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I hope I don’t get arrested, but I baked pumpkin bread in the middle of the summer.

There was a can of pumpkin puree and all the other ingredients, and then there was me wanting to snack on something. And voila.

I made four mini-loaves of pumpkin bread. And they’re kind of delicious.

I added some mini-semisweet chocolate chips. I wish I had added some chopped nuts. But in all, pumpkin bread is delicious even when eaten outside of the autumnal season.

I plan on letting two loaves be eaten, and the other two will be wrapped and frozen for future cravings.

It’s the only thing I can do. I had to replenish the household supply of pumpkin bread 🤷🏻‍♀️

The world is currently a point of crisis. Thinking about the events taking place want to push me into a panic attack. So I understand that other people are under a devastating amount of stress. It’s too much for anyone to handle.

And so I recommend doing some of the things that make you happy. Fill your jar of memories with instances of quiet joy and contentment, so when everything seems bleakest, you can be a point of light for yourself and those around you.

A light shining in the darkness.

A candleflame flickering in the night.

A metaphorical inferno ready to burn at any moment.

~Harper Kingsley

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I was researching terra cotta clay to make my own chia pets, but you need a kiln. You’ve gotta get an oven that does like 1800°F (980°C) and 2000°F (1093°C) degrees if you want to burn your own terra cotta.

That is such a hot temperature that I’m not even going to dare mess with it at home. That’s a dangerous amount of heat and I am not qualified for the task.

I did not take any pottery classes. I do not have a professional-grade kiln–

And when I say "professional-grade" I mean a kiln with as many safety features as possible that can be used to make as many types of pottery as possible.

–at home. I am a simple hyperchicken.

I recognize my lane and I stay in it.

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Of all the things techno-billionaires could give us, I don’t understand why so many of them publicly go the route of being hated by the masses.

You could be creating and producing many things.

You could be making peoples’ lives better.

In your hands is enough power to change the world. Or at least a big enough part to splash some waves in the proverbial "global economy" pool.

You know.

Doing some stupid shit and suddenly 40,000 people lose their retirement fund.

1,000,000+ people lose their medical insurance. Or at least the part of it they’re really going to need.

We need good dental insurance. And that IS medical related stuff. Preventive measures to stop someone from having organ failure.

Good dental health, good physical health, good bone health, good mental health, good…

why did they start separating everything apart. For what reason did they do that?

EVERYTHING related to your ENTIRE HUMAN BODY should be covered under medical insurance.

And Medicaid does not have to be so difficult.

Why do people have to give up dental health coverage when they move to your plan, but your plan is the only one that offers palliative-care levels of medication.

Like, people need dental care AND doctor proscribed medication.

A licensed pharmacist has to go to school to learn what medications should not be mixed with other medications.

If you take your prescription to be filled at a pharmacist, or if you just go talk to a pharmacist at their job, they will tell you what things should not be mixed together.

Pharmacists are not there to provide you medical care.

Do not go to your pharmacist with a gushing wound. Go to urgent care.

BUT a pharmacist that knows what all medications you are talking, should be able to tell you when you’ve accidentally created a death cocktail.

At the very least, they will raise danger flags to let you know you shouldn’t be mixing Pill A with Pill B and you should avoid grapefruit if you’re taking most modern medications.

Grapefruit is contraindicated for a lot of prescription medications. It can make some work too well, and others not work at all.

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My brain has been in spirals of late.

There’s a lot of fearful things happening.

And there’s nothing I can do about it.

The world is going crazy.

And at the core of everything is a gaping need for money.

Like, they’ve completely ruined the local economy and created massive fissures in the global economy.

And like, nobody knows why.

He just felt like doing it, so he did it.

That or he’s surrounded by people acting in his stead. He says a lot of the time that he didn’t know someone was doing something/had been doing something.

There’s a lot of things he says he doesn’t remember WHEN HE WAS CLEARLY NOTIFIED.

A real capitalist would realize that his people were fucking up and put a stop to it.

They are boot stomping the supplies the community needs to survive.

These are dudes that are head-wrapped around the idea that they are in a video game.

They are living like they think the simulation is real. That ALL OF THIS doesn’t really matter.

Because death isn’t real.

"If I do this one thing I will immediately go to super heaven when I die."

"I heard it from a guy in a hat and robe. So you know he was important."

I’ve played "Dante’s Inferno."

He’s burning in hell because some cardinal(?) told him and the other crusaders that the lives of people outside their ethnic group didn’t matter to God, so killing them would be all right.

And then it turns out God likes all people. And the cardinal was just some guy talking out his bung hole.

False prophets might not realize they’re prophets. They could just be profiteers.

And I wish people would stop living their lives like they’re in a video game.

And it’s like, they never seem to choose entertaining games. It’s all single-person shooters where you can maybe team up with other people.

One of those open-world games where a lot of people can choose to play out their villain fantasies.

You bust into another group’s camp and you destroy their beds, and they lose all the stuff saved at that base.–And it’s like, you don’t ask yourself why you did that. It’s a video game. It’s not real.

But when you do that stuff in REAL LIFE? Thinking you’re in the Matrix?!?

The best advice for someone taking hallucinogenic drugs is to remember "If you suddenly think you can fly, do it from the ground up."

If you suddenly think you’re in the Matrix, and the idea lingers in your brain no matter how hard you want to let it go.–You should still act like a normal human being.

What the fuck, man?

Why would you immediately start destroying everything around you if you think you might be in the Matrix?

Those a real other people connected to the Matrix.

They can be taken over by agents BECAUSE they are still connected to the Matrix.

When you kill someone in the Matrix, I think that person is just mind-wiped and entered back into the Matrix as a new person.

And if you think the Matrix is real and you still want to kill a bunch of people or just make their everyday life a complete and utter misery for no reason?

Then you’re a very scary person.

Having your mind-wiped means you are dead.

The you that you are. The set of memories and emotions all bundled together to make you will be gone if you are killed in the Matrix.

The Matrix is fake, but the people are real.

~Harper Kingsley

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People being like: “Why do you buy tasty chewable children’s aspirin when we already have extra strength aspirin in the house?”

And it’s like, “I believe that people only need as much medication as does the job. I don’t need an extra strength aspirin when I feel a migraine coming on. I can use a children’s aspirin and stop the migraine before it starts.”

Just because you can buy things directly from the grocery store doesn’t mean they’re automatically safe to use in massive amounts.

Aspirin and Tylenol can kill you. So can alcohol, tobacco, and too much water.

Too much water?

Yeah, if you drink too much water in too short an amount of time, you can throw off your electrolyte balance. I imagine it being as though you’re changing the water in a fish tank, and rather than leaving behind some of the water the fish is used to, you just drain the tank completely and refill it with tap water.

The result? Dead fish.

Drinking gallons of water without adding some electrolytes, results in a dead person. It’s just how the body works.

It’s the amount that makes the poison.

A handful of chewable children’s aspirin spread out over a few days is no big deal. A handful of extra strength aspirin in that same amount of time could result in serious consequences.

We are a society of too much. We need to first realize what “just enough” is before we overindulge due to lack of knowledge.

I only need a low-dose aspirin to get the job done. Taking an extra strength aspirin just means wasting aspirin and possibly putting my organs at risk.

There’s no reason for it.

That being said, I recommend that people should keep low-dose aspirin around. Like, if you’re going to use aspirin anyway, why not have a variety to choose from depending on the reasons you need it?

Even if you just keep aspirin around to grind them into powder and add water to mix up a paste to remove the pain from a possible scorpion bite.

If you’re going to stock regular and/or extra strength aspirin, low-dose aspirin is good to have. You might find out that you’ve been taking a much larger dose of aspirin than you actually need.

You’re trying to get a job done. Not liquify your organs.

And if you’re a Tylenol man? That’s even more reason to lean toward low-dose over extra strength since Tylenol can kill you dead.

I keep looking for cheap but usable yogurt presses. Ever since I saw that "Greek Cake" brand yogurt press in that YouTube video… I am obsessed.

Ever since I saw her with those perfect cake-wedge pieces of yogurt cheese, that’s what I’ve been looking for. Yet all anyone’s selling are presses that don’t look half so useful or cool.

I want to make Greek Cake!

Perfect giant Laughing Cow-style soft cheese wedges.

I want to make cheeseballs out of yogurt cheese. I want to make cheesecake with yogurt cheese. I want to make wraps with a spread of yogurt cheese rolled up with sliced lunchmeat, lettuce shreds, diced tomatoes, and a dipping sauce.

My life is full of wants.

And maybe that’s what life is and always should be.

There should always be things you want but have to work around to get. Because if you have everything and anything you want… then what do you have to look forward to when you wake up everyday?

Like, unless someone likes to read or watch movies and TV, their lives of too-much will lack all meaning. And then they turn into like a Nazi or something.

It’s why I believe that people reading books is good. Not summaries of books, but actual books. From start to finish, through a whole well-written story. A beginning, a middle, and an end, all with characters that are engaging and fleshed out enough that it creates a connection of empathy between the reader and the protagonist.

Reading books allows someone to "experience" the life of someone that comes from a completely different background and active living situation. And even if they’re a totally awful person, if the book is written well enough a reader can enjoy the story.

If you read a book and don’t have an opinion about it when you’re done, then it wasn’t a well-written book. That, or you didn’t really read it.

And that’s what I’m worried about. That I’ll get the substandard yogurt press and the yogurt cheese I make will be so bland and bodiless that I’ll eat a whole batch of it and just be like "Meh" about it afterward.

And yes, I am still on about the yogurt cheese.

I’ve read a lot of books. I have a lot of experience with reading books. But yogurt cheese… That’s something I’ve never had.

But I want some.

Yogurt cheese spread on a toasted bagel topped with some smoked salmon, a glass of lemonade, and a good book to read. That sounds so good to me.

Because now is the time to enjoy the little joys.

Terrible things are happening in the world. Hard choices are going to have to be made. The people will have to raise their voices and ensure that they’re heard. And in the between moments, people need to remind themselves of what happiness is.

• The soft fur of a friendly cat.
• The soulful eyes of a loving dog.
• The song of birds.
• Breathing in clean air.
• The joy of a fruit popsicle on a hot sunny day.
• Having a song play and knowing all the words as you sing along.
• Nachos that are just the right temperature.
• A polish sausage and a cola straight from the hotdog cart.
• Getting dressed and feeling spiffy.
• Biting into a bagel sandwich that has cream cheese, lunch meat, lettuce and/or alfalfa sprouts.
• Having a good conversation with someone.
• Choosing to duck under a sprinkler on a hot day or deciding to stay out in the summer rain for a while.
• Tasting a delicious food for the first time.
• Comfortably lounging around in bed with nowhere to go and nowhere to be, not needing to use the toilet and experiencing no hunger or thirst.
• Eating popcorn while watching a good movie you’re seeing for the first time.
• Sitting down on perfect grass, just long enough, not damp or too dry, and without bothersome bugs.
• Waking up from the perfect amount of sleep and feeling wonderful.
• Dancing alone and feeling like a ballerina from a sport’s movie.
• Perfectly cooked French fries dipped in cold ketchup.
• Sniffing flowers that smell wonderful.

A lot of little joys can add up to make a big sense of joy. A quiet contentment you can feel everyday versus a single moment of glee that doesn’t last for very long, or that can be derailed by events not going absolutely perfect to plan.

A lasting happiness is better than brief experiences that might not be as fun as expected.

I like yogurt and I like cheese, so if yogurt cheese can fulfill both of those cravings… That would make me so happy.

~Harper Kingsley

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