Ask a Question With Every Breath...
I'm Looking for Answers...
Like: "What Should I Write?"
Draw? Publish? Sing? Paint? DO?
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This Mantra was inspired by The Mark Sims Meditation Practice where he Chants "HU" (a Chinese Word) for 20 Minutes... as I was Chanting along I Kept on thinking of the Obvious Joke... It Sounds Like WHO? in English... and Since I Do Not Speak Chinese... I Modified his Chant... It Was Used During The Harmonic Convergence... a Worldwide Internet Event Designed to Make Contact With Extra Terrestrials... ~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~ How to Become AWARE... Easy Step by Step Instructions. Go Outdoors and Find 5 Things You Can See, Four Things You Can Hear, Three Things You Can Smell, Two Things You Can Touch and One Thing You Can Taste. Notice That None of these Things are on Your Computer Screen, Phone or TV... Reality Exists... GO VISIT!  |
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On a Different Subject:
If More Adults Don’t Get Vaccinated, More Kids Will Develop COVID-19.
Fauci says unvaccinated Americans are "propagating this outbreak"
JL SAID:
Declaring "war" on drugs doesn't change individual behavior, it merely makes the government an adversary to its citizenry.
In order to change behavior, the reason for the behavior must be identified as well as those factors which reinforce and maintain it.
If people are miserable and feel dis-empowered or hopeless, they will seek ways to empower themselves. Guns do that, as does joining a gang or cult. Opioids, however temporary, offer relief from the angst of a dysfunctional society.
In order to change or mitigate those precipitating, maintaining, and reinforcing factors, government's "war efforts" should address the social factors that stress Americans. This is why people are reported to be "happier" in countries that guarantee a livable wage, healthcare, and higher education. There is no logical rebuttal for receiving benefits like these in return for our tax dollars, when we have provided tax shelters for decadent evangelists and those who hoard money for personal pleasure and profit
and I Replied:
It's a Medical Problem... Often a Patient was Prescribed Oxycontin to relieve pain... and now... the pain remains but the Government Has Made them the "Bad Guy" - Why NOT Let Old People HAVE Relief From Pain? I Know a Man who is 83 Years Old and Has an Oxy Prescription for 28 days a month... Every Month... and Some months have 30 or 31 days... so... Two or Three Days of Agony? Withdrawal Symptoms PLUS the REAL Medical Problem... Because Someone ELSE is Abusing THEIR Prescription! INSANE... What IF He Takes Oxy for the Rest of His Life? That's Not Long...
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LINK TO FIND YOUR REP...
http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
My Experience: I took LSD and Visited the National Art Gallery in Washington DC... Surprisingly, Picasso "The Tragedy" was My Favorite Painting... I FELT COLD in my Body just looking at the Painting...
Warhol and Lichtenstein all seemed silly and trivial! That Night we all went to the Tangerine Dream Concert... at the Elegant Warner Theater... I was Concerned During the Show About the CO2 Fog that Spilled off the Stage and out into the Audience... Seemed Dangerous to Me... But We All Survived...
My In Laws came to Visit Us In Washington DC and when we went to Colonial Williamsburg my Mother in Law Rented a Wheel Chair... While it's Possible for her to walk, That tour involves a LOT of Walking... So When she went to The Bathroom, I Sat Down in the Wheel Chair...and IN PUBLIC, People Treat You Different if You are in a Wheel Chair... Many Assumed I was a Disabled Veteran... So... AS A PRANK I Stood Up and Shouted "I Can Walk! Thank You Jesus! I Can Walk!" - That Really Freaked Out the Tourists...
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One of the high points of my life was performing "Uncle John's Band" at the Rainbow Gathering in Idaho. I met a young man and showed him the Chords and Lyrics that I had written down in my spiral notebook... After we played that song, he said: I don't want to learn any more songs, let's just play this one again... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/one-of-high-points-of-my-life-was.html
We were sitting in the shade at the "Relaxation Station"... the very first place everyone walked past after leaving the parking lot...
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During the First Year of my Retirement I experienced What I Called "Channeling My Inner Chewbacca." A General Rage... I felt Paranoia and it seemed like the Government was Watching Me. At That Time... My Blog was Very Popular and I was Ranting and Raving about the Injustices being done to American Citizens. It seemed that there were Many Unmarked White Vans that would park out front of the House. In retrospect... Read More! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/09/during-first-year-of-my-retirement-i.html
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Peace and Love is Not Only a Great Idea, But It's a Practical and Efficient way of Life. Just Think of the Money You Will Save by Not Buying GUNS! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/07/do-math-peace-and-love-is-not-only.html
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Just like we all learned by Reading "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig... The Trick to Life is to PAY ATTENTION... NOTICE REALITY... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/03/just-like-we-all-learned-by-reading-zen.html
So, Every Day I Test my Blood Sugar and BY PAYING ATTENTION and Keeping a Sugar Free Diet... I Have Prevented Diabetes... I find that Quitting Smoking Tobacco AND Cannabis... Has Given me Better Lungs and a Clearer Mind. Weed is Useful for APPRECIATING Music, Art, Food... but I Get More DONE Without Weed... More Music Videos, More ART, More Fiction Stories... Hey, Just because They Legalized Weed does not mean that I Have to Actually Smoke it...
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Boycott Plastic Garbage! Chicken of the Sea Tuna is Marketing "Infusions" with a Plastic Bowl, Lid and Fork. Trash that will pollute the Earth for 10,000 Years. REFUSE TO BUY PLASTIC CRAP. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/09/boycot-plastic-garbage-chicken-of-sea.html
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Interesting Documentary. "ANGRY PLANET - BURNING AUSTRALIA" People are BUILDING HOUSES UNDERGROUND TO AVOID THE HEAT AND WILDFIRES... Smart! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/09/interesting-documentary-angry-planet.html Will climate change make Australia uninhabitable? What About The Rest of the World? We Are Already Experiencing Wildfires in ALL of the Western USA...
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Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 in Arcata, California. Videos and Still Photographs... Whimsical Art Bicycles That Travel on Roads, Sand and In the Water... JUST FOR FUN! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/kinetic-sculpture-race-52414-in-arcata.html
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Great Book: "Beyond Counterculture" - The History of the Mateel Section of Humboldt County, California... Settled by Hippies Fleeing The Haight Ashbury section of San Francisco in the Late Sixties in order to Farm Cannabis - Included is a Map of Northern California, USA showing How to Visit... It's an EPIC Drive, Way Out in the Woods! Quite A FUN TRIP! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/annotated-map-of-northern-california.html
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I was in a Cheap Motel Room watching VH-1 Behind the Music... Drinking Heavily... They Broadcast about 6 Hours of That Show... AND I MISSED GOING TO AN AA MEETING THAT NIGHT. That must have been an EPIC Event... Our Plan in the Event of Global Economic Collapse was for Celia and I To Go Live on Her Mother's Farm - Way Out in the Country...
Mark: you didn’t miss anything
Me: What did you do?
Mark: haha not much I think I just stayed home
Me: You Don't Know? Gee, to me it was an Important night. Y2K was a Global "Thing" - Thankfully, all the COBOL Programmers Came out of Retirement and Reprogrammed the World's Computers...
Mark: yeah it was. You would think I would know. Yeah the Y2K issue turned out to be a lot about nothing
Me: Due to The EPIC LABOR of COBOL Programmers They Averted Catastrophe - My First Wife Got a LOT of Free Lance Work that year... They Recognized that there was a Problem, Figured out what the Solution was... and Did It... and the Public knew nothing about it... they all thought it was HYPE...
Mark: haha yeah I knew a lot of programmers too it did feel like hype.
Steve: I was drawing caricatures at Canyon Oaks Country Club.
Kathi: I was working in an Irish pub serving beers...we were SLAMMED! Lol
Tracey: I was a kid and it was stupid. The end.
Sandy: I was in Hollywood! My now-ex-boyfriend and I were staying in a motel room on Sunset Blvd, and we had big plans to go out the following night because there was a club that night that we drove all the way from San Jose to go to. We didn't want to go out on NYE because places would be too crowded, so we stayed in the motel and drank champagne. Then at midnight, we drove to where we could see the Hollywood sign, because they lit it up for the millennium.
Brett: I went to a concert hall where my uncles were playing music, it was an eagles or something or other, one of those shitty club bars lol, but I was like 18, lots of friends and family were there who are no longer with us. We all got hammered, I don't know if there was a sober person in the place. My brother fell down and tried to hold on to a table with like a hundred drinks on it and tipped it over lol. Good times.
Me: I guess You Partied Like It was 1999... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rblt2EtFfC4
Deborah: I was celebrating with my 3 young kids.....informing them about History and all kinds of various things other countries did to celebrate the "new year"....We watched all kinds of educational things on TV...Their Father had fallen asleep on the couch - so we covered him in Glitter to celebrate the date....It was a good night! LOL...♥️
Tim: Broadcasting the end of the world show on F.A.K.E.Radio
Travis: I was at the Pontiac silver dome watching Metallica, Kid Rock and Ted Nugent.
Shivendu: At home with family.
Stevie: The Stevie Cook Band was playing a new years show at Feather Falls Casino. Right about midnight all the power went off. We thought "Oh no, this Y2K thing really happened!" It turned out that a car had run into a power pole.
Ken: Shiiiiid idk wat I was doing last week 😒
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