Topics: Agenda 21, Christian, Gardening, Green, Zazzle.
Agenda 21
The United Nations officially discarded something called Agenda 21, an unethical attempt on the part of the mediation group to push centralized planning with an overall goal of boosting the Chinese economy at the United States' expense. It's not appropriate for the UN to have agendas; any evidence that they're finding time to formulate domestic policy plans to push at national governments should result in funding cuts and reduction of work time. Nevertheless, people with enough brains to plan more significant actions than screaming "Marg bar America" still exist, they still hate the United States, and they're still funding the grants to install more slums in formerly nice neighborhood. In the name of our late lamented Grandma Bonnie Peters, who loved the upscale retirement neighborhood known as Upper Sevier Terrace, always wanted to retire there, did retire there, and died just in time to miss the sight of Upper Sevier Terrace becoming a "scary neighborhood" full of drug addicts squatting in abandoned stores and offices, this web site sends an empathy hug to James A. Tweedie of San Francisco.
Christian
I don't know to what extent this is true for other faith traditions...Christians who pay too much attention to the group dynamics at church, instead of the teachings of their faith, are prone to a sort of simplistic thinking. Because doing the right thing tends to feel good at least on some level, some of us think a good mood is the same thing as doing the right thing. Because some of us don't want to examine our consciences, we want to shift the focus away from honesty in business, fidelity in marriage, merit in creative work, etc., to the "feelings" some of us find easy at least to fake. Some of us think that just keeping a grin pinned on our faces, 24/7, makes us better or even nicer people. It doesn't. We need to be reminded that real Christianity has the depth and dimensions that come from admitting that real Christians, even the great saints, are not "happy all the time" and that nothing is more repulsive than a big toothy forced smile. Not only could we make it easier for the individuals in greatest need of consolation to find fellowship in churches rather than bars, we could even do something about the epidemic of homicide-suicides.
(Murder didn't start in the 1980s, but the homicide-suicide pattern did...because that specific mental illness is almost always a reaction to certain drugs, some of which are illegal, and others of which are popular "prescription medication" for "depression." So it's possible that if we accepted "depression" as something most people have, for hours or days or months, at some time in life as a symptom of a physical disease, if we monitored the "depressed" moods of ourselves and those closest to us as road signs on the quest for a cure of that physical disease, people would avoid taking the unhelpful medication for their symptoms and find their real cures.)
Here is a long, but much more cheering, Christian poem:
Gardening
Do you have more prunings than you can burn? Are they too big to break down well in the toilet? I have a big brush pile. This article shows some creative uses for a brush pile, especially if you live in a place where a brush pile is a fire hazard.
What about walls to retain soil on slopes and mark boundaries? My home came with privet. By the time I was born, nobody was sure just who had planted the privet, but it's still a lovely fragrant hedge that attracts cardinals, so Cheer! Cheer! Cheer! for whoever it was. Privet is great stuff for hedges--hard to kill, not attractive to nuisance insects, white flowers with a beautiful scent for about a week and just your basic green leaves for the rest of the year/ I find it hard to believe that anyone really doesn't like it, but possible to believe that some people can't grow it. Here are some alternatives that may work for the non-privet people...if you really enjoy fiddling with your garden, walls of fruit, vegetables, and herbs are possible. In theory you could have a "wall" of potted edible plants on the balcony of an apartment!
Green
Virginia should profit by Pennsylvania's example. We don't want no frackin'round here!
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfas-chemicals-chevron-fracking-lawsuit-bryan-latkanich/
Zazzle
It's a cool, wet summer here, though I keep reading about fierce heat, killer drought, and wildfires in other places...but soon it will be hot everywhere. Beat the heat! Stay hydrated! The photo on the reusable water bottle was a lucky shot. These little skipper butterflies are mostly composters, but they do sip nectar, and here are two of different species sipping from one flower.
Not mine, but cute:
Someone bought a Tiger Swallowtails blanket for Virginia. Here is a Zebra Swallowtails blanket for Tennessee:
Not mine, but cute:
I tend to see, acquire, make, and sell things that appeal to women. Wonder why? So people ask "Where are the men's things?" Serious cyclists like metal water bottles but here, for those who believe women's gifts should be for the adornment of the person and men's gifts for the adornment of the vehicle, are butterfly car flags. Mine features a new Monarch image on front and my favorite Monarch on back, as a sample. You can substitute any image and text of your choice, from my collection or your own. :
Not mine, but definitely related in spirit--I think it's Florida's rare Zebra Longwing:
I don't know how to make the fullest use of Zazzle's foil cards technology.
Whoever did this Monarch image does know how to use the foil cards system.
Here's my silver version:
And this one, with silhouettes of different kinds of butterflies...lovely!
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