Hey everyone, I haven’t been posting for quite awhile so I thought I’d give everyone an update.
Everything’s fine, no health issues, and I didn’t fall off the edge of the world. Lol
For most of my adult life I’ve been marinating in the daily news/political cycles. As you well know its a cesspool. So I decided to do a bit of social media/news fast or detox to see what that might feel like.
So, how’s it going?
It is very interesting. The world definitely feels a lot more sane and relaxed when you’re not constantly being gas-lit, lied to, manipulated and trying to figure out what kind of con the narcissistic psychopaths are up to now. I can certainly understand the appeal of never looking at the news and why some people never do.
Unfortunately, not knowing what the hell’s going on in the world leaves one vulnerable to being blindsided when current events spiral out of control. So I won’t be in “Monk” mode forever. But for now I am very much enjoying the peace that comes along with it.
Cheers
Mostly agreed with this statement of yours Francisco.
It’s recently gotten to the point where I can scan/read a news site’s collection of recent events and see 30 which make me want to move to the mountains/forest, and 3 which I agree with. I haven’t taken to only watching puppy and gardening videos but the toll on one’s heart and sensibilities is noted.
Hopefully a cleanse should do the trick.
cheers…
Congrats on your detox! Many days have me wondering just how clogged my liver has gotten from the constant stream of MSM microplastic stories and opinions. I’m swimming in MSM microplastic astroturfed toxicity.
Usually a few hours of gardening will re-center my well-being … but a long vacation would probably provide a better – cleanse. Congrats, and be well! We all appreciate your clarity of personage.
Yeah, exactly! That’s what’s clogging my liver too, – that constant stream of MSM microplastic stories and opinions.
I’m sure that’s what’s doing it.
It can’t be all that alcohol and bacon…
This is why I go mostly dark when on the road for dog shows. 😉
There are times when I truly envy my Mennonite friends who trust that The Lord will protect them and believe that Heaven awaits.
Methinks that the price of being aware and analytical is a restless and uncomfortable existence.
Enjoy your sabbatical.
Yeah. We went on a ten day vacation, and I didn’t take my laptop with. It felt rather nice to get out of the news loop.
It’s nice to hear some SDA regulars also use gardening as an detox escape from all the mayhem in the news. I just now returned home from my parents, after almost four hours of yardwork there. The fresh air, lunch with M&D, and sense of accomplishment when finished really is good for the mind and soul.
I don’t necessarily like that I obsess so much about the news, but one can’t help but care about what is going on, especially when so many dark, demonic forces (99% communist filth) are doing all they can 24/7 to destroy society as we know it.
It’s very simple advice delivered in two words –
Touch grass.
It’s an elixir for sure.
RNrn
And isn’t that it TC? That immediate visual satisfaction of an accomplishment? Something you cannot obtain as easily from a keyboard or touchscreen. Thankfully, I’m in a creative business … so my work provides an immediate visual feedback. But … clearing a bed of weeds still somehow hits the spot.
And congrats for helping out mom and dad … I’d say you killed a few birds with that effort.
Mom just turned 90 and Dad turns 96 on May 7. Been in the same house since 1958. I’ll be planting tomato plants in a couple weeks. This will be the 68th consecutive year of the vegetable garden!
Stability. Having lived in the same home since 1983 … I’m working on your parents stability. There’s just one slight problem. It’s in CA. The dying and decaying dystopian supermajority communist ruled CA. Yeah. I gotta go. My daughter fled to TN … where she’s loving it. It looked damn nice when I stayed a week there.
Like you, I’m stuck for now in a deep blue Democrat hell hole, and so my goal is to get out of New Jersey someday. Tennessee is definitely one of the places I’m interested in!
I was surprised at how much beauty and open land I saw in my daughter’s section of a Nashville suburb. And it’s growing. Lots of new home construction… and the homes are all substantial and beautiful. It reminds me of CA in 1960, when I started kindergarten … rolling hills of poppies … getting built out with subdivision after subdivision. I fear a Californication of TN. I’d hate to be part of that … but … the quality of life … looks hard to beat … for now.
And the TN Gov. just declared June “Nuclear Family Month” … restoring PRIDE to intact, male and female parenting. Oh, and TN just extended their “stand your ground” laws.
Plant, grow and raise. And then, can it. Pressure can it. If you don’t like canning it, try drying it. Freezers are great, but they are one power failure away from a soupy mess. Society works better when you don’t depend soleley on freezers!
Yup.
When you shut off the Doom Song,the world is beautiful.
Without the media shrieking,the birds sing,sun rises in the east and people are not all insane.
Maybe insanity is contagious?
Mass formation hysteria
Yep.
John,
Yes, shut off the doom loop as possible.
My home backs onto a creek in Kelowna, edge of town.
I love to wake early, listen to myriad birds, and watch the morning sun light up the hills.
Chickadees, Quail, Flickers, Robins, Nuthatches, Finches, Sparrows, Doves, Hawks, Eagles, Crows, Blackbirds, Ducks, Geese, and many more.
CAW!
Beats the enervating interweb of psyop relentlessness….which is what ‘they’ want.
Flickers are nice except for springtime when they pound the hell out of metal furnace vents!
I have a Red Shafted Flicker pounding away my neighborhood trees … but enough about me …
Kelowna. Had to look that up! Looks beautiful. Especially to me who lives in……New Jersey…….ugggggh
My 50×50 (feet, not meters) backyard gets some birds and they do love my birdbath, but it sounds like you got it made with your collection of flying friends. Congrats!
Damn. That’s my dream property … with a trout stream running through it. And since I kinda look like Brad Pitt …
You almost sound Vaccinated. Prolly just a Millennial. Suck it up.
Get some Faith and Pray, be grateful. Thats how we Gen X OG’s get through the shit.
I get the same feeling as I leave Toronto and head 3 hrs north to WHITELAND.
There must be 3 million Indians now in Toronto. Whites are BY FAR the Minority.
I hate this country more each day. Imagine “visiting” India?
I’ll never apologize for wanting my Former Canada back.
God damn the FILTHY LIBERALS
Good for you Francisco.
We all need a detoxification now and then, it is refreshing.
Just got off a 3 week cruise from Panama, where, all we had was the ship TV of BBC, CNN and Fox International stations. Can’t watch CNN! BBC is of course, stuffy pretentious elitist twats. Fox is Fox.
And, news to all, CANADA NEVER GETS MENTIONED. Canada is not on anybody else’s radar. This country is just a grain of sand in the ocean of the world.
Canada is inconsequential! So, disregard His Nibs when Carnage mentions middle powers, soft powers. He is an idiot, but moreso are Liberal lemmings and voters.
So, yes, despite knowing this country is a cesspool of gaslighting propaganda, it was a nice relief of being largely disconnected from the nonsense of living in present day Canadastan.
Still haven’t watched a newscast all week since returning. Just online headlines to monitor, briefly, the insanity of the ruling class and their lemmings following along without question.
Yup!
Gotta get away at times or the bastards will drag you down.
I’m doing a bit more stuff with music and working a bit more – lotsa driving.
And got some potted sprouts of milkweed going for the front yard garden.
Beer consumption is steady.
No rat shootings in a while.
The problem is there are far too many people refusing to watch the news and learning what’s going on who still think it’s ok to vote. That’s one of the reasons we keep getting stuck with incompetent and corrupt Liberal governments.
You are powerless to influence any of the insanity that is taking place. Unless you’re a resident of Alberta, in which case you have a single opportunity in October.
Some of us love the mayhem the internet offers, it’s easier on the knuckle of the right hand fist, which have been broken a few times because of bullshit in real life. But one needs to be strong of character and sound of mind to thrive in chaos, having worked in service, were analysis is critical, I love the internet.
Sex work is real service work ain’t it GYM? Internet for your Only Fans octogenarian channel, where the fists only go in your arse.
I like the internet because I can hear the rantings of worthless madmen as clearly as at the food court in the mall, but there ‘s no risk of getting spittle in my coffee.
Hey Fransisco , good for you .
I’m lucky I’ve always took one day at a time , never wanted to be rich , just pay my bills , and live the simplest of lives around honest people with a soul. Like the small town I grew up in .
I don’t have to watch the news I don’t . I watch the odd you tube clip, and basically take my news listening to 20 somethings at work and here if course., while watching the country slowly decline and find it fascinating how history is playing out once again, in almost biblical terms and I’m not a church goer . But I have to say accepting just how fked this country is over ignorance and greed , and my age – I have maybe 12 to 20 good years left has led to the most beautiful small world or one with the universe moments in my life so many I wonder why . Peace I can find easily , but I have no time for people with their heads up their a–. I just don’t .At sixty I quit my job of fourteen years because the new owner is letting it slide. And Monday a new job run by a conservative family awaits , the owner who likes Trump, and told me I can finish my career there . Life is beautiful. And Modern Liberals suck shit they really do and I’m getting better and better at letting them know it’s time for them to take some credit for things, to the point of their silence and my peace.
And if it’s truly a full on slide, being who you are and the peaceful moments that fill your soul are the only things they can never take away.
And they will never be taking from me ever.
Life is beautiful and I am a Canadian.
Keep your chin up , and remember the grit this country used to have.
And I hope your all as blessed as I am.
Mugs – I admire the hell out of you. I’m still an old hippie who became a Christian in the middle of the Jesus Freak movement of the early 70’s. I didn’t become a 1980’s Crystal Cathedral selfish Christian where I was told Christ would make me rich or something. I became a kind of Christian who took it heart that building up treasure on earth where moths eat it away and rust covers it is a fools errand. I also truly believe … because my life is full of evidence for it … that God always provides what I have ever needed. Starting in my young life and extending to this very week. God has always delivered for me … big time … in my most desperate times … and I’ve had quite a few.
So I do not toil to accumulate stuff. I like nice things, but I’m patient and resourceful in how I obtain them. I am nearly as frugal as a survivor of the Great Depression. That has allowed me a freedom to be still and to live about as stress-free as one can get. But that’s mostly because of my attitude. I don’t chase the golden ring. I honestly believe that’s why my heart is strong, and I don’t believe I’ll ever have a heart attack like so many I know. My relationship with Christ has helped me get to know myself … and I know that the only way to live is one day, one person, one encounter at a time. I have been self-employed since 1990 and keep my own pace. I’ve intentionally not grown my business despite several opportunities to do so. Why? Because I know myself … and I like things simple.
Mugs. I have no doubt but that you ARE truly blessed. As am I.
https://youtu.be/pnO4iiX_hSo?si=uZQtB3ohRfeGPF_Y
Reach out your hand, if your cup be empty
If your cup is full, may it be again
Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men
There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go, no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone
Ripple in still water
When there is no pebble tossed nor wind to blow
Thanks Kenji.
I’m just me .
And to be honest reading the ballad of John Henry at around 10 or so in public school – formed my work ethic, my constitution, and my simple unyielding convictions.
I don’t need peace , I just need the truth.
Peace springs from the Truth. So seeking Truth is sufficient.
I often want to do a detox, but Kate convinced one of my friends to attach a leg cuff to my left ankle and the other to my desk chair so I have no choice but to keep on posting. 😉
I believe F. Scott FitzGerald had a teetotal cousin named D. Tox FitzGerald.