Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Carmody]

Posted by ulli (here)
Anyway, back to reality, as we have green parrots attacking our fruits.
(Not my picture, but you get the picture)

We are harvesting soursops, carambolas aka star fruits, Mulberries, oranges, limes, guavas, and there are hungry birds trying to get to them before me.

They are not hungry, they just need a reason to crap on the remainders. (looking at the bright side, here)

[ulli]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Anyway, back to reality, as we have green parrots attacking our fruits.
(Not my picture, but you get the picture)

We are harvesting soursops, carambolas aka star fruits, Mulberries, oranges, limes, guavas, and there are hungry birds trying to get to them before me.

They are not hungry, they just need a reason to crap on the remainders. (looking at the bright side, here)

Lol, you are reversing the purpose of existence. Is that what the Life of Brian taught you?

From this:
Banana land

To this, banana republic.

[ulli]

Focusing on this, as my next fruit tree experiment.
Cashew nuts/apples. I don't know which tastes better, the fruit or the nut.
The fruit goes off rather quickly, unfortunately.
Not like normal apples which can last months if stored in a cool place.

[ulli]

Anyway, trying here to get my thoughts back on track. What is it to be, renewal, or decay?
Or both?
But even then, the focus on decay will determne an outcome of regression, whereas focus on renewal brings a reality of possible betterment, or refinement.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Sierra (here)
PDF of "In Search of the Miraculous":

Thanks, Sierra. Just in case, here’s the direct link to your pdf and the Kindle edition is $2.99. Huge bargain. Many moons ago, I purchased through iBook for $11 (ish).

[Bluegreen]

Spent the holiday with my family in a back yard and I am thankful I even have a family which many do not and am thankful they continue to accept me but they all think I am crazy. They started talking about ISIS and the need to have more security personnel to pat down the public and go through their possessions to make sure they don't have bombs etc and you never know who it might be some little old lady and her purse and on and on each one spurring the other to make even more outrageous propositions and they all nod in agreement. I was biting my tongue and shutting up but finally I said something I thought was fairly innocuous like Well no I disagree I think it is time we start living in love and stop living in fear or something like that and they all stopped talking and looked at me and I could feel every set of eyes boring into me like What, what are are you, nuts? Then one by one they started back into it and they soon forgot about me and I was glad. How do you deal with that mob mentality? I don't know how.

You guys have no idea how grateful I am I can come to this place and thank you each and every one ...

[RunningDeer]

Hey, a purple Flash, that means you're back.

[ulli]

Posted by RunningDeer (here)




Hey, a purple Flash, that means you're back.

That means she sorted out her stuff, and found a good job. Was just a matter of time.
Welcome back, Flash.

[ulli]

Venezuela suicides...people on antidepressants can no longer get their meds.
Colombia starvation...truck drivers are on strike and there is no food in the shops.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by ulli (here)
Venezuela suicides...people on antidepressants can no longer get their meds.
Colombia starvation...truck drivers are on strike and there is no food in the shops.

Though, this can't help the poor Colombian folks, it’s an opportunity to repost this:

ThriveLife.com is a good place to check out for emergency preparedness. Most are certified gluten-free, NO GMOs: no bioengineered ingredients, NO artificial colors or flavors.

I've purchased the fruits, vegetables, and grains which have a shelf life of 25 years and best used within one year of opening to maintain life sustaining nutritional value.

Too, it’s cost effective if you live in seasonal areas where the price fluctuates, or inclement weather, or time constraints with work and home.

The customer ratings/reviews are pretty accurate. The site is informative and user friendly.

[Flash]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by RunningDeer (here)




Hey, a purple Flash, that means you're back.

That means she sorted out her stuff, and found a good job. Was just a matter of time.
Welcome back, Flash.

thanks for the welcome, but no, no good job yet, but a few tentative months in a software start up, with no results. However, it put me back on the working scene, making lots of contacts. I am now starting to create new ideas to survive or rather to live, so my inovlvement in avalon will be sketchy at times, because I need to work. I take it all in a very different manner.

The good news is that i am seven month in a wonderful relationship with lots of fun, lots of care, lots of love. He is a retired college math teacher but does not want to make his mind work too much - he is completely oblivious to any conspiracy theory which is funny at times, the naivety. Even daughter likes him... this says it all.

She is doing really well, finished her first year of college with slightly above average grades, and is now working for the summer in a respite camp for heavy heavy autistic and mentally disable adults. A tough job but she likes it and mostly likes the participants in the camp. She will do it every other week end when school starts again. And she has been for one year and half with a boyfriend who is nice and loving to her.

The refief of knowing she will be fine when i will not be there anymore is truly inicredible. I now realise how heavy the worries were on my shoulders, even though I did lived it with deep love which ligtened it a bit.

I have great ideas for creating work and will be working at it for the next two months. It should be implemented in September.

[Sierra]

Welcome back Flash!

So good to hear you and Mini are doing well.

[araucaria]

I have only just caught up with yesterday’s fascinating discussion – many thanks to all. I too have been pondering these matters in my own poetic rather than scientific way. Last week, casting around for a thread title I came up with ‘soft underbellies’. The very next day Carmody was using that phrase, and now eggshells, so I guess we’re on the same page. I started writing this stuff three months ago, and was thinking this week it’s about time to make a start on getting it out. I guess not starting this thread was my personal equivalent of closing the Here & now thread; anyway it’s done now: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post1079335

[RunningDeer]

Day three of my new chipmunk neighbor, Charlie. He fearlessly climbs up the second story deck stairs, and along side the birdie friends, he fills up his cheeks then scoots back down.

This morning, he caught me peeking out the screen door. With half filled chipmunk cheeks, he hightailed it. And so began the match. Charlie froze at the bottom to engage in a stare-off.

After a good effort on both our parts for two minutes that felt like twenty, I lost. Charlie’s got my number and was back in no time.

Seems, I’ve got an attention span of a chipmunk. (correction...less than a chipmunk)

[Sierra]

This version has the best choreography, as well as no audience shrieking so you can hear the music.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=o2VKaH2sKtU

"Tilted"

I will die before Methusalah
So I'll fight sleep with Ammonia
And every morning with eyes all red
I'll miss them for all the tears they shed

But I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted

I miss prosthesis and mended souls
Trample over beauty while singing their thoughts
I match them with my euphoria
When they said "Je suis plus folle que toi"

But I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted

Nous et la man on est de sortie
Pire qu'une simple moitié on compte à demi-demi
Pile sur un des bas côtés comme des origamis
Le bras tendu paraît cassé tout n'est qu'épis et éclis
Ces enfants bizarres
Crachés dehors comme par hasard
Cachant l'effort dans le griffoir
Et une creepy song en étendard qui fait:

I'm doing my face
With magic marker
I'm in my right place
Don't be a downer
I'm doing my face
With magic marker
I'm in my right place
Don't be a downer

I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted

I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Sierra (here)
This version has the best choreography, as well as no audience shrieking so you can hear the music.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=o2VKaH2sKtU

I'm pumped after watching that. The choreography was delicious. The whole thing was perfection....

[Orph]

Posted by Bluegreen (here)
How do you deal with that mob mentality? I don't know how.

You deal with it by being strong in who you are. You stated your belief, but then you sort of "faded into the background", so to speak. On the one hand, nothing more needed to be said by you, but it seems you were a bit intimidated by the group. .... Don't be.
Just for a second, go back and remember those feelings you had as the group looked at you. Now, find that inner calmness, that inner you. Now, see yourself facing the group and replace any feelings of doubt or anxiety that you had with feelings of calmness and assurance.
Of course, doing this when you are alone, or in a non-threatening atmosphere is one thing. The trick is to be able to tap into that calm and assured inner you when things get a little crazy in your outer world. You may not be able to change mob mentality type thinking. Sometimes it's enough to just hold your ground. ... Calmly. Who knows, you may have planted a seed in some of their heads. Hang in there.

[RunningDeer]

Unexplained strangeness. A tiny, tiny centipede (3/4”/2 cm) appeared out of nowhere a few inch from the edge of the kitchen table and disappear in midair after it dropped off.

As a double check, I grabbed a flashlight and search without success for several minutes. It looked too real to be an AI spider-type-guy.

Note:
1) I’m well hydrated with filtered H2O.
2) No mood altering foods or drink were ingested, that is unless you don't consider coffee a tripper.
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[Limor Wolf]

Posted by RunningDeer (here)
Note:
1) I’m well hydrated with filtered H2O.
2) No mood altering foods or drink were ingested, that is unless you don't consider coffee a tripper.
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Hi Paula ~

Smiling for the icon and for your comment. I know if I would describe everything that I saw, it wouldn't be either percieved or recieved with sympathy by my surroundings, or even here a few years ago (or even by myself, more than a few years ago). But, yes, we are part of a diversified surroundings in an environment that is teaming with life, and the unveiling process will be interesting both to the exposers and to the exposed. On a smaller or a larger scale. Learning to put bounderies - 'no one with more than three legs can talk to me'. (no, just kidding!), will possibly be the next stage after the needed acknowledgment that our physical is only a translation to the etherical, and there is so much there that is not being translated..

Or too much cofee?

[onawah]

Maybe the elementals are inviting you to play, Paula.