tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98556872024-09-16T10:59:41.273-07:00Blatherings of a Mead. As my dad does research on the family geneology, I find that blathering is a Mead family trait... cool. ::Topics:: fatherhood, global social concerns, copyright, spirituality, searching for Truth :: .:: my content is in BLUE other sourced content in BLACK ::.houseofmeadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09316578414779140164noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855687.post-66947059963859563502017-07-15T13:52:00.000-07:002019-01-09T13:24:47.383-07:00

Ride Report. Summer 2017. Bike, 2014 Moto Guzzi Stelvio. Total miles, 5,148. Days on road, 15. Why go? I am now in my 50th year on this planet. I had in that time a child, failed relationships/marriage and in a life that seems distant from what I had in mind years ago. It had been a long time since I had an adventure like I used to. I needed an adventure. I had spent my twenties adventuring. I

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Oh that.

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The 17th century philosopher Blaise Pascal, it seems, the French thinker had a knack for psychology. As Brain Pickings points out, Pascal set out the most effective way to get someone to change their mind, centuries before there was any formal study of persuasion:When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views

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“… And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”― Haruki MurakamiStormsTransitionsMoments Memento MoriDawns

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In reading (scanning rapidly really) I came across this::"In many large ways, it’s almost as if we have collectively stopped planning for the future. Instead, we all just sort of bounce along in the present, caught in the headlights of a tomorrow pushed by a few large corporations and shaped by the inescapable logic of hyper-efficiency — a future heading straight for us. It’s not just future

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What? Huh? Oh- I forgot my hearing aids. When one finally has tools that aid in the ability to interact and cognate and ingest the environment one sits in- and then does not have access to said tools for a day... Well, dang. 

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You have have to have a dream yes.You have to take action on the plan to make it so.Or not. Can't just sit there -

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It was near the town of my surname and it was a bike yet the dent in the car was not of my making nor the blood on the highway. The bagger was not my AdvTourBeast it was someone else's loved one.People die. Liz Majors, a friend of mine, died at that same spot years ago when she got run over hard from behind. People die but today was not my time.The Souix say, long ago perhaps, but some of warrior

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geist The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the human body, but there is some part of it which remains eternal. —Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics An electron does not orbit a nuetron it hovers it vibrates at a state of possibility until it is observed and the wave form collapses. Likewise we humans vibrate in a state of 'expected' existence and in my case my vibration

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You just gotta remember that chickens are just the living descendants of the T-Rex.  Anything smaller than them and not quicker than them is fair game to be eaten by them.  

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#Beltone :: pretty cool how I can turn them off from my phone or adjust between 'reataurant' 'normal' and 'boost' modes that have been tailored for my particular pair of ears. I am deaf in the three highest tones. Midrange is degraded and bass is fine but the high end tones really give distinction and with out them- it's more challenging to hear every day. Hearing aids.What would life be like

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happy new year 2015 everybody is doing it saying this well .. they were yesterday

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Sometimes, sitting in a downtown city high rise office, don't you just get an urge?To go into the mists in search of King Arthor 

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Once they where kittens Then the sisters becameCatsOver time they in thirteen years Never left the house Oh a vet visit here or thereNow The one by my hand Sleeps forever more Under the maple treeAndThe circle of life Rolls on

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My wife and I both are from this region of Vermont and that pleases us both. One of Melissa's ancestors escaped from Indian capture during revolutionary war times by ice skating down lake Champlain. One of my ancestors built this chapel in Middlebury.Our daughters first real visit about the state barely covered the list of places for her second  trip to where our history is.

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rain on a lake in vermont there is a sound, symphonic rising enveloping random jazz there is a smell, wafting rich life soil leaves acrid thunder there is a feeling, home green mountains and the place where lives entwine deeper than memory in vermont rain on a lake

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it was good one package of ground Italian sausage one package of about a pound of beef one medium yellow onion one package of pre cut mushrooms about a cup or less of Italian parsley one medium idaho potato one egg about a cup of shredded romano cheese a teaspoon of diced / minced garlic dash of rosemary and sesame seeds olive oil and butter for pre singing the flavors 6 oz can of Italian 

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we have 6 baby chicks in the housethe dog kennel makes a nice cage to keep the box inside ofthe dog is confused - why did you put squeeky toys IN and keep me OUT?the cats are jealouswhy do THEY get a heat lamp?we have 6 baby chicks in the house

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Sometimes one just needs to alter a routine so that it is not a routine and keep the human interactions mixed up for dynamic spice of life ....... Aka go to a coffee shop for lunch sandwich coffee and read a book (post some blog updates) Try it

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is blogging existentialistic or nihilistic

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the word anglethe word angelright?so different, so far yet so little difference yet so much.words are nothing with out context. youknowwhenreadingabookandyoufindamisakethatthepublisherdidnotcatch and it makes you stop and p a u s ewordslettersdamnto understand takes more than the ability to read or hear or listen or see or pass a test.to understand takes cognative powersthats kinda like a

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some people speculate that humans will be more dependent on technology and medicines and as a result ... weaker and more fragile ... ... how do we toughen up? jedi training?

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a video documentary talked about the romans needed to kill all the druids but why was it so important? a statement about stonehenge and druids and the old peoples of the northern isles... is that they did not fear death interesting ... the I Ching Chapter 74 (http://classics.mit.edu/Lao/taote.2.ii.html)1. The people do not fear death; to what purpose is it to (try to) frighten them with

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as a teenager we try we explore we fuck up we get bummed we get excited we succeed and we learn the most when we fail did we learn if we did not learn the most from fails we cycle in the wash we cycle in the chaos we cycle until we, if we, move on to the next level the next round the next stage understanding understanding is when one starts to choose based on cognitive process and

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To paste a copied data drop damnit  ... Oh Kay so I have to re type the thing - argMichel Foucault said "... knowledge is socially constructed in order to maintain the power of the ruling class," (1975. Discipline and Punish. New York: Random House. p28,)So consider the idea of dumbing down of society even as information is more readily available it - the gnosis, is buried behind noise

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