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1. Delightful chat thus far. I’m at the imagination discussion and thought you would enjoy an aboriginal concept relating to thinking and ideas … “To think is to listen to the cosmos”.

   Back to listening. ?

   1. First, if i shouldn’t comment so much, go ahead and tell me. I’m new, and totally cool with a quick smack lol.

      Second, on creating community currency, might i offer a couple of suggestions for those communities that might feel they need to start with things that are less complicated or threatening.

      1.) Barter bank. Attached is a link to an old, analog barter bank model in a place i lived thirty years ago. Very basic, and there are apps, and websites now that help get them started.

      https://lionhrt.tripod.com/barter.html

      2.) In lieu of a full fledged bank or currency, start mini projects such as peer to peer lending groups. I really got into this idea after encountering the book Saris on Scooters about women lead micro and peer lending in India.

      3.) Local REITs that focus on keeping land ownership local and that supports small farms and business. Goes nicely with item 2.

      I’ve been slowly tinkering with these ideas here on PEI.

      Creating a REIT is most pressing here as our island is well into an intentional takeover via land acquisitions by an Asian mega corporation.

      1. Sorry. Me again. Advice on how to turtle forth.

         First, ask someone who has been through Hell and survived with sanity intact. Chances are, they have excellent strategies and advice.

         I am one of those people, and what i learned is very simple.

         Be you. Be here. And be happy, because happiness is a choice.

         https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrWc4CxCHxiJ4Nw2wAL9CF-LxKO-V-zR8

         You’d be amazed what the human spirit can endure. ???

         1. Yikes, me again. Loved Joseph bringing up the front porch.

            During my stint with the UN, i learned that removing front porches was an intentional design decision done to separate families in neighbourhoods by moving from the front where they could connect, to the backyard, where they were isolated.

            The front porch was crucial to community cohesion because they kept neighbours connected. The old women sat out front and saw who was sick, who needed food, whose kids were getting in trouble.

            It was also a meeting place.

            And it was intentionally removed.

2. Hello again. A note regarding living wealth et al … In Canada, the warehousing of the elderly was part of a deliberate strategy to not only cull the elderly, but destroy family wealth by taking any and all financial assets to pay for the nursing home.

   In several provinces, legislation was introduced to allow the government to go back seven years to access family assets. This prevented mom and/or dad from transferring the family home or assets prior to entering care in an effort to avoid having the asset seized by the government.

   This process alone has transferred vast amounts of wealth out of families, and into the big medicine cartels.

   1. Found the phrase i was looking for …. the nursing home system was created to “siphon intergenerational wealth”, and thus reduce tue size and resilience of the middle class.

3. A four minute video to address your questions about the moon, from Dr. August Dunning, formerly of NASA.

   https://youtu.be/XVl-RaL-ZsQ

4. Turtle forth and squirrel away.
   Thats my motto for this year.

   1. Yup.

5. Great discussion. Walter Bosley has books on Lulu. Just ordered some.

6. My friend & I were coming home today. A person pulled out in front of us completely in our way & turned to give my friend hail Colombia for being there! Her wrong turned into my friend’s wrong when she was completely in the wrong for pulling out right in front of her. We could have been rear-ended from her actions! Just bonkers

   1. we will have to navigate more irrational behavior. Prayer covering called for!

7. What a great conversation. Many new things to investigate such as solar wind and Russia’s decapitation strategy, many people to learn about such as Ingo Swann and Charles Fort, and also many intriguing questions to ponder such as ‘Where are creativity and consciousness located?’ and ‘Is the body in the soul?’

   I love the story about Catherine inventing ideas for Jack Kemp (time 1.32.00). It reminded me of an incident Benjamin Franklin related in his Autobiography:

   “In order of time, I should have mentioned before, that having, in 1742, invented an open stove for the better warming of rooms, and at the same time saving fuel, as the fresh air admitted was warmed in entering, I made a present of the model to Mr. Robert Grace, one of my early friends, who, having an iron-furnace, found the casting of the plates for these stoves a profitable thing, as they were growing in demand. To promote that demand, I wrote and published a pamphlet, entitled “An Account of the new-invented Pennsylvania Fireplaces…” etc. This pamphlet had a good effect. Gov’r. Thomas was so pleas’d with the construction of this stove, as described in it, that he offered to give me a patent for the sole vending of them for a term of years; but I declin’d it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz., That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.

   An ironmonger in London however, assuming a good deal of my pamphlet, and working it up into his own, and making some small changes in the machine, which rather hurt its operation, got a patent for it there, and made, as I was told, a little fortune by it. And this is not the only instance of patents taken out for my inventions by others, tho’ not always with the same success, which I never contested, as having no desire of profiting by patents myself, and hating disputes. The use of these fireplaces in very many houses, both of this and the neighbouring colonies, has been, and is, a great saving of wood to the inhabitants.”

   The spirit of Ben Franklin is alive and well.

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