Probably the one topic Mrs. Cog and I return to more often than any other is our amazement how so many people who profess awareness and understanding of the coming chaos and hard times remain firmly rooted in their present situation. Despite acknowledging the runaway train barreling down the tracks directly towards them, they do little to nothing to get out of the way.
They know they are dependent upon a failing state for most, if not all, of their needs. Whether it is food, water, sewer, electricity, security, employment, whatever area we wish to examine, they remain tragically dependent upon a failing state to ‘not fail’ in order to continue to provide what the failing state soon will be unable to supply. Continue reading This and That Vol 4 – Mid Winter Musings→
Taking a Pass on Gas – Wood Preferred - Part Three
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High Desert Homesteading
This is the final installment of this wood stove installation article. Actually, a major remodeling project more accurately describes the entire process.
Part 1 and Part 2 covered the near total demolition of the original gas fireplace, which was encased in a large moss rock structure, and the installation of hearth flagstone and a cultured stone (partial) back wall. Part two ended with several large tasks still to complete.
Those chores involved a lot of woodwork on the back wall and ceiling, the installation of a new insulated chimney stack, moving the 450lb wood stove up some stairs and onto the hearth, and the final installation work to prepare for the first wood fire. Continue reading Taking a Pass on Gas – Wood Preferred – Part Three→
Resistance Is Futile: The Borg Empire’s State of Mind
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Cognitive Dissonance
Despite claims to the contrary, it is extremely difficult to differentiate between reality and the Borg Empire’s State of Mind. If you live and die in a water filled fish bowl where algae, barnacles and various other vision obscuring detritus slowly accumulate on the circular glass wall, the worlds both inside and out are perceived in very specific ways.
Have you ever experienced an epiphany, that moment of clarity and realization where nothing has changed, but everything is different? I’m not speaking of a Eureka moment when sudden insight is gained into a particular issue or problem. Rather I speak of that moment when our focus suddenly shifts from the green slime on the wall to some or all of what lay beyond. Continue reading Resistance Is Futile: The Borg Empire’s State of Mind→
