CORNER MARKET WITH RICH FIELD

      Our 1968 house qualified as a commune because there were over 15 people living in a two bedroom home.  One block from campus.  One of the most coveted spaces was a basement stairwell with a Hindu tapestry.  We did not rate full hipness status because we had no eloquent activists in the upper echelon of the SDS or demonstrators who had actually been arrested.   We still knew the correct slogans and made the scene in full regalia.  For me, the most boring aspect was the constant vocabulary of smoking dope.  I did not like it.  I don't regret some other trips of alternate or expanded consciousness, but once you learn something there is a real high found in returning to good mental and physical health.    I was about to let myself be convinced that my musical equipment (acquired through working construction) should be liberated to the eloquent upper echelon because it "belongs to the people."   Then it happened.  Wh...

  Generated hate is an energy that impacts both sender and receiver.  These times present hate as the dominant energy field created by distraction  I had tried keeping to myself prior to the 2016 election but I had mentioned that I enjoyed "Think Like A Champion", Trump's book in 2006.  Seemed like a good Mind Set study to me.    On the morning after Trump was elected I was attacked with venomous looks and shouts.  I was not to be forgiven for my remembered observation.  I'm bored with snide and misanthropic conversations about his unpleasing (to some) personality so I had not become a member of the President hater club.  This automated me to the 'supporter' outsider club so the frustration of such a drastic change is directed to those of us who do not seem sufficiently angry and frightened.   But this is about my allowing my own participation in the 'angry club' to subvert some real respect and value away from a life's interest.  I...

DIVINATION NEWSLETTER. ISSUE NUMBER THREE DECISION AND PREDICTION. Tacitus described how the Germanic tribes made important decisions. Whether or not to go to war was certainly among these. Issue two of this newsletter gave his account in section 10 of The Germania. After a determination was made by the signs pro or con given by reading the lots, 'hale signs' were needed to confirm a 'yes' indication. If sortilege indicates the answer is no, there are no further considerations of the matter. If the answer is 'yes' the environment is watched for signals to confirm. "They attach the highest importance to the taking of auspices and casting lots. Their usual procedure with the lot is simple. They cut off a branch from a nut-bearing tree and slice it into strips these they mark with different signs and throw them at random onto a white cloth. Then the state's priest, if it is an official consultation, or the father of the family, in a pr...

  Divination is about selective focus and watching for signs.  Not always from divinatory tools like runes or Tarot.  Two books found me because of my interests.  The first edition of Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich"  I found at a yard sale in the original Ralston Society 1937 edition and it has been appraised at $2,000.  My interest in such things made the resonant connection.  Science of Mind is another interest.  "Ernest Holmes : His Life and Times" has an obituary clipping from 1960 on the first page.  I always enjoy reading this book and it speaks to me of survival.      BIBLIOMANCY.  Opening at random to a page for a message in response to a question.  That's what I did here while thinking about the intent of young woman who suggested I post a photo from a worthy book.  This will require my "too long-winded tor twitter" blog.   Bibliomancy is a sub-set of divinatory questioning.  Looking for ...

The rigor of attempting an academic thesis has me bogged down with laziness.  I need to remember WHY I forged into a heretical forest of distant ideas that seemed familiar as they got closer.  The grandeur of these wilderness steads among the mountain landscapes is why I'm here.  There are some familiar cottages with the comfort of homey advice and there are high stone parapets and alcun walks between the soaring keeps of mystery.    Pieces of an old concrete lagoon peek out from the lake foliage and the shoreline gravel.  Vibrant men had once built the forms and poured the concrete that would cradle a powerful cabin cruiser.  The shore and approaching woods now await whatever the new owners will do with the land.  The structures of my youth are all gone now and a modern intent to create a recreation home has re-configured the next incarnation.   That part of my homestead estate is gone now.  I stopped building, conquering....

GETTING BACK IN SHAPE WITH HOD CARRIER AND STONE MASON EQUIPMENT                              (STONE MOSTLY) I've lost 15 pounds of muscle weight without my gym.  This is my fault.  Without the tech weight machines and free weights I began feeling sorry myself and for my friends.  A solution was easy for me.  This photo shows I have a history of 'working out' as a vocation.   That's me at the cement mixer surrounded by rock that have to be moved up the ladders and metal scaffold sections.  I was about age 40 at the time.  The man on top of the scaffold and roof is my father  at about age 70.  That was one great way of life!   I'm age 71 now, retired with an injured shoulder, and no longer have the physical presence of my father or the masonry equipment.  When I joined a gym with trainers and tech equipment I began getting buff again....

Originally, I posted here with a missing part of my pdf free preview of Krisler & Alternative America.  I corrected the pdf so I considered removing this post. However, I think this section gets to the heart of the options we have in sovereign independence.  So this post will remain and there will be edits and additions to elucidate on the theme.  These are different times from the Obama era when it was written.  The escape clauses recommended here apply to a different overreach which comes mainly from the media and an entrenched society of repression and manipulation.  Don't get lost in what's wrong.  Find what works.   TOWN AND COUNTRY ADVOCATES These are not administrators as employed and funded by any distant governing agency. These are positions of interested duty taken on by family and friends who have a vision for the best interests that the people of the community also share. The people we respect, and who have r...