One of the things I often ponder is how our growing self-involvement is contributing to our problems. Whether "good, bad or indifferent," our response/reaction to change agents of any sort is

That's pretty much one perspective of what I fear is happening... specifically that people's brains are also going soft; there is less critical thinking; less capacity to go to a place of that "that's

Oh sure, it's FUDporn allright, and someone is producing it. But has humanity become more gullible over the past 40 years? It seems to me that FAR more people believe it when someone shouts "The sky's

Maybe some things just take a long time to come to fruition. Take MK-Ultra... that stuff was already up and running and having its heyday in the 1950s', 60's and 70's. You'd think that by the time I was

I'm seriously considering an electric mower as a replacement for our aging gas mower. The battery technology is still a bit iffy for something like our 1/3 acre of grass but it's getting there.

That's a lovely garden you have there! Looks like you'll have a lot of cherries. "Slug hunting" has been a major part of how we have kept ours very healthy. We keep a big 20L bucket in the garden

Hi Karen, I insert a little piece of HTML code into my post (sorry, it's an image so you'll have to type it out): where "pull-left" puts the image on the left and wraps the text; you can make

Hi @jaynie, sending love and good vibes; hope you're doing OK!

Yep, that's another good example. I find the worst to be the "innocently inclusive" use of numbers to sow the seeds of suspicion and doubt. Somebody might say "Well, I doubt more than 10%

Thanks for the support; I appreciate it!

Reminds me a bit of something one of my spiritual Teachers once observed: when you look around you, every single person you can see will most likely be dead in a 100 years from now, and most of them will

I get that. I've just never been very attracted to the extremely "shiny" in life, nor to bein in any sort of limelight.

Agreed. And one of the important ideal in my life has long been that people need to "do good" for the reason that it is doing good, not because they are looking to get recognition for their good

Thank you; thanks for stopping by.

Reaching for a bit of "sunny mood" electronica/techno this week... hard to be in a bad mood after listening to this in surround sound... and yet it has a melancholic and reflective undertone;

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My experience tells me that old-time bloggers (of which I consider myself one) care more about the interaction and engagement than most. Most modern social media is just a giant show of people trying to

I can certainly relate to that... my brain seems to be all over the Universe, most of the time. Hence I take a lot of notes when ideas come up! I understand the issue with "branching" (what I

Thanks for the support @diyhub and @hafizullah, I appreciate it!

Hi @cuddlekitten, always nice to see your cuteness around here!