Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

Posted by astrid (here)
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This rabbit’s name is Herman. He lives with his owner, Hans Wagner, in Berlin, Germany.

German Giants are domestic rabbits. They do not exist in the wild and can
live as long as 12 years. Herman can eat a bale of hay per week. He weighs
in at 22 pounds and measures a little over 3 feet.

I love Herman's feet...imagine having one of those for good luck....hahaha...

Herman's owner is wearing a copy of a sweater I designed in the seventies...
Not only the geometrics pattern but even the color combination...wow...

[Dennis Leahy]

Hi Honey, I'm home!

I wanted to bring you a gigantic bouquet, but I also wanted to bring you the smell of a rotting corpse. It was a dilemma to do both at once, but here it is:


(Amorphophallus titanum flowers grow to be as much as 3 meters - 10 feet - tall.)
Source: https://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/...itzerland-354/

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphophallus_titanum

Dennis

[mojo]

no way...thats one of them flowers from little shop of horrors!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1uOEMJSPE0I

[meeradas]

music break?

3 of my recent favs from the soundcloud:

http://soundcloud.com/benjamindauer/...rs-magi-sketch

http://soundcloud.com/steiner/the-op...of-the-horizon

http://soundcloud.com/heinali/axiom-...-of-art-in-the
[interesting artists' notes too]
Enjoy.

[Chester]

Posted by latshaw (here)

Posted by justoneman (here)

Posted by latshaw (here)
Wow...and I can relate! Quck question...are you talking about The Hill School in Penna? I don't want to mention the town - you will know if the answer is yes. I live approx 10 min. From that school and I knew too people who went there - and left.
Coincidence??? :-)

The Hill School in Pottstown, PA. I was there between 1971 and 1975.

http://www.thehill.org/

What a super cool synchronicity that just before I made that post above, you asked me for friendship? What last night? In fact, I was about to make a post related to all the heightened psychic abilities I have been generating but they have become so frequent these days, I hardly have time to even post about it. My favorite is synchronicity as it is a co-created "miracle" (actually not a miracle, but feels like one...) - anyways - Super Awesome we just shared one. Love to You, latshaw, Chester

EDIT: - and I just noted we posted at exactly the same time above! to the minute! haha XX:46 - WoW!

Yesiree Justoneman - That's the town - As a matter of fact, I used to own a house, before my car accident, on South Street about 2 Blocks from the Hill School. It is a beautiful school with much history and a beautiful campus. No one would ever guess such a lovely place would be tucked away there.

Also, I went back and forth to Aruba for about 5 years and in one year was there 7 times. Beautiful island. Also, I worked with the husband of the woman's family responsible for the water purification plant that was placed in Aruba. Best water anywhere - purified sea water. My favorite haunt / hotel was the Divi-Divi (to go with the wind - like the Divi-Divi trees!)

Who would have "thunk it" that there would be such a connection. God works in mysterious ways.

I got nostalgic and so did a Google search for my favorite master from the Hill, Thomas Ruth. He was my 9th grade and 12th grade history teacher. He was my dorm master in the 11th grade. His apartment at the southwest end of Wendall Hall was always open. Lots of students would always stop in. He always had a pot brewing of a tea that became my favorite Lapsang Souchong -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsang_souchong.

He had an extension of his apartment that was a personal library. I recall he showed it to me once. There had to have been at least 5,000 volumes.

When I created the circumstances that led to my expulsion (with just three months to go until graduation), Mr. Ruth was kind enough to drive me to the airport in Philadelphia for my long flight home back to Dallas and to my father who I was certain would be crushed by what happened.

We used to call him, Thumper, because he walked with a limp, I think it was caused by Cerebral Palsy. I hate thinking about what a heartless jerk I was when young.

This is what I discovered this morning when I did my search - http://www.thehill.org/RelId/1104441...ill-alumni.htm

Fortunately he has always been very kind to me and we still have communications via e-mail.

Just rambling memories of the past resurrecting themselves in the Here and Now.

Love to All - Chester

[Chester]

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
Hi Honey, I'm home!

I wanted to bring you a gigantic bouquet, but I also wanted to bring you the smell of a rotting corpse. It was a dilemma to do both at once, but here it is:


(Amorphophallus titanum flowers grow to be as much as 3 meters - 10 feet - tall.)
Source: https://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/...itzerland-354/

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphophallus_titanum

Dennis

Was this a hint? haha Great One... wish I had one of those growing around here.

[mojo]

an amzing bird even mimics camera shutters and car alarms....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y

[Anastasia]

wow...love this bird!

[Rocky_Shorz]

sits up in the hammock and stretches, whew what a dream...

[Kiforall]

Posted by Rocky_Shorz (here)


sits up in the hammock and stretches, whew what a dream...

You will all be grateful our kitten wasn't fighting the above battle.

She has just jumped off the table pushing off from a tissue box, which because of me failing to bolt it down, catapulted across the room leaving kitten with a reduced amount of thrust.

I now have the vision of said kitty in midair looking like a feline alien face hugger.

Glad you enjoyed your dream Rocky.

Zoe x

[ulli]

Posted by mojo (here)
an amzing bird even mimics camera shutters and car alarms....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y

I so love that bird and Attenborough for presenting it to the world.
Hearing it again reminds me of the first time I posted this video
on the open forum and even sent it to friends' visitor pages,
and couldn't understand why it would not go totally viral.
But back then everything was about Atticus, and so the birdie didn't stand a chance.

[1inMany]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UtgXus3eiII

It is calm and peaceful outside. No wind, no animal sounds, very eerie. I went outside because I did not understand why it isn't dark yet. By now, it is usually pitch black and I won't step foot off the porch because I really can't see what is in front of me.

Tonight, the moon is so bright the trees have shadows. I know this isn't new, but I've never noticed moon shadows before.

Much Love,

[Calz]

This is fun. Saw the link on Joseph Farrell's site.

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APOCALYSPE SURVIVAL GUIDE

Wine pairings for the post-apocalypse: What to drink with rats, dog food, and more

Lauren Davis

Let's say that in your post-apocalyptic wanderings, you stumble across a home or restaurant with a particularly sturdy—and well stocked—wine cellar. Suddenly you have a plethora of varietals at your fingertips, but your daily diet still consists of SPAM, small rodents, and MREs. How do you know which wines will best bring out the flavor of your post-apocalyptic cuisine?

Rats: Giant rat and cane rat (although, EmpressZombie notes in the comments, they are a very different species from brown rats) are a staple of certain West African cuisines, but the world's most famous wine-producing region has also been known for rat consumption. During the Franco-Prussian War, many French folks ate black and brown rats, and in the famed Larousse Gastronomique contains this rodent recipe:

Grilled Rats Bordeaux Style (Entrecote à la bordelaise)

Alcoholic rats inhabiting wine cellars are skinned and eviscerated, brushed with a thick sauce of olive oil and crushed shallots, and grilled over a fire of broken wine barrels.

I can only imagine that you would pair these wine-thieving rodents with a wine from the region, perhaps a nice Bordeaux Merlot to pair with rat's rabbit-like gaminess.

Squirrels: ...

... and so on


http://io9.com/5963040/wine-pairings...-food-and-more

[1inMany]

Geez, Calz, reminding me of my brothers here...grrrooooossssssssssss...

(in a brotherly-sisterly way lol)

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

It's finally cold here, a couple nights in a row, and tonight the the sky is clear and no wind blows. Cold here means 32º F or a little below, nothing serious to write home about. A most peculiar sound and activity is going on that took me a few moments of patient observance to ascertain its whereabouts. Many pecan trees populate the neighborhood, and this is a good year for pecans. The neighborhood is really quiet and the staccato sound of this season's last pecans are leaping from the leaveless limbs like lemmings (though lemmings don't really leap from precipices (a foolish lie fabricated by Disney), I couldn't resist the alliteration). One after another the pecans are falling through the limbs and foliage and striking pavement and earth. It sounds best when it hits the pavement. A hollow, staccato, bright and winsome pop. The peculiar thing is that it must be the timing of the pecans dropping in unison this night, because I can't recall before such a simultaneous barrage of pecans and the noise is entirely new to me, or else I would have recognized it. It literally sounds like squirrels, or better yet the Fae are picking off the pecans and throwing them down below to make a ruckus. I feel like a kid sitting out in the cold dark listening to the night sounds envelope me in their cacophony. I can't wait till daylight tomorrow to round them up! Yum yum......

[latshaw]

"We used to call him, Thumper, because he walked with a limp, I think it was caused by Cerebral Palsy. I hate thinking about what a heartless jerk I was when young."


Chester - Not to worry...not one of us can claim that we haven't been a "jerk" at one time or another! Seems to go with youth and it even happens when we least expect it later in life as well. So happy that our connection brought back fond memories. I love it when the "Memory Keepers" show up!! Lois

[latshaw]

1inMany... I really like your quote - it says it all.


It seems to me that if you follow your feet you are on a path, but if you follow your heart you are on a journey.

[eaglespirit]

Here and Now IChing

Am I in the best place for the transformation on the Solstice?

.......
50 - Fifty
Ting / The Caldron

Fire rises hot and bright from the Wood beneath the sacrificial caldron:
The Superior Person positions himself correctly within the flow of Cosmic forces.

Supreme Accomplishment.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Your needs are coming into harmony with the requirements of the Cosmos.
Blending brilliantly with the Dance of Life, you are becoming an actual element of Cosmic Law.
Your goals will now be realized because you no longer cut against the Cosmic grain; you are no longer swimming against the flow of the Tao.
You are acquiring an intuitive sense of what can and cannot be, and aligning your efforts accordingly.

Methinks Each of Us IS in the "best" place for the Solstice...BEing Love : )

[astrid]

Just got woken up by the most spectacular thunder storm
Quite something .

Today I kept getting nudged to plant out all my baby tomatoes
in my new straw bale beds . So I listened and pushed ahead to
get it all done.. I ended up with 33 plants in . I worked with
my pendulum to get the perfect placement for each plant
-garden dowsing works wonders .
And to wake up to this storm I can understand why I was
being encouraged so hard to plant out today . Now these
babies will get a very good start, storm kissed tomatoes .

This week we have a burst into summer with temperatures
rising quickly, our Thursday they are forecasting 32C not sure
the F conversion but that's warm by our standards.
Although some places get to 45C that's not common where
I am , 42 is about the highest we see and that's harsh ..

This storm means that tomorrow might be humid,
which I'm not a huge fan off , very sticky . But I do
love this time of year and somehow everything feels
move vivid this year, more alive . And already we are
into late November where has the year gone ?

[ulli]

Meanwhile here it's getting colder every day...wearing a tshirt and sweater and fleece pants and socks and sometimes even put on a scarf as heating in the tropics is not an option which my husband would consider. He grew up here, and is used to it. Been raining for days and the river is really high now, roaring and with brown waters.

Gotta run, lots of work to do.
Love all of you, and have PurpleLama on my mind, and the loss of his uncle, and general family grief. So sorry for everyone going through this.