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Tid Bit 1 (April 15th 2008 or thereabouts...):
So lately I've been working outside doing manual labor. I enjoy it. It feels good to work hard with your
body.
At my mom's house, we decided to fill in a high-maintenance (leaky) in-ground pool with dirt to turn
it into a garden. It was a big job. Four trucks of fill dirt were delivered followed by a final truck of
gardening topsoil. The dump-trucks couldn't get all the dirt directly into the pool. A lot of dirt had to
be moved around. I'm glad I have already finished this job. Now that it is over, I know that it can be done,
but when I was staring at a few "mountains" of earth, I wasn't sure if I had what it took.
But, one
of the best parts of manual labor is you just do what you can. One shovel load at a time. The wheel-barrel helped.
One of the beauties of manual labor is your body can work fruitfully and your mind can think deeply at the same time.
It can be body and mind working together. Body and mind reinforcing each other.
I think well-crafted tools
of manual labor are going to be important. We have an abundance of manual labor, but we've lost touch with this
ability. At least here in the US of A. We need to get it back, and good tools (as well as good tool-wielders and
tool-makers) are going to be critical.
When we start using our own bodies and stop relying so much on old life
(oil, coal, gas, etc.) we will be much better off. Our bodies will toughen and our minds will be sound.
Peace,
Ken
Tid Bit #2 - Week of April 21, 2008
Well here I am -- still tending to this site as best I'm able. This is what I have decided
for myself....I can't be part of the "free market globalization materialistic corporate plundering machine".
I can't do it. I refuse. But this machine is huge. Monstrously so. Anyhow, I had some
time there, I learned, I made decent funds, I met many fine folks, but to me it seems to be a complete dead end. I don't
want to be part of it anymore. I want to be part of changes for the better, but sometimes this can be a lonely path.
I wonder about my children and I wonder whether they will have children. I know there has been so much suffering
by so many and there still is, but I don't think it always has to be this way. I'm tired of those
who have much material wealth yet so little empathy for others. I'm very tired of them and I want them
to stop. I think others feel likewise. I'm tired of those who think they know all there is to know
- what makes them think so? Who gave them the "truth"? Where did it come from? - Often these same folks
have lost their senses and are not learning anymore. Even so, they go on the offensive in a righteous way trying to
force their ideas and take away the choice of others (whether they realize it or not). They need to look in the mirror.
They need some humility (desperately). They need to regain their humanity because everybody has a time and a place
and this makes all the difference when it comes to "truth". All we are gonna get from the "material
hoarders" and the "righteous forcers", is never-ending strife and conflict. It is time for
a better day.
Ken
Tid Bit 3 (July 8 2008):
The table is so important. We sit there. We talk there. We play cards and other games at the table.
We eat and drink at the table. The table is vital.
Peace,
Ken
Tid Bit 4 (September 4 2008..7:04 am EST):
Hey just a little thing but today when I was turning one of my calendars, I noticed September 22nd - the first day of autumn
- is also a day with a mezza luna! I love the luna. The moon and the sun and the earth and us living here, well,
we are all wrapped around each other and we all all go together. These things matter.
: Peace
is on the way. Seems so to me. What do you think? : Out of humble respect for Ramadan, which
I think shares some attributes with Lent, i am going to try to be as calm as possible during this month. I need to do
this. Learning how to do without when you don't have to teaches discipline and this is important because there may
come a time when you truly are "without" for awhile. If you have already been through it, then it won't
be nearly as difficult versus going into it "blindly". : I dream for better times true.
what about u? I hope you do.
Tid Bit 5 -- 9/19/08 - Hey, I'd like to encourage you to check out these two sites....they
discuss "Mutual Aid" and "pollination" respectively... http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_archives/kropotkin/mutaidcontents.html http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/book/ Tid Bit 6 --- 9/21/08
- Here is a poem: Feffef deferred to her...feffef is smart..... inside and out; plus, backwards and forwards... Feffef does not like fluff.
Feffef tries to be tough. Tougher than nails and screws combined. Sometimes Feffef can be one mean dog, But Feffef is like the
rest of us. Feffef needs love. . Tid Bit 7 --- 10/27/08 - My wife's birthday was yesterday, and I must say without her I doubt I'd be here now. In fact,
I'm sure I wouldn't be typing this at this moment. She and I are intimately connected and we have been for over 17 years
now. We have two daughters together and a home that we try to make as loving as possible. Ole Feffef might be a mean dog sometimes, but even Feffef loves touch. Feffef loves to feel and Feffef hopes
for better times on the way.... Tid
Bit 8 --- 3/27/09 - I've decided to "republish"
the tidbits today, but I have edited them considerably. This Proclamation has taken me some time to develop and it has
been a "work in progress". Perhaps in the end it will only be my own personnal declaration of independence
from the status quo which I could no longer participate in. But with that said I must "do" something and I
want to "do" something life-affirming. Plus, I have responsibilities to my family and now this must take precedence.
If you have read to this point, I thank you and I hope it has been of value for you. I feel as if I have been in a
sort-of "rabbit hole" for some time now, and I want out. Lets all pray for Peace shall we?
Peace, Ken. Tid Bit 9 --- rewritten
on 52010 (May 20, 2010) - A circuitous posting, but one with a message. This tidbit as originally typed was just a bit too "out there" ---- sort of like Pluto: a genuine and full-fledged
planet in my opinion, and one that is critical in the big scheme of things. For without Pluto, I seriously
doubt I would be typing this or that any of us would be here. See, best I know a few billion years ago an immense object
crashed into "our planet" - it was a direct hit. This has probably happened many times in the past.
Anyhow, the path of this large object I'm sure was slightly influenced by the planet of Pluto, and by virtue of this influence
it "hit" our planet. This large object affected all subsequent events on planet Earth, and therefore, without
Pluto, none of us would be here just now. Sort of shows how things are connected in all sorts of mysterious ways.
Look to the heavens if you want to know. Anyhow, these mysterious connections operate both "large-scale" and
"small-scale". Just like without "potatoes" (grown originally in the "New World"
and bought back to the "Old World"), I know that I wouldn't be typing this just now because potatoes were a
most sustaining food for so many peasants including my ancestors. There is no changing the past, so it is not worth
dwelling on the past with regret, but we can learn from the past so that the future can be better. This seems so simple.
For example, if the Spanish Conquistadors came to the "New World" with "good intent" (rather than just
looking for gold and silver and other things to plunder), then my suspicion is that the future would have been so much better
for so many, and they still could have acquired potatoes. I might not be here had this happened (probably not),
but for those who were here, things would be better because instead of so much needless suffering of innocence there could
have been positive synergism. For in my opinion, the innocent hold power that is omnipotent and reminiscent, and harmful
behavior just leads to more suffering in the future. We (you know all of us in "humanity") really
should have learned this by now (both individually and collectively), but there remain those who for some bizarre reason that
I can't fathom who continue to treat others with utter disdain. I suppose they consider themselves "superior"
somehow. I think those who do this in a large-scale way are in just a small minority, and even though they have
been bestowed much privilege and have much influence, many of them are not thankful for all they have and nor are
they helpful. I suspect this stems from their self-anointed sense of "superiority", and I think these few
are truly the "ones" who are at the precipice much more so than the rest of us, and now that we are all so much
more closely connected via rapid communication, for the sake of the future, I hope these few can learn some humility,
and then choose to be beneficial for the sake of the commonweal. Either that or I hope the rest of us who just want
Peace and Harmony can help them learn firsthand what Karma really means - this would be justified. For if not, then
the precipice that I alluded to could be most dreadful and indiscriminate, and let me ask this: who in their "right"
mind would want indiscriminate outcomes when we could choose something better? For a large rock from the heavens is
one thing, but treating others with utter disdain is a choice that each
one of us is able to control. Didn't Jesus say something about "Whatsoever
you do to the least of my brethren, that you do unto me" - I so agree with this, and therefore, if you cause
large-scale harm you are only harming yourself, or in other words - you will get what you deserve. Given how events
these days can transpire with such rapidness, it suggests to me that justice will occur in the here and
the now, unlike past history when it might take generations before the laws of Karma became evident. Some law
is inviolate and time is of the essence. I pray for Peace. I pray for guidance. I await discriminate justice.
You could call it "justified retribution" in a way, but the bottom line is: Some law is inviolate. I
hope we can agree upon that, for if not, then you do not understand law, and nor do you appreciate Karma, and it is as
if you are spitting in the face of the Creator of us all. I advise against that sort of behavior, but obviously,
the choice is yours.
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