fractal fragments swept ashore
Ok! So I have used melissa (lemon balm) in my teas for years now, and strongly recommend it. It is amazing fresh crushed, with scalding water poured over it and a teaspoon of honey. A bit of the flavor is lost in drying it, but I enjoy it so much that my son helps me […]
Read More Cooking With Lemon BalmThere is a speculative theory popular in the circles of science-minded science fiction fans called The Fermi Paradox. Which is a very official sounding name, like something we might assign to a maths theorem, though in fact it’s nothing of the sort. The Fermi Paradox is not any sort of generally recognized law or rule. […]
Read More The Fermi PremiseThe consistently poor performance of the primary and secondary education systems in the United States is not merely an issue of insufficient funding. There isn’t a school I’ve seen in years that wasn’t in fantastic physical condition – in fact, they seem to get physical makeovers and superficial improvements to their appearance every few years […]
Read More Whiff of DecayWWIII is not coming. It began years ago… It’s likely that what should be recorded as he first invasion of WWIII occurred quite some time ago. This is not a fiction. How many have already forgotten what happened in Greece in 2010 & 2011? How many never fully understood the implications of using police and […]
Read More WWIII is not coming.In Fossil Fuel & The Collective Consciousness I refer to a post on The Chrysalis, a blog I strongly recommend. In the comments following that post, Scott posits that: “The manipulation of energy as information is very probably the very definition of magic, and it is just part of the structure of things.” I thought […]
Read More Mind Is MagicI just read a very erudite and compelling essay about the relationship between information and technology on The Chrysalis, which is definitely one of my favorite blog journals and consistently provides very good reads, particularly if you are at least somewhat familiar with hermetic philosophy. The Waning of the Fossil Fuel Era I’m cautiously hopeful […]
Read More Fossil Fuel & The Collective Consciousness“Only a fool believes what he reads in the paper.” That is what my late grandfather taught me. He was a hardworking, honest man who loved to laugh. An auto mechanic who owned and operated his own small but successful shop for decades. He never had a lot of use for the media – printed […]
Read More What You Read In The PaperSo I was browsing the feeds this morning and came across an aside on a blog I have been enjoying recently, In Saner Thought. The subject was “conspiracy theories” and whether they are plausible and worth considering. “Our world these days is full of conspiracy theories about this or that…..but ask yourself….do these conspiracies hold […]
Read More Theory, or Tall TaleFresh grass stains the walk, grown new yesterday when the blade that cut it was ripped, bleeding, from the heart of a peaceful mountain. Innocence soiled by innocence soiled by innocence soiled.
Read More StainsEvery time someone starts talking about any sort of “end of the world,” my mind instantly reels back to something I once read, though I don’t even recall which book it was in (it may have been The Zohar). At any rate, the sentiment was generally this: ‘The world was created to teach a child. […]
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