Photos and story here.  (sigh…)

The view is so breathtaking…although I would decorate the home differently (naturally), it is warm and inviting.  And I would definitely have a water source closer to the home….perhaps a cistern to catch rainwater?  I don’t like the idea of toting water in plastic containers…surely there are glass jugs that could also be used?

The comments section was kind of sad.  Too many were commenting on the lack of “fluff” or comforts.  Nothing is as comforting as owning your own home (so no banker can take it away) and being surrounded by such beauty.  You can’t buy this stuff, folks….much as Wall street would like you to think.

I stand or sit on the porch here and just listen to the birds chirp and find comfort and joy in that.  The hummingbirds buzz me frequently, in that I feel like I need to duck.  I don’t know how they can be fighting and still avoid hitting me.

I nearly missed a toad that was sitting just below the porch…its camouflage so well done that it blended perfectly with the dry ground (before we got the rains recently).

A bunny comes around and nibbles on the little bit of apple I toss out every day.  It reminds me of sitting in my home in my living room, watching the bunnies there eat dandelion greens.  Comical to watch them eat. 🙂   And comforting, too.

A crane will lazily fly over.  Silent.  And if it catches the wind, it will glide slowly down to the river with such grace.  I’m in awe at its ability to navigate the wind.

A butterfly attaches itself to my front for  a second…when it realizes that the flowers on my bib overalls aren’t the real thing.

And the bees!  I’ve seen more bees this Spring.  And more milkweed plants.  The monarch butterflies will be feasting on them before too long.

Nope…you cannot buy this stuff.  Once it’s gone…it’s gone.

As the Cree proverb warns —

“Only when the last tree has been cut down,

the last river is poisoned, 

and the last fish is caught…

will we realize we cannot eat money.”

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(the above from this link:  www.thenativecanadian.com)

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…you know, I try to look at the positive side of things and was actually hopeful when Nancy Pelosi pulled the *cough* surprise move on Friday on getting the DINOs to oppose the trade deal.

Seriously….I thought that there was a light at the end of the tunnel.  Must have been a train coming…/snark

It’s apparent there were some last minute maneuvering…my guess is that the corporations pushing this were going to cough up some more money to bribe, er I mean, contribute to campaigns….

Why am I so pessimistic?

:Pelosi’s office was dismissing calls from her constituents before the vote on the trade deal.  This isn’t someone whom is either concerned with her constituents, the American public, nor is she concerned with the country as a whole and what will happen to our autonomy, our right to govern ourselves if this horrid trade deal goes through.

nor can these rights be denied by the State…”

…such are the sentiments of Cathy Jameson in her passionate report here.

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We have parental rights to determine the health care of our children.

We have parental rights to receive all pertinent information beforehand concerning risks of any treatment, procedure, or course of action recommended for our children. 

We have parental rights to disclose individual, medical and family history of our children.

We have parental rights to grant or withhold consent based on all information.  

We understand that the decisions we make are ours to make, for or against, because where there is risk, there must be choice. We respect each parents’ decisions regarding their children.

We have parental rights to reject anything that smacks of one-size-fits-all, herd mentality, community immunity, where our children are sacrificed for the “greater good.”

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This is just craziness in its extreme.  Indiana recently passed a law to force Hep B vaccinations, among other bonehead laws.  Our legislature apparently has nothing else to do but create problems where there were none.

The petition is still open and if you click on the link in my post on it, you will see the overwhelming numbers of folks in California who do not want this forced vaccination law.  The American public that politicians looove to pretend they are representing are speaking out about an authoritarian dictatorship enacting laws that are going against their will…for the sake of Big Pharma’s profits.  Good God.

I’m shocked that other people would be shocked at Jimmy Kimmel, formerly of the sexist Man Show that had large breasted women jumping on trampolines, would ask the question.  It’s very telling that for a man to show his love for his wife by taking her name is somehow something he is forced to do.

Newsflash, Kimmel:  not all societies are patriarchal.  Some indigenous societies were matriarchal, where the husband went with his wife’s tribe and took her surname.  The men were not emasculated at all — rather they were the hunters/warriors while the women took care of the home duties.  And some women were warriors, too, for your information.

**edited to add:  I believe it was the Cherokee that the women elected the leaders of the tribe.  If the men treated them badly or were inept leaders, the women also removed them from their positions.

Good on Zoe Saldana for calling Kimmel on it.

This is one of the most important films I have ever seen.  Symphony of the Soil explores all that we have been ignoring in regards to the Earth, to growing food, to being careful with what we have been given, to seeing how our treatment of the Earth comes back to us, to seeing how what we do now impacts our children, grandchildren, and their children, and so on….

Important points for me were Bob Cannard’s statement on how we have to give back to the Earth.  We use the soil to grow the food, which takes nutrients from the soil, but then pour chemicals on it that kill the gentle Symphony of microorganisms and food produced by plants to benefit those microorganisms.  As they note in the film, this is not sustainable.  We will eventually run out of topsoil and as Vandana Shiva notes, even with adequate rainfall, there can still be drought when the balance is disturbed by not allowing the plants to do the work they were designed to do.  In other words, if we just get out of the way, Nature will take care of itself.

I had to cringe, however, when someone (forget who) said that it’s a problem when Thistles start to grow.  Thistles have their contribution towards life, as well.  They are actually known to help detox the body and are specifically good for the liver.  It is scientifically noted that thistle helps regenerate liver tissue.

I love at the end Dr. Hillel explains the Hebrew interpretation of Adama (soil) and Hava (sp?) (life) and how the original Bible was misinterpreted to say for we humans to conquer the Earth….but rather, for us to serve and preserve.  That makes more sense to me — as a command to overpower and destroy what was given to us doesn’t make sense at all.

And I am always in awe at Creation and how I felt closer to God in nature than anywhere else.  I sense that those intimately involved in the Earth also see it, and feel it, too.

Story here.

As they say in the article…it’s a dark day for democracy when you have to get your news from leaks of this monumental power grab by the elitists.

My condolences to the Bidens on their loss.