Nature

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Touched by a Rainbow!

Published February 1, 2025 by tindertender

Many of us were “touched” by greatness today as we travelled this pathway!

Wild Man

Published September 20, 2024 by tindertender

The creature Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is featured in both American and Canadian folklore and has connections to Indigenous cultures.

The name Sasquatch is believed to come from the Salish word Sasq’ets, which means “wild man” or “hairy man”.

The term was coined by Canadian journalist J.W. Burns in the 1930s, who was an Indian agent assigned to the Chehalis Band.

The Sunflower

Published June 23, 2024 by tindertender

The sunflower is not a flower! 🌻

Its petals are actually ray flowers and are made up of multiple petals fused together. Ray petals are usually yellow but can sometimes be red or orange.

The number of petals of a sunflower plant is determined on its size. A sunflower has between 34 and 89 petals. Now, look inside the “flower” more closely. Look into what you once thought was the flower and is actually a lot of tiny “flowers”. Many… Many… Beautiful and delicate in an alignment beyond harmonic (the geometry of nature). What you thought was a flower, is actually an outline that holds hundreds and hundreds of flowers…

The ray florets of sunflower are known as neuters because it consists neither male or female parts in the flower. If the flower contains any of the small strap-shaped flowers in the head of certain composite plants, such as the daisy is called Ray floret.

And if we look at it with the eyes of gardeners, we will realize that each little flower holds within itself, in this golden dust, countless fields of sunflowers.

In biology, this is called an infloration. 🌻

©️Jeffrey Peters

Fungi Charm

Published June 2, 2024 by tindertender

The most chilling mushrooms in the world ..

The charms of the Fungi Kingdom 🍄

Fungi are misfit organisms. Although they are much closer genetically to animals than plants, they were considered to be plants for centuries. Their cell structure is unique, as is their manner of living. They belong to a world entirely of their own.

The fungus that is only poisonous if you are also drinking
Have you ever eaten the cap mushroom? If you’re chewing a little now, that’s fine. Just do not drink for a while. This fungus does not harm sober people, but it lowers the wrath of God to drinkers.
The mushrooms are quite nice that grow well in places occupied by humans. They are taken to lawns, pastures and abandoned land, where the soil is disturbed regularly. They come out of the ground like oblong and white bells that then spread out to look like umbrellas. The gills at the bottom become a striking black, slowly graying the upper half of the fungus. The hats look tasty, and many people should be tempted to eat a bite.
For the most part, one bite is fine. Although inky tapas are not food mushrooms, and should not be made at a large meal or long-term meal, usually a single mushroom will not do you any harm.
Except that the inky are also called drunken bane. They take a rather puritanical view of the drink. People who drink anywhere from three hours to five days after eating an ink cap will feel that their face starts to turn red, their limbs tingling, and their heart starts to run. Then come nausea, vomiting, and in severe cases, heart problems. The more alcohol the unfortunate sinner drinks, the more they suffer. If things go bad, they will have a heart attack. A person has died from eating an ink cap and then drinking.
The inky caps sow their vengeance initiating an immediate and severe hangover. Chemical acetaldehyde is generally associated with hangovers, and experts believe it causes the sweating, nausea and vomiting that so many people regret. Finally, however, enzymes in the body break acetaldehyde and people recover. However, inky caps contain coprine, a chemical that stops the enzyme, which results in an immediate accumulation of acetaldehyde, and there is no end to hangover. It can take days to work coprine out of a person’s system.
Coprine was studied extensively by scientists who wanted to use it to make alcoholics reluctant to drink. But their methods, and their long-term effects, proved too severe. The inky do not have such scruples, so be careful with these mushrooms if you want to have a drink.
WRITTEN BY ESTHER INGLIS-Arkel

Merging with Life

Published February 27, 2024 by tindertender

The Two Paths

Published November 28, 2023 by tindertender

Its as if they were all trying to tell us something. There most have been a mass awareness of the ways in which each human could go. As if it were simply common knowledge. So what was this choice.

I contend, the force behind technocracy scientism and artificial intelligence is the same as it was back then. The very same. But back then it was not harnessed because the people inherently knew the threat. They made the conscious decision to choose nature and each other over the grand isolation device.

Choosing nature makes you co-dependant to nature, to your body and discovering purpose by way of introspection. Choosing technology makes you co-dependant on an electronic oracle who taunts you with listless treasures of impermanence. Sacrificing your chance to fully connect with your entire self for clicks views or “investment opportunities” .

When we go inside, we feel, when we place the self outside we witness. It all stems from that, being a by-standard in a projected reality instead of being a co-creator in a physical complex of immersion. You either rise and toil for what a body needs and feel the energy transfer, or you transfer your energy to something that harvests it for momentary reward.

I believe the reward of a life well lived, is a connection to all that is becomes so visceral, so meaningful and tangeble that you dedicate your life force to nurturing it forward at each turn. When we dedicate our life to the simple path, we seek to use our cunning to outwit our neighbor, that we may appear to be more than they.

I think they saw back then this future, and just chose to use their consciousness to make common good, which makes common ease. We all garden, no one is hungry. We all build as a team, the work is quickly completed. Many hands makes light work. But now we compete for digital proof of our value, digital proof of meaning and digital proof of truth. Yet we seem further from truth than ever I can remember.

Truth is felt. It is experienced from an attachment, not imposed by a leadership model, or filtered by a elite class of chosens to be installed into reality. Truth is a hard work relationship with time, and only becomes fulfilling as ease from said work comes into place.

If you master deception, and are chosen to have many asset because of your dedication, all your allowed is to watch your fellow human being suffer on the street corner as you tighten the window. Effort therefore becomes a willingness to ignore the reality of trajectory, and as such pass by those who succumb to limit.

I am pretty sure this is foundational to the warning. For what good is wealth when you must swim in suffering to have it? What good is a palacial estate, if you require teems of security to defend it. Then you are not free, you have chosen the path that requires you secure your station, and thus forgo the rights common people share.

Now we tip into quantum reality generators and deep fakes and realistic voice models. To what end? to sacrifice our inner genius, our inner beauty to something mechanical? What then, but we loose any access to truth to meaning and to sovereignty. How do we then know what we are living, other than living to feed that machine.

A life on earth is a spiritual journey, rich with discovery’s. Rich with deep encounters, sunsets, dancing diamonds on crystal clear waters. Warmth, hugs, love making. BEing vulnerable and then becoming strong. Being broken by the world, and then becoming invincible. This can not be done within a virtual environment, for that is fleeting and tethered to a cord or signal.

You are already in the signal from birth, you just have to choose nature. You have to stop running to being entertained and devote yourself to physical effort to provide tangible quality to living. If you take the easy path, your most likely to worship your captor. Should you choose to simply give effort into the living world, you will each day arrive at new deeper gifts. Gifts that you carry beyond this lifetime, but pass effortlessly to the future generations.

That’s the two paths. But remember, nature always provides trails in-between them. You just have to leave the established road for the one less traveled. They are harder, more steep and rocky, and often leave you wondering if you can make it. You can, trust me.

I Love You- @kdjh

Connection

Published January 23, 2021 by tindertender

The only thing that separates us from nature is our mind.

Move beyond the thinking being and expand into the infinite.

Blessings

Art: Alex Grey

Elder’s Meditation of the Day 10-6-2020

Published October 6, 2020 by tindertender

“Lots of people hardly ever feel real soil under their feet, see plants grow except in flower pots, or get far enough beyond the street light to catch the enchantment of a night sky studded with stars. When people live far from scenes of the Great Spirit’s making, it’s easy for them to forget His laws.”
–Tatanga Mani (Walking Buffalo), STONEY

Nature is life’s greatest teacher. The natural laws are hidden in nature. Hidden are solutions to everyday problems such as; conflict resolution, how to forgive, lessons about differences, how to manage organizations, how to think. Hidden are feelings. You can look at something and you will feel it. At night, have you ever looked at the sky when there are no clouds? As you look at all the stars, your heart will become very joyful. You will walk away feeling joyful and peaceful. We need to visit nature so we can see and feel these things.

My Creator, let me learn nature’s lessons.

Copied with the permission of Don L. Coyhis, from the book Meditations with Native American Elders: The Four Seasons

If anyone would like to purchase the book is can be found at:
Coyhis Publishing at: http://www.coyhispublishing.com/…/meditations-with… Or Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1605304514/ref

What If?

Published August 25, 2020 by tindertender

What if our religion was each other.
If our practice was our life
If prayer, our words.
What if the temple was the Earth
If forests were our church
If holy water–the rivers, lakes, and ocean.
What if meditation was our relationships
If the teacher was life
If wisdom was self-knowledge
If love was the center of our being.
~ Ganga White

Another Blessed Day

Published June 27, 2020 by tindertender

I woke this morning and decided to travel to the wilderness, to the lodge for lunch. What a glorious drive, the scenery incomparable.

Lunch was a beautiful giant pretzel with fondue, apples, cauliflower and onions. So good!

Lunch!

We were all gifted some sunshine while there too! Many folks were there for skiing.

Timberline Lodge
Mt Hood
Beautiful forest and Trillium Lake

There is much history here at the lodge.

Boot scraper
Time to head back to town

A beautiful day, followed by a nice dinner with friend, music, and a lovely bath to end the evening once home.

A glorious day.

A blessing.