Showing posts with label Central Valley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Central Valley. Show all posts

Roses at Home - in California's Central Valley - I Watch These Bud, Blossom and then Fade Away... It Takes About a Week for the Complete Cycle... A Great Alternative to Watching TV News... Here are Some Links to Positive People Online.... Remember: Healthy Happy People Make a Healthy Happy Planet...

 
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While I Spend My Time Walking in the Garden, Seeking Beauty... Others Pay Attention to the Madness of Politics... Occasionally, I Tune the TV To The News BUT... Only Briefly... Because Those People Far Away From Here are Behaving Crazy... a Whole Lot of Hatred... 

Right Now, I'm Listening to an All New-Age Music Channel... "Music Choice: SOUNDSCAPES" Endless Outer Space Whoosh Whoosh Music, Celtic Harp, Piano Improvisations and Synthesizer Jazz... Little Tinkling Bells... Very Relaxing...  Especially Since I'm Playing With Paint Dot Net Photo Processing Program... Cropping My Photographs of The Flowers in the Garden... and They Also Publish Words of Wisdom Quotes on the TV... Alan Watts, The Dali Lama, Ram Dass, Edgar Allen Poe... 

I Naturally Face the Windows of My Home Whenever I'm Using My Computer... Therefore, I See Each Rose Through The Entire Life Cycle... First, It's a Green Bud, Then Tomorrow It Will be a Tightly Wound Rose, The Next Day It Will Be in Full Glory and Then the Day After That It Will Start to Fade... and Then The Petals Will Drop off...   


It's Like Watching a Time Lapse Film but in Reality! Takes About a Week... 

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I Just Got Back from a Long Hike In The Neighborhood...
I Went Farther Than I've Ever Gone Before...
Exploring... FUN!
This is a Big Deal Because, Years Ago
I Needed a WALKER to Get Around...
BUT...
Thru Seemingly Endless Exercise...
I Put It In The Closet... NOT NEEDED!
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Doing Inner Work is Valuable to Myself, 
My Family, My Neighborhood 
and The World In General. 
Find and Spread Peace and Love. FUN!

I'm spending a Lot More Time Associating With Positive People Online and Ignoring Politics. I Have Already Made Up My Mind about Who to Vote For... and SEEING CRAZY Stuff on TV or the Internet Just Makes Me Angry with No Actual Benefit... 

SO... I Have Joined a Bunch of "New Age" Philosopher Groups... Seeking Wisdom, Enlightenment and Extraterrestrial Contact... My Favorite is Sonya Sophia's World Tapping Circle. A Once a Week She Leads a Guided Meditation that always make me feel Optimistic... I Also Think Up New Ideas and Plans for Action While in That Trance... I Love and Accept Myself. 

What IF This Was Easier Than I Thought 
and More Fun Than I Imagined?

another Group is Saturday Night Alive for the Global Peace Tribe. A Video Conference featuring Happy Healthy People Interested in Moving the Whole World a Few Steps Forward. Using Music, Comedy, Magic Tricks and Conversation... It's a Great Place to Get Introduced to Wonderful People...

and... Mark Sims... Leader of The Harmonic Convergence... a Group Meditation Designed to Actively Invite Contact With Extraterrestrials... Hello Space Brothers! Are You Listening? We Would Like to Chat... https://marksims.com/thc2020/ 

Why Not TRY To Contact Aliens?

and... There is an Active RAM DASS Tribe online... Many People Have Found Wisdom in His Books and Lectures... and They Are Re Broadcasting His Work... Forever...

Remember: Be Here Now

and... The San Francisco Unitarian Church Posts a Sermon Every Sunday... Interesting Topics WORTHY of Further Thought... https://www.uusf.org/

Here is a Link to A Greta Thunberg Facebook Group...


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On The Other Hand...
It Is Fun To WRITE
Blog Posts Campaigning
Against Mad King Donald
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"Hotel California" by The Eagles sung by Gregory Vanderlaan strumming an Acoustic Guitar.

https://youtu.be/jJwA4eFASLg  

A classic rock ballad. A friend of mine said it was a reference to a prison in the California's Central Valley... but... I guess it has a special meaning for every listener and we all can find our own Hotel... The Eagles got their name from a talking bird they met on a Peyote Voyage... 

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LINKS TO MY BEST BLOG POSTS!
*The Violet Overgrow - An Eco-Warrior's Journey by Gregory Vanderlaan - FICTION

*Trump Confesses to Adultery! "Hey, Moses Was JUST JOKING When He Wrote those Ten Commandments...

*Generate Electricity and Clean Drinking Water AT THE SAME TIME. A Solar Powered Desalinization Plant Would Convert Seawater into Energy, Pure H2O and NaCl.

*Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics

*Tree Sitters Protest Lignite Coal Mine in Hambach Forest, Germany

*The Passage of Roe v Wade Led to Fewer Unwanted Babies Being Born... and 20 Years Later, Less Violent Crime... Because Unwanted Babies Grow Up to Become Violent Criminals...

*FREE COLORING BOOK: Print The Drawings and Color Using Felt Pens, Pencils or Potatoshop... American Indian

*HEADLINE: Deadline for "Real ID" for Air Travel Postponed AGAIN Until May 7, 2025... WONDERFUL!

*My Music Video: FREE ALL THE CANNABIS PRISONERS - A Mockery of Nancy Ray Gun... Jest Say KNOW

*Bubble UP! Economics. Raise the Minimum Wage, Social Security and LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans. Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy...

*How to Escape the Cult of Trump: Deprogramming by Family Members of the MAGA MORON is Essential... If Someone you Know has been Brainwashed... RESCUE THEM!

*The Best Five Restaurants Near Eureka, California - Eat a Fish, Watch the Boats...

*Trump: "The Art of the Failed Deal" Book. Every Deal in that book LOST MONEY. That's why He declared Bankruptcy SO MANY TIMES. Will his Business Stupidity cause the ENTIRE COUNTRY to Go Bankrupt?

*Photographs of a Journey to the Headwaters Forest - Now a State Reserve... Near Eureka, CA - Plus The Story of How It Came To Be!

*Rainbow Gathering July 1-7, 2024 Will Be In CALIFORNIA... Exact Location To Be Revealed June 15th... and As Soon as I Know, I'll Post Driving Directions and Maps Here... What IS The Rainbow Gathering? For Me, It's Woodstock with Amateur Musicians and I'm in the Band... It's a Week Long Backpack Trip for Thousands of People...


*Add THIS to Your Bucket List: Swimming at Bear Hole in Upper Bidwell Park, Chico California. Crystallized Black Lava Rocks - Basalt from the Eruption of Mount Lassen.

*Numbers have Cultural Meanings... A list from Zero to Infinity and Beyond... For example: 007 Means James Bond. 420 Means Marijuana. 5150 means Insane... and... 420 + 5150 = REEFER MADNESS!

*"Conspiracy Theories" that are ACTUALLY TRUE. MKULTRA, Cointelpro, CIA-Contra-Cocaine, Donald Rumsfeld Selling Weapons to Saddam Hussein, UFOs are Real... Sometimes people dismiss Truth as "Just a Conspiracy Theory" because they Don't LIKE THE TRUTH.

1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...



*American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.

For Maximum Effect, Don't Read This Book. Write Your Own! --- "Lessons Learned" by Gregory Vanderlaan. A Lifetime of Trial, Error and Survival Yielded These Words of Wisdom...

My Biff Rose Trip: Driving To a Cabin in the Woods - down The Coast of California from Arcata thru Ft Bragg to Mendocino... An Excellent Adventure!

How To Remove Smoke from Indoor Air. Tape a Filter to a Box Fan. During Wildfire Season the Air Indoors is Bad to Breathe...


Pretty Soon the Filter Turns Brown
from Smoke, Pollen and Dust.

Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote) Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert...


Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote)


My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
Peace Sign Pie Chart
History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

Who Won the War? DOW CHEMICAL AND HUGHES AIRCRAFT. Selling Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters...

Military Death Chart USA

AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA, Not Even Once.

Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.







Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics