ecosophia | Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 56

As we move further into the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries.

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.

3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.

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Coming up like a train!
I'm in. Last time I was tied up for hours
with a sick raccoon who vanished on me
before the bylaw officer 'dropped by' five
hours after I called. lol.
Thank you for the reminder.
A month goes by like two minutes.

FEG
Fuchsia Exasperating Griffin

i'm in as per usual. i've already emailed liam's transcription to myself at work so i can print a copy for the hike.

question for liam: did the rapper happen to be from pittsburgh? i would love to see the video, even though i am not really into rap either. if you see this and still have a link...

Probably relevant rappers from Philly:

Pass the Popcorn. The Roots don't seem to do videos, but someone did just set it to a bunch of Kung Fu movie clips...

I personally prefer dancier channelled material.

no, there was a guy, and it was few (maybe bunch of?) years back, that had a hilarious video. might have been mac miller when he first got started? i can't find it after a half hour of searching and i give up.

i'm still interested in liam's mystery rapper, as it would give a hint about cadence and similar things regarding the transcription.

i just started reading of mice and men by steinbeck yesterday. it's not a poem, but if i could get somewhere that had temps under 100 degrees for a weekend, it might be worthy of reading aloud too.

I don't know anything about the rapper who did the song about the economy. I just ran across it on some site I was surfing through. I didn't bookmark it because rap isn't my thing. As I said, it was just my usual morning routine and I thought it was witty.

As far as the "dictation" goes, I didn't get the impression that this being who paid me a visit was an aspiring rapper. LOL!

Liam in Toronto

At first I read it as '...I did get the impression..'

That caused the images in my head to go spinning! LOL!

FEG
Fuchsia Exasperating Griffin

Thanks to those who have joined Tracks in Space, or will later today.

I had a great sit outdoors watching the world wake up. It’s due to be 105 in my neck of the woods today, 90 by 8am, so I got an early jump on it, before the sun came up. I have a spot down by a dry, rocky, silty riverbed in a mountain valley I like to visit, surrounded by oaks. The stream runs a month or two out of the year, then turns to a nice hiking trail the rest. This summer it’s been extremely dry. Lots of tinder that could easily go up in smoke. The bees were up early, trying to find water where they could. The birds started poking around next. A hawk was up early, moving between trees before he started for the day. I saw a blue jay pretend to be a woodpecker. That was a new for me. For five minutes he hit a branch with his beak, and was rewarded with a fat, white grub. How he knew exactly where to land, I’ll never know. This was followed by a huge crash in the bushes 50 feet away. It sounded like a large branch fell off a tree. The area is known to have bear sightings every couple months, so I got ready to move. Turned out to be the least graceful buck ever. Must have gotten caught and fell down a hillside. He saw me and walked away sheepishly. Then the dragonflies started, and the sun came over the rise.

I’ve had a heavy heart the past few weeks, a sadness and anger at what has transpired these past years, and a worry about what is yet to come. It’s been a bit debilitating. I’ve not been as productive and present as I should be. Too much projecting into the future. This morning I was sitting on a large boulder below an ancient oak, facing east. I watched the sun rise behind the oak, and had a feeling arise with the light. It was only half enunciated, but I fully understood it. It was a feeling similar to the verse “vengeance is mine sayeth the lord.” I need not worry because downfall is present already even in the seed of evil. Then I read the plow, and my throat stuck a bit at “some there were, as always, who doubted that the war would end right”. That bit has gotten me before. I’ve been living in that too much. I doubt I will be able to let go of the fear and anger right away, I will work on it, but I heard what the oak and the sun had to say.

Murmuration

Ok... well, and today I got a "get"... that is to say, during my hike, which was more of a walk, or maybe even a meander, the one time I looked at my watch, it was 11.11am.

Anyway, well, I spent the time gathering blackberries... so if anyone wants one?

They are black, they are shiny, they are tight enough to pick without falling apart, they are a lovely "ping" on the tongue... and they are a reminder of the generosity that is built in to "nature" (ie "that which is born")... I never planted them, they simply appear, and when the time comes... there are berries. Even if the plant cultivates thorns, and can be prickly... ;) she is generous, and in the right season, which is now, she gives and gives.

So, all of you are welcome to the generosity of the blackberry bushes round here. The blackberry is also, by an ancient tradition, "the mother of oak". It seems that young oaks were vulnerable to being grazed, but if they could grow to a certain size under a blackberry bramble, well, then, they were made!

Anyway, I offer, the generous (but prickly) blackberry, as the September "track in space"... from here in Donegal, Ireland.

Nice. Thank you.

Thanks for your comments above Murmuration. The setting sounds idyllic if not already quite warm. In terms of 'reality' I feel like my stomach is half - 'caught up' and have no clue how to proceed. I did intermittent fasting June - Sept. and have started cold showers this last week. I don't know whether I am powerful or powerless.

I left to walk at 4:10 with the aim of heading into a deep park for an hour and then read the Hughes poem and then turn around and head back.
At 4:20 I ran into somebody who I thought had wronged me and profited over a creative (arts-based) idea of mine. I just expressed myself and shocked him. We hacked back and forth with the facts and I figured out what he was saying and realized how wrong I was about him. We talked for over an hour and a quarter about many things and rediscussed the issue a bit at the end. I was emotional and felt ashamed.
Yes somebody else should have recognized my initial work, perhaps financially as well, but it wasn't this person.
The universe I believe wanted me to have an attitude readjustment and I have it. So that's what I got as I headed out with Tracks in Space in mind.
I will read the poem after I eat.

Fuchsia Exasperating Griffin

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