Why I Am No Longer Participating in the Lead Hill-Diamond City Area Chamber of Commerce I have thought for quite some time about whether I wanted to say anything publicly about my experience with our local Chamber of Commerce. I have no interest in suing anyone for money, even though it would be quite easy. […]
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What if some of the fighting begins with how certain we are that we have to be separated? I spend a lot of time wondering why everybody gets along here. I don’t mean perfectly…This isn’t a Disney movie. There are disagreements. Somebody steals somebody else’s food. A chicken gets offended. A cat decides a chair belongs
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Why I care more about what went into the chicken than what somebody printed on the carton People sometimes ask what makes a farm fresh egg different from an ordinary grocery store egg. My first answer is a question…Which farm? Because “farm fresh” doesn’t tell me nearly enough. Other questions I would ask are: –
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The Emotion That Finally Says NO (based on a couple previous Coffee with Christie videos and blogs) I used to think anger was something I needed to get rid of…Something ugly, dangerous, something beneath me or any so called “spiritual” person……..Something terribly immature, that “enlightened” people supposedly transcended while smiling serenely underneath a waterfall
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The Tree of Life Was Standing There Too. (based off an old video called, “Is the Knowledge of Good and Evil Really Evil?” I had a revelation in the garden one day…which is apparently where most of my useful thoughts happen. I was thinking about the Garden of Eden. And no, I am not about to become
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Everybody Wants the Keys Until It’s Time to Earn Them (based on a video I did on this topic years ago.) I used to talk a lot about secret societies. Years ago, I spent ridiculous amounts of time going down rabbit holes. Who knows what? Who belongs to what? What symbols mean what? What are they
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Stop Waiting for Politicians to Love Your Neighbor Many years ago, immediately after another particularly emotional American election, I made a video asking a question that apparently I am still asking…… when exactly did we decide that changing the world was somebody else’s job? Every couple years, the ritual begins again. A new collection
What if the thing we fear isn’t the sky at all, but the words other people use to understand it? I was thinking again. Dangerous hobby, I know. ???? Some people will tell you astrology is evil, demonic, witchcraft, forbidden………ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE…. And then five minutes later they are checking the Moon phase before going fishing. Sir/Ma’am……..Put down
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I never thought I would need to explain the way my brain works. But perhaps understanding each other starts with being willing to explain… I have brain damage. There. We got that out of the way. ???? I have lived through multiple traumatic brain injuries, strokes, seizures, serious illness, and years when walking and speaking were
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Maybe medicine doesn’t begin with choosing between nature and modern science. Maybe it begins by becoming curious enough to study both. I have spent more than twenty years studying plants, nutrition, traditional medicine, human health, and scientific research. And one thing continues to fascinate me……….we are often terrified of the things growing naturally beneath
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