Global Warming Causes More Rain: More Water in the Ocean Evaporates - More White Clouds - More Sunshine Reflected into Space - Causing Global Cooling... So... It Will be an Up Down Temperature Fluctuation...

and On the Hotter Years We Will have more Earthquakes because the Diameter of the Entire Earth Will be Larger... and those Tectonic Plates Will Slip past each other With Ease... 

and People are NOT doing much to Prevent Climate Change... on the Rare Occasions that I Leave my House, I see Massive Traffic Jams everywhere... and on the TV News they report that people are flying in Jet Airplanes MORE than ever Before...

and Last Summer there Were Forest Fires in Canada... and those trees Will Not be capturing CO2

SO... I believe Life Will be Freaking Crazy from here on... Already I See That Those People Over There are Killing Each Other... for Unknown Reasons... The only good thing about that is... Crazy People Stop Behaving Bad When Dead!

and Everyone that Currently Lives near the Equator is Walking towards the POLES... Notice that there are Masses of people fleeing Mexico? and Fleeing Africa on Boats to get to Europe?

How to Get That TRUE ENLIGHTENMENT Feeling. Eat a Hamburger, Fries and a Coke and then Go Sit in the Sunshine. Buddhists SAY That All Life is Suffering But They Are Wrong.

Maybe All Life is Suffering IN INDIA but Here in America... We Have The Technology... Relax and Enjoy Life...

Maybe I'm WRONG... Maybe the Path is a Hamburger, Fries and an Ice Cold BEER! and Then Go Sit in the Sunshine... 

"Round TUIT" Keychain for sale... 

"Someday I'm Going to get Around To It. 

OH! Today's The Day..."

A ROUND TUIT KEYCHAIN
by gregvan

All My Royalties from my Zazzle Store are Donated to A Worthy Charity. Helping a Retired Lady Living on Social Security Make Ends Meet. The Rent on Her Trailer Space Just Increased... For No Reason... Greedy Landlords... https://www.gofundme.com/f/cxfg3f-1000

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and Now for Something Completely Different...

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Book: Tongue in Chico - I went there in 1973 and 1974 before I flunked Out... 

https://www.amazon.com/Tongue-Chico-Decade-Merriment-Mayhem/dp/1735613207 Who knew college could be this funny? In his quest to show what campus life was really like for the pioneering undergrads of Chico State University's Golden Age, our courageous author takes us on a trip to that crazy age between the 60s and 80s -- the rollicking 1970s. You remember those days, don't you? Not quite free love, lots of rock 'n' roll, drugs of the innocent and not-so-innocent kind and the absolute feeling that all was right with the world. This book captivates its readers with astute, amusing and downright hilarious moments in the day in the life of a Chico State Wildcat. Where else can you party with your profs, skinny-dip between class and coast through stop signs on your bike with only a nominal risk of winding up on somebody's windshield? Based on a compilation of past columns from several Northern California weeklies including a stint as ace cub reporter for his college newspaper, C L Smith invites us along on his migration from Southern California to the quaint college town of Chico, California. After college, he finally ditches his shorts, tee-shirts and flip-flops and assumes the identity of a bona fide bon vivant as the editor of the Santa Cruz Good Times. Later, C L Smith was the marketing wizard who introduced several iconic advertising campaigns of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. And, if you think Smith's college years were funny, wait till you join him for a walk on the wild side of American business in the advertising and wireless worlds.

 

Someone on Facebook was Remembering 

This PPM Concert... I Never Heard them...

However... I Went to Many Concerts at The San Jose Civic Auditorium including The Ike and Tina Turner Review... (OH, that was EPIC) - and - Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and the Comets... But We Did NOT go hear Marshall Applewhite Speak about the Heaven's Gate Cult... The City Fathers of San Jose Cancelled That Speech because A Week Earlier MANY People Vanished at a Speech of His in Oregon... Thanks!

I remember The Bodega Bar where the Band Played their Big Hit Song "The Bicentennial Boogie" - the Singer said... I wrote this before a Hundred other people did... it's so obvious... and That allowed us to travel all over the USA... Big Fun... Thanks! 1976...

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We should ban fracking.

Banning fracking is key to ensuring 

livable future for all of us.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. - Marianne Williamson Part of the aware journey is having the courage to forgive. No one is perfect, and everyone makes mistakes, especially while you figure things out on University Earth. It’s just part of the journey to fail, learn, forgive and level up. The healing of the world starts in your heart. There is a radiant and beautiful soul ready to shine every time you tap into your own well of compassion. When you dive into that well, you are increasing your capacity for love, empathy and grace. To truly forgive, you must be able to speak from that space. Oftentimes, the act of forgiveness, to yourself, or to others, is the vulnerable gesture that allows you to see yourself in a whole new and brilliant light. When you are illuminated in this light, you will be able to express your authentic story so clearly that your life, and the lives around you, will change. When you step into compassion and forgiveness for yourself, you begin to heal the world. Let's try something out today. Call up to your mind a time when you might have held back out of fear of "not being good enough". Maybe it was a romantic date or maybe it was a promotion? Remember the sensations of being curious and excited about that opportunity. What did it feel like in your body? What was sparking your curiosity? Next, I want you to do the hard work of feeling into the part of you that told you to avoid that date or deny that promotion. Did you feel a heaviness, a restriction, did you breathing get shallow? What were your thoughts? Was that voice aggressive or sly? Get to know this voice. Once you're settled in knowing what you wanted and hearing what diverted you from trying, I want you to get centered and take one of those big deep aware breaths with me right now. Deep breath in, hold for a beat, and let go completely. Now call that dissenting voice up in your mind and speak directly to it, saying: "I forgive you for holding me back. I know you were trying to protect me. What I wanted was to experience (insert your original desire here). I am whole enough and ready now to follow my spark." Take another deep breath and just notice your body and how you are feeling. Feel free to repeat, adjust and personalize this affirmation even more! It helps to be very specific about what it really was you were going for originally. And it helps to repeat this process as needed. You will know it's working when you feel confident to withstand the uncertainty that comes with following your dreams and sharing your story with the world! In love & gratitude,

Lisa Garr... https://theawareshow.com/

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You may read more blog posts by 

clicking on the LABELS Below.

Hey Farmers! Simply Grow Your Cannabis OUTDOORS IN THE FREE SUNSHINE and There is NO Need for Electric Grow Lights. That Electricity Has To Come from SOMEWHERE... Causing Pollution... Causing Climate Change...

Coal Burning Power Plants, Nukes, Biomass, Natural Gas... And They All Cause Pollution... There Already Exists a Perfect Light Source Designed to Use The Photosynthesis That Evolved in Plants over Billions of Years! USE IT!   https://phys.org/news/2021-03-insatiable-demand-cannabis-giant-carbon.html

Mushroom Cloud at the Fairhaven Biomass
Electric Power Plant Near Eureka, CA - gvan42

Since Sun Valley Floral Farms Has GIANT GRENHOUSES they will not need electric powered gro-lights like most farms us indoors... well, maybe just a little... Ecological Marijuana Farming using Free Sunshine.

HEADLINE: Arcata Bottom mega-grow in the works.

https://madriverunion.com/arcata-bottom-mega-grow-in-the-works/

Arcata Land Company, LLC, an entity controlled by Lane Devries of Sun Valley Floral Farm, is seeking county approval for a 38-acre cannabis cultivation operation on two parcels located between 27th Street and Foster Avenue (see map). 

According to an Initial Study filed with the county, the area is zoned Heavy Industrial with a Qualified Combining Zone, the new project involves only cultivation. Processing of the cannabis would be conducted at an already-approved processing, manufacturing, and distribution facility located to the north.

Cultivation will take place in four areas totaling about 22.9 acres. Some 6.2 acres of existing hoop structures will be converted from flower production to cannabis. About 16.7 acres of new hoop houses will be set up in the northeast and southwest areas of the property. 

LINK TO BUY THE "Make America Groovy Again" EMBROIDERED HAT:

 https://www.zazzle.com/make_america_groovy_again_embroidered_baseball_cap-233127261589788104

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Here is a Link to Another Website of Mine: Google Sites...

https://sites.google.com/view/gregoryvanderlaan/Home

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SEE? Behave Like a Crazy TrumpNik® and they LOCK YOU UP! Wasn't the Plan to Lock Her UP? Hillary is Free... TRUMP FAILED AGAIN... So Much Failure... #TotalFailureTrump is What They Call  Him... https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/08/judge-rejects-qanon-shamans-bid-474455

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Underground Power Wires are Safer Than Wires on Poles That Set Forests on FIRE like PG&E Did in Paradise, CA...

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Yet another one gets cancelled - Pepé Le Pew will be no longer - part of the purge of most everything - well just everything as 99% of everything has now become offensive to someone.  Such a shame- I am sure that purple dinosaur of our kids admiration will be soon as well. And most of the muppets as well... 

I Responded: "Everybody" Has Become WHINERS... BOO HOO... "Wah, You Giys are Being So Mean." The Only People It's Safe to Satirize are Straight White Men... all those "Others" are CRYBABIES...

It's Just a Cartoon... What about the Itchy and Scratchy Show? Where is Your Contrived Outrage? HUH? Why Not Censor the SIMPSONS? Homer Teaches Young Fathers To Choke Their Disobedient Boys...  and El Barto Glamorizes Graffiti! Lisa Ridicules Vegetarians and Eco Warrior Feminists! Let's All Freak Out About Nothing! EVERYBODY BOYCOTT The Second Longest Running Show on TV... Gunsmoke had 635 Episodes - It's #1... a Show Glorifying Violence using GUNS! 

and Then "Someone" Posted: Gregory simmer down snowflake.

And I Replied: Don't Insult me with Your Hate Speech... "I'm Mad as Hell and I'm Not Gonna Take It Anymore." I Recommend They Censor "Gone With The Wind" because Butterfly McQueen "Miss Scarlet, I Don't Know Nothing bout Birthing Babies." - Is Insulting... So Authentic... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy90YiCon3M

If we are Going to Cancel Bad Roll Models... What about The Movie "The Rock" with Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage and Ed Harris... Vietnam Vets Suffering because of No Pensions for Black Ops... It Glorifies Violence as a Way to Solve Problems... and It Makes a Criminal Look Like a Hero... and Sean Connery was NOT a Great Father!

What About Censoring The Marx Brothers? Who Dat Man? Why It's Gabriel! (A Day at the Races)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCyEm-K3BGg

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Here are Some GREAT Videos!

Canned Heat Let's Work Together - TotP Audience Feb 1970  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hom0fYd5uX4

Scott McKenzie - San Francisco [HD] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZcyRLtwUVY

The Troggs - Wild Thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSWInYFVksg

The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (Live, 1965) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTsRFZ75abQ

Eric Burdon & The Animals : San Franciscan Nights (Live 1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4G3KPP1Nts

Sky Pilot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laSJI58bMMM

I'd Love to Change the World - Alvin Lee & Ten Years After https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSYFJB7o9ZQ

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (Live at Hyde Park 1969) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM_G0IRLEx4

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil (Official Lyric Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgnClrx8N2k

Quote: They seek him here,/ They seek him there,/ Those Frenchies seek him everywhere./ Is he in heaven,/ Or is he in hell?/ My own elusive Pimpernel. ... #FRANCE1789 What Exactly IS The Cure for Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome? #ClassWar 

The Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home (Official Lyric Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRc0yaMW7Mw

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On a Different Subject: Here is a Collection of Beautiful Nude Women Doing Topless Dancing - Animated GIFs

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/05/18/beautiful-nude-women-animated-gifs/ <--- LINK!

I Intentionally Seek Beauty and Look Away from ____. Therefore I Took Photos of My Rose Garden on my Morning Walk Today... and Did Not Watch the Democratic Convention last Night...

Or the Republicans later on this week... My Mind is Made Up, No Need To Observe Insanity.

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I DID Sit on My Bench in the Sunshine... and Listened to the Birds Chirping... The Grapes Are Ripe! and I Did Pick Some Low Hanging Fruit... There is a Plum Tree...

as a Tribal Elder... It Is My Job to Teach... Since I'm Retired I No Longer Actually DO Anything to Make the World a Better Place to Live... That is all in the Past Now... I DID Make a Difference... NOW... I'm Just Thinking and Writing...

I Have a Question for YOU, Gentle Reader...

Are You Making a Difference With Your Life?

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I'm Glad That I Made A Difference With My Life. At Work, I Helped People... So Many People Do Evil Because It Pays a Lot of Money... That's CRAZY! 

READ MORE LINK:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/im-glad-that-i-made-difference-with-my.html

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People That Made a Difference. Why Not Join Us? Do Something Useful With Your Life. It's More FUN Than Doing Evil For Money! READ MORE LINK:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/people-that-made-difference-why-not.html

Intentionally Seek Beauty... A Photo of a Perfect Red Rose - A Visual Mantra - Think About This! It Makes You Happy Automatically - Notice the Dewdrops... As an Alternative to Watching Bad News on the TV...

My Bench in the Sunshine - I Sit Here a Lot.
and Look at the Blossom Trees
 and a Farmers Field.
 Listen to the Geese

It's Good to UNPLUG and Go Sit Quietly in the Warm California Sunshine. Listening to the Geese at the Farm next door... and the Frogs... and the Guys Chainsawing Firewood...

This is Called "ME TIME." Observing the Vineyards, the Trees, The Little Chirping Birds... And Everyone Loves The Sound of a Harley in the Distance... 

It's all Just Grist for the Mill. At First, I was Angered about having to Listen to The Annoying Sound of an Internal Combustion Engine but then... I remembered days when I was Chainsawing Firewood for My Own Wood Burning Stove in My Own House in Virginia. While Tripping on Heavenly Blue Morning Glory Seeds... We went out to Mountains near the EPIC Shenandoah Valley... and Stopped at Luray Caverns... and took a Rubber Life Raft Ride down the Shenandoah River past Harper's Ferry and Continuing Down the Potomac... We say a Couple of Men Fishing in a Homemade Boat coustructed out of a single sheet of plywood. Saw Off a foot on each side, turn them up and nail 'em in place, Caulk and You Have a Boat... Harper's Ferry is Where John Brown Had a Civil War Battle. It had a Factory that MADE RIFLES. The North was able to Shoot Farther with Rifles than the South could using Muskets. A Northern Soldier could stand OUT of Range and Kill the Enemy. Technology Helped the North Win the Civil War.

As I Walked Down Stream past the Vineyards, I Noticed an Orange Tree, Fully Loaded with Ripe Fruit. We Eat Oranges Every Day Here... After all, They are Very Cheap at the Farmers Market. On the TV I Noticed that "Those People Over There Were Behaving Crazy" so I Changed the Channel... to Classic Rock Music Choice... It's True that What Trump and His Band of Flying Monkeys Have Almost No Effect on My Life... Unless they Bankrupt The US Economy and Cause Global Collapse... Personally, I'm on Medicare (65 Years Old) and so If The rest of the Country Embraces Improved Obamacare or Medicare For All, I'm Not Effected. Certainly TrumpCare Would be a Disaster... Millions of People Dying Young... I DO Care that Social Security and Medicare are Under Attack by Trump's Evil Minions. I DO Care that They are Destroying the Environment and Drinking Water Could Become Poisonous... One of My Care Givers Lives Near McClellan Air Force Base and Everyone is Told to NOT DRINK THE WATER that comes out of the Tap... However, they still Shower in Toxic Waste... and That's Horrible... I DO Care that Trump is ANTI-Choice and Plans to Overturn Roe v Wade and Force Women to Give Birth to Unwanted Babies... "It's Back to The Coat Hanger" with Evil Brat Kava Kava Noogie and the Just-Us of the SCOTUS.

Digital Lotus Card for sale... 

Two Sided Card... Unfold and Thumbtack it to Your Wall for an Instant Visual Mantra... Just Look at it and You are Blessed With Bliss!

Click on the Picture to see the Back Side Art!

Digital Lotus Card
by gregvan

Original Art For Sale...
and there is a different picture on the back of the Greeting Card... a Rainbow Spiral...

"Art in the Time of Coronavirus" Holiday Card
by gregvan

Photographs of Clear Lake, California. Highway 20 and Highway 101 traveling towards Eureka

Highway 20 is a route from Highway 5 in the Central Valley 

to Highway 101 and the North Coast of California 

Note the shadows of my hands taking a picture...

Clear Lake as viewed from the North Shore

Clear Lake viewed from the road.

on the beach

rest stop where the oak trees meet the redwoods.

On Highway 101

"The Legend of Bigfoot" is a store that sells redwood carvings.

Highway 101 in the Redwood Forest has many similar roadside attractions. 

Mural of Bigfoot and White Water Rafting in Willow Creek, California.

On Highway 299 between Arcata and Redding.