Dear Diary


I am so thankful today! Every day I say my gratitude mantras for all that has manifested in my life, all that I’ve been able to co-create with nature, my friends and family, and the Great Organizing Dynamic.

Since today is such a special day and everyone is talking about gratitude I thought I should write the list down so I never forget. How incredibly dull my life would be without all these fantastic challenges to overcome!

I’m so grateful I find so much inspiration in the shitshow we call Normal Life in civilized society. Like . . .

I’m so grateful I have the privilege of helping to pay for, and clean up after, ‘my’ government and their corporate interests. It’s such a pleasure to make apologies to my overseas friends and strangers alike for our warmongering and resource grabs around the world. I like to fortify myself daily by reading the most scathing reports available concerning our behavior and how good we are at pissing everyone off.

I’m particularly grateful I’m not a victim. Victims are so not good company. Also, this makes the perpetrators feel much better and I know they really need that. No one likes to feel guilty or ashamed of their abuses. I’m so pleased when I can spare them that unpleasantness.

I’m happy each day when I see the sky covered in artificial clouds that spread out and cover the sun and then watch how miraculously the weather changes considerably in less than 2 days. Yo-yo weather is every bit as fun as it sounds. It gives me great peace of mind when my joints are aching from the rollercoaster pressure variables that at least I know why it’s happening and that I only have to suffer for 2 or 3 days, until a few weeks later, when the magic clouds come back. I know how important it is for man to engineer the atmosphere and it gives me great pride to suffer on their behalf and to do my part for the greater good.

I’m so blessed by the ample choice I have in allergy and dis-ease management medications and the routine advice given by experts and professionals that is so clear and consistent and helpful. It’s so wonderful to feel so loved and cared for by the government and their successful industry partners.

I’m so thankful for all the folks who see opportunities instead of problems. It is such an exquisite growth opportunity for me personally, because where I see disaster capitalism they see weather futures; where I see exploitation they see the economy reimagined. I agree with them that I must be selfish, immature and playing the victim whenever I can’t see immediately how right they always are.

UN-Backed Banker Alliance Announces “Green” Plan to Transform the Global Financial System

I’m so thankful that with man’s technology we can finally fix everything Mother Nature can’t seem to get right. Ultrahumanism and Planetization sound like the perfect augmentation for the heart and mind. I feel our spiritual goals are so aligned and that really helps with my meditations and gratitude mantras they were so thoughtful to teach me.

The LOVE Conference

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Ladies! Welcome! Welcome! We are so thrilled to be here for our 6th Annual Love Conference!!!

We’ve got some great speakers lined up for you today, the brightest stars in the business—Merry Willy, Liza Lotta, Toni Ruburson and our feature speaker—the one and only, Opur Winey.

And of course there’s our Breakdown-2-Breakthrough breakout workshops throughout the day, so let’s get started right away!

You’ll all find slips of paper there in front of you and I want you all to write down your first name and 6 words or phrases you associate with LOVE, plus one of your favorite songs about LOVE. There are no wrong answers, it’s all about YOU and your experience!

You have 10 minutes before my assistant will collect them and I’ll read them for the group.

Ok ladies, well done! So, let’s see what we’ve got here.

Joy’s slip: passion, romance, tenderness, compassion, forgiveness, family.
Oh that’s wonderful, Joy!
And her song is: All You Need Is Love, by the Beatles, of course!

Katy’s slip: hate, betrayal, misery, lies, gaslighting, obsession.
Ok, thank you for that, Katy.
And for her song we have: Back to Black, Amy Winehouse, yes indeed.

Marjorie’s slip: confusion, loss, fatal attraction, pain, shame, manipulation.
Her song choice: Ball and Chain by the legendary Janis Joplin.

Becky’s slip: sex, power, money, fame, sex again, chocolate
Her song choice: True Love by, um, Pink? Hmm, don’t know that one.

Seven hours later . . .

What a fantastic group you’ve been! We’ve all had such a wonderful time and I know you feel exactly how I feel.

Thank you all so much for gathering today with our favorite Love Bombers!

Love truly is the answer to all our modern problems. We are all One in Love. Isn’t it miraculous to know that we can all agree on love! And we can end war, poverty, cancer, drug abuse, you name it, because we truly believe love conquers all!

Now I want you all to go out and spread the word about the power of Love to Save the World!

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The Peculiar Persimmon

Another brief plant profile this post, as it’s our first experience of persimmons!

The first thing you learn is absolutely do not eat them when they look pretty enough to eat. With the persimmon, the uglier, the better! If you eat one when it looks like this, you might think you just stuffed your mouth full of dead rodent fur.

If you eat one that looks like these below, you might cringe a little at first thinking you’re about to taste something rotten, but you’d be quite wrong—it’s magically delicious!

Let this funny lady tell you all about it!

It is often claimed that American persimmons are only edible after a frost and that you cannot ripen them off the tree. Luckily, this is not the case. However, most persimmons you can purchase at the grocery store are of a Chinese variety. It seems American producers have decided our own varieties don’t ship well enough.

Preserving ’wild’ persimmons is also a bit peculiar as cooking it will bring the astringent taste back. Making fruit leather was the solution for Native Americans according to this article by Mother Earth News. “When desired, the persimmon leather can be cut into small pieces and eaten like candy. It is much relished by small children this way. Or, the dried pulp can be mixed like raisins with cornmeal and other cereals to make Native American puddings, various cakes and biscuits.”

Time for us to give persimmon leather a try! And persimmon cookies, clearly. I already made persimmon kombucha and it’s positively divine! 🙂

We’ve planted a bunch of persimmon trees in recent years, but only females produce fruit. The ratio of male to female trees is 10 to 1 and you can’t tell them apart until they start fruiting, in about 7 years. Nature’s way of teaching us patience and planning!

From Lightbulbs to . . .

I remember the good ole days, from like, a decade ago. There was suddenly the mandate that everyone change their lightbulbs for some ‘common good’ reasons that escape me now.

What doesn’t escape me is at the time I thought, WTF?! I’ve longed considered ‘the government’ just a euphemism for ‘the mafia’, but surely, with this sort of escapade, now it will be obvious to everyone. Same tactics, only ‘legal’: Extortion, bribery, coercion, racketeering. Not to mention the ‘soft’ tactics.

Where will it end? Come on folks! I ventured forth on my social media quest. I was still on Fakebook back then. To the response of yawns and crickets and eye rolls and unfriending and the usual. Everyone clamored about to get their lightbulbs installed.

Now, here we are. As the old Virginia Slim ad boasted: You’ve come a long way, Baby!

No boobs, hmmm . …

It’s baffling, but I am far from surrendering to the mobsters and their minions. And in my own little way, I’ve come a long way, too. It’s very encouraging and refreshing for me to find like-minds in places I’d never have thought to look before. 🙂

Bruce Charlton’s Notions: Compliance is spiritual Dane-Geld

It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation,
To call upon a neighbour and to say:
“We invaded you last night – we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray,
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:

“We never pay any one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost,
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!”

Rudyard Kipling – 1911

In other words: Give the devil a finger . . .

Cheers to Zombie Apocalypse Survival Homestead for the share.

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BRAVE NEW WORLD: Toward Global Technocracy & Slavery – By Catherine Austin Fitts — RIELPOLITIK

Source – technocracy.news “…Technocracy views humans as a natural resource to be exploited, similar to oil or livestock. Controlling economic activity, therefore, requires controlling all the resources. Since energy is the gas pedal to all economic output, Technocrats create a “sustainable development” equation under their total control” Toward Global Technocracy And Slavery Image: Solariadvisors.com PDF […]

BRAVE NEW WORLD: Toward Global Technocracy & Slavery – By Catherine Austin Fitts — RIELPOLITIK

“Technocracy, on the other hand, views humans as a natural resource, no different from an oil deposit or livestock, and they are to be used as such. Humans may be more or less efficient than a robot, for example, depending on the job at hand, and efficiency trumps humanity.We’re talking about a world where most people are under 24/7 surveillance and then their financial incentives and their financial power are related to how well-behaved they are. ~ Catherine Austin Fitts

To minimize problems within this human resource management system, there needs to be maximum compliance with minimal effort, and this is where social engineering through media propaganda (brainwashing), censorship and artificial intelligence comes in. For the most part, once fully implemented, the control system will be fully automated.”

Maine Sets the Example

This is a repost from my favorite farmer: Joel Salatin
Blog: Musings From the Lunatic Farmer

I would also have been speechless at the response to his question at that California conference!


I’d love to hear what y’all think, too. 🙂

Second Amendment for Food

            A ballot initiative you may not have heard about in Maine late Tuesday created unprecedented freedom for voluntary food commerce.  This first-of-its kind constitutional amendment does what the U.S. Bill of Rights failed to do:  guarantee citizens the right to choose their food.

  The measure added language to the state constitution providing that individuals have a “natural, inherent, and unalienable right to food, including the right to save and exchange seeds and the right to grow, raise, harvest, produce, and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health, and well-being, as long as an individual does not commit trespassing, theft, poaching, or other abuses of private property rights, public lands, or natural resources in the harvesting, production, or acquisition of food.”

        What this does is give the individual legal standing to sue any entity–including a government entity–that stands in their way of acquiring the food of their choice from the source of their choice.  This language has been championed by the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund for years and it’s truly wonderful to see that a state has finally adopted it into its constitution.

             Both the Farm Bureau Federation (you know, that outfit that says it’s a friend of farmers?) and the Maine Dairy lobby fought aggressively against it, charging that it would undermine food safety.  That’s always the argument, that choice is too risky.  Somebody might get bad milk, rotten chicken, or spoiled porridge.  Yes, that’s possible, but it’s also possible they’ll be able to get better milk, better chicken, and better porridge than heretofore available due to burdensome government regulations.

             I’m thrilled over this development and anticipate Maine now leading the nation in local food commerce.  It’ll be interesting to see if the federal government attacks the state like it did with the Food Sovereignty Act several years ago.  At that time, the federal government said that if the state didn’t rescind that freedom, it would pull all inspection from the state and nothing would be able to move outside state lines.  Maine buckled.

             Let’s hope Maine holds firm this time around because the same opposition is still very much in power, both at the industry level and the bureaucratic level.  Lest you think this is all academic, let me relate a quick story.  Several years ago I was speaking at a college in California and had about 300 people in a lecture hall.  I asked them “how many of you think that a government food safety official should inspect carrots and beets harvested from your own garden before you can eat them?”   One-third of the hands went up.  I’ll never forget the moment.  I literally was speechless (that’s a big deal for me) for a bit, trying to metabolize this reality.

             Are you in agreement with what Maine just did, or do you think this will fill the hospitals with folks suffering from tainted food?

~Joel Salatin

All’s Well That Ends Well

An early frost again this year means no pumpkins for us.

So close, and yet so far

Most folks think it’s climate change, others claim it’s the Grand Solar Minimum. I suggest it’s something else completely—chemical ice nucleation for weather modification. I don’t think mother nature swings quite like that without the hands of man involved. I suppose only time will tell.

I will today, however, stay focused on the nice and easy, if only to prove I can manage to do such a thing whenever I choose.

So, here’s a fun family walk.

And a huge harvest of sweet potatoes, along with some ginger and tumeric, too.

And a sweet little harvest of honey and wax.

Resourceful bees happily cleaning up my mess
Prepared for the next crops, garlic and onions, coming soon.
The final scent of summer—the last bloom of Macy’s Pride

And to end, a tender and thoughtful bow to a dear man we’ve lost today, sparing him, and our extended family, of potentially many painful years coping with a debilitating disease. A merciful passing for which we are grateful.

Papi, now completely blind and mostly deaf, is also not far from
his final journey to the great beyond.

May he rest in peace.

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Mighty Mirliton

This post is just a quick plant profile because I’m so very pleased we’ve finely been successful growing this impressive and delicious squash. We’ve tried at least five times previously and they never lived through the summer and died long before producing fruit in early fall. I wish I knew how we got lucky this time!

Sechium edule, aka mirliton, crook, vegetable pear, pimpinella, chayote, christophine, chocho

A perennial with leaves, fruit and root all edible. One plant can easily produce 100 fruits a year. It’s a day-length sensitive plant grown in tropical and subtropical areas.

In Zone 8 it can come back from the roots if well-mulched. Fingers crossed here! It was first domesticated in southern Mexico and Central America. The fruits are used raw like a zucchini or cucumber, or cooked like potatoes.

It’s a very popular vegetable in Creole cooking. It’s used in fritters, stuffed, pickled and smothered.

We’ll be trying all of those!

Sources:
Perennial Vegetables by Eric Toensmeier
Louisiana Real & Rustic by Emeril Lagasse