable below.

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Thanks for the ode to mother today.
The Ecuadorian pipes in the Andes is
a magical sound.

https://en.unesco.org/global-geoparks/imbabura

Enjoy the garden!

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@QMS

We had what we discovered to be a racoon invasion. They dug out under one of the gates which I plugged with some fencing scraps. They mainly dug in the mulch. I use a rat poison baited vole trap made out of a sink drain tee. You bury it in the vole tunnel and when they come through they eat the poison and die. Well that trap was dug up and the tight fitting cap removed and the poison was gone. My plug seemed to work as we had no more invasions.

This weekend I started smelling something and found a dead racoon in a nearby ditch. So the vole trap was his undoing.

Spring wildflowers are just lovely this year. Hope your spring has unfolded nicely too.
All the best!

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@Lookout

Last year a silly raccoon tried to crawl under the workshop floor and got stuck.
Then perished. peeyoo what a stink. Had to bring a critter bznz to dig and drag
it out. Haven't the stomach for that stuff. Now the woodchucks are inhabiting that
space. I don't mind them so much but my wife is scared of them.
Always something. And the new arrivals this year are little red squirrels. Never had
them before, just the big gray squirrels. The hawks seem to keep them somewhat
under control, but they really are pests.

good luck

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everybody too. Slow day planned here today, after sourdough pancake and ham breakfast, tinkering around the edges of the stuff on the endless to do list. Sun is out and temps seem mild so far predictions are for cloudy and a high of 59. The 6 to 7 hour just vanished in a wink on me, so who knows what will really get done today. Wink Had a big block party in the court yesterday, the first in a couple of years, so the impetus to get going on humdrum affairs is minimal. Ah well, time to get going on the pancakes I guess.

be well and have a good one.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@enhydra lutris

...of your community gathering. So nice to see old friends and feel things are getting back to normal.

It is a cool day here as well. It's blackberry winter as we call it...right on time. Cabbages and such love it. Tomatoes and sweet potatoes, not so much. Good and bad as with most things.

Hope it is a good day!

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The american empire isn't about america, rather it's about the Globalists!
All past empires have supported their own people, the current leaders of
the "american empire" is serving the Davos/Elites/Oligarch crowd.

This is well worth the listen everyone.

https://tomluongo.me/2022/05/06/podcast-episode-106-robert-barnes-and-th...

This week lawyer, raconteur and commentator on all things topical, Robert Barnes joins me for a spirited chat about the delusions of Western elites and their goals surrounding the Great Reset and how that dovetails with the Democrats’ mid-term election strategy.

thanks for the WW, Lookout!

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

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@ggersh

really make it obvious. Willing to throw their own people under the bus to advance their agenda. Making use of Ukraine just as they did the plandemic.

Pretty interesting to see their leadership trainee lists.
https://www.informedchoiceaustralia.com/post/wef-and-their-young-global-...
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/WEF/Young_Global_Leaders

Thanks for the Barnes interview. I found him through Viva Frei in Canada. They have a locals community and do a YT show.
Sidebar with Journalist Darren J. Beattie! Viva & Barnes LIVE!.

Thanks for the clip, I like Barnes analysis.

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The first one had a my return address on, but from the backyard. Every year I would get one from wherever they were staying whilst I was working. Such a sweet memory now that she is gone.

I’m pretty sure Sam mumbled something about it this morning but her mouth was full of sock when she said it. It’s our morning thing for her to bring me my socks and then shoes a bit later. Sometimes she has to go find them wherever she left them after pilfering them in the middle of the night. She usually wakes me up being so proud that she found them. It’s the little things…

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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@snoopydawg

...that mean so much. I'm so glad you and Sam found each other!

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@gjohnsit

but I think if I was shopping for real estate I would wait a bit....the market may collapse.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-2022-real-estate-collapse-is-goi...
The entire global economic system seems at risk to me, but I hope I'm wrong.

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From a comment on MoA

A spreadsheet has been generated by a self described autist, whose prediction for pattern recognition was triggered by “one too many” fires and accidents at industrial sized agricultural plants in North America.

The spreadsheet “contains all major attacks on industrial scale food processing plants and industrial scale farms in the last 3 years. There is a very clear trend that it is increasing”. As stated by the spreadsheet autist.

The spreadsheet was made available via links… although of course the links were instantly under attack. It can’t be guaranteed they will still be working when you see this post.
The spreadsheet post had been made on 4chan only 3-4 times before it was officially designated a “conspiracy theory” “debunked” and “discredited”. By Snopes and an industry magazine.
As was pointed out … the post (at that point) was nothing beyond a spreadsheet documenting the facilities, and incidents.

No “theories” had been offered as to why there was an increase in the incidence of fires/ accidents.
No “theories” had been offered that suggested these were deliberately created, or, if deliberate, who might be responsible and who might benefit.

That the “debunking” came so quickly. And that the headline was literally “Nothing to see here”, prompted many, myself included, to pay the spreadsheet posting more attention.
What has been documented is approaching 130 incidents. The significance: …..“in reality the supply chains are incredibly vulnerable and very concentrated.

The autist says…”my spreadsheet is heavily curated and I specifically only listed large scale industrial facilities. So when people try to fact check it by repeating my methodology, they will realize that the actual list, if you include tiny little farms and small businesses is at least 5 times larger.

Pork: Just 15 facilities process 60% of all pork in the US.

Potatoes: A fire at a processing plant in Maine in March 2022. “This single facility being burned to the ground was enough to cripple the entire state of ME potato industry valued at more than 300 million, but not only that it was enough to also reduce the size of next year’s crops due to no facility existing to handle the volume.”

This is just one of many examples of how a single processing facility can cripple entire supply chains and even entire industries that span multiple states or continents.
That “someone” doesn’t want this information disseminated became apparent:

Quote: I should mention that during the process of my research all major search engines with the exception of Yandex became useless.
About halfway through my research, suddenly I stopped getting results and instead was getting random garbage, and then to top it off one night every search was just filled with the "Fact Focus" article posted across hundreds, maybe even thousands of separate sites in an attempt to build consensus through spam.

I was unable to even find more recent examples of fires and incidents such as the grand rapids fire, even typing out the full title of the article would not get me there. I switched to Yandex and learned how to use a filter to complete the rest of my research”.

Beef: [can’t find the comment, but 1 facility destroyed resulted in a large impact…might post again if I find the post]
The links…. If they still work…
~…………sorry can’t get them to post….
Will try another way…

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 8 2022 16:30 utc | 10

It sure looks like there is a deliberate attack on them and it’s starting to get lots of notice. Supplies are also being held up in China because of the Covid lockdowns and then we have the oil companies deliberately slowing down their production of gas and gawd only knows what else the corpse class is going to do to us to cause strife in our lives. The parasite class is also buying up homes for sale and driving costs even higher. The elite have declared war on we the other people and I wonder how much longer people will just take it?

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@snoopydawg

Full out war. Growing your own food is a security issue?

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@snoopydawg

So we are and will be victims of their greed. Hate to say it, but that's what I see.

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This piano version of "Cassiopeia" written by Reina del Cid was recorded live at Gold Diggers soundstage in Los Angeles, CA.

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I gotta confess. While you and others are trying to eradicate raccoons, I was in a Colorado motel for a week, immediately noticed a coon came up an alley, knocked off the top of the garbage bin, and dove in. Well, as I saw him walking away, I noticed he had 3 1/2 legs. His right front leg had no paw, and only half it's normal length.
I encouraged all my motel neighbors to pitch in their leftovers. We got to watch Rocky feast every night.
This is harsh land, not suitable for gardens. I don't know how a coon got into that little town and has lived long enough to be so huge.
We are on our way home, staying in a motel in a motel outside of Amarillo that is, without a doubt, the most luxurious and well-appointed motel I have ever stayed in, anywhere in the US. If I didn't need to get to court on Tuesday...
Thanks for the WW, and I will have lots of links to check out this evening!

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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@on the cusp

I wasn't out for it. Wasn't even sure if it was armadillo or opossum or racoon. He got into the vole trap and ate the poison it contained.

I'm all for the wild critters, so I'm glad you enjoyed seeing them. Also glad y'all had a nice trip!

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