A continued earth rumble

The earth rumbled the entire night to celebrate Earth Day.
Yes it started the rumble about 11:20 last night and continued for five minutes. Then paused for a few minutes and then never gave up the entire night. The earth she speaks.
At first I thought it was just my imagination but no it was real, something like vibrating chair at it's lowest setting. The earth she grumbled the entire night in Western Kentucky.
It felt like flour in a hand shaking sieve.
James Lovelock

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THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU
by Leo Tolstoy

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What clothing do our leaders wear? What clothing do we wear and what clothing do I wear? When I was dropped out I wore none in the warm climate of California or wore recycled clothing from our clothing bin. Gandhi wore clothes he made. Where on the scale of vanity do we place our being. Is it important as to what we wear in this day and age? We as a society wear clothing that is made quickly and cheaply by women and children.
The idea of children working in sweat shops has been banned in the United States. Children working at home is fine.
I do not don jewelry but I do wear a watch because I am not outdoors all the time. When I was outside in my younger days I viewed the sun and by seeing where it was I could tell you the time of day.

Where as a society do we stand?
Where as a society do bees and ants stand?

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Raising crops to create fuels to burn in cars and/or burning garbage for electricity are as good an idea as the burning the Amazon. When you take good topsoil and raise crops, eat the seeds and turn what remains back into the soil that is productive land management. Replacing mulch, organic matter and organic garbage in the soil is good land management; it create a soil that the creatures below the surface can consume which produce good soil for plants. Green crops and trees that are burned go up in smoke and offer little to the earth as mulch and organic matter.

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)

United States interests in China may want to create
strict posts in each mfg. plant that comply with United States standards.
You only have a few weeks to get the posts created and
China as a whole has to understand and behave properly.

Another morning has arrived in this quiet.

The temperature is 45 degrees at this time and it will soon warm up nicely.

Does China know why the children put out the Olympic Torch?
I think they know; the world knows.
They have let industry poison the world.
They have let industry work women and children like slaves.
They have created havoc in Tibet.
They have let industry poison the air on the planet.
Should the children continue putting out the torch?
No.
The world understand why they did it and the world is not going to let
China continue doing the wrong things.
Putting out the torch is a small protest.
Not buying Chinese products will hurt big industry in China.
It will start with just one family not buying from China.
The word travels quickly online.
The Olympics does not burn without world cooperation.

Dexterity
Our skillful ability to knit, to move yarn around into patterns of cloth.
Dexterity our ability to move bodies of humans around as pawns, skillful weaving bodies with minds into armies of motion.
Dexterity the ability to open a tube of toothpaste and skillfully layer the paste onto a brush without thought.
Dexterity our basic ability to run around a tree and stop and think out our next move,
or move through the woods without thought or harm.
We can gracefully move our lips, hands and feet over an instrument of sound
and create emotional sound that can carry a pattern of thought with wonderful splendor.
Dexterity the ability to read four objects at a time while pounding the keyboard of a computer,
making sense or nonsense, whatever prevails?
We have conquered the past as we move into the future. We have learned that we can move and shape our future.
Good or bad?
There are a lot of variations in between those extremes.
Dexterity our skillful ability to knit.

Work
The noise this morning was loud. The birds on the dam were raising hell. The killdeer were making a fuss, the seagulls were making a clutter, ducks and cranes were adding to the intense level of sound. I
could here the roar of a truck as it moved on the highway in the distance. A very loud warm spring morning. As I walked the noise became less noticeable. What became more noticeable were the white
droppings that the seagulls left behind.
I had to watch every step.
Enough!
What we endure to create a lifestyle.
Today I am reminded of the complex beings that we are. We use our bodies to handle intense physical manipulations.
Our bodies handle dexterity with grace. The younger and stronger child with will and determination can climb a sheer wall.
When I was young I did not know what I was doing, the abilities were in place, the will and determination was not.
It was not until my drive with Kathy and Ambo to New York and back to Illinois that a will and determination fell into place.
I had a yearning to work very well and it showed.
I was not into vanity or dressing to fit in.
I was into work, what the body does to fulfill human desire, to achieve the light in the blue sky.
At that time I had no clue of any talents in my possession, other than a good work habit.
How could I know how to climb a creative ladder?
I thought what I created was meager, as I do now.
The difference is that I want the world to know that I exist.
The ego has stepped to the forefront.
The dazzling red cape is teasing the bull.
I am getting older and I want all the world to see the day.

It is so quiet, dark and I am still thinking.
So cool and far out.
This curser blinks as I sit and stare, thinking.
Thinking about old wood, Corky and Pam.
The quiet.
There is so much I cannot explain, I try reading Tolstoy but he is of the old school.
Sometimes it's good to sit and watch.
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I put a coat of sealer on the new deck.
It was hot, I could not stop, after one hour my heart was beating hard but I could not stop.
I decided to sit and rest as the salt and sweat poured from my body.
My heart still pounded five minutes later as I sat still.
My world felt good.
I rested and then I went back out and finished the deck.
The deck looks nice; it is a watery cool shade of wood grain.
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Laurel calls Allison on the phone, the phone rings and rings.
A quiet soft voice say, "Ell lo!" Laurel says, " Hi Natasha, this is grandma, Hi Natasha"
We live in a world so different then the way we were brought up.
We carry telephones like pistols strapped to our belts and bags.
We stand and talk out in the middle of nowhere.
Far out so cool.
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I thought about me not wanting anything....
I sit surrounded by luxury.
If Laurel had not wanted the luxury I would still be sitting alone and still.
I thought about how she has taken me for a ride and I just followed alone enjoying the beauty and wealth.
I could give it all away in a minute but Laurel says nope she'll keep it.
She says we worked hard for it.
It is a different world but still it is our world.
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This world so round, the world that you said belonged to me is pretty far out.
It seems strange that far off over there violence is flaring up while I sit here and ponder the blinking curser.

“I’m late, I’m late for a very important date!
No time to say hello, goodbye.
I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!”
- The White Rabbit, “Alice in Wonderland”

Perhaps what you need is a dictionary, something to slow the reading of the word, the defining of the meaning;
something to place your thoughts into the definition.
This morning we received our first dusting of snow. It is less than a quarter of an inch but it is wet snow.
I am washing clothes and dishes.
I am also moving files and links onto the new website.
I'm updating the links I find myself scanning over what I wrote.
I blitz.
What does that word mean?
Anyway as I read I find that what I wrote does not make sense. And then I realize what the words are all about.
I had failed to slow my thoughts down to the basic level of each word.
I know most of us read rather swiftly. We never gather the meaning or savor the meaning of each word.
The exercises here on this web site is two fold.
One is to put you in a comfortable state of mind and the other is to inform the young reader that
all of us have bad moments in our lives.
I really do not think that I have accomplished either.
I do want the reader to slow down. I want you to see/seize the moment.
Grasp each word, understand each word, stop and examine the vehicle that places you here.
What I write is not important. The important thing is to realize the moment that is here.