Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Samsara]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
Oh my gosh, Em and I just had the most amazing, fun, and exciting experience! We finally were able to stop at the hole in the wall herb shop in town. It's tucked away and if you don't drive really slowly looking at what downtown has to offer, I'm sure you'd miss it.

Em has been looking at making things with herbs, teas, tinctures...all kinds of combinations for all manner of things.

After spending an hour in the store, the owner, who is an herbalist, told us about classes she teaches. Em and I are taking our first beginners class in June! And not only that, but she offered to Em that if she had time over the summer she would be thrilled to have some help. So Em lit up like a Christmas tree, being allowed to volunteer with this lady. Em will get to take classes from her at no charge, and also get a discount on anything purchased there. Which, after today, I will tell you will be substantial.

We came home with two plants, two girly mesh tea strainer ball thingies, a sample bag of tea for Em's tummy troubles, two all natural chocolate bars, some organic lollipops, and a bunch of packets of seeds.

We have a ton of ideas on how to get the tummy issues under control, including swapping out cow's milk for coconut milk...and she carries organic, fresh yogurt which we will put in our smoothies (new addiction there) instead of store bought...and this lady makes some type of organic chocolate mix for milk, which will make Em a happy girl!

Oh, I'm so excited! Em gets to "study" with an herbalist! I did check her level of patience, haha, as Em is sort of...inquisitive...and this lady used to be a preschool teacher!

Of course, I will take the classes too, which is an added bonus.

How fun Much Love,

I'm really happy for Em and yourself 1! What a great opportunity ! Lucky girl ! She will learn so many things and at such a young age... very very good !

[ulli]

Don't know if this is appropriate for the Village thread, since we're all already rich here:

[ulli]

So who can come up with a funny caption for this one:

[Orph]

Durn younger generation. Always have to dye their hair some weird color!

Uh-oh. Somebody's been messing around with an orangutan.

We've had the Indigo children. Now welcome the Golden Orange children to the world.

"My pretty brown fingernails are just so awesome!"

"I have reason to believe that these leaves I've been eating have been genetically modified."

[Ol' Roy]

Tansfer from one tree hugger and planter to another,













My dear friends,

Transferring a little bit from up at the ranch. I have planted 10,000 trees over the the course of my lifetime. Not bragging, just a reward for why I AM STILL ON THE PLANET! It means so much to me to go see what I was a part of!

If we could all do this on a lessser part, it would be amazing!

It is so rewarding to see all these beautiful trees after these many years. Taking up the carbon dioxide and transfering this into the lunggs that we breathe every day. Needless to say that all the flora that lives underneath. That provide us with medicines and feed the fauna underneath..

Sorry, I'M ON A TREE KICK! Ulli living in Costa Rica in the Here and Now. Aren't they harvesting tree in your area?

[WhiteFeather]

Here and Now just coming home from Band Practice. Smoked some natural stuff and had a few cold beers. I decided to listen to some oldies. This will make your hair stand up a bit here and in the now. Hey What happened to music.....where are the musicians?... i ponder of late. And Does Monsanto control the music industry too. Give this tune 2 minutes. Enjoy my Kolas...

We are all 1 Tribe

Vince

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

[ulli]

Posted by Ol' Roy (here)
Tansfer from one tree hugger and planter to another,













My dear friends,

Transferring a little bit from up at the ranch. I have planted 10,000 trees over the the course of my lifetime. Not bragging, just a reward for why I AM STILL ON THE PLANET! It means so much to me to go see what I was a part of!

If we could all do this on a lessser part, it would be amazing!

It is so rewarding to see all these beautiful trees after these many years. Taking up the carbon dioxide and transfering this into the lunggs that we breathe every day. Needless to say that all the flora that lives underneath. That provide us with medicines and feed the fauna underneath..

Sorry, I'M ON A TREE KICK! Ulli living in Costa Rica in the Here and Now. Aren't they harvesting tree in your area?

Tree cutting is very controlled here. They catch the culprits easily, as large logs are hard to hide. Every tree has to show a permit. even owning a chainsaw now means you need a permit.
We are planting trees here all the time.
My mother planted about 10,000 trees every summer. Total about 400,000 in her lifetime. Now they have planting machines. she still walked behind them when she was dying of cancer, making sure the tree was straight.
Our forest in Germany was always mixed...beech, firs, but nowadays they are in the Christmas tree business...my nephew runs the family farm. More profit oriented than my dad used to be. He just wanted to maintain tradition ....

[eaglespirit]

Early morning IChing, worth a share...Love You All, Onward, Upward and Beyond : )
.......
Now that I am finishing the deed...
may I help the transformation in new and wonderful ways in my coming travels?
...
48 - Forty-Eight
Ching / The Well

Deep Waters Penetrated and drawn to the surface:
The Superior Person refreshes the people with constant encouragement to help one another.

Encampments, settlements, walled cities, whole empires may rise and fall, yet the Well at the center endures, never drying to dust, never overflowing.
It served those before and will serve those after.
Again and again you may draw from the Well, but if the bucket breaks or the rope is too short there will be misfortune.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

There is a Source common to us all.
Jung named it the Collective Unconscious.
Others hail it as God within.
Inside each of us are dreamlike symbols and archetypes, emotions and instincts that we share with every other human being.
When we feel a lonely separateness from others, it is not because this Well within has dried up, but because we have lost the means to reach its waters.
You need to reclaim the tools necessary to penetrate to the depths of your fellows.
Then the bonds you build will be as timeless and inexhaustible as the Well that nourishes them.

[WhiteFeather]

Still On the tree subject here and now. And one of my favorite species of tree. Behold The Sequoia.

The Sequoia Tree: Named After An American Indian Chief SEQUOYAH

About Sequoyah http://www.manataka.org/page81.html

Sequoia, a genus of cone-bearing evergreen trees of the pine family. These trees were named after Sequoya, a Cherokee Indian leader and scholar. Sequoias are very tall, straight trees with furrowed reddish-brown bark. They surpass nearly all other plants in size and are among the oldest living things on earth. Sequoias were widely spread over the Northern Hemisphere before the Ice Age, which began about 2,000,000 years ago and continued to about 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. Fossil remains of sequoia trees have been found in many areas of Europe and the United States. Today the sequoia genus is represented by only two living species, found only in California and southwestern Oregon. These surviving sequoias are the redwood and the giant sequoia, which is also known as the big tree.

The redwood is a much taller tree than the giant sequoia. It grows to heights of about 275 to 350 feet (84 to 109 m), while the giant sequoia attains average heights of 250 to 280 feet (76 to 85 m). The giant sequoias, however, are much more massive and have longer life spans than the redwood. The oldest known giant sequoias are about 3,500 years old; the maximum life span of the redwoods is about 2,200 years. Both trees owe much of their remarkable life span to the facts that they are not easily destroyed by insects or disease and their bark is highly resistant to fire.

The Giant Sequoia The giant sequoia grows in groves along the western slopes of the Sierra Nevadas at altitudes of about 4,500 to 8,000 feet (1,370 to 2,440 m). These trees grow at higher altitudes and in cooler areas than the redwoods. They have deep-green foliage and their leaves, which are small and scalelike, overlap one another. The woody oval cones are yellowish-brown and from two to three inches (5 to 7.5 cm) in length. The giant sequoia is not used as a timber tree; its wood is lightweight and brittle.

One of the most famous giant sequoia trees is the General Sherman tree in Sequoia National Park. Borings taken from the tree showed it to be about 3,500 years old. It is about 275 feet (84 m) tall and at ground level is 103 feet (31 m) in circumference. Some of the other national parks and national forests in which giant sequoia groves are preserved are Yosemite National Park, Kings Canyon National Park, and Sierra National Forest.

The Redwood The redwood is the state tree of California. It requires a cool climate of high humidity, and is found only in the narrow fog belt along the Pacific coast from southern Oregon to Monterey, California.

Some of the tallest redwoods have been discovered in Redwood Creek Grove in Humboldt County, California. The tallest tree there measures about 370 feet (113 m) in height. Some areas have been established as state and national parks to preserve the largest and the most beautiful redwood groves. One of the most famous of these parks is Muir Woods National Monument.

Redwood trees have narrow, yellow-green leaves that are stiff, flat, and sharply pointed. The cones are egg-shaped and about one inch (2.5 cm) long. The redwoods are named for the reddish-brown lumber that is obtained from them. This lumber is very durable and is used for such things as shingles, fences, posts, and furniture. Redwood is heavier and stronger than the wood of the giant sequoia.

The redwood is Sequoia sempervirens; the giant sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum. The sequoia genus belongs to the pine family, Pinaceae. Some botanists classify the sequoia genus in the bald cypress family, Taxodiaceae.

[dan33]

Posted by ulli (here)
So who can come up with a funny caption for this one:

[CD7]

Borings taken from the tree showed it to be about 3,500 years old. It is about 275 feet (84 m) tall and at ground level is 103 feet (31 m) in circumference. Some of the other national parks and national forests in which giant sequoia groves are preserved are Yosemite National Park, Kings Canyon National Park, and Sierra National Forest.

WOW have not been in front of one of those! must b magnificent... anyone had the pleasure? If u have, and u are a person who feels "energy" from trees...i wonder do these enormous trees give off an energy field of some sorts? Is it powerful? Would really love to b sitting in the mist of those trees right in the here and now gotdamit! Thanks for the post, it had virtual side effects as i imagined myself sitting under a sequoia

[skippy]

Just back from a short visit to the north of Italy (Venice, Padova, Florence, Bologna). Venice is absolutely beautiful, fascinating, romantic and wonderful. If you have the possibility, go visit Venice, you’ll not regret. What an incredible idea to build a capital city in the middle of a sea. Capitalism stinks, but luckily for Venice, international tourism is preventing Venice from sinking into oblivion. Rising sea levels are an obvious problem for Venice, and recently, scientists have found that the flooding problems are being exacerbated by the entire city's gradual sinking. International tourism is enabling the funding of city development plans to protect and sustain the city for future generations. Voilà, a positive side-effect of modern capitalism.

[WhiteFeather]

Posted by CD7 (here)

Borings taken from the tree showed it to be about 3,500 years old. It is about 275 feet (84 m) tall and at ground level is 103 feet (31 m) in circumference. Some of the other national parks and national forests in which giant sequoia groves are preserved are Yosemite National Park, Kings Canyon National Park, and Sierra National Forest.

WOW have not been in front of one of those! must b magnificent... anyone had the pleasure? If u have, and u are a person who feels "energy" from trees...i wonder do these enormous trees give off an energy field of some sorts? Is it powerful? Would really love to b sitting in the mist of those trees right in the here and now gotdamit! Thanks for the post, it had virtual side effects as i imagined myself sitting under a sequoia

Trees have an incredible amount of energy and auras much like all things on this planet and in this multiverse. We are not seperate from trees, but just a part. Lately when i see trees being cut down for know reason, I consider it to be outright TreeSlaughter and Murder. Trees transmit much energy and frequencys to Gaia. Someday i would love to visit California or Oregon and meditate underneath one of these Beauty's. This would be Bliss.

I wouldn't mind a job like Steve Sillet does here.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=s2lWZ4BSHQ4

[ulli]

Posted by skippy (here)
Just back from a short visit to the north of Italy (Venice, Padova, Florence, Bologna). Venice is absolutely beautiful, fascinating, romantic and wonderful. If you have the possibility, go visit Venice, you’ll not regret. What an incredible idea to build a capital city in the middle of a sea. Capitalism stinks, but luckily for Venice, international tourism is preventing Venice from sinking into oblivion. Rising sea levels are an obvious problem for Venice, and recently, scientists have found that the flooding problems are being exacerbated by the entire city's gradual sinking. International tourism is enabling the funding of city development plans to protect and sustain the city for future generations. Voilà, a positive side-effect of modern capitalism.

im reminded of two great movies which were filmed in Venice.
Don't Look Now, and Death in Venice.
One way of visiting the city is to watch these.

Actually, considering that all my life they have been talking about Venice sinking
it's a miracle that it hasn't happened yet.

[WhiteFeather]

And If I Also May Add This........."The Trees" by Rush

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

[Orph]

Posted by ulli (here)


Actually, considering that all my life they have been talking about Venice sinking
it's a miracle that it hasn't happened yet.

The best way for something not to happen is to keep talking about it happening.

[Sunny-side-up]

Posted by WhiteFeather (here)
And If I Also May Add This........."The Trees" by Rush

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

12 midnight sitting in front of my computer now reminiscing about the trees I've sat under day and night with that great RUSH track fresh in my mind.

Someday i would love to visit California or Oregon and meditate underneath one of these Beauty's. This would be Bliss.

Visualizing you there now WhiteFeather

[betweener]

listening to Flight of the Navigator OST, wondering yet again if i should go ahead and start in on building the components of a flying saucer, weather or not i have space for it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=56c1UHWokvE - Star Dancing

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tBN0LF7mlIU - Robot Romp

[Taurean]

Enron boss Jeffrey Skilling set to have sentence reduced

The former chief executive of Enron could be released from prison nearly a decade earlier than expected.

Jeffrey Skilling presided over Enron when it became embroiled in one of the biggest corporate frauds in US history.

Mr Skilling's 24-year sentence could come down to 14, now that he has agreed to stop appealing against his conviction.

Thousands of workers lost their jobs and retirement savings when Enron collapsed in 2001.

The agreement between Mr Skilling and federal prosecutors would also allow more than $40m seized from him to be distributed to the victims of the Enron fraud.

"The proposed agreement brings certainty and finality to a long painful process," Mr Skilling's lawyer Daniel Petrocelli said in a statement.

"Although the recommended sentence for Jeff would still be more than double any other Enron defendant, all of whom have long been out of prison, Jeff will at least have the chance to get back a meaningful part of his life," he added.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22460270

[astrid]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7XZxNbjfQ

thanks Tom !