Pristine Origins

10/28/2024

As many of you know I like to exchange with AI. Today I got got in a short but very heavy downpour which walking back from shopping...

10/24/2024

From an earlier time of magnificence.

The great Maria Callas performs an aria from her signature role, Bellini's druid priestess Norma, with the Orchestre de l'Opera National de Paris and Georges...

10/22/2024

Robert Wyatt first came into my musical life as the drummer in Soft Machine. They were incredible and so was he.

1983 feat Elvis Costello

10/18/2024

More arty stuff this morning, two Clothes-Art pieces before breakfast.

10/13/2024

Almost all that ails us stems from money or the lack of it and this is very informative as to some cures.

The Fed has been the source of booms, busts, and the ongoing impoverishment of Americans since the Fed’s founding.This is why a new, critical look at the Fed...

10/07/2024

If you did not know about China-produced Electric Vehicle industry, this is worth watching.

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10/05/2024

Michelle, Morgan, Linda and me went through lots of music over many years. Aha impacted us in wonderful ways and this one of their favorite songs of mine; with a special guest :)

Summer Moved On.

Summer Solstice from 2017.

10/04/2024

They spoke of a world of immaculate fools,
Who dressed in white satin atop marbled repose,
Who spoke in sharp tongues of strictures and rules,
Not intended for they but intended for those,
Those humbled and knowing and giving and kind,
Those opened to all and to all of the schools,
And not open to those who both cruel and blind,
Who in truth are no more than immaculate fools.

09/29/2024

This vista of healthy foods looks wonderful, however, in many ways it might as well be wax. It is not normal to get such perfection, so how can such perfection be achieved? By tremendous wastage, throwing perfectly edible food away; or. Marinating them in biosphere harming concoctions; or. Both.

For the past 8-9 years I have been growing or harvesting and producing as much of my own food as possible. Most of the leaves I eat, lettuce, collards, kales etc have holes in them. Fruit is often blemished or misshapen, or both. However, here is the even better news, I waste next to nothing, my health is good for my age and the best news of all; everything I eat has seeds; often lots of them.

Seedless fresh produce is a disaster, think of it this way, if human beings went sterile we would be gone as life-form in just over 100 years. Also, vegetables, etc going to seed is a good thing not a bad thing.

Let's all wake up to real, reality; it's a wonderful and wonder-filled place to be :)

09/12/2024

There have been several occasions when I have shared my ongoing enjoyment of the book; "An Everlasting Meal" and I hope you will not mind my sharing a true story of the past 3 days, which relates to this.

The other day (the 9th. of September) I traveled to Portland and after watching Vandana Shiva talking at Portland University a group of us, including Chris Henry who is running for City Councilor on a permaculture platform, went to a 24 hour Taco eating place called Javier's Taco's. I ordered a chillis rellenos plate which had two very large Pascilla chillies, rice, beans, sour cream and flour tortillas it cost $14.00. I ate what I could for dinner that night. Talking the rest back to my hotel I ate some more for breakfast, then I brought the left-overs back to my tiny-home in Eugene, OR and started a 🌶 rellenos soup some of which I had for dinner last night. Today I will finish this off for lunch. Y

es this is a long yet true story and I wanted to reflect that a single glass of wine in my hotel was $17.00 (which I did not order). It makes me think of food waste from a different angle and skewed values when traveling.

09/09/2024

This shows wonderfully or audiofully how melodic Frank Zappa could be in his composing. He was incredibly talented in fact.

Marco Dalpane: PianoforteFrank Zappa Suite(Let's Make the Water Turn Black/ Harry, You're A Beast/ Orange County Lumber Truck/ Oh No, Son of Orange County/ T...

08/15/2024

It is with a great privilege to me that I am part of the Cascadia Bioregion movement, since late last year. We are mentioned in this video and Brandon Letsinger-Brown, from the Regenerate Cascadia movement is in here also.

And I had to share these very wise words.

"Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace"

What would our maps look like? In this video, we explore who drew the first lines on a map and said “Everything within them is ours”. And how to map the worl...