https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2023/05/debt-rattle-may-30-2023/
and nature at it's finest
This is incredible! A heartwarming moment captured at sea as a shark asks for human help to rescue a defenseless turtle
I went back to the Dailykos site today, into which I can't log into anymore, to search for something. Basically I wanted to let Sarah R and her sister Winglion know that I like to contact them to thank them for the quilts they once made for me and tell them that their quilt overs my bed til today.
Something/Someone Old
I found this today while Christmas shopping for a dear friend I don't see much. She's interested in maps, and she's from the Research Triangle, so I thought this might be nice:
seems to me as it’s always been, a fundamental question that involves constant consideration in our daily mundane lives, as well as our more ethereal ones. I’m thinking at the moment that the answers may be more simple than they were before, and may be unnecessary to define, because life gets in the way.
I just listened to an e-mail from Caitlin Johnstone that contained some insights which, upon reflection and consideration, most of the populace seems to either have lost track or or to have been unaware of. It's allegedly about "now" or "today", but really applies to most of the recent past and probably all of the future. As a result, given that her work is public domain, I decided to post the whole thing here.
I recently became part of a Judo Club here in Portland.
I know, old disabled vet, doesn't really fit. Shouldn't I be taking something more hardcore and serious? Or he thought process goes the other direction and people wonder if I shouldn't be taking a much more calm art, or meditative process?
I went cash.
I didn't just leave the banks, I left the Credit unions and any other entity that requires me to "Trust" people who have repeatedly shown me that they will ignore all regulation as long as the orders come from the right people.
I hope I don’t offend too many of you who use the 1% vs 99% meme but it really is not doing much. Trumps election might even suggest a negative impact but that is giving it too much influence.
How did we become ugly America? Not all Americans, or even a majority but enough that our society and the world has no escape from their megaphone. Alpha males unbound by civility, facts or rules.
Is it curable, containable, reversible? Can we agree on what is ugly - I'd nominate the "me-centric"; those with an expectation of being owed, I believe I deserve and 'other's don't (some just by birthright and feel they've been wronged.) Ugly souls, at the alter of Me.
The human species is very comfortable with killing. There is a sham morality that says killing can be bad but it carries so little weight in the big scheme of things. All carnivores kill for food, but this is something else.
