@Granma
too, though i feel her presence in OT's, often... for riverlover:

Can almost see the driveway
the snow covered car
out of reach

Stones reflecting in smiling wise eyes
colors unknown
trees rising in back, meadow running from home

Hear the paddling feet in fog
in pain, no more
walking freely at last
and not alone.

"Eventually, all things merge into one and a river runs through it.
The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops, under the rocks are the words and some of the words are theirs." ~ Norman Maclean

Great to see you, Granma, hoping you've a wonderful weekend!

Thank you for the OT. Have a terrific day.

@detroitmechworks
the sea rises to embrace the man as he falls
washing clean the crimes and the blood of friend and foe..."
https://caucus99percent.com/content/logos-poseidon

Good morning, DMW, been happy to read about your joy in writing; thank you for being here!

So that's a kinda funny coincidence. (Didn't notice this till after I posted. )

Enjoying metal and soundtracks recently, so here's another that fits what I'm listening to.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg-dJQhnCPc]

@enhydra lutris
making our local places little paradises and escapes for thousands as well which is good and bad if you'd like to purchase a home or rent something as property values are sky-high, though not as high as your fantastic region of this country.

Gardens planted in mid-may coming in here and many more early apple varieties fill the frig. Thirty miles down the hill blackberry festivals take place this weekend; but a drive around this week checking on their local progress satisfied me that i should hold off on annual blackberry trekking a week or two.

Had a marvelous time camping with my son and his mate on the Watauga last week; sure do miss them when they go...and my grand-dog, too.

Enjoy the fresh fish; no choice but to catch my own here as no one trucks fresh fish from the coast anymore i'm aware of; except for purveyors to the area's fancy restaurants.

Hoping you've a good local Sauvignon Blanc for the late afternoon

Sierras, so a lot of stuff bolted and all that. We did get some apricots that the critters didn't beat us to, and are getting a lot of green beans. Also got a few onions and some remaining unbolted greens.

Farmers' market today, which usually includes fresh fish trucked over from Half Moon Bay so we will likely grab a chunk of salmon, halibut or "rock cod" for tonight's dinner. Still doing clean-up and repair from camping trip, then it's back to yard work and prep for the next trip plus planning the next several.

Have yourself a great day (and week).

@QMS @QMS

Two thoughts both from Duke:

Dr. Miguel Nicolelis emerged from the tunnel of the Arena de Sao Paolo into the brilliant Brazilian sunlight. The scene before him was breathtaking: dancers twirled around an enormous planet-like soccer ball pulsing with multicolored lights at midfield, music blared over the stadium’s speakers, and the stands were a cheering, roaring sea of yellow and green, the Brazilian national colors.

Nicolelis was nervous. He and a team of over 150 collaborators had been racing the clock for almost a year and a half in order to get to this moment. If they failed, they would fail in front of nearly 70,000 people in the stadium and hundreds of millions around the world watching the 2014 FIFA World Cup Opening Ceremony on television.
paranormal

[...] Pinto’s right leg flexed backward about 30 degrees and then swung forward to make contact with the ball, which rolled several feet. By World Cup standards, it was a humble kick indeed—but that gentle tap offered a glimpse of a future in which people might be liberated from the physical limitations of the body, in which patients with paralysis might one day be able to use their minds to power their legs and walk again.

https://today.duke.edu/2014/10/nicolelis

By 1935 J. B. Rhine had coined the term extrasensory perception (ESP) and defined four forms: telepathy (mind-to-mind communication without known physical means), clairvoyance (seeing things not present), pre-cognition (knowing things before they happen) and psychokinesis (mind over matter). He believed by proving ESP was real and that it operated independently of the physical and mortal body, there might also be something about humans that could survive death of the body.

Over the next five decades Rhine would conduct hundreds of thousands of iterations of the same experiments, often using decks of 25 cards, five symbols, five cards each with a circle, a plus sign, wavy lines, a square, and a star. By simple chance anyone should be able to guess right once in every five tries. Very early on, one Duke student reportedly had an average of 9.6 hits (correct guesses) out of 25 in 1,000 trials. The Rhines believed they were on to something.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/durham-news/dn-communi...

Dr. Rhine, known and popular even attracted we students of a different blue on the Hill in the sixties of whom, i was one participating as a guinea-pig. Good laughs in memory, but they were on to something.

However, in DARPA's hands..........mind control loses its appeal.

Thanks for this good link and read and have a great evening!

edit for its

Thanks for the OT smiley. Came across this article describing the work being done on mind control.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/optogenetics-a-new-technology-to-control-t...