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October 20, 2021

Good Morning Friends & Digital Neighbors! Happy Wednesday as we reach a mid-point in most of our weeks. I had my first doctor's visit in a decade and it went very well much to my surprise. Blood pressure was were it should be, blood work was done and I await the results, and soon the fun colonoscopy will be conducted. Good bedside manner by the doctor and it was a good beginning to more attentive health. Off to the Star Trek quote and Mother Nature.

Rule of Acquisition #44 Never confuse wisdom with luck.

Too many do. It is understood by our "cultural betters" in career politics, enemedia, wokertainment, academia and big tech that they are where they are because they are more insightful, wise and gifted than the rest of us stooges. When I think of all of the institutions in the "Cabal", it is just one massive collective circle jerk. Of all of them, our inattentiveness to the devolved world of academia is the worst since it has such an infectious power on our young people and other institutions as they filter into the work place.

The luck of the "Cabal" was the preoccupation of most of the public in the center, and the soft Right & Left not paying attention to the hard Left brewing its own insanity in our universities. The soft Right & Left are capable of dialogue and change, actual listening because they are potentially malleable. The Hard ends on the Right & Left are what they are because of their lack of dialogue. The Hard Left is culturally promoted and esteemed, the Hard Right is out there, but at the moment very marginalized. The Hard Left has a zealotry that would make any Religious Compulsion Crusaders of the past jealous.

Wisdom - you don't need a degree. You need silence and stillness, the ability to listen and slow tumble experience and conversation in your reflections. The slow refining of ideas and subtle movements of the self to arrive at new shores of understanding or new insights into long held convictions. Wisdom never leaves you the same, you are either changed by its presence or it simply passes you by. Suffering is often the greatest variable, you are either fast tracked on the path of wisdom or your wander off it completely in the wilds of bitterness and desolation. Suffering and fear do not easily lead to wisdom, more likely hysteria. Please see 2020 for clearer vision on this mass phenomena among humanity.

Well I have preached enough, thanks for indulging my morning rambling or God bless you as you just scrolled on by to the next post from a less preachy curmudgeon.

On to Mother Nature - somewhere near Arrowtown, New Zealand is this wonderful landscape. Thanks @Fred_Bourque in Phetalandia for the idea of looking at New Zealand when you made the comment on yesterday's post.

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