Cycles in time. Learning the cycles of nature is part of food resilience. It takes the least effort to collect and preserve during the season of surplus.

Morning, I am always surprised how long the days can be this time of year. The mixture of enjoying the day, taking care of today's needs, remembering the challenges of the past, preparing for the known future and trying to anticipate the unknown.

Morning, I hope your gardens are growing well. Our local farmers market is starting in a couple of weeks. I am looking forward to buying some local vegetables. I always seem to get my garden in a little later than the market farmers.

When this question was posed this week in a diary "3) Where is this big technological fix that will solve the climate change problem?" my thought was no big fix, simply lots of little ones made by individuals.

Our discussions on climate change solutions often focus on petroleum production, electricity source and transportation options. Food choices provide us an opportunity multiple times a day to make choices that effect the climate.
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Time.
Measured by the movement of the hands on the clock in consistent and steady intervals.
Perceived by events as a variable measurement,
racing by faster and faster as we are absorbed in the tasks of life
slowing almost to a halt by abrupt jolts of joy or trauma.

Give a man a fish, he can eat for the day.

Teach a man to fish and he can eat forever. Unless the water he fishes has only seasonal runs, the area becomes over-fished the water, polluted or global warming destroys the fishes living environment. Does he live near the water or are there transportation problems?

In my youth I was accused of being to focused on making money. Nothing unethical, just long hours, education, strategic moves being pushed by a fear of the poverty I saw my great-grandmother, grandmother and aunts live. A low cost, high quality education was the foundation to a professional career by opening up options, but did not guarantee success.

I had a failure in saving my Open Thread this morning. It was my connection, not the website.

So simply good morning and enjoy this piece of music.

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