 Friends         | The art images on my profile were created by a computer program that creates images from words you type. You can try it here 👉🏻 https:/hypnogram.xyz 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝. All the slithering snakes in our society, going around hissing "Sssstay sssafe . . .". All the predators pretending to be concerned only with your well-being. While they squeeze the life out of you. This is what you are dealing with in the fully fascist 21st century. The confidence game. "𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘴𝘴𝘴𝘴𝘵 𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘴𝘴 . . . ."  solittle: April 19, 1775 249 years ago today the American Revolution officially began with the battle at Lexington Common not many miles from where I live. This date was commemorated as Patriots Day holiday, until they moved that holiday to the third monday of April around 1970 I think. The weather in eastern Massachusetts in April is very mixed. I wonder what the weather really was like on that day in 1775. What a crazy day it really must have been. The weather the last few weeks here has been very mixed, but constantly developing. Signs of plants, flowers, and animals every day. This week saw herons, bats and turkey for the first time this year; April 19, 2024 solittle:   Plain And Fancy was a musical set in an Amish community. This song was from that musical. April 2, 2024 solittle: ⇆🧲 Magnetic energy can attract or repel. It's the same energy, it just depends which direction you point it. March 7, 2024 solittle: . An idea becomes a pattern becomes a method becomes a system. A system becomes a process. Arranging becomes organizing becomes grouping becomes classifying. Identifying becomes labelling becomes diagnosing. But it is always possible to think of different patterns and methods, different arrangements and organizations. Don't get stuck in one particular system and set of labels. Because they are man-made. They are not absolute and irrefutable. March 5, 2024  solittle: Somebody came up with those patterns and systems. Somebody else might come up with a better system. Perhaps even you. solittle: For the last few days there have been Juncos, the "snowbirds", appearing on the ground, which is always considered a sign that snow is coming. But it was April already, and although there were some low temperatures near freezing predicted, winter is officially over and there seemed little chance of actual snow. And I thought when I saw the Juncos hopping on the ground in the afternoons this week "I wonder what their apearance now really means". Well, sure enough, the night of April 3-4, in the midst of freezing rain, there was a dusting of about 1/2" of snow on the ground, and April 4th looked more like winter than most days of this winter did.  This is the daughter of Canadian songwriter Gene MacLellan, who wrote this song. April 4, 2024 solittle: 🌱🌾🌷 Spring has arrived two weeks early, in this non-winter. We had perhaps 3 or 4 inches of snow total this year. This morning birds were singing, temperature was mild outside. Today is a day to Move Forward. Or . . . to "March Forth". March 4, 2024 (March Fourth) solittle: March came in like a lamb. It's going out like a lion. Chillier temperatures the first week of spring. March 22 solittle: For the last few days there have been Juncos, the "snowbirds", appearing on the ground, which is always considered a sign that snow is coming. But it was April already, and although there were some low temperatures near freezing predicted, there seemed little chance of actual snow. And I thought when I saw the Juncos hopping on the ground in the afternoons "I wonder what their apearance now really means". Well, sure enough, the night of April 3-4, in the midst of freezing rain, there was a dusting of about 1/2" of snow on the ground, and April 4th looked more like winter than most days of this winter did. solittle: . "May we not still hope to discover a method by which, within one generation, the whole human race could be rendered intelligent . . . beyond hatred or revenge or the desire for power. Is that not, after all, the ultimate goal of evolution?" The Outer Limits Season 1. Episode 5 (1963) "The Sixth Finger" David McCallum, Jill Haworth, Edward Mulhare March 4, 2024 View all 7 posts solittle: That video won't play if you try to click the red "play" arrow. But if you instead click where it says "The Sixth Finger" in the upper left corner, it should open a new tab and play for you. solittle: . "There is nothing more difficult to cure in an individual than a habit of thought. Impossible, because of the ruts of thought. He will never see a new pattern, and a new structure. He can only see what he has been taught to see. Very often they won't even try, they'll just say it can't be done. So they never can see new ideas." - Alan Watts  March 5, 2024 solittle: You have been lied to your whole life. You have been lied to by all the things that you have NOT been told. The ignorance that you were deliberately immersed in, is a lie of omission. "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉, 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒆." - Captain Picard Star Trek The Next Generation Season 5 Episode 19 "The First Duty" March 2, 2024 solittle: "A weapon? No, only an instrument, neither good nor evil until men put it to use. And then, like so many of man's inventions, it can be used either to save lives, or destroy them. To make men sane, or to drive them mad. To increase human understanding, or to betray it. But it will be men who make the choice. By itself, the instrument is nothing . . . until you add the human factor." From The Outer Limits, Season 1, episode 8 (1963) "The Human Factor" Starring Gary Merrill and Sally Kellerman |
Many flowers are blooming, leaves ready to emerge on trees, bumblebees and small butterflies appearing.
And yet, the next two nights expected to get near freezing for lows.
In the last two weeks I have seen herons, a fox, a coyote, and a raccoon.
Very clear skies and bright full moon two nights ago.
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April 24, 2024