Assume the lotus position, start this CD on whatever device you use these days to play music, begin slow, rhythmic, deep breathing…
Here is a taste, the eponymous track that starts the CD.
I Am Guilty Too
Just something to think about next time you buy something from Amazon. I am as guilty as the next person. I looked and I bought 52 items from Amazon last year. That averages out to a purchase about every week. In my defense about half of that number were books or CDs. At one point I was buying used books from a company as a way to avoid Amazon only to find out the company was owned by Amazon. I did not look up the stats on Señora.
I have no problem with someone getting rich from a new idea or a better way of doing something, but IMHO there reaches a point where the wealth is unacceptably obscene. If for no other reason, it seems to twist the mind and attitude of these people. In a sane society we would have government policies in effect to prevent this mass accumulation of resources. As I have said ad nauseam, I have no problem with someone taking a second helping, if everyone has at least gotten a first. That simply does not happen in our society.
Amazon has become so big for many different reasons. I do not believe any of those reasons were illegal, but a few have pushed ethical boundaries. I initially started buying from Amazon as they avoided collecting sales taxes for many years, thus making their products cheaper than locally. As much as we all hate taxes, they are a necessary evil. And now Amazon has seemed to have become a conduit for cheap Chinese junk. Then there are the labor practices of Amazon…
Thanks for all those folks who refrained from pointing out my math error!!!! Now corrected.
Quote of the Day – W.C. Fields
Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.
“Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she’ll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.” ~~ W. C. Fields
So NOW they tell me… At any rate I have gotten where I cannot do handstands on monkey bars anymore.
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Top 10 Tips for Surviving 2026
This is a satirical website, hopefully that is obvious… This video, however, is less so. She is advocating some of the strategies I have implemented attempting to ride out the tormenta de mierda that is El puta pendejo naranja.
When Awe Is Provoked Within Us
From Thom Hartmann:
Geeky Science. Feeling awe and wonder actually improves your health, both mental, emotional, and physical. Multiples studies over the years have proven that the more often we can provoke that feeling of awe within ourselves — be it through looking at the stars at night, viewing awesome art, or just simple spiritual exercises like prayer — the more it improves our body and mind. Figure out what triggers your awe-button and turn it into a daily ritual; you’ll see a whole cascade of improvements in your life, according to all this research.
Crazy, Crazy Weather
This picture of Señora was taken this Christmas Day. We were riding around August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area in my MX-5 Miata, top down, no coats, no heater.
This is the forecast for Sunday night going into Monday morning, we are going from 75 degrees at 1 pm to 14 degrees at 7 am. It has been springlike most of the Christmas week. Golf courses have been covered up and impossible to get on. Mother Nature is giving me whiplash!
Or if you prefer you weather in Celsius, we are going from 23 degrees to -9 degrees:
Quote of the Day – Fred Allen
Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.
“Hanging is too good for the man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.” ~~ Fred Allen
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Word of the Day – Weltschmerz
Word of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many on my landing page. Words have always fascinated me, and I am a fan of all types of word play, especially puns. I have a hard time not looking up a word that I am unfamiliar with or not sure of the definition. I like those authors that stretch me by throwing in unexpected terms.
- Noun: Weltschmerz
- mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state
- a mood of sentimental sadness
- Note: Another word we borrowed from German and that we never gave back. Ranks up there with schadenfreude for me. A word I learned twice. Once from one of my brothers attempting to show off his erudition, although it was the mot juste for that moment. And a second time from Mr. Sikeston who loves trivia.
- Synonyms:
- ennui
- tiredness
- weariness
- apathy
- melancholy
- doldrums
- dispiritedness
- Encountered: While watching an offering from Great Courses Plus , one on vocabulary, go figure.
- Usage: When I asked daNet to use it in a sentence, I got this:
“After reading the news, she was overcome with a profound sense of weltschmerz, a deep melancholy for the world’s suffering and imperfections that felt too heavy to bear. “
Which is pretty much where I am these days. It depresses me so that as individuals, some of us, at least part of time, can be so noble, but as a species we are so incredibly stupid, base and at times downright evil. Of course, going back to my biology degree, the job a species is to propagate itself. We have done an incredible job of that, actually too good.
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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #1,811
yeah I know you did not ask!
You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
Overheard…
I was standing in line at the supermarket, well, Schnucks, if you must know. In front of me were two young women, thirty-somethings, who, from the contents of their shopping cart, looked like they were buying for a party.
First one says to the second, “I heard your ex-husband had a blind date last night. Good for him.”
“Well, maybe,” said the second one, “I am still good friends with the wife of one of his buddies. She told me he told his buddy that his date had been a well worn pincushion full of little red flags.”
“Does not sound like there is going to be a second date,” said the first gal.
“I would guess not,” said the second.
They went on to other topics less worthy of my eavesdropping.
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #6,812
yeah I know you did not ask!
You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
I made a run to a local grocery store, Schnucks, as I was out of my eponymous cerveza, Dirty Bastard. As I was walking in, an elderly Chinese couple was walking out. Okay, the Chinese ethnicity is an assumption on my part, probably a good one, as there is a large Chinese population in the St. Louis area. In fact our neighbors to our left are from Taiwan. But I meander. The wife (another assumption on my part) was jabbering away at her husband in what I assumed was Mandarin.
Trouble was that she was eating something and had her mouth so full that the words were very garbled. I just could not understand anything she was saying.