tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-228440052024-03-07T01:17:05.134-08:00Voice In The Wildernesschristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029025626490085431noreply@blogger.comBlogger427125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22844005.post-70335342134334432232024-01-08T13:57:00.000-08:002024-01-08T13:57:04.488-08:00TEACHING FORAGING SINCE 1974!<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>TEACHING FOR 50 YEARS<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>NYERGES REFLECTS ON HIS TEACHING CAREER, BEGINNING IN
JANUARY 1974</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By Christopher Nyerges<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At the end of one of my recent classes, wild food
chef, Pascal Baudar, who is the author of 4 books on how to make delicious
meals from wild foods, presented me with a gift in recognition of my 50 years
of teaching wild foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baudar, who is a
true pioneer is his work, gave me a ceramic bowl that he made from clay that he
personally dug and fired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was quite
happy at this limited edition clay pot, and promptly used it to eat <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a wild salad.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI_4WCKJVNfw5_WkIG3qpEtbqoBWhqkbmPgrVVimcufsGuI2_c65n9CALCmGAIHf-tfDi2X2cXoAST1rWtzsjqtg5ShULlAT_En0DzdOnlz-19NbhBToJ1A8ZfDLG0C7x1QEf7LTLygGRyR5Dz5rU8J0-WneO4gH3yfsxhpTn6VYys3V1WREscTg/s4320/50-01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="4320" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI_4WCKJVNfw5_WkIG3qpEtbqoBWhqkbmPgrVVimcufsGuI2_c65n9CALCmGAIHf-tfDi2X2cXoAST1rWtzsjqtg5ShULlAT_En0DzdOnlz-19NbhBToJ1A8ZfDLG0C7x1QEf7LTLygGRyR5Dz5rU8J0-WneO4gH3yfsxhpTn6VYys3V1WREscTg/s320/50-01.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>The gift of a hand-made clay bowl from Pascal Baudar.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">HOW IT ALL BEGAN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My interest in wild foods arose from my childhood
interest in hiking and exploring the Angeles National Forest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first, I was a backpacker who disliked
carrying canned foods, but who loved the outdoors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wherever I went, I wanted to know about the
plants and wildlife that resided there. And I wanted to know the history of the
early peoples who resided there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By middle school, I had an encounter with another
hiker in the mountains who explained to me and my hiking partner how he learned
about wild foods from Northern California native peoples. Really? I
exclaimed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What people? What plants? Are
the plants still here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man pointed
out mustard and miners lettuce and pine needles before he hiked away. And I
could not get this idea out of my mind. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My studies then opened a new world to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In an overcrowded world of over-development,
I learned that native peoples once exclusively resided where I lived, and they
got everything from the land:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Food,
medicine, shelter, tools, clothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My studies rapidly took me down the path of botany and
biology and ethnobotany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no
looking back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized that all our
man-made problems are mostly due to our disrespect for the environment, and our
greedy desire to extract more from nature than what is ecologically
possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I pursued botany in the urban areas, in the mountains,
deserts, beaches, in Mexico, and in Ohio when I lived on my grandfather’s
farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In botany, I found a positive
solution to most of our problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By my
mid-teens, I was no longer pursuing this from a fear perspective, but rather
from the perspective of the excitement of re-discovering the living legacy of
native America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I read every book on the subject I could get my hands
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made friends with native Americans
near me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I started writing my first
book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would hitchhike up and down the
west coast, supplementing my diet with wild foods. I would go into the local
mountains to test myself, living off wild foods for a week or a weekend at<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By 1974, I was asked to lead a wild food walk for a
local non profit, WTI, based in the Highland Park section of Los Angeles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t sure I could do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had just turned 19, and thought that there
had to be far more qualified people out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I said yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The founder of
the non-profit, Richard White, tutored me in how to be a good teacher.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk8a8wS6ppVdjNkkBsRNxxbivsSsGbmL2aqRjpaSIxdr6pkJqRkeBpvwDDpct3_6MwKXuis7H1DEOMXF4PUZaUy2vZe-pjrtErBlxNCnYshUheTo2H4UtVPwcjpShXG9fzue3MRnDYarYyOZMLeh2uRCYdezAiR65gSQqxFfW8gyQlouSPxP2f-A/s5472/50-03.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk8a8wS6ppVdjNkkBsRNxxbivsSsGbmL2aqRjpaSIxdr6pkJqRkeBpvwDDpct3_6MwKXuis7H1DEOMXF4PUZaUy2vZe-pjrtErBlxNCnYshUheTo2H4UtVPwcjpShXG9fzue3MRnDYarYyOZMLeh2uRCYdezAiR65gSQqxFfW8gyQlouSPxP2f-A/s320/50-03.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <i>The very first formal wild food outing conducted by Nyerges in January 1974.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The outing was advertised in the local papers, and 100
people showed up one January morning in 1974 at the entrance to the Angeles
National Forest in Altadena.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We walked
along the stream, and I identified native and non-native plants. We collected
greens along the way. We walked two miles up the canyon to a campground, with
perhaps 70 of the hikers still with us, and there we made a salad and soup, and
there were a few side lessons on such things as dowsing and fire-making. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was a wonderful class, and I learned some important
lessons about teaching and learning to respond to students’ questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was a long day, and there were only 12 of us left
in the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it started my lifelong
professional interest in teaching ethnobotany, and all the other related
skills.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAYanstVWPxs7XlgDfGPoisxi_LTXicc5ixvCDdBGKeGRAI7-yfgpU2TJuIjowR0nTNb7uUBJxt0LhyCikTroJ43Hgy9n_EE81zGaZ3eAujB9i50KyJIrTZUPrbIEt60M1JB3w2S6RUKka3a8c_O05vw4Skdh-_TRPhdRCWiLx_fI-BPyUWjy4Rg/s1303/50-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="1303" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAYanstVWPxs7XlgDfGPoisxi_LTXicc5ixvCDdBGKeGRAI7-yfgpU2TJuIjowR0nTNb7uUBJxt0LhyCikTroJ43Hgy9n_EE81zGaZ3eAujB9i50KyJIrTZUPrbIEt60M1JB3w2S6RUKka3a8c_O05vw4Skdh-_TRPhdRCWiLx_fI-BPyUWjy4Rg/s320/50-7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><i>Nyerges, right, leading a wilderness field trip.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">With a few exceptions, I led field trips just about
every weekend since then, many of which were overnights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I taught hundreds of classes through the
local colleges, and gave more lectures than I remember.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no internet back then, but every
local newspaper and nearly every local radio and tv station eventually
interviewed me about the wild food foraging walks I conducted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interestingly, there was a lot of ridicule in
the beginning, though that is now a thing of the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I had the good fortune to meet and study with botanist
Dr. Leonid Enari, who taught at the L.A. County Arboretum. Among other things,
Dr. Enari worked closely with me on my first book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY7b55OqvlhwwzzCb90J7LC5tim_yWMk4bNjf9NCh_neEbmK2D9RDNOJCzN6bA9A53xhdav86zzVkKm9oqUEQKf5dHUqcSLoYX_oM-G6RQSYH6cWaaOk3umJWSI9nXirovyk6wgJst2SmC3b3RYOzNVluYxGRKLda9RtWzPOvliuKc-wiNp99BLw/s309/50-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="239" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY7b55OqvlhwwzzCb90J7LC5tim_yWMk4bNjf9NCh_neEbmK2D9RDNOJCzN6bA9A53xhdav86zzVkKm9oqUEQKf5dHUqcSLoYX_oM-G6RQSYH6cWaaOk3umJWSI9nXirovyk6wgJst2SmC3b3RYOzNVluYxGRKLda9RtWzPOvliuKc-wiNp99BLw/s1600/50-04.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <i>Dr. Leonid Enari, Nyerges’ primary botanical mentor. Nyerges refers to Dr. Enari as the “greatest botanist that no one knows.</i>”</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Big among my influencers was Euell Gibbons,
author of “Stalking the Wild Asparagus” and promoter of Post Grape Nuts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only met him once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAEhexu4AvUVTUSfwKBzwZKXDQ5iwJpI6FULNeR6D2Lvr0mj7YXgmQxenwbq-0bkjhIruyowGyoweWqZAta0YRDp94oEwQZM0wLcMSHHpC9-RmvidS0rw7GR7fZ5h2OfEOylt0whlhRhORBS-uV4Nag8PT4QJ5Nd69cUHEwjqE3I6nXIXxKyTJxg/s3529/50-05.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3529" data-original-width="3388" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAEhexu4AvUVTUSfwKBzwZKXDQ5iwJpI6FULNeR6D2Lvr0mj7YXgmQxenwbq-0bkjhIruyowGyoweWqZAta0YRDp94oEwQZM0wLcMSHHpC9-RmvidS0rw7GR7fZ5h2OfEOylt0whlhRhORBS-uV4Nag8PT4QJ5Nd69cUHEwjqE3I6nXIXxKyTJxg/s320/50-05.JPG" width="307" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p>Christopher Nyerges (right) met famous forager Euell Gibbons once in 1975.</i></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Over the years, I have travelled throughout the United
States teaching these skills. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I appeared
on many local news stations over the years, once appearing with Ron Hood, who
was one of the top survival instructors in the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
very busy during Y2K.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I appeared on
Huell Howser’s popular show, and I consulted for dozens of TV shows, including
Naked and Afraid, and Doomsday Preppers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve written thousands of
newspaper and magazine articles over the years, from such publications as the
Los Angeles Times, Mother Earth News, Pasadena Star News, Prepper Guide,
Countryside, American Survival Guide (of which I was editor for a bit), and
Wilderness Way (I was editor for 7 years). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as of today, I have written 27 books,
mostly on wild foods and self-reliance topics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB8CLAH-mBR1Vq2FX8juj7sbTVPsY1TCxpOi3xKDmNfE-XR4cu3lBy4wddIek_UkujbGW23OAYdMgKdOYRy1CBKwicUITa_4SGWR1ZJCy5Qj23OMT8JacEjgSXr-Jwpp7RDS0jwCKylJPmxlEA5EwsC_SYDdqRNtP5vch2F6kf5f0uBCd8GoIo8g/s6000/50-6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB8CLAH-mBR1Vq2FX8juj7sbTVPsY1TCxpOi3xKDmNfE-XR4cu3lBy4wddIek_UkujbGW23OAYdMgKdOYRy1CBKwicUITa_4SGWR1ZJCy5Qj23OMT8JacEjgSXr-Jwpp7RDS0jwCKylJPmxlEA5EwsC_SYDdqRNtP5vch2F6kf5f0uBCd8GoIo8g/s320/50-6.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>Nyerges, center, conducting a survival skills class.</i></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One of the greatest benefits has been meeting so many
outstanding people in the course of teaching perhaps upwards of 50,000
students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is how I met “chaparral
granny” Dorothy Poole, and Tongva elder Barbara Drake, who involved me in
teaching Indian Education classes for a number of years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is also how I met wild food chef Pascal
Baudar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Along the way, I met some of the finest instructors
around today, most of whom became a part of my ad hoc, peripatetic staff, people
like Gary Gonzales, Rick Adams, Paul Campbell, Dude Mclean, Alan Halcon, Rob
Remedi, Keith Farrar, Jim Robertson, Angelo Cervera, and many others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fifty years of teaching foraging and self-reliance has
been quite a roller coaster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look
forward to the next 50 years!~<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029025626490085431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22844005.post-65536823644118721482023-11-24T19:35:00.000-08:002023-11-24T19:35:48.293-08:00DISCOVERING SANTA CLAUS<p> </p><h1><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">DISCOVERING SANTA CLAUS<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Christopher Nyerges<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText2"><i>[Nyerges is the author of several books, including “Watermelon
Dreams,” “Extreme Simplicity,” and “Urban Survival Guide.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> This article was originally published in "Watermelon Dreams," available from Amazon. </span>More information available at <a href="http://www.schoolofself-reliance.com/">www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com</a>]<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText2"><o:p><i> </i></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr3zdPeWTZ6MJN9xWMsX67WEANuY5kFMqFKu34Rz44c99cW2H80NC-3IgN65t_EIH5zzVdfITjxit5C446TOFuH3_ryCR5RvgebbHIvlRDSqrQ_8Adsq0lYsVwo9Q2LJ41bnA4JOlYbUU5EOxYlIj4sns3vC2zl7uG4AbURY0HBgdOtIkmr_giQg/s960/ChristmasArroyo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr3zdPeWTZ6MJN9xWMsX67WEANuY5kFMqFKu34Rz44c99cW2H80NC-3IgN65t_EIH5zzVdfITjxit5C446TOFuH3_ryCR5RvgebbHIvlRDSqrQ_8Adsq0lYsVwo9Q2LJ41bnA4JOlYbUU5EOxYlIj4sns3vC2zl7uG4AbURY0HBgdOtIkmr_giQg/s320/ChristmasArroyo.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></div><i><br /></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Christmas
was always a special time, though in my very earliest memories, there were no
religious overtones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was taken to
church every Sunday, of course, but the Christmas decorations and gatherings
were all something that happened at home, not at church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was too young to speak, I realized
that Christmas was the season that happened during the coldest time of the
year, and it meant that we’d have a fire going in the fireplace, people would
be coming over, and there’d be lots of gifts and food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The food was cookies, tangerines, and
walnuts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One
of my earliest Christmas memories was when I was told that Santa Claus would
come to our home and bring gifts, and that he had some way to figure out where
I lived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t know exactly why, but
there was a great mystery about this fat, bearded, red-suited Santa man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People spoke about him in hushed tones, and
would even sometimes stop talking about him when I came near.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">My brother
Tom told me that Santa Claus would come down the chimney – something I found
hard to believe considering how fat he appeared in the pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We both peered up into our fireplace one day
and wondered how Santa could get through the narrow passageway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Plus,
doesn’t dad have a screen over the top of the chimney to keep the pigeons out?”
Tom asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I hope he remembers to remove it for Santa.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On
Christmas Eve, our dad showed us a plate of cookies and a pot of coffee that
had been set out for Santa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
barely slept, and I tried to not sleep so I could be the first to rush out and
catch a glimpse of this Santa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I
fell asleep, and Tom woke me and Rick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We jumped out of bed, and ran down the hall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We weren’t particularly interested in gifts,
but we wanted to catch Santa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were
too late, but the three of us carefully examined the remaining evidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were no cookies left on the plate –
only crumbs – and there was only a small amount of coffee left in the cup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tom held the cup and carefully peered into
it, and then Rick and I stared into the cup, examining the last remaining proof
that Santa had come and departed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“See?”
said Tom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all continued to stare into
the cup a while longer, as if it might reveal some secrets to us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
a few more years, I noticed that people didn’t fully hide their comments from
me when speaking about Santa Claus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“He believes in Santa Claus?”
was met with muffled response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What an
odd question, I thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shouldn’t</i> I believe in Santa Claus?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
I actually learned about this mythical aspect of Christmas, I did go through a
period of confusion and even anger at the world of make-believe perpetrated
entirely by adults and foisted upon me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I suppose I felt bad because I really <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wanted</i> to believe in Santa Claus, and I felt that he was a positive
figure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I had been told to “be good”
for Santa Claus, and that Santa Claus knew everything I was doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was very puzzled by all this, but I got
over it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
fact, I felt very uplifted when I learned that there was an actual historical
person upon which Santa Claus was based: a Catholic bishop in Asia Minor
(Turkey) of the 3<sup>rd</sup> century named Nikolaos of Myra gave gifts to
poor newlyweds around Christmas time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
century or so later, sainthood was bestowed upon him, and he was known as Saint
Nicholas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In honor of this very real
person, people began to give gifts to others, especially others in need, during
the Christmas season and say it was “from Saint Nicholas.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a wonderful story!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would have been wrong with telling me
that historical story rather than the garbled mythology? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029025626490085431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22844005.post-77587657984151614372023-10-27T17:52:00.001-07:002023-10-27T17:53:23.915-07:00THE ROOTS OF HALLOWE'EN<p> IF YOU LIKE OUR POSTS, PLEASE "FOLLOW"</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The Roots of
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is it possible to observe a pre-commercialized version?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqgCkJyRv1u_Asr2vO0ytnjIRUoyd6qgsAqMROdIDvkwbpvufWjzNlFOpzTHaVzsS81rP3a9owW51QtbhthhVkh7gadxaDqR-pHlCMeBgoEVzHmI9r3zoPZg8bu5T9lVgOT7UDb3y7NP3FeGihB9Gk8Ot9VTxWMt3zUiiwqTRYCdkZ7A5wUxUXXA/s4000/halloween10292013HPMKTHallow%20001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqgCkJyRv1u_Asr2vO0ytnjIRUoyd6qgsAqMROdIDvkwbpvufWjzNlFOpzTHaVzsS81rP3a9owW51QtbhthhVkh7gadxaDqR-pHlCMeBgoEVzHmI9r3zoPZg8bu5T9lVgOT7UDb3y7NP3FeGihB9Gk8Ot9VTxWMt3zUiiwqTRYCdkZ7A5wUxUXXA/s320/halloween10292013HPMKTHallow%20001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">[Nyerges is
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classes is available at www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com.]</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Why has the day of All Hallows Eve – Hallowe’en -- </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">devolved into a day of fun and
fear? How was this once- Holy Day commemorated before it was all
commercialized into a scary night? Is it possible to discover the roots
of this day, and observe it in its original fashion today?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">My circle of friends attempted to answer these
questions.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">We determined that we’d need
to dig up whatever historical facts we could find that show how this day was
commemorated before 1700, more or less. Though we couldn’t be 100%
certain, we at least assumed that “commercialization” didn’t really exist in
1700, and all the European and some American commemorations before that year
probably retained some semblance of what the day was all about, originally.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">So, first, let’s begin with the day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">It is believed that the ancient Celts observed something
called a “Samhain festival” towards the end of October. Says the World
Book Encyclopedia. “The Celts believed that the dead could walk among the
living at this time. During Samhain, the living could visit with the dead.
Elements of the customs can be traced to a Druid ceremony in pre-Christian
times. The Celts had festivals for two major gods—a sun god and a god of the
dead (called Samhain), whose festival was held on November 1, the beginning of
the Celtic New Year.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">This day, or period, was to mark the end of the harvest and
the beginning of winter. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Samhain (pronounced “sow-in,” which means “summer’s end,” or
the name of a god, or both) is seen by some Wiccans as a time to celebrate the
lives of those who have died, and it often involves paying respect to
ancestors, family members, elders of the faith, friends, pets and other loved
ones who have died. In some rituals the spirits of the dead are invited to
attend the festivities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Various sorts of activities done on Samhain have been
described over the centuries. In Ireland, Samhain was a time to take
stock of the herds and food supplies. Cattle were brought to the winter
pastures after six months in the higher summer pastures. Then, the people chose
which animals to slaughter before the winter. After the slaughter of the
animals, there would be feasting. And obviously, if you aren’t an
animal-raising farmer, how would you celebrate this aspect, except for the
feasting?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Catholic Church was aware of all the so-called “pagan”
observances, and had their own day to commemorate the dead, May 13. This began
in 609 or 610 A.D., when Pope Boniface the 4th dedicated the Pantheon—
the Roman temple of all the gods—to Mary and all the martyrs. Later that
date was changed by Pope Gregory III (731-741 A.D.), who dedicated a chapel in
Rome to all the saints and ordered that they be honored on November 1.
This was done, in part, to overshadow the pre-existing Samhain commemorations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the 11th century, November 2<sup>nd</sup> was assigned as
"All Souls’ Day" in commemoration of the dead. So this began
the use of the term Hallow’s Eve, or Hallowe’en for October 31.<br />
<br />
Hallowe’en customs are similar to the observance of Dia de los Muertos or Day
of the Dead, commonly practiced in Mexico and which can be traced to early
Aztec times. Apparently, this “day of the dead” was originally
commemorated in Mexico in May, and was changed to November 2 sometime after
Spanish contact, possibly to correspond with the “Christian” tradition.<br />
<br />
FOOD and GIFTING<br />
Trick or treating in modern times goes back to leaving food and wine for
roaming dead spirits and ghosts. The custom was referred to as "going
a-souling" and was eventually practiced only by the children who would
visit the houses in their neighborhoods and be given gifts of ale, food and
money. It was believed the spirits of the dead returned to visit their old
homes during this time, so in ancient times, people left food out for them and
arranged chairs so that the dead would be able to rest. <br />
<br />
Treats called “soul cakes” were given out in memory of the departed. The
Middle Age practice of souling — going door to door begging for food in return
for prayers — became popular and is even referenced by William Shakespeare in
1593. This is obviously the root of the modern “trick or treating” for
mini Snickers bars, a practice no doubt loved by every dentist.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwqeDUhyMt8uynSkw1iotSQOIRcvGhJ5RatXSWEAiGWZFR9EwFO5xlxnaTAQ9fcGWLKXO1rFET4BFK7Ng1p5cVVuiUuxqpGVSplzlTauvuDZffS7Wa8Kd9I-hC4sZ1WJBQUB8hf-mULJZ_19HwFk3UyPRioXBTMSNbpbizlT3MCpeO6saqqSn6dg/s4000/Hallowe-102313HPMkt+.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwqeDUhyMt8uynSkw1iotSQOIRcvGhJ5RatXSWEAiGWZFR9EwFO5xlxnaTAQ9fcGWLKXO1rFET4BFK7Ng1p5cVVuiUuxqpGVSplzlTauvuDZffS7Wa8Kd9I-hC4sZ1WJBQUB8hf-mULJZ_19HwFk3UyPRioXBTMSNbpbizlT3MCpeO6saqqSn6dg/w240-h320/Hallowe-102313HPMkt+.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br />
<br />
Seasonal foods such as apples and nuts were often used in the Samhain rituals.
Apples were peeled, the peel tossed over the shoulder, and its shape examined
to see if it formed the first letter of the future spouse's name. Nuts
were roasted on the hearth and then interpreted – if the nuts stayed together,
so would the couple. Egg whites were dropped in water, and the shapes foretold
the number of future children. Children would also chase crows and divine some
of these things from the number of birds or the direction they
flew. <br />
<br />
COSTUMES<br />
Celts would wear masks when they left their homes during the night hours during
Samhain days, because they hoped they would avoid being recognized by the
ghosts and be mistaken merely for fellow ghosts. <br />
<br />
“Mumming” and “Guising” were a part of Samhain from at least the 16th century
and was recorded in parts of Ireland, Scotland, Mann and Wales. It involved
people going from house to house in costume (or in disguise), usually reciting
songs or verses in exchange for food. It is suggested that it evolved
from a tradition whereby people impersonated the <i>aos sí</i>, or the souls of
the dead, and received offerings on their behalf. Impersonating these
spirits or souls was also believed to protect oneself from them.
One researcher suggests that the ancient festival included people in masks or
costumes representing these spirits, and that the modern custom came from this.
<br />
<br />
PARADES<br />
Pagan Celtic priestesses and their followers would roam the countryside,
chanting songs in order to frighten away the evil spirits thought to be out on
Halloween night. I wonder how that could be practiced in your
neighborhood?<br />
<br />
FIRES<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bonfires were a big part of the festival in many areas
of western Europe. Bonfires were typically lit on hilltops at Samhain
where everyone could see them, and there were rituals involving them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We concluded that a small, safe backyard fire
might be a good addition to celebrating the day, though we were pretty sure
that local fire departments would take a very dim view if fires were built on
local hilltops!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bonfires comes from the root, “bone-fires” because the
priests sacrificed animals and supposedly even people in an attempt to appease
the sun god, while also looking for future omens. The fire was said to be a
type of sympathetic magic, where the fire mimicked the sun, which has the power
to hold back the darkness of winter. Burning the fires was also believed
to be a way of banishing evil, at least symbolically.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DIVINATION</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeQZXRuij2lfVINRn4Z6HTzBT7F4pg3s9lba0EzOqr7oew9fGI_4x8FlutncUmQn8JeX8DnZGusW509j7bXS3Yzb6pBfaKPA7qPc9hRjP-lsz25EsBGiLvgTgYarOHVTMlRzARZayqMDFA4qUTgd13OaouxQdevFoe3N3ZQvLDRF0NjJc8RBfmmw/s3264/Hallow-102814HPMktHallow%20040.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeQZXRuij2lfVINRn4Z6HTzBT7F4pg3s9lba0EzOqr7oew9fGI_4x8FlutncUmQn8JeX8DnZGusW509j7bXS3Yzb6pBfaKPA7qPc9hRjP-lsz25EsBGiLvgTgYarOHVTMlRzARZayqMDFA4qUTgd13OaouxQdevFoe3N3ZQvLDRF0NjJc8RBfmmw/s320/Hallow-102814HPMktHallow%20040.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Divination
has likely been a part of the festival since ancient times, and it has survived
in some rural areas. In part, this meant that the spirits could enter
your world. Many of the food offerings and fires were directed to these
spirits.<sup> </sup> Or perhaps, some of the crops might also
be left in the ground for them.<sup> </sup> These spirits were
addressed in various ways, with food offerings, with walks into the ocean, with
the idea to hold off any mischief, and perhaps to learn the future.<br />
<br />
The belief that the souls of the dead return home on one night of the year
seems to have ancient origins and is found in many cultures throughout the
world.<sup> </sup><br />
<br />
CONCLUSION<br />
<br />
So what do you conclude from all this? Is there an ideal way to
commemorate this ancient day, and still avoid the trappings of
commercialization? Is it even possible?<br />
<br />
I like the way that the Day of the Dead is commemorated. There are altars with
pictures of the dearly departed, and plates of good food. Candles are
lit, rather than a big bonfire which the local fire department would frown
upon. Families gather, and talk in respectful tones about their departed
relatives. Yes, of course, even the Day of the Dead has turned into wild
partying in some quarters, but if you seek a return to roots of the ancient
commemoration of the dead, perhaps begin here. <br />
<br />
Begin with family or neighborhood gatherings. Prepare a good meal, and keep in
the mind the foods that your beloved departeds enjoyed. This is not necessarily
because you think their spirits will come to eat (last I checked, ghosts don’t
need to eat), but because having, for example, your mother’s favorite dish will
give you another reason to talk about your mother, and to remember all the good
things she did. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />This is at least a start, and it elevates our day of ghoulish and pointless
fear-mongering into one that reconnects us with our roots. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029025626490085431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22844005.post-16889039206765416292023-08-31T18:32:00.000-07:002023-08-31T18:32:19.049-07:00THE POWER OF WORDS<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">THE POWER OF WORDS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">How a description of a soft drink earned a
trip to Disneyland<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Christopher Nyerges<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[Classes and books by Nyerges: go to </span></i><a href="http://www.schoolofself-reliance.com/"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">]<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sometime around 1964, or so, my mother showed me an ad
in the local newspaper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You tell them
why you like the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>drink Orange Crush and
you can win a trip to Disneyland.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Why don’t you try it?” asked my mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It’s just 50 words.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My mother knew that I had an interest in writing so
she naturally assumed that I would enjoy writing 50 words about a drink I never
tasted in order to win a prize to the theme park that I found less than
exciting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I’ve never even tried it,” I told my mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I have no idea what it tastes like.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
“Your father can get you a bottle at the store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How about doing it, and I will mail it for you,” continued my mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I didn’t want to write 50 words about something I knew
nothing about, but just to please my mother, and to practice my writing, I took
my pencil and notepad and sat down to work. While the rest of the family was
watching TV after dinner, I sat at the dining room table and began the painful
process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
“Crush is so good,” I started. “It makes me feel that I’m at the beach.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I halted, and then wrote more fragments and
sentences, trying to sound as if I knew what I was talking about. “It’s such a
delicate flavor, well-balanced, and so creamy.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I just kept at it and re-arranged a few sentences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was pretty sure I had 50 words.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My mother sat next to me to see how I was doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My brother came in and sat across the table
and asked, “What’s that?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mother
replied that we’d be going to Disneyland. I rolled my eyes in
embarrassment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course I didn’t’ think
we’d be going to Disneyland, at least not because of this contest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My mother began counting the words that I wrote in my
notepad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She counted twice. “That’s 51,”
she informed me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It has to be 50 or
less.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to take out a word.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Do you think they really care?” my brother asked. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m thinking that I won’t win anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here I was, writing about something I’d never
tasted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Yes, I’m sure they care,” said my mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read and re-read what I wrote and I found
an adjective to delete.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“OK,” continued my mother, “now rewrite it on this 3x5
card, like it says in the instruction.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So I carefully printed my carefully-crafted 50 words
onto the 3x5 card and was done in 20 minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My mother assured me that she would mail the entry on the following day.
Once I was done, I went back to watching TV for the rest of the evening,
probably Bonanza, and I never thought abut my 50 words again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My day to day routine of my life continued and I had
absolutely no thoughts about my 50 words, or Orange Crush.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Until a letter arrived at our home. My mother and
older sister were jubilant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was a
winner!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They shared this fact with the
whole neighborhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone else was
excited but I was puzzled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How could I
possibly win.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will be exposed as a fraud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was more confused than happy, and I’d still
never had any Crush.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My family was far more excited than I was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mother read and re-read the letter. I was
going to go to Disneyland on a Saturday in about a month. I could take two
friends and one adult supervisor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
were to meet at a local bus station and everyone would be driven by bus to
Disneyland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We would all get one free
meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had to agree that any photos
taken of us could be used for Crush’s promotional purposes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OK, it was starting to look like this was
real.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was agreed that my brother Richard, our neighbor
Jeannie, and my mother would be accompanying me. I was still petrified that I
would get on a bus and people would ask me about the soft drink Crush, and I
would not know what to say.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My mother did most of the prep work, telling my
brother and I what to wear, and how to behave, and that we should all stay
together. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Finally, the day arrived and everyone but me was
excited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, we were going to
Disneyland, all expenses paid, but to me, Disneyland was the land where true
excitement was always around the next horizon, with lots of rides and sense
titillations, but very little of lasting value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes, I liked Tom Sawyer’s Island, but I found most of the rest of it a
very pointless retreat from reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was very silent as we all boarded the bus to
Anaheim, and I was silent as other children sang songs on the way to
Disneyland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My brother Richard seemed
happy, and sang loudly with the other children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Finally, we arrived, and we did the usual Disneyland
routine – Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, Pirates of the Caribbean, It’s A Small
World.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I do recall that the food was great. I had a delicious
sandwich with my favorite drink, root beer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And I never spoke to another child who had anything to say about Crush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We just all went our own ways, and then went
home. I was curious if all these other “winners” actually drank and enjoyed a
drink that I’d still never tasted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
actually came as a great relief as the day wore on that no one really cared if
I ever drank Crush. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Finally, we all boarded the bus, and my father picked
us up at the bus depot somewhere near Pasadena.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rick and Jeannie excitedly talked about what a fantastic time they had.
My father asked me how I liked it, and I told him that I liked my
sandwich.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My father laughed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I supposed that he laughed because he
figured I’d have something more interesting to report than my sandwich.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As the trip faded into a distant memory, no one ever
asked me about the trip to Disneyland, and no one ever once asked me if I
really liked Crush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t realize it
at the time that no one really cared whether or not I really liked Crush, and
no one cared whether or not I’d won the trip under fraudulent pretenses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Within a week, we were sent a thank you letter and a
small case of Crush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone was very
excited, and I finally drank my first Crush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I drank it slowly, trying to savor each sip, trying to see if its flavor
was similar to what I’d already described.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes, I liked it, especially on ice. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was smooth, better than most sodas, though
not better than straight orange juice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As for my tastes in soda, I don’t drink them much, but
I still prefer root beer and old-fashioned ginger beer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the years that followed, I became more aware of the
power of words and their ability to shape reality and to move people to
action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then made a promise to myself
to never again lie in order to earn some material gain, whether it was
Disneyland, money, or whatever.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029025626490085431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22844005.post-81463945780114673002023-08-03T22:48:00.001-07:002023-08-03T22:57:28.243-07:00Book Review: Neil Strauss’ EMERGENCYgoogle.com, pub-8623877305223293, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Review of Neil Strauss’ EMERGENCY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD-CA1p2k_5ZTOhpPPieYBsNORKe9zxTOVtbcdh3SojsUYObJWwknzvK7hE2Ez5h5NsLBMXbrMqSVnATBa_EMf6Txh03NzPAdc6oowSqm6soRqHnbW-pJ-dPhHebalXgdPiS8y8P_76EbnR0Bk6TS-6ZLE1SHnAm7SnGKOkTgLNFd_vRNNqDFBtw/s720/IMG_9629.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD-CA1p2k_5ZTOhpPPieYBsNORKe9zxTOVtbcdh3SojsUYObJWwknzvK7hE2Ez5h5NsLBMXbrMqSVnATBa_EMf6Txh03NzPAdc6oowSqm6soRqHnbW-pJ-dPhHebalXgdPiS8y8P_76EbnR0Bk6TS-6ZLE1SHnAm7SnGKOkTgLNFd_vRNNqDFBtw/s320/IMG_9629.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By Christopher Nyerges<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[Nyerges is an educator, and author of
such books as “Urban Survival Guide,” “How to Survive Anywhere,” “Foraging
California,” “Self-Sufficient Home,” and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His website is <a href="http://www.schoolofself-reliance.com/">www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I recently gave a lecture based on the decline of
western culture, referring to such books as Morris Berman’s book, “The Twilight
of American Culture” and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of
the other books I used to broaden the perspective was “Emergency.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Emergency” is by Neil Strauss, published in 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a thick book, 418 pages long, where
Strauss takes us along on his survival adventure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s a man who became very concerned that
America was going to hell in a handbasket, and he didn’t want to go down with
the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He shares the facts as he sees
them, and he spends the beginning of the book describing how he can find safe
haven elsewhere, out of the United Stated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He takes us on his journey of off-shore banking, multiple passports, the
logistics of actually getting out if there was an impending crisis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a man who was convinced that the U.S.
was the worst place to be in the world and he was trying whatever he could to
find refuge elsewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s the 25
cent version anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And though all of
his research was correct, he made a fascinating and eye-opening discovery in his
world travels:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wherever he went, there
were people working just as hard to get INTO the U.S., as he was working to get
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone wanted to come here to the
United States of America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It made
Strass start to re-think his whole survival plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He decided to take another look at the United States,
and see if perhaps he should set his sights closer to home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Strauss takes us step by step in this journey, where
he began to enroll in various sorts of survival classes here in the U.S., and
describes his learning process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn’t
know it at the time, but he was learning how to live with less, and how to live
with very little in the forest, or his own backyard for that matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Among the many classes he describes joining and doing
his best to master, included Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School where he learned to
make fire, make a lean-to and sleep in it, cold and rain notwithstanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember, this is not a how-to book, but an
entertaining book where the author explains how pathetic he felt, how
vulnerable he felt in the big mean world, but by taking classes and learning
hands-on, he slowly became confident in his own abilities, and his likelihood
of surviving a disaster.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhueSy62UEbep3ZIlD1uHpD8G59saSY_3QMsd_YIWA7AoP-5-IZ0E28sqiNsesaPhvtA5_uAsASpYAD7q04bfBmEDjSpCZXqI3RnAAA6ZCNsBeV3YWh30jNGaBz-zOSvrcLxNfzneJH2byRFtWZtGZ6YEOiK0aSa0YUWDBfzk2LM0O5JCEFYdJKcQ/s720/IMG_9633.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhueSy62UEbep3ZIlD1uHpD8G59saSY_3QMsd_YIWA7AoP-5-IZ0E28sqiNsesaPhvtA5_uAsASpYAD7q04bfBmEDjSpCZXqI3RnAAA6ZCNsBeV3YWh30jNGaBz-zOSvrcLxNfzneJH2byRFtWZtGZ6YEOiK0aSa0YUWDBfzk2LM0O5JCEFYdJKcQ/s320/IMG_9633.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We’re treated to a cast of characters who inhabit the “survival”
world, such as firearms instructors, hard-core survivalists, the CERT training,
and even me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, among the many classes
that Neil Strauss attended in his personal training program included the
classes that I teach through the School of Self-Reliance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He described learning how to recognize wild
foods, and how we created meals that we collected from the wild that day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He describes how he learned to make an
archery bow from me, and how we made fire with the bow and drill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He even talks about how I eat poison oak to
develop immunity – though I do not recommend it to others because our body
chemistries are so different.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I barely remember Strauss at the many classes of mine
he describes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn’t say much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, I only learned about his book
because a friend alerted me to the fact that I was described in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I felt good that I could make someone
else feel confident, and feel good about living in the United States, decline
or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Strauss talks about how he enrolled in the CERT (Citizen
Emergency Response Team) program, which is a nation-wide program to get
civilians trained and ready for emergencies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Strauss talks about the training, the gear that he learned to use, and how
the training altered his state of mind regarding emergencies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Before I would run away from a problem or
disaster, and now I was running to it,” he explained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Strauss also describes a self-imposed three-day
survival experiment in his own home where he could use no refrigerator, no gas
or electricity, and couldn’t use the flush toilet. Everything had to be from
the food, water, and gear he stored, and this was no small feat considering he
lived in a smallish urban home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As I said, it’s not a how-to book, but it’s loaded
with practical experiences that anyone can adapt and apply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can find copies on Amazon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029025626490085431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22844005.post-23805294956639004712023-07-07T20:40:00.003-07:002023-08-03T22:57:45.137-07:0050 YEARS OF FORAGING -- an interview with Christopher Nyergesgoogle.com, pub-8623877305223293, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CHRISTOPHER
NYERGES HAS TAUGHT SELF-RELIANCE, SURVIVAL, AND WILD FOOD SINCE JAN. 1974 –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NEARLY 50 YEARS!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Christopher
Nyerges:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>“After 50 years of teaching,
and 27 books later,<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still enjoy learning new things….”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikCGdKDMPSDXGPexKCdBJ2Z8DA9WTj-u0LX8Qi3yMTq34cffvw2egSee9QDQcz8QUPC5ZWmpD9W4LP2m4n1dz2aTXgQoM9_dzdaGJkyda0KZtPdjJhdcrmdG7NPqCi1yHbX80WQ1XsnrLtIkemdROzbfC2l-8gbXVelLaXSkRmQlTlYMBSlQUx4g/s1102/nakedandAfraid%20(3).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="758" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikCGdKDMPSDXGPexKCdBJ2Z8DA9WTj-u0LX8Qi3yMTq34cffvw2egSee9QDQcz8QUPC5ZWmpD9W4LP2m4n1dz2aTXgQoM9_dzdaGJkyda0KZtPdjJhdcrmdG7NPqCi1yHbX80WQ1XsnrLtIkemdROzbfC2l-8gbXVelLaXSkRmQlTlYMBSlQUx4g/s320/nakedandAfraid%20(3).JPG" width="220" /></a></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GZ INTERVIEWS CHRISTOPHER NYERGES, web site: www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GZ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do
people find out about your classes?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Various
ways ,such as word-of-mouth, the web-site, news articles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I often just get random phone calls such as
the guy who asked me to teach him and his family how to be self-reliant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GZ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did
you tell him?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With such a
question, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked him what the term
‘self-reliance’ means to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wasn’t
all that sure, so it led to a conversation to find out what he already know,
and to find out<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his life situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to know what skills he already had,
and more importantly, what deficits he believed he had.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GZ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what did
you end up advising him?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this
case, he took a few private Wild Plant walks with me, and a few classes on
storing and purifying water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
satisfied his need to learn more self-reliant skills and I still see him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GZ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You must
get odd requests sometimes too, right?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CN: Right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
man called me <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who wanted to take my wild
food classes, and cut his food bill in half because he had a big family. That was
his main concern, saving money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told
him that Botany is a science and that it takes time and that there are many
benefits. However, if his primary motivation was to save money, I felt he’d be
disappointed by studying wild foods. I mean, it’s about so much more than
saving money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I advised him to join a
food co-op, begin using coupons, go to the 99 cent store, get an EBT card from
the government, and things like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
don’t think he thought much of what I was telling him, and I never heard from
him again.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNyiPDvfKfIrLHxCyfS86s3hwd7jDD8B7YdsGdf0hGupNuNUCXFFIJMfGOUETObFYOCA2fU0L1d6_vwcxcqHyyRkpr9_m8ZMZVNu183G9JfZCj5ru8J3Qn4W4BKFC95kIKDMDP6mCBRepLReS1hom6nPDpuHOy9E0tSdh0ULM5vKX3J1b_rIx1hg/s1303/Outing%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="1303" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNyiPDvfKfIrLHxCyfS86s3hwd7jDD8B7YdsGdf0hGupNuNUCXFFIJMfGOUETObFYOCA2fU0L1d6_vwcxcqHyyRkpr9_m8ZMZVNu183G9JfZCj5ru8J3Qn4W4BKFC95kIKDMDP6mCBRepLReS1hom6nPDpuHOy9E0tSdh0ULM5vKX3J1b_rIx1hg/s320/Outing%20(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GZ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So you’ve
been doing this a long time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much longer
than anyone out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you get into this field as a teacher and
writer?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
1970s, when barely in high school, I became alarmed by studying the world
situation, and realized that there were threats to my survival around every
corner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized that in order to eat,
I should study botany, ethnobotany, and mycology, which I did intensively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I began studying the works of Euell Gibbons
and Bradford Angier, and I joined the L.A. Mycological Association. I was in it
for the long haul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also became familiar
with Larry Dean Olsen, who was the foremost teacher of primitive and indigenous
living skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSIGCza8f0VXWiUP_1KxFJt3HQebd7RiYUT_182FCDquv2Elt_xInrJjnhHsjOstJOHaDAJeGrqsRUh2V4tSgYM3RHxbE9aGZp4Be7XKiDDZIMlktoLZGy56g-iGZFAFnniqRR1jhe2x8hghjeloOgq3lyqreNuwyzM23QhJPaEtQ6YYD0B2mnaw/s3529/gibbons1975.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3529" data-original-width="3388" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSIGCza8f0VXWiUP_1KxFJt3HQebd7RiYUT_182FCDquv2Elt_xInrJjnhHsjOstJOHaDAJeGrqsRUh2V4tSgYM3RHxbE9aGZp4Be7XKiDDZIMlktoLZGy56g-iGZFAFnniqRR1jhe2x8hghjeloOgq3lyqreNuwyzM23QhJPaEtQ6YYD0B2mnaw/s320/gibbons1975.JPG" width="307" /></a></div><br /> <o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GZ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know
Euell Gibbons – the author of “Stalking the Wild Asparagus.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But who is Larry Dean Olsen?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CN: Olsen taught primitive skills – skills that the
indigenous peoples used – at Brigham Young University in the 1960s, and he is
largely responsible for the primitive skills interest we have today. His very
popular book was “Outdoor Survival Skills.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He passed away just a few years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GZ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of our younger readers may have never
heard of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right, that
was before the days of the internet and cell phones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so back then, I had to learn by all the
old school methods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made a point of
going to every lecture that I could in order to learn about the plants and
skills that I thought would save my life one day. In high school and college, I
took courses in botany, ethno-botany, field biology, geology, astronomy – all the
sciences that I thought would help me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By 1974, Mr. R.E.White, who founded the non profit WTI,
and sponsored the first Wild Food Outing that I led in January of 1974. Within
a year, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I met Euell Gibbons, and I
started a serious ethnobotanical study with Dr. Leonid Enari of the L.A. County
Arboretum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I regarded the pursuit of “self-reliance”
as a serious life study, and I am indebted to the various high-quality
individuals along the way who assisted me in my journey.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDsd0sdXVB2O5iPqvybmNixlktgyIMFPn-B6YOt8YAw97o6vAh3Pu5Zv0wqg6hJzerzYy837sknfji2EqSbUpKsxcWCkDX5CvUbIYieqPl90EJk9gU_Rp6uK9f_TtBQ1KFLL4j6ph6cH75iHv70U3MkW6ih1t42ysdOW7Oej68Vvttxt56zQPYhw/s5472/IMG_2948.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDsd0sdXVB2O5iPqvybmNixlktgyIMFPn-B6YOt8YAw97o6vAh3Pu5Zv0wqg6hJzerzYy837sknfji2EqSbUpKsxcWCkDX5CvUbIYieqPl90EJk9gU_Rp6uK9f_TtBQ1KFLL4j6ph6cH75iHv70U3MkW6ih1t42ysdOW7Oej68Vvttxt56zQPYhw/s320/IMG_2948.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">I wrote my first book and it was published in 1978, “Guide
to Wild Foods,” with the help of R.E. White and Dr.Enari.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">The book is still in print, now in color, and
I still suggest that those seeking to learn about self-reliance read that book.</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GZ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1978!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
is that book still in print?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, still
in print, many version later, and now all in color.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Z3GoyT68Sqnq7equuahSpseu08UOvVHY45ueC_MJ4_1QPVsY3LYE0k96111X23I0wqqzvGCH5LwSkY43SxtEWaxYRGdYCDTYsyrgq0m7hl5KejBZdJJqO7sUJe09HqNCOEW_cMK-Sx6yQr61Iysin6q6OZMu5dBiK9QNLsyZrG69TlRJDe300Q/s640/IMG_9727.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Z3GoyT68Sqnq7equuahSpseu08UOvVHY45ueC_MJ4_1QPVsY3LYE0k96111X23I0wqqzvGCH5LwSkY43SxtEWaxYRGdYCDTYsyrgq0m7hl5KejBZdJJqO7sUJe09HqNCOEW_cMK-Sx6yQr61Iysin6q6OZMu5dBiK9QNLsyZrG69TlRJDe300Q/s320/IMG_9727.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Along the way, I have continued to teach in field
trips, in the classroom, and various lectures and workshops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have figured that we’ve seen up to 50,000
students in the last 50 years!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of
the up and coming naturalists have participated in our classes, and we’ve been
written up in magazines and books, such as in Neil Strauss’ “Emergency” book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides my first book, I’ve produced over
two dozen related books, on wild foods, wilderness survival, and urban
self-reliance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GZ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I
noticed that you have many books available on Amazon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You must be busy all the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Laughs).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, today, when someone
wants to learn about “self-reliance,” I usually tell them to read my “Extreme-Simplicity:
Homesteading in the City” book, where I detail what my wife and I did for 20
years in our attempt to live a more self-reliant life in Los Angeles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book discusses raising animals, using
solar electricity, gardening, collecting rainwater and so much more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sequel book was “Self-Sufficient Home”
which I also highly recommend.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg06G8EL7uYuWw-roWvjB8GrbsA3UvpbTtCzXUopd9iVcULgUuRn1f97uhwH1c6zcZSKSuNl5klCbZmhTYp0fDY6xr3hY83IG9mkiBZ9fY84Wfc2TmZ-7mfzegApr_SFHsVul2D-_p4Z2t_TVJK2OgaWkqN2dDV3Wje2g8-_x_sVgV36gJG59jbLQ/s2816/IMG_3878.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2112" data-original-width="2816" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg06G8EL7uYuWw-roWvjB8GrbsA3UvpbTtCzXUopd9iVcULgUuRn1f97uhwH1c6zcZSKSuNl5klCbZmhTYp0fDY6xr3hY83IG9mkiBZ9fY84Wfc2TmZ-7mfzegApr_SFHsVul2D-_p4Z2t_TVJK2OgaWkqN2dDV3Wje2g8-_x_sVgV36gJG59jbLQ/s320/IMG_3878.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Along the way, I have also written eight Foraging
Guides by Falcon Books, the most relevant here would be “Foraging California”
and “Nuts and Berries of California.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All these are fully illustrated with color photos. I also more recently
wrote “Urban Survival Guide” which is my most current thinking about how cities
should be built, how homes should be built, and h ow we all should be
living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book includes an extensive
section on Health and Economics, topics not normally found in “survival”
books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GZ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I have
the Urban Survival Guide book.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigKHoQWi2mjhuPyWOtIEJlou2HdKv5pPZtsCBDyo9iSOCkUCkg_cmQPNIc_Em7fxtBrvumSahHBM-ReggNRCBzq6RdvJn0WVhj4N0CVHHnm7hUkvjzYRbSG0Rix-PSZquXZBPz2GFhwl9V81KbOT3QXdEyByyPuwQNSi67zo3nsZMKv7yOr7-mGQ/s4937/IMG_8178%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4937" data-original-width="2866" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigKHoQWi2mjhuPyWOtIEJlou2HdKv5pPZtsCBDyo9iSOCkUCkg_cmQPNIc_Em7fxtBrvumSahHBM-ReggNRCBzq6RdvJn0WVhj4N0CVHHnm7hUkvjzYRbSG0Rix-PSZquXZBPz2GFhwl9V81KbOT3QXdEyByyPuwQNSi67zo3nsZMKv7yOr7-mGQ/s320/IMG_8178%20(2).JPG" width="186" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, after
50 years of teaching, and 27 books later, I still enjoy learning new things,
and sharing those practical skills with those close to me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And though the threats today to our very
existence are still there, and greater, I no longer pursue this path based on
fears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s very exciting and fulfilling
to live better with less, to realize that each of us holds at least some of the
keys to our survival, depending on<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>how
we think and live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I share in my newspaper and magazine articles, and in
my books, the ideas and skills that I think everyone would benefit by
learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my on-going education and
teaching experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s really been a
fulfilling experience, and I’ve met so many great people along the way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GZ:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks for
your time!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<o:p></o:p></p>christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029025626490085431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22844005.post-87540523512699551532023-06-28T19:39:00.001-07:002023-08-03T22:58:03.747-07:00on EUCALYPTUS<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">THE EUCALYPTUS TREE:google.com, pub-8623877305223293, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">AUSTRALIA’S MOST
DOMINANT TREE HAS NOW NATURALIZED <br />
IN PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Christopher Nyerges<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Nyerges
is the author of “How to Survive Anywhere,” and an outdoor instructor. For more information, contact him at </span></i><a href="http://www.schoolofself-reliance.com/">www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com</a><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
or at Box 41834, Eagle Rock, CA 90041</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0xw9otlog_X2kWAbuEoqDV2BwsbHPXbnUDcMHPqkt6C7w9zI1vhvJLbQ1iRfWCkTYAAV-sbbg6seaab3dzDRIF4z6__122icNytXIy_0mfVwKyD5LqYQGcENLK_82pDfNLnd6CCRbKNxaM861MWclf1cqbEuQbaB9sRiicyTws1ikevOrA8MWfg/s1920/EUC-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0xw9otlog_X2kWAbuEoqDV2BwsbHPXbnUDcMHPqkt6C7w9zI1vhvJLbQ1iRfWCkTYAAV-sbbg6seaab3dzDRIF4z6__122icNytXIy_0mfVwKyD5LqYQGcENLK_82pDfNLnd6CCRbKNxaM861MWclf1cqbEuQbaB9sRiicyTws1ikevOrA8MWfg/s320/EUC-01.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br />The Eucalypti are the most dominant
tree of the Australian landscape, with approximately 550 species known as
ironwoods, gumwoods, and mallees.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">They are
also one of the most common introduced trees in Southern California and
Arizona.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">They were originally brought into
Southern California about 150 years ago, in the belief that this quick-growing
tree would be a good timber tree for railroads and other building
applications.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">This proved not to be the
case, as the twisting grain of eucalyptus made it unsuitable for most building
projects.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Nevertheless, this beautiful,
fragrant, and largely pest-resistant tree caught on as a garden, park, and
street tree in California, Arizona, and throughout the southern U.S. all the
way to Florida where the climate is moderate.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdP-XtBXoDw6GIZkGjwFBZz4tyIXxRscw3Ez-332ojKIA9u7Zwgk6l_mLGrjNw7mnc80y9tLMJrlT2maIteNQqGIJXCq4N3toNOqayWdDavZlys0M139CWeWK5qmbRGC4i5QjNiyQ7ibwfCCAUVns36rgIiivzX5MAHgFUnXJP2m9u_i3f56Hc0A/s4000/EUC-02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdP-XtBXoDw6GIZkGjwFBZz4tyIXxRscw3Ez-332ojKIA9u7Zwgk6l_mLGrjNw7mnc80y9tLMJrlT2maIteNQqGIJXCq4N3toNOqayWdDavZlys0M139CWeWK5qmbRGC4i5QjNiyQ7ibwfCCAUVns36rgIiivzX5MAHgFUnXJP2m9u_i3f56Hc0A/s320/EUC-02.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Eucalyptus is generally thought of
as a medicinal tree rather than a food-source, though there are a few foods
available from the plant.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Perhaps the
most interesting is a common bug that is seen on the leaves, appearing as small
white bumps.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">This is actually a psyllid,
a small scale-like creature that Aboriginal children in Australia would scrape
off the leaves with their teeth to get a good sugar source.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">At my field trips, we have
participants pick off the leaves and chew the white sweet bugs.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">A few people refuse to do so, but this is
really one of the most pleasant ways to “eat bugs.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">You can also put a psyllid-infested
eucalyptus leaf into a cup of hot water, and end up with sweetened eucalyptus
tea.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3RPKD6bhqcpjSPxcgRACyZwKK_qxc5_F7INT-dV7YDbmBgejjNyrXIMoRbSphzBdkSIZ_W6Sf0iIyAYeSu7gd2TwTzEP3UV8qRbrM2VKYh0nwYLtqBDb5RZA7wHEulN5xwxW-b7tJGI4yhqNfg3CJEdG6nn9tEAYxvbXL6efVG0eXbQLSXhvIw/s4608/EUC-03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3RPKD6bhqcpjSPxcgRACyZwKK_qxc5_F7INT-dV7YDbmBgejjNyrXIMoRbSphzBdkSIZ_W6Sf0iIyAYeSu7gd2TwTzEP3UV8qRbrM2VKYh0nwYLtqBDb5RZA7wHEulN5xwxW-b7tJGI4yhqNfg3CJEdG6nn9tEAYxvbXL6efVG0eXbQLSXhvIw/s320/EUC-03.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">In fact, a tea from the leaves of
any eucalyptus species (with or without the psyllids) can be infused and used
as a pleasant beverage.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6afAd6V85qhIwbBw-V6uW0_z_MoERmrUUt4xreeVCtWtIW2fjKYy9SZdcGtZACft3CkI_YlPUt80fvACFpPNBsO42xGmuD8ztmAuAQB1LRA6KCIy3GkwOTZ29oPVbAI-gfnB692DlArjUSVZSLiYltYVMx8cKQQWggT35FfOw0m8VtNFL5G0JDw/s4608/EUC-04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4608" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6afAd6V85qhIwbBw-V6uW0_z_MoERmrUUt4xreeVCtWtIW2fjKYy9SZdcGtZACft3CkI_YlPUt80fvACFpPNBsO42xGmuD8ztmAuAQB1LRA6KCIy3GkwOTZ29oPVbAI-gfnB692DlArjUSVZSLiYltYVMx8cKQQWggT35FfOw0m8VtNFL5G0JDw/s320/EUC-04.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">The roots of several Eucalyptus species
were dried, powdered, and used as food in Australia.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">The best are said to be E. caesia, E. dumosa,
and E. gracilis.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">The finely powdered
seeds of one mallee, E. microtheca, have been reportedly used for food.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">In Australia, the eucalyptus
provides nectar and pollen to bees, who in turn provide honey and beeswax.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Beehives that I've kept near a Eucalyptus
grove in my Los Angeles back yard have produced a honey as dark as molasses and
extremely fragrant.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">I use this honey as
a medicine as much as a sweetener, and find that if I have a cold or sore
throat, I feel much better after using this honey in my drinks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">The young fruits can be sucked for
sore throats.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">According to Alma R.
Hutchens, author of </span><u style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Indian Herbology of North America</u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">, "Among the
diseases in which it is employed are croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, asthma,
piles, neuralgia, malarial diseases, catarrh, in subacute or chronic
inflammation of the urinary organs, ulcers and sores.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">It has proven an effective remedy in some cases
of rheumatism.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">For some, the mode of
using it in asthma is to smoke the dried leaves."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">(I’ve never tried this last use).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
tea of eucalyptus leaves, well known for its efficacy in dealing with sinus
congestion, also has sufficient antiseptic properties that it can be used to
clean wounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, though there are
many species of eucalyptus with many distinct uses throughout Australia, the
two primary uses for eucalyptus are the tea from the leaves for all
breathing-related problems, and a tea from the bark used to wash and disinfect wounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I
have boiled eucalyptus leaves on many occasions and inhaled the steam to help
with sinus congestion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I usually drink a
little of the strong broth as well.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Eucalyptus oil (obtained from the
leaves by distillation) is rich in the therapeutic agent cineole.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Cineole is used as an active ingredient in
inhalants, gargles, lozenges, etc., because it has a pleasant odor and is
efficient in killing bacteria.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Rutin,
used medicinally for diabetes and high blood pressure, occurs in the leaves of
some eucalyptus. You have consumed this anytime you’ve had eucalyptus cough
drops (by whatever name).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">We have taken the caps off some of
the smaller capsules, and used the powdered insides (which consisted mostly of
stamens) as a first aid remedy for cuts.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">In all cases, this resulted in rapid healing and very little
scarring.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">We suggest that the smaller,
unopened capsules be included in first aid kits.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">The variously scented eucalyptus
leaves (peppermint, lemon, medicinal, etc.) tend to repel insects.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">A necklace of young fruits is used as a safe
flea repellent for cats and dogs.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Whole books have been written on
the many uses of this valuable plant.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">We've only scratched the surface here.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">One good book for further information is Bush Food: Aboriginal Food and
Herbal Medicine by Jennifer Isaacs Lansdowne Publishing Pty. Ltd., Sydney,
1987).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p>EUCALYPTUS AND AGRICULTURE</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p>It is worth noting that eucalyptus trees are very high transpirers, and they often dry up underground water sources. </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">It is also more difficult to garden
or farm under the areas where eucalypti are growing.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Your garden plants will produce smaller fruit
or tubers, and the plants will require more fertilizer.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">This is the result of the dispersion of the
various eucalyptus oils into the soil.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">They should not be heavily planted in areas where one intends to farm or garden.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Native to Australia, there are
about 90 varieties which have naturalized in California and Arizona, and beyond
those areas.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">SOURCE OF LEAVES FOR TEA:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Urban farmer Julie Balaa of WTI Farms sells
packages of the dried eucalyptus leaves which can be used for tea. It comes
with instructions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One package is $10,
from WTI, 5835 Burwood Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90042.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 3.2in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Or email Balaa at
juliebalaa@gmail.com.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<h1>FORGIVING OUR PARENTS</h1>
<h2>Christopher Nyerges</h2><h2>www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com <br /></h2>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We
seldom think that who we are</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Is
product from backseat car</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Or
lusty night from smokey bar</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
not the son of distant star</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We
are the product of mom and dad</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Their
mingled traits both good and bad</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We
want to think we’re so unique</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
so we are, but let us speak</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">How
our child minds did set the stage</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For
adult us who learned to rage</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">With
pain within we could not gauge</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
fears and deficiencies</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">From
hidden fears from early age</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We
found we could not turn the page</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To
cure, we had to find a sage</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Who
maybe helped us, maybe not</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Our
solution, had to be sought</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">By
choice within, or happened not</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
even then, inside we fought</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Our
inner demons, night and day</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Until
we got to bright new day</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Until
we find that we could say</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I accept
my father who he was</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I
accept my mother who she was</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">They
lived their life, they did their buzz</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">They
were who they were, just because</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I
did what I did, I always does</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Above
my parents did I rise?</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Or
were their limits born in me</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Should
I blame them for my own lies</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">They
were my parents, not 2 gods</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">They
made no pretense, they weren’t frauds</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I
must forgive them, on my own</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
for their soul, let cease that moan</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">They
did their best, I am quite sure</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">No
pain intend, from him or her</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">They
lived their life, they tried their best</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">During
Depression, dad came west</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Challenge
had in time of war</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Enough
to make their bodies sore</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I
was not center of their life</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Though
tried their best in time of strife</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
center I’d have liked to been</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">That
I wasn’t, was not sin</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Child
rarely in parents’ shoes</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sees
from parents eyes what they dos</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Day
in and out, sun rise to set</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bills
to pay and job to get</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Responsibility,
oh boy</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">My
parents sometimes had no joy</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I
forgive them now in my heart</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Though
both gone now, I have to start</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To
have new life, must do my part</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To
see anew, and wipe eyes clean</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Parents
forgive, no more mean</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Within
my mind, internal clean</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Release
I do bad pictures seen</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s
finally time to let it go</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
see instead divine rainbow</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Challenges
many we all have</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Some
we fail and some we meet</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Time
it is for spiritual salve</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To
lighten mind and stop the heat</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To
finally learn from our past</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Forgive
our parents at long last</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
with optimistic heart and mind</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Seek
the truth that is there to find</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Not
dark webs that would keep us bind</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But
bright truth light most rad’ant kind</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
on that path our answers find</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">That
kingdom within, in our mind</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A
place real, where we’re no more last</span></p>
<p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Truly,
we can be free at last</span></p><p class="yiv0800451429ydp8d020edcyiv4284803919ydp14e4777ayiv1685408174ydp55332f20MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">WHY I WROTE MY BOOKS</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Foraging Wild Edible Plants of North America” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NEW SECOND EDITION JUST RELEASED</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqiLdgFZ119PvnantgotQUtduSip0fgK0W7m2uKplLjgHm3qbZKk_dCQuC_nyPKh1BKWFVtethKFYrAxXWL4Z2ZrsUfrAbh12RFMaNA13EzCrpYc5qGsQnTiqWW3p4F32fRqiKhbuScnr0V3-5iD_ym8mFyZeKIX-P1nl2Pzax9dYnxJDz4EM/s4320/latest%20(7).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4320" data-original-width="2880" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqiLdgFZ119PvnantgotQUtduSip0fgK0W7m2uKplLjgHm3qbZKk_dCQuC_nyPKh1BKWFVtethKFYrAxXWL4Z2ZrsUfrAbh12RFMaNA13EzCrpYc5qGsQnTiqWW3p4F32fRqiKhbuScnr0V3-5iD_ym8mFyZeKIX-P1nl2Pzax9dYnxJDz4EM/s320/latest%20(7).JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> By Christopher Nyerges</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>[Nyerges is the author of many foraging books, including
“Foraging Wild Edible Plants of North America,” “Guide to Wild Foods,” and
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has also been teaching
ethnobotany for many years, in the field and classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Information about his books and classes is
available from<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com">www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The cheapest way to get a copy of the latest FORAGING WILD
EDIBLE PLANTS OF NORTH AMERICA<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is
through Amazon. The retail is $24.95, and you can also get an autographed copy
at<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.schoolofself-reliance.com/">www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Since my youth, I have been extremely interested in the
ethno-botany of native Americans, and how food was obtained before modern
agriculture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned that in Southern
California, “passive agriculture” was practiced where native plants were tended
to get maximum production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I put my
notes in order and in 1978, my first book, “Guide to Wild Foods,” was
released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That book led to a request by
Stackpole books to write a recipe book based upon my first book. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Of course I said yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I included the plants that are most common over most of North America,
and began compiling all my recipes, as well as testing new ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, I added various stories about
cooking on the trail, and the types of gear and condiments you should always
carry if you want a good meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I
spent considerable time trying to come up with catchy names for the various
recipes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The result a year later was
“Wild Greens and Salads.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book sold
a few thousand copies a year and was never re-printed after the first edition.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN2wT1XlAzmivYm2EzyMaEYp-eu6iss-Ts0l96iQlowNbl__zavh4svODH4rgRrtIdf4CLZy7I2MGk6gufPdgOzQRBXM1T3UXxVHhxNydH85SfmNqAYSNjvI2rNiuTdXYGaeZWB78IRpaBHnE8b-XUAXbDCLIZKQyH0FNFZTZZAlV8pzhv5nk/s5472/Cactus-Diann-01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN2wT1XlAzmivYm2EzyMaEYp-eu6iss-Ts0l96iQlowNbl__zavh4svODH4rgRrtIdf4CLZy7I2MGk6gufPdgOzQRBXM1T3UXxVHhxNydH85SfmNqAYSNjvI2rNiuTdXYGaeZWB78IRpaBHnE8b-XUAXbDCLIZKQyH0FNFZTZZAlV8pzhv5nk/s320/Cactus-Diann-01.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Thirty years later, I started writing foraging books for the
Falcon Guides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were aware of my
previous cook book, and wondered if I could revise it with full color photos
and lots of new information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course,
I said yes.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I worked for another year to update the text, to delete some
plants and to add new ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, I once
again spent considerable time coming up with catchy names to the recipes,
usually recalling the first time I tried the recipe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is somewhat ironic too, coming from a
guy who hardly uses recipes, and generally just follows the basics of cooking
that was taught to me by mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
those who wonder if there is actually any food value to plants found in the
wild, there is a chart at the end of the book detailed the nutritional analysis
of many of the wild foods in the book, based upon the USDA’s “Analysis of
Foods.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll be amazed that wild foods
are generally more nutritious than much of what you buy at the supermarket.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> This revised book was released in 2016, “Foraging Edible
Wild Plants of North America,” focusing primarily on leafy greens for salads,
soups, and other dishes. </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT1GX5wPbYvFMAKUJKI40sTA_F0xhwsOK-8qLmaywgNz0e4-2KskaGm9SQ--Ae1O46AEqv5zpghrxU190aT3cewvMNf1DhE7epdm6S0Q6wltNy26ZKbyMpQfWwK1NAO-G1xQUuchF_ww6gvQuHFx3jlt4S1fNk9ruiC-LfjwniLJ1LypzsqA0/s4320/latest%20(6).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4320" data-original-width="2880" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT1GX5wPbYvFMAKUJKI40sTA_F0xhwsOK-8qLmaywgNz0e4-2KskaGm9SQ--Ae1O46AEqv5zpghrxU190aT3cewvMNf1DhE7epdm6S0Q6wltNy26ZKbyMpQfWwK1NAO-G1xQUuchF_ww6gvQuHFx3jlt4S1fNk9ruiC-LfjwniLJ1LypzsqA0/s320/latest%20(6).JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Now, in 2023, the second expanded edition includes the wild
nuts and berries that are found widely in North America, not just in a given
locale.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I was really happy with the latest result, and the way the
color photos turned out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s 228 pages
full of wild recipes, and various ways to use wild foods, their nutritional
value, and the ways to process the plants, with lot of new full color photos of
every plant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The books has lots of
interesting recipes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those of you who have
come to my wild food classes know the ways I prepared wild foods, so many of
the recipes in this book will seem familiar. </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhenJuhhYGYj0J_EkOfcK6MIBWGFKgePlEvLl9oJvfDNpaFvwATP9fDEw4LUJqgXwOE99x1CLTfX8b2P9j2UzolVGYlovT1qEqYEThGWbrzquIvWIj1wP2NKgOgxLrl_aoW5hABHv1hy03gqIDXWtXnm-Lo-L7TsUM9qoS2uC_PkkjUgZLuCkI/s4320/latest%20(4).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="4320" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhenJuhhYGYj0J_EkOfcK6MIBWGFKgePlEvLl9oJvfDNpaFvwATP9fDEw4LUJqgXwOE99x1CLTfX8b2P9j2UzolVGYlovT1qEqYEThGWbrzquIvWIj1wP2NKgOgxLrl_aoW5hABHv1hy03gqIDXWtXnm-Lo-L7TsUM9qoS2uC_PkkjUgZLuCkI/s320/latest%20(4).JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> This was a very enjoyable book for me to write, full of
photos showing people preparing the various wild food dishes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Some of the recipes’ names incorporate some memory of when I
first came up with that recipe: Chardon Crepes (from when I lived in Chardon,
Ohio), Big Bend Breakfast (a cattail dish my brother and I cooked up in Texas),
the David Ashley Special (a salad of wild greens devised by David, and I wonder
if David even remembers this?), Crisptado Fantastico (my unique chickweed
tostada), and many many more.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The 2023 second edition includes a section on berries, and a
section of nuts and seeds, with plenty of recipes for those who are challenged
in the kitchen. It also includes a feature about Enrique Villasenor, the ambassador to the Prickly Pear, and a feature about how Euell Gibbons influenced me.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8vDKs3PjmcuCtsB2UA43-TMzBLGZnOnQ7B7sdYe-S7P5VPkkHiWYcj9cXrgvlUdBX6SASa-4theIHZsk8fUQESngLfw9VYIFe81eTr8TAgSEbOJg1vkI5wVyD_YUt-BWlaICYoFaxNTfK0FiLlkgCqxo_OfZKBLhw_5zCJ1s-Eg-nCIdPDnE/s3264/GIBBONS-CN.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8vDKs3PjmcuCtsB2UA43-TMzBLGZnOnQ7B7sdYe-S7P5VPkkHiWYcj9cXrgvlUdBX6SASa-4theIHZsk8fUQESngLfw9VYIFe81eTr8TAgSEbOJg1vkI5wVyD_YUt-BWlaICYoFaxNTfK0FiLlkgCqxo_OfZKBLhw_5zCJ1s-Eg-nCIdPDnE/s320/GIBBONS-CN.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> EARTH BREAD </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps my favorite recipes are the Lamb’s Quarter recipes,
because I use that plant nearly every day, both the leaf and seed. It’s a
relative of the now-popular quinoa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh8wIM_31hXLIGNClODQHyQw8vUif_GTKjFPzGZy6raKSihYp8xVz70ROpzsncL5KFzNMzUhZZeW1Yjah7Yvlubram_eMlnyIGxm8h2Vc7lrSZiqawZ_cGqmIUqczisHfwAJDmrRb2o0m4q9m3xMOu62H5DV6ElQGzyE6waM_pml7qCCxMNxg/s4608/Lambs%20Quarter-Swank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh8wIM_31hXLIGNClODQHyQw8vUif_GTKjFPzGZy6raKSihYp8xVz70ROpzsncL5KFzNMzUhZZeW1Yjah7Yvlubram_eMlnyIGxm8h2Vc7lrSZiqawZ_cGqmIUqczisHfwAJDmrRb2o0m4q9m3xMOu62H5DV6ElQGzyE6waM_pml7qCCxMNxg/s320/Lambs%20Quarter-Swank.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Lamb’s quarter can be made into salads, soups, stews, and
even bread when you use the seed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
might like my Earth Bread made from the seeds. From the reviews of those who
have tasted it, some like it, some do not.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> According to the book, “I’ve served this Earth Bread to many
foragers and have had mixed responses. A few people did not like it and said it
tasted like dirt. There have also been ecstatic responses from people who found
the bread ‘virile,’ ‘deliciously wholesome and amazing,’ and ‘primitive.’”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll have to try it for yourself and see
what you think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <br /></p><p></p>christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029025626490085431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22844005.post-75787748942889869512023-04-07T14:12:00.002-07:002023-04-07T16:24:07.023-07:00EASTER AND THE MAN BEHIND IT<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">EASTER
AND THE MAN BEHIND IT</span></b></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In
Search of the Historical Jesus</span></b></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC69r_X5uF_WZdR1TimrB1s26tSmbdhcdFVmsctYcTrrXf0gOaipzyxmWbiFSojFceMotCimooy_x2RhrVCtoxuiy75TQD9CaPudJ2iptWXy4Uzw1NQ4daNd8R6l61JZfUrp9B2QJhm9DREFdMMpdZ8YvL0OFXkBru7WxgubvMh1thbiGxvB8/s3264/IMG_4789.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="1832" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC69r_X5uF_WZdR1TimrB1s26tSmbdhcdFVmsctYcTrrXf0gOaipzyxmWbiFSojFceMotCimooy_x2RhrVCtoxuiy75TQD9CaPudJ2iptWXy4Uzw1NQ4daNd8R6l61JZfUrp9B2QJhm9DREFdMMpdZ8YvL0OFXkBru7WxgubvMh1thbiGxvB8/s320/IMG_4789.JPG" width="180" /></a></span></b></div><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /> </span></b><p></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Christopher
Nyerges</span></b></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><i style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[Nyerges
is an educator, and author of such books as “Extreme Simplicity,” “Enter the
Forest,” and “Self-Sufficient Home.”<span> </span>You
can learn more about his classes and activities at
<a href="http://www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank">www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com</a>.]</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Jesus!<span> </span>What a
man he was!<span> </span>Perhaps the most amazing thing
about Jesus – a man who is known and worshipped by at least a third of all
humanity, and around whom our system of reckoning time revolves – is that there
is still so much debate about who he was, what he did, how he lived, and what
he believed.<span> </span>Hundreds of differing
Christian sects are stark testament to the fact that though Jesus might have
had “one message,” that message has been widely interpreted over the centuries.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Let’s work through some basics. As an historical
person, he can be placed in a specific time and location.<span> </span>All historians concede that they do not
know the birthday of Jesus, but it’s not Christmas day.<span> </span>Most scholars suggest that Jesus was born in
either April or September, in 4 B.C. or 6 B.C. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Jesus” was not his name, just the English rendering
of Yeshua. Did he have a full name? Yes, of course, and it was not “Jesus
Christ,” which is a title, meaning Jesus the Christ, or Jesus the
Annointed.<span> </span>Historians say that the
actual name was Yeshua ben Josephus, that is, Jesus son of Joseph.<span> </span>Another version says it is Yeshua ben
Pandirah, Jesus son of the Panther.<span> </span>In
Indian literature, he is referred to as Yuz Asaf (“leader of the healed”),
according to ‘Farhang-Asafia”, volume 1. In the Koran, he is known as Isa (or
Issa).<span> </span><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">WAS JESUS BLACK?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Ethnically, culturally, and religiously, he was
Jewish.<span> </span>But occasionally, a writer will
suggest that Jesus was actually black, with such evidence as the preponderance
of the “Black Madonnas” found throughout Europe.<span> </span>The only Biblical evidence on this are the
two lineages of Jesus provided, which uncharacteristically include women. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The key genealogies of Jesus listed in the Bible are Luke 3:
23-31, and Matthew 1:1-17.<span> </span>In these
lineages, we are told of at least four of the women in Jesus’ genealogical
line.<span> </span>These are Rehab, Ruth, Tamar, and
Beathsheba.<span> </span>Rehab (also spelled Rahab)
was a Canaanite.<span> </span>Tamar was probably a
Canaanite.<span> </span>Bethsheba, often referred to
as a Hittite, was more likely Japhethic, that is, not a descendant of Ham.
(However, this is not clear).<span> </span>Ruth was
in the line of Ham. Now, who was Ham?<span>
</span>Who were the Canaanites and Hittites?<span>
</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">According to Genesis 9:19, all mankind descended from<span> </span>Noah’s three sons: Shem, Ham, and
Japheth.<span> </span>Ham’s descendants became the
black people who settled in Africa, and parts of the Arabian peninsula.<span> </span>His sons were Cush, whose descendants settled
in Ethiopia, Mizraim, whose descendants settled in Egypt, Put, whose descendants
settled in Libya, and Canaan, whose descendants settled in Palestine. The
descendants of Cush were the main populace of the Cushite Empire, which
extended from western Libya to Ethiopia and Nubia, all of present day Egypt,
and the Arabian peninsula into the mountains of Turkey.<span> </span>They spoke several languages and had skin
pigmentation ranging from dark black to medium brown.<span> </span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It takes a bit of study to ascertain who these people were –
and there were other possible African women in Jesus’ lineage as well – but, in
general, when we are speaking of Cushites, Canaanites, descendants of Ham,
etc., we are speaking of Africans.<span> </span>It is
entirely possible that this wasn’t a big deal when the scriptures were written
since Jesus’ racial background was common knowledge. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So, although Jesus had some African ancestry, his physical
appearance was such that he fit right in with the Jews of that era, based on <span> </span>several passages that indicate that Jesus not
only looked like every one else of the day, but was also very average and
normal looking Middle-Easterner, not sticking out at all.<span> </span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">THE EARLY YEARS</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Bible speak of the young Jesus talking to the
Rabbis in the Temple, sharing his youthful wisdom with the elders to the
surprise of his parents.<span> </span>Then there is no
Biblical record of what he did as a teenager, and during his 20s.<span> </span>We don’t hear from his again in the Bible until
his appearance on the scene at about age 30, where he turned water into wine at
a wedding feasts, and is depicted as a healer, prophet, and fisher of men.<span> </span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">His religious observations would have been the regular
observations for Jews of the day, and quite different from the observations of
most Christian sects today.<span> </span>The reasons
for this are well-known.<span> </span>The early
Christians were known as Judeo-Christians (Jews who followed the Christ), and
as the new religion became more and more encompassing, it eventually became
Christianity by the 4<sup>th</sup> Century. In order to attract ever-more
followers, Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Kingdom,
and Christianized all the popular Mythraic (so-called Pagan) observations and
turned them into Christian Holy Days.<span>
</span>Catholic, after all, means Universal.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Growing up as a Catholic, I studied Jesus, and wanted to be “holy”
like him. I wanted to be like Jesus -- but what did that really mean?<span> </span>There was so much about this person that was
beyond my ability to know.<span> </span>For example,
what Holy Days would Jesus have observed? Was he an Essene?<span> </span>Was he a Nazarene? What did these groups
believe and practice? Did he have any Buddhist influence?<span> </span>Who were his closest followers, the
apostles?<span> </span>What did he actually teach his
close followers, beyond what is known from his various public talks?<span> </span>Were his miracles and public healings actual
events, or were they symbolic stories?<span>
</span>These and other questions have always swirled around this man called
Jesus.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As a student of the real and historical Jesus, here
are just a few of the many books I have found to be useful.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Garner Ted Armstrong of the Worldwide Church of God in
Pasadena, wrote a book about the “Real Jesus,” and Jesus was described as a
hard-working, athletic, health-food eating powerful man, a sort of health
advocate Gypsy Boots of the past. But certainly Jesus was much more than that.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Holger Kersten in his “Jesus Lived in India” book presents a
very different Jesus, one who is depicted on the Shroud of Turin, and one who
traveled to India and studied from the Buddhists. In fact, the way in which the
holy men of the Bible sought and found the baby Jesus is very much of the
pattern of the holy men of Tibet seeking and finding the next Dali Lama, and
Kersten puts Jesus in that very same pattern.<span>
</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Manly Hall, who founded Los Angeles’ Philosophical Research
Society, writes that the patterns of all historical saviors (he cites at least
16) include more or less the same elements. <span> </span>But Hall is less concerned about historical
facts than he is in demonstrating that there is an extant prototype of human
spiritual evolution. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">According to Harold Percival in his “Thinking and Destiny”
book, Jesus succeeded in re-uniting his Doer and Thinker and Knower, his
internal trinity, which put him in touch with his divinity, which made him,
effectively, a God.<span> </span>Though Percival’s
terminology is unfamiliar to most Christians, he is less concerned about the
historical details of Jesus and more concerned about what Jesus did, and
became, that made him a focal point of most societies on earth over the last
2000 years. According to Percival, the virgin birth, the miracles, and the
resurrection should all be studied to find the inner meanings for our own
individual evolution.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There is also a silly but interesting book that purports to
show that Jesus was never a person but actually a hallucinogenic mushroom. <span> </span>Don’t bother reading it. Another book suggests
that there was no Jesus, that he is just a made-up person as a metaphor of astrological
principles. Really?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I believe it is unwise (and incorrect) to suggest that a
Jesus never existed because of the way his followers centuries later chose to
remember him, and continued to overlay so many symbols onto the historical
person.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jesus lived, and it is not reasonable to assume that the
stories of such a great one arose from mere myth or fabrication. Such a person
lived, and his influence of what he did and said affected many people, and
everyone seemed to “read” that message of Jesus in their own way. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Regardless of your religious background or belief, you are
likely to be richly rewarded by delving deeply into the nuances of who Jesus
was.<span> </span>When everyone’s mind is upon Jesus
and the Mysteries during the Easter season, I have found great value in viewing
the “Jesus of Nazareth” series, and I even find value in such depictions as
“Jesus Christ Superstar.”<span> </span>Unlike so many
who purport to follow in his path, I find the real Jesus one who was not
dogmatic, but one who knew that only when we recognize each other’s humanity do
we rise up into our own divinities.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span> </span>According to Holger
Kersten, “Jesus did not supply theories to be ground in the mills of academia,
about his path and message – he just lived his teachings!<span> </span>Tolerance, unprejudiced acceptance of others,
giving and sharing, the capacity to take upon oneself the burdens of others, in
other words, unlimited love in action and service for one’s fellow human beings
– this is the path which Jesus showed to salvation.”</span></p>
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">DAYLIGHT
SAVINGS TIME: </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A pointless relic
from the past</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSKRLl9Zj6aG5W4-mjuuyfKT1qPnA1OtnfBeXlkOuvE8BIGdvpx_WzHU3LNSsHS0Pms3i_4p4udYMqAaAUMYoYfThrTx5uISUBjX-892K0sGtoNe0LHMCneX9fLvlBTGDX_nT7SgJFCUuXDmWDQM2O1ufynbQVO3wLbhCpzytlfilXaKIhd6Q/s3648/IMG_1238.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSKRLl9Zj6aG5W4-mjuuyfKT1qPnA1OtnfBeXlkOuvE8BIGdvpx_WzHU3LNSsHS0Pms3i_4p4udYMqAaAUMYoYfThrTx5uISUBjX-892K0sGtoNe0LHMCneX9fLvlBTGDX_nT7SgJFCUuXDmWDQM2O1ufynbQVO3wLbhCpzytlfilXaKIhd6Q/s320/IMG_1238.JPG" width="320" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Christopher
Nyerges</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">[Christopher Nyerges
is the author of <u>Urban Survival </u>Guide, How<u> to Survive Anywhere,</u> <u>Extreme
Simplicity,</u> <u>Foraging California</u> and other books. He can also be
reached via School of Self-Reliance, Box 41834, Eagle Rock, CA 90041, or www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com.]</i><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, it’s that time of year again!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our lawmakers, in their infinite wisdom,
continue to tinker with time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Manipulate
the clocks and we can trick the people into supposedly saving energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And twice a year, we’re all subject to the
changes and inconveniences that occur as a result of the springing forward or
falling back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have to quickly
adjust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is part of our annual ritual,
our relic from the past, where we go back to standard time from<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>daylight savings time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> But why do we do this? Where did this come from?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Daylight savings time is a manipulation of the basic solar
time within each time zone’s standard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was said to be an idea of Benjamin Franklin, and was begun in the
United States during world wars one and two, and eventually became “official”
in all but two states. That right!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
least two states have said “No, thanks, we’ll stick to standard time.” And now
a few states are saying, “We’re sick of changing our clocks twice a year – we
want to keep daylight savings time (or standard time) all year.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Daylight savings time is a quaint tradition of a bygone era
that refuses to die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a pointless
habit with little recognizable merit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Michael Downing, author of “Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of
Daylight Savings Time,” demonstrates that the clock-change saves energy in
theory only, but not in practice.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> David Letterman once asked the question to his audience
during his monologue: “Why do we practice daylight savings time?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s so the farmers have more light,” he
laughed, answering his own question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“But how does that give the plants <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">more</i>
light?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s a Letterman joke for you,
but there is a truth hidden under his humor. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most people queried on the street don’t know
why we have daylight savings time, and fewer still experience any tangible
benefits from it, except perhaps the pleasantness of a later sunset time in the
summer.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> There are two often-cited reasons for the use of daylight
savings time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One is so that the children
can have more light going to school in the morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But consider:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>children have an hour more of
morning light in late October, when the clock is set back (“fall back”) to
standard time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is, it is the very
use of daylight savings time which creates a darker morning as the days get
shorter and shorter. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “falling back”
an hour merely puts us back in sync with the local time zone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the use of daylight savings time that
created the problem of less light in the morning, and only in that sense can
you say that the “falling back” to regular time gives children that extra hour
of light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, this is a
problem <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">caused </i>by daylight savings
time.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is not a bonafide benefit from daylight savings time.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>My grandfather, and all my uncles on my mother’s side were
farmers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have some knowledge of the
schedule of farmers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is not one
that I know who does not arise at the crack of dawn, if not sooner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no other way to function as a
farmer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You then proceed to work as long
as needed, and as long as you are able, daylight savings time or standard
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The manipulation of clocks in no
way affected how much work they got done, or not done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I have talked to many people about daylight savings time.
Some like it, some do not. Some are annoyed by it, some find the long
afternoons of summer very enjoyable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everyone has arrived late (or early) on the first Sunday (even Monday in
some cases) after the changing of the clocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Daylight savings time thus gives millions of people a quasi-valid excuse
for lateness at least once a year.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Let’s end daylight
savings time entirely and adopt a year-round standard time.</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I were asked to choose between daylight
savings time all year, or standard time all year, I would definitely choose
standard time. Why? Simple! Standard time is the closest approximately of
actual solar time. It more closely represents the real world than does the
manipulation of daylight savings time.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Those who wish to start school or go to work earlier can do
so!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such voluntary time alterations are
fine if those individuals and schools and businesses choose to do so. It may
even make the freeways less crowded at rush hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But let’s keep the standard time year-round.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Yes, this is a small thing in the context of a world always at
war, with hate and suspicion in all political camps, with pandemics, and
endless economic hardships all over the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In that big-picture sense, this is just a little issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this is still an issue that causes
headaches and freeway crashes at least twice a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>resolve it! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love
the sun. Let the sun dictate our abstraction of time, not politicians.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Since daylight savings time is a state-by-state decision, we
can begin with California. Write to our Governor and ask to implement
year-round standard time. You can write to Office of the Governor, State
Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814, or phone at 916) 445-2841, or on-line at <a href="http://www.govmail.ca.gov/">www.govmail.ca.gov</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(if you live in another state, write to your
governor if you agree).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Take a poll of your friends and acquaintances before you
write to the Governor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See if you can
find <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anyone</i> who derives tangible
benefits from daylight savings time. Of course, if you like Daylight Savings
Time, you will likely just continue with your life. Secondly, there is always
the initiative process where a Proposition can be put on the ballot to be voted
on by the people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a process that
would take an organized effort and cost at least a million dollars, and
probably more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"> </p> <br /><p></p>christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029025626490085431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22844005.post-17913556570742271142022-11-30T22:36:00.001-08:002022-11-30T22:36:28.543-08:00ON STUFF <p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ON STUFF [</span><span class="HwtZe" lang="es"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">La versión en español está debajo de la versión en inglés.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">]<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Christopher Nyerges</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "New serif",serif;">[Nyerges is
the author of 22 books and the co-founder of School of Self-Reliance.
Among other things, he teaches his students how to do more with less, and how
frugality is a fulfilling lifestyle. He has authored "Extreme
Simplicity," "Self-Sufficient Home," "Urban Survival
Guide," and other books. More information at www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com]</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yesterday in Highland Park there was a sweep of a homeless
area, where they all had to move their tents and stuff, and the sanitation
department’s large crew filled trucks with junk and cleaned the sidewalk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before their work, you could smell the area
from 200 feet away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least 15 police
officers stood by because some of the homeless camped there got angry. At least
a few shouted violent accusations towards the officers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it was nearly over, I walked right
through the thick of it to see the stuff that homeless people collect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My eyes saw some useful daily life objects,
but mostly junk and trinkets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mind was
spinning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then, I could not help but contemplate the vast
amounts of worthless material stuff that so many people accumulate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The difference is that housed people can hide
their stuff in garages, back rooms, and rental units.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We all accumulate these things, thinking they are
valuable, and we keep these objects, believing that they will impart something
special, or that they will appreciate in dollar value, or even in some
spiritual or esoteric way. But it is all material stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here are a few reasons why I have become very
minimalist in my approach to the collection of physical stuff.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">First, when I began getting interested in survival
skills, I realized the great value of storing enough food at your home that
will get you through an emergency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like
maybe a few weeks, even a few months’ worth of food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s not especially what I call hoarding. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my initial purchases of wheat was so large
that I had an entire wall in a back room full of buckets of wheat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A year later I realized I rarely eat wheat,
and slowly gave away and sold most of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then I considered being prepared for blackouts and
other emergencies, and realized the great value of having certain extra
clothing, blankets, manual tools, knives, those sorts of things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, you could say I was starting to
collect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And from there, it just goes on
an on. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Should you store all the wood you find so that you can
have a fire in the fireplace every night for the next year?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should you collect all tools and lumber you
find so you can build a shed or chicken coop in your back yard without going to
the lumber yard?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And should you collect
all that lumber even if you’re not actually making such a shed or chicken coop?
That’s how you get into the collection of stuff. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
It's all really good useful stuff that you might use in an emergency. Before
you know it, you’re at yard sales and thrift stores, buying things at
ridiculously low prices that you know you might use one day. Or, you tell
yourself, you could sell it to make extra cash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But you don’t sell it, because the retail price for your object –
despite its inherent usefulness – is little more than you originally paid for
it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’ve gotten to this point. I had plenty of stuff to
survive the next apocalypse, but I wasn’t really using most of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I had to have shed after shed after paid
storage unit to store all these really good things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before you know it, your living space is
crammed full of stuff that you never use, but which is –you’ve convinced
yourself –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>very very valuable.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s a big trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the past 20+ years, I moved a few times, and carefully looked at all
the very good material things that I collected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I realized that much of it I never used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Never.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I decided to “bite the
bullet” and clean house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was not
willing to move truckloads of stuff to my new place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My criteria was that if I had not actually
used the object – despite my having determined that it was “very valuable” – in
the last 10 years, then I got rid of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I gave dozens of boxes of goods to a Boy Scout leader to give outdoor
gear to low-income scouts. I gave a truckload of wood and bone and rock and
other natural materials to native American friends to use in art projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made many boxload donations to Salvation
Army and Goodwill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I filled my blue
recycling bin about a dozen times, and filled the black trash can many times as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I sold some things, but
selling takes time, and you rarely get back what you paid, especially not when
you have a time crunch.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And I never regretted shedding my life of the material
baggage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found that the world still
had lots of hardware stores and grocery stores and art supply stores, and that
if I was actually doing and using a product, I could just go get it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if it was truly unavailable, I realized
it would not be the end of the world. I could do without. I learned to be rich
in the degree to which I could do without stuff.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That’s not to say that I have no supplies or boxes of
stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I regularly check what I have and give
away what I do not need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not wait
for Christmas or birthdays – I just give away when I realize I have been
serving the object and not the other way around.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I had a dream that helped me to realize the wisdom of
this choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At a time when my wife and
I decided to live separately, I moved out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But because I had so much stuff in the place we’d been living for nearly
20 years, it took a while for me to clean it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my dream, I was dead, and I was looking
into the window of my old office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
wife was there with helpers and they were discarding most of my stuff. I was horrified
at first, but then realized that the stuff they were throwing away had little
or no monetary value, and no sentimental value to them. It had some value to me
only because it was something I collected, or used in a class, or used for
research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I helplessly watched the
junk that I thought was valuable – but after I was dead, it wasn’t!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never forgot that dream, telling me that
maybe, just maybe, all the junk that I have collected really is of little to no
value to anyone!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Of course, stuff is useful in life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We use stuff all the time, for all our
activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it is SO easy to get
inundated in stuff and miss what life is all about. We forget that our feeling
of accomplishment and fulfilment is an interior something, not a thing that is
the result of accumulation. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What then must we do? That is, what must we do if we
wish to alter this stuff-accumulation pattern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(If you don’t think it’s a problem, you don’t have to do a thing).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">How about not buying something in the first
place?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know what I mean – you’re
standing there salivating about some piece of clothing or art piece or knife or
whatever, and you know you don’t really need it, but you want it, and you’re
slowly convincing yourself that it’s a great bargain!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You probably don’t need it, and your life
will go on quite well without it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Remember, do your very best to separate need from want in your
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you already have a lot of the
item, and it’s sitting in your garage or cluttering up your living space, or
worse, you’re paying for a storage unit, then, YOU DO NOT NEED IT!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t buy it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s the simple part, if you can do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just don’t buy the stuff in the first place.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">OK, so, perhaps that’s not the option.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re going to make a purchase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find one that will not cost you more money as
time goes on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know what I mean, a
product that uses odd-size batteries that are not cheap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or those coffee makers that require you to
buy the little cups that fill up landfills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can always choose a long-lasting ecological product, more or
less.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you really work at it, you can
make your buying choices support the products that we should all be using, and
not junk that clutters up your life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I also ask myself when I obtain something new: Can I
ever sell this for even close to what I paid for it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, can I sell it for more than I paid?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will it appreciate in value?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or is it something that no one in their right
mind would pay anything for next month?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I also ask myself if the product will materially
improve my life, and make me a better person, and more self-reliant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most stuff will not do that, let’s be
real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But sometimes a product can be
life enhancing, and it’s really great to have.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Anyway, you get the idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your life will be better without junk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are rich in the degree that you can do
without something. Get rid of your clutter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="rynqvb"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">EN COSAS</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rynqvb"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Christopher
Nyerges</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rynqvb"><i><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">[Nyerges
es autor de 22 libros y cofundador de School of Self-Reliance.</span></i></span><span class="hwtze"><i><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"> <span></span></span></i></span><span class="rynqvb"><span><i><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Entre otras cosas,
enseña a sus alumnos cómo hacer más con menos y cómo la frugalidad es un estilo
de vida gratificante.</span></i></span></span><span class="hwtze"><i><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"> <span></span></span></i></span><span class="rynqvb"><span><i><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Es autor de
"Simplicidad extrema", "Hogar autosuficiente", "Guía
de supervivencia urbana" y otros libros.</span></i></span></span><span class="hwtze"><i><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"> <span></span></span></i></span><span class="rynqvb"><span><i><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Más información en <a href="http://www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com">www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com</a>]</span></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rynqvb"><i><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"> </span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rynqvb"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ayer en Highland Park hubo un barrido de un
área para personas sin hogar, donde todos tuvieron que mover sus tiendas de
campaña y esas cosas, y el gran equipo del departamento de saneamiento llenó
camiones con basura y limpió la acera. Antes de su trabajo, se podía oler el
área a 200 pies de distancia. Al menos 15 policías se quedaron al margen porque
algunas de las personas sin hogar que acampaban allí se enfadaron. Al menos
algunos gritaron violentas acusaciones hacia los oficiales. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rynqvb"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Cuando
casi había terminado, caminé a través de él para ver las cosas que coleccionan
las personas sin hogar. Mis ojos vieron algunos objetos útiles de la vida
diaria, pero sobre todo chatarra y baratijas. Mi mente estaba dando vueltas. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rynqvb"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Entonces,
no pude evitar contemplar la gran cantidad de material sin valor que tantas
personas acumulan. La diferencia es que las personas alojadas pueden esconder
sus cosas en garajes, cuartos traseros y unidades de alquiler. Todos acumulamos
estas cosas, pensando que son valiosas, y guardamos estos objetos, creyendo que
impartirán algo especial, o que se apreciarán en valor en dólares, o incluso de
alguna manera espiritual o esotérica. Pero todo son cosas materiales. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rynqvb"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Aquí
hay algunas razones por las que me he vuelto muy minimalista en mi enfoque de
la colección de cosas físicas. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rynqvb"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Primero,
cuando comencé a interesarme en las habilidades de supervivencia, me di cuenta
del gran valor de almacenar suficientes alimentos en su hogar que lo ayudarán a
superar una emergencia. Como quizás unas pocas semanas, incluso algunos meses
de comida. Eso no es especialmente lo que yo llamo acaparamiento. Una de mis
compras iniciales de trigo fue tan grande que tenía una pared entera en una
habitación trasera llena de cubos de trigo. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rynqvb"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Un
año más tarde, me di cuenta de que rara vez comía trigo, y lentamente regalé y
vendí la mayoría. Luego consideré estar preparado para apagones y otras
emergencias, y me di cuenta del gran valor de tener cierta ropa extra, mantas,
herramientas manuales, cuchillos, ese tipo de cosas. Sí, se podría decir que
estaba empezando a coleccionar. Y a partir de ahí, sigue y sigue. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rynqvb"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">¿Deberías
almacenar toda la leña que encuentres para poder tener un fuego en la chimenea
todas las noches durante el próximo año? ¿Debería recolectar todas las
herramientas y la madera que encuentre para poder construir un cobertizo o un
gallinero en su patio trasero sin tener que ir al depósito de madera? ¿Y
debería recolectar toda esa madera incluso si en realidad no está haciendo un
cobertizo o un gallinero? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rynqvb"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Así
es como entras en la colección de cosas. Son todas cosas realmente buenas y
útiles que podrías usar en una emergencia. Antes de que te des cuenta, estás en
ventas de garaje y tiendas de segunda mano, comprando cosas a precios
ridículamente bajos que sabes que podrías usar algún día. O, te dices a ti
mismo, podrías venderlo para ganar dinero extra. Pero no lo vende, porque el
precio minorista de su objeto, a pesar de su utilidad inherente, es poco más de
lo que pagó originalmente por él. He llegado a este punto.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rynqvb"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Tenía
muchas cosas para sobrevivir al próximo apocalipsis, pero en realidad no estaba
usando la mayor parte. Y tuve que tener cobertizo tras cobertizo tras unidad de
almacenamiento paga para almacenar todas estas cosas realmente buenas. Antes de
que te des cuenta, tu espacio vital está repleto de cosas que nunca usas, pero
que son, te has convencido a ti mismo, muy, muy valiosas. Es una gran trampa.
En los últimos más de 20 años, me mudé varias veces y miré cuidadosamente todas
las cosas materiales muy buenas que coleccioné. Me di cuenta de que mucho de
eso nunca lo usé. Nunca. Así que decidí "morder la bala" y limpiar la
casa. No estaba dispuesto a mover camiones llenos de cosas a mi nuevo lugar. Mi
criterio fue que si no había usado el objeto -a pesar de haber determinado que
era "muy valioso"- en los últimos 10 años, entonces me deshacía de
él. Le di docenas de cajas de productos a un líder de Boy Scouts para que les
diera equipo para actividades al aire libre a los exploradores de bajos
ingresos. Entregué un camión lleno de madera, huesos, rocas y otros materiales
naturales a amigos nativos americanos para que los usaran en proyectos de arte.
Hice muchas donaciones de cajas al Ejército de Salvación y Goodwill. Y llené mi
contenedor de reciclaje azul una docena de veces, y también llené el bote de
basura negro muchas veces. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rynqvb"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Sí,
vendí algunas cosas, pero vender lleva tiempo y rara vez recuperas lo que
pagaste, especialmente cuando tienes poco tiempo. Y nunca me arrepentí de haber
despojado de mi vida el equipaje material. Descubrí que en el mundo todavía
había muchas ferreterías, tiendas de abarrotes y tiendas de artículos de arte,
y que si realmente estaba haciendo y usando un producto, podía ir a buscarlo. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rynqvb"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Y si
realmente no estaba disponible, me di cuenta de que no sería el fin del mundo.
Podría prescindir. Aprendí a ser rico en la medida en que podía prescindir de
cosas. Eso no quiere decir que no tenga provisiones o cajas de cosas. Hago.
Pero reviso regularmente lo que tengo y regalo lo que no necesito. No espero la
Navidad o los cumpleaños, solo regalo cuando me doy cuenta de que he estado
sirviendo al objeto y no al revés.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rynqvb"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Tuve
un sueño que me ayudó a darme cuenta de la sabiduría de esta elección. En un
momento en que mi esposa y yo decidimos vivir separados, me mudé.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tuve un sueño que me ayudó a darme
cuenta de la sabiduría de esta elección. En un momento en que mi esposa y yo
decidimos vivir separados, me mudé. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pero como tenía tantas cosas en el
lugar en el que habíamos vivido durante casi 20 años, me tomó un tiempo
limpiarlo. En mi sueño, estaba muerto y miraba por la ventana de mi antigua
oficina. Mi esposa estaba allí con ayudantes y estaban desechando la mayoría de
mis cosas. Al principio me horroricé, pero luego me di cuenta de que las cosas
que tiraban tenían poco o ningún valor monetario y ningún valor sentimental
para ellos. Tenía algún valor para mí solo porque era algo que coleccionaba,
usaba en una clase o usaba para la investigación. Y observé con impotencia la
basura que pensé que era valiosa, ¡pero después de mi muerte, no lo era! ¡Nunca
olvidé ese sueño, diciéndome que tal vez, solo tal vez, toda la basura que he
recolectado realmente tiene poco o ningún valor para nadie! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Por supuesto, las cosas son útiles en
la vida. Usamos cosas todo el tiempo, para todas nuestras actividades. Pero es
TAN fácil saturarse de cosas y perderse de qué se trata la vida. Olvidamos que
nuestro sentido de logro y realización es algo interno, no algo que sea el
resultado de la acumulación. Entonces, ¿qué debemos hacer? Es decir, qué
debemos hacer si deseamos alterar este patrón de acumulación de cosas. (Si no
crees que es un problema, no tienes que hacer nada). ¿Qué tal no comprar algo
en primer lugar? Sabes a lo que me refiero: estás parado ahí salivando por una
prenda de vestir, una obra de arte, un cuchillo o lo que sea, y sabes que en
realidad no lo necesitas, pero lo quieres, y poco a poco te convences de que es
una gran ganga! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Probablemente no lo necesite, y su vida
seguirá bastante bien sin él. Recuerde, haga todo lo posible para separar la
necesidad de la carencia en su vida. Si ya tiene una gran cantidad del artículo
y está en su garaje o abarrotando su espacio vital, o peor aún, está pagando
por una unidad de almacenamiento, entonces, ¡NO LO NECESITA! No lo compre. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Esa es la parte simple, si puedes
hacerlo. Simplemente no compre las cosas en primer lugar. Bien, quizás esa no
sea la opción. Vas a hacer una compra. Encuentre uno que no le cueste más
dinero a medida que pasa el tiempo. Sabes a lo que me refiero, un producto que
usa baterías de tamaño extraño que no son baratas. O esas cafeteras que
requieren que compres las tacitas que llenan los vertederos. Siempre puedes
elegir un producto ecológico de larga duración, más o menos.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Si realmente trabaja en ello, puede
hacer que sus elecciones de compra respalden los productos que todos deberíamos
usar, y no la basura que satura nuestra vida. También me pregunto cuando
obtengo algo nuevo: ¿puedo vender esto por casi lo que pagué por él? O, ¿puedo
venderlo por más de lo que pagué? ¿Se apreciará en valor? ¿O es algo por lo que
nadie en su sano juicio pagaría nada por el próximo mes? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">También me pregunto si el producto
mejorará materialmente mi vida, me hará una mejor persona y más autosuficiente.
La mayoría de las cosas no harán eso, seamos realistas. Pero a veces un
producto puede mejorar la vida, y es realmente genial tenerlo. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">De todos modos, entiendes la idea. Tu
vida será mejor sin basura. Eres rico en la medida en que puedes prescindir de
algo. Deshazte de tu desorden. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">FORAGING MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, AND
WASHINGTON D.C.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The latest Foraging Book by Christopher
Nyerges</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[Nyerges has been teaching classes in
ethnobotany since 1974.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is his 22<sup>nd</sup>
book, and his eighth Falcon guide. More information at <a href="http://www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com">www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com</a>.]</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEx3CuegoNBxe8Qlwoh3Ol3ft1zb221AC6wMhDHtwZF620zmhxdWOQmO2YVTqKaCx3sP0eB_6cl3NwkK9iAMGqM2sYJ-nn6HPkgrGhBzFqv6EZ-fLUd1SohdKztt6SXgj7Oc-ezSJodIbpl27R8tNVUQb6Y3SEtcKtzZqb96CPWPbPg_kWx7I/s3642/IMG_6813%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3642" data-original-width="2679" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEx3CuegoNBxe8Qlwoh3Ol3ft1zb221AC6wMhDHtwZF620zmhxdWOQmO2YVTqKaCx3sP0eB_6cl3NwkK9iAMGqM2sYJ-nn6HPkgrGhBzFqv6EZ-fLUd1SohdKztt6SXgj7Oc-ezSJodIbpl27R8tNVUQb6Y3SEtcKtzZqb96CPWPbPg_kWx7I/s320/IMG_6813%20(2).JPG" width="235" /></a></i></div><i><br /></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Re</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">leased September 1, 2022, this latest book by Christopher
Nyerges covers generally the Eastern seaboard, and specifically the areas
radiating from the U.S. Capitol area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And since many of the common wild edibles are literally found all over
North America, a good portion of the book is useful anywhere in the country.</span></b></p>
<p></p><p> </p><p>The idea for this book came when visiting my brother in Alexandria, Virginia. Helen and I were there for a wedding, and we also spent time at the museums in Washington D.C, and went to Shenandoah, and many of the sites in the area. Helen suggested that I consider writing a book about this part of the country. Though I live in California, I had spent a six month period, and many summers, living on my grandfather’s farm in northeastern Ohio, studying the Eastern Plants. Many of the plants that we were now seeing in the greater Washington D.C. area were very familiar.</p><p>Before their trip, we both reached out to museums and bookstores, to offer workshops while we were in town. Almost by chance, we contacted Malcolm McNeil who is a naturalist and historian who works for the Huntley Meadows Park, a large natural area in Fairfax County, Virginia.</p><p>Helen and I went to McNeil’s park and gave a talk to his students, and took them on a botanical walk of the park. This was when we both realized that McNeil might be a good collaborator on a book of the area.</p><p><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-51234" height="203" src="http://www.schoolofself-reliance.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Bio-300x203.jpg" width="300" /> </p><p>from left, Helen W. Nyerges, Malcolm McNeil, Christopher Nyerges</p><p>We took lots of photos of the plants we saw all over Alexandria, and in D.C., especially around the Mall. And we took lots of photos of the plants we explored in the mountains and hills of Shenandoah Park, and in Maryland. </p><p>Once back home, and the publisher expressed a positive reaction to this book, we set about the long process of the organization and writing of the book. Malcolm McNeil was instrumental in choosing which plants to include, and which might be too marginal. In an ideal world, we’d like to include every single plant in the wild that might be useful, but in the real world, I knew there would be a limit of book size, and number of photos, and so we set about creating a book that would be the most useful to the most people.</p><p>We have at least 65 plants included, and discussions about many of the Plant Families that are entirely, or mostly safe.</p><p>The book is fully illustrated with color photos by Christopher and Helen Nyerges, Malcolm McNeil, Rick Adams, and others. Malcolm McNeil wrote the forward, and bits throughout the book.</p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes;">Once back home, and
the publisher expressed a positive reaction to this book, we set about the long
process of the organization and writing of the book. Malcolm McNeil was
instrumental in choosing which plants to include, and which might be too marginal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In an ideal world, we’d like to include every
single plant in the wild that might be useful, but in the real world, I knew
there would be a limit of book size, and number of photos, and so we set about
creating a book that would be the most useful to the most people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes;">We have at least 65
plants included, and discussions about many of the Plant Families that are
entirely, or mostly safe.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The book is fully illustrated with
color photos by Christopher and Helen Nyerges, Malcolm McNeil, Rick Adams, and
others. Malcolm McNeil wrote the forward, and bits throughout the book.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">from left, Helen W. Nyerges, Malcolm McNeil, Christopher
Nyerges </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">244 pages, with descriptions of how
to use each plant.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you’ve ever lived in this area,
or visited, you will recognize many of these uniquely “Eastern” plants such as
pokeweed, milkweed, sassafras, witch hazel, goldenrod, and coltsfoot.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I point out, for example, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>how Tony Joe White created much confusion
about eating Poke with his 1968 song, “Polk Salad Annie,” about a woman who
eats Poke. “Salad” suggests you can eat Poke raw, but you can’t!
You must boil the greens a few times to make them edible. White should
have called his song “Poke Sallet Annie,” since “Sallet” refers to cooked
greens. Poke greens have been enjoyed in rural communities for
generations!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu0W2jPCLDIDF7aYRRbMQQxs6ZVRF2HNyr51lLa9b-uDRu9l3BzMaf-lc1dh6jugjYwBVYBXGOz8xxeiF_qoIforG4NhQXurcLXDZXwPCVlrb4m71lj31kgBYr1AJyWzjZkdscARyD2ErJHbfjQDVbsWzQVgpBNXnlUp_rEmr0ejaq4QfAUd4/s2816/POKE-05.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2112" data-original-width="2816" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu0W2jPCLDIDF7aYRRbMQQxs6ZVRF2HNyr51lLa9b-uDRu9l3BzMaf-lc1dh6jugjYwBVYBXGOz8xxeiF_qoIforG4NhQXurcLXDZXwPCVlrb4m71lj31kgBYr1AJyWzjZkdscARyD2ErJHbfjQDVbsWzQVgpBNXnlUp_rEmr0ejaq4QfAUd4/s320/POKE-05.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You’ll also learn about the tasty
roots of sassafras, a tree or bush that is very common in the east, and,
despite the presence of safrole (banned by the FDA because of its carcinogenic
effects), sassafras tea and gumbo from the leaves has been used widely for
centuries as best as we can tell. It’s very easy to recognize the sassafras
plant, and this book will show you how.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I used to dig the roots out of ditches in the back of the family farm in
order to make sassafras tea.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0c5wYAtNpmKRvJa_CGwjVDSgxVTawZr7HaJ9qM0LVAWo5uyXPuBAsiE_37jMrGu7y_SYdxWuQxKq0m9Boehg6jOgAODw1PY-_HrGNNen2cW8OUJiai40_EdoHMkLJDwZyZ6eI07zrZg9D27_0voBXODi8ak7AZLmbsUec1Pv-7_7YFyCuuAY/s1000/Sassafras-leaves-MM%20-%20Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0c5wYAtNpmKRvJa_CGwjVDSgxVTawZr7HaJ9qM0LVAWo5uyXPuBAsiE_37jMrGu7y_SYdxWuQxKq0m9Boehg6jOgAODw1PY-_HrGNNen2cW8OUJiai40_EdoHMkLJDwZyZ6eI07zrZg9D27_0voBXODi8ak7AZLmbsUec1Pv-7_7YFyCuuAY/s320/Sassafras-leaves-MM%20-%20Copy.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Coltsfoot is also included, a plant I
learned when living on my grandfather’s farm in eastern Ohio. Though
coltsfoot is a marginal food, it’s a useful medicinal plant, and a good
nicotine-free smoke.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And you can’t miss the colorful
staghorn sumac if you live anywhere in the East. I share the simple
details that I have learned for making a great lemonade from this plant.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbpXHYvREDnj0KbpduCDDiegXiIu8Sa-RQkVdocAnkelw30DDjFaah3YqVGvU2gi520Vf2ZKM61vlUyo6hT3aZyyJH1Qko2qPQCAzCRRhcrS6Jh47cpkM34ApoINBl4_vRjpJaOtTQfviQFpXT4p7JSlrDHa8I-WAi-kuDXCccFWVYIWE6Y-A/s1333/staghorn%20fruit%20-%20Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbpXHYvREDnj0KbpduCDDiegXiIu8Sa-RQkVdocAnkelw30DDjFaah3YqVGvU2gi520Vf2ZKM61vlUyo6hT3aZyyJH1Qko2qPQCAzCRRhcrS6Jh47cpkM34ApoINBl4_vRjpJaOtTQfviQFpXT4p7JSlrDHa8I-WAi-kuDXCccFWVYIWE6Y-A/s320/staghorn%20fruit%20-%20Copy.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This latest foraging book is great
if you live in the target area, but also very useful for anyone in surrounding
states including North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, and even New Jersey.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An excerpt from Christopher Nyerges’
book, Urban Survival Guide</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs5K2WbkhhBu-xkRpaJGDmeXWFcJmeBjroQeezEy8Lev84JSqYAuc4DUo0OA0RLoJAN5TKtA5uLiSj-Kw7SdDQARR392wcRtySxa8a1s3Vd-lD0ecVKNGwBYRiSBOfPg6w0NXY5SfPuSLk4oGyP-NZ2UR2r7050D7A_3bDjAxC1QBu9UbT72g/s2560/UrbSurbook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1707" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs5K2WbkhhBu-xkRpaJGDmeXWFcJmeBjroQeezEy8Lev84JSqYAuc4DUo0OA0RLoJAN5TKtA5uLiSj-Kw7SdDQARR392wcRtySxa8a1s3Vd-lD0ecVKNGwBYRiSBOfPg6w0NXY5SfPuSLk4oGyP-NZ2UR2r7050D7A_3bDjAxC1QBu9UbT72g/s320/UrbSurbook.jpg" width="213" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During my early association with Mr.
White’s non-profit, WTI, we focused upon principles of what are now called
“sustainability.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, we
wanted to utilize as many of the resources that came onto our property
wisely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wanted all the rain that fell
there to stay there. Water was piped in from afar, and we wanted even that
waste water to go to work, double-duty, growing the trees and garden.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I worked with Timothy Hall in order
to disconnect the bathtub drain pipe from the sewer line in the house and
attach pipes so the bath water would drain about 100 feet away into the orchard
area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It didn’t take much time to
disconnect the drain from under the bathtub, but we did have to crawl under the
house in the narrow crawl space, getting covered with cobwebs and this very
fine decomposed granite that stained our clothes and didn’t wash out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, we used old recycled galvanized pipes
and connected the pieces until we had a line going all the way down hill to
where trees would be planted for an orchard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This took us the better part of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Forever after, all the water from the tub went directly into the lower
orchard, and only “safe” detergents were used – those that had no dyes or
aromas added.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At this time, Timothy operated a
local health-food café, and on the bulletin board we advertised ourselves as
“ecology plumbers” who would go to your home and retrofit your sink or bathtub
drain so the water would go outside. We knew this was illegal according to the
Building and Safety codes of the City of Los Angeles at the time, but there was
also a drought during this time, and people wanted to get as much use out of
their water as possible. Timothy and I did a half-dozen or so of these jobs to
the delight of renters and home-owners.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The City of Los Angeles
representatives made a lot of noise about the people saving water and using
less.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The news notices of the day talked
about a lot of very standard ways to save water: turn off the water when brushing
teeth, water your yard at night, plant drought-tolerant plants, use lots of
mulch, don’t wash off the sidewalk, use a full load when you wash clothes,
etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But through my work with Timothy
and WTI, we went way beyond those very basic ways to save water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we taught others how to do likewise.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We strongly advocated against having
a front lawn, one of the biggest and pointless water wastes in the entire
country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We collected rain water in our
own low-tech way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We washed a few items
of clothes every time we took a bath. And we altered our own plumbing so that
the kitchen and bathtub water could flow right outside into the garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it turned out that this last method –
known today as “grey water recycling” – was then, and might still be, illegal
according to the Department of Building and Safety of the City of Los Angeles.
The rationale for this being illegal is that everyone has their own way of
doing it and some folks are less careful than others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The city didn’t want pools of water outside
homes and apartments which raise mosquitoes and possibly attract rats or
roaches or worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Still, we focused on kitchen sink
and bathtub water, and we only did it where it could be done easily by gravity
and where it would not be a problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
one case, we disconnected the drain from under a second-story kitchen sink, and
attached a PVC drain pipe that had to go through the wall to the outside. We
had to drill an appropriate sized hole, and then we attached the hardware to it
which would allow the owner to screw on a garden<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hose. The garden hose was then moved around
as needed by the homeowner so that the water would flow under fruit trees,
ornamentals, or the garden.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We advised the customers that they
should only buy dish soaps that contained no dyes or perfumes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phosphates weren’t a big issue, as they are
when your detergents flow into the Los Angeles County sewer system, and
eventually flows out to the ocean. Phosphates in the soil act as a fertilizer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Timothy and I were delighted to do some
part-time work that we enjoyed, and we felt made a difference in the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore, for a few hours
work, I would earn close to $50, which made me think I was pretty close to a
millionaire for the day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I did this same retrofit at the
cinder block house on top of the hill which was my home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was very easy to do, as there was a
clean-out valve just outside the kitchen, and all I needed to do to capture
most of the drain water was to attach a line to that clean-out pipe, and run
the line out into the yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though this
didn’t recycle all the water from the kitchen sink, it did send perhaps 60% of
the water going down the drain into my yard and garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, I moved the drain line out into
the larger yard to the south.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Since I had potted plants and a
little nursery just outside the kitchen door, I would simply take the plastic
dish pan when done washing dishing, and empty the water onto the plants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is probably one of the easiest ways to
recycle household water with no cost of retrofitting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is really a no-brainer – even my mother
did that consistently at her Pasadena home, and would yell at me and my
brothers if we did not do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Why are
you so lazy?” she’d chide us. “Take that water outside and water the roses!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Those early retrofits with Timothy had
a lasting impact on me because in the beginning the whole idea of “greywater
recycling” was a big mystery to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After doing so many of the retrofits – and each one was unique – I
realized that greywater recycling is one of the easiest things to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After I left the cinder block house on top of
the hill, I eventually owned my own home, and found that it was easy to recycle
the washing machine water and kitchen water. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Later, in another home, I did the
same thing with the washing machine, and kitchen, but not the bathtub because
there was no way to use gravity for the water to flow outside. Later still, at
a house I rented, I sent all the kitchen and bathwater out into the yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mulched heavily and would often toss seeds
right out the kitchen window. When I finally left this little cabin in
Altadena, a 15 foot avocado tree had grown in about 5 years from one of my
seeds that I’d tossed out the window, and was producing fruit with no grafting.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It made sense then, and it makes
sense now, to recycle all one’s water. And despite all the smiley talk and
encouragement from the folks at city hall, the right hand of the city does not
always agree with the left hand. If and when Building and Safety finds out you
are doing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“illegal” greywater recycling,
you’ll be cited and asked to hook back up to the sewer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The alternative is to buy the pumps and
holding tanks they now require for this, and the expensive permit, upwards of
about $10,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that price means that
anyone smart will simply not talk to city hall, but find ways to “go green”
safely and inexpensively.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Perhaps today because there are more
and more of us residing on smaller and smaller parcels of land, many of the
simple and common-sense things that we just did with no regard for any
government dictates or rules is not as possible today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This isn’t because it’s not a good idea, but
rather because not everyone takes the time to recycle and to compost in a way
that is hygienic and sightly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GREYWATER RECYCLING SUMMARY</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Every situation is different, and
this assumes you have the yard space to recycle the water into.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DIFFICULTY*</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PRO</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CON</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">KITCHEN SINK</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Requires using non-toxic
detergents.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2-3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Food scraps act as fertilizer for
garden.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grease might attract vermin</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BATHROOM SINK</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Toothpaste, mouthwash, and other
substances used here</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2-3</span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.05pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Typically, easy to do, and can
provide regular water for trees. </span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.9pt;" valign="top" width="127">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because of the substances that go
down this drain, make certain it exits in a safe area.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BATHTUB/ SHOWER</span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.85pt;" valign="top" width="126">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Typically one of the easiest
retrofits; must use safe soaps</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2</span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.05pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Easy to do; provides regular water
for yard irrigation.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be mindful of shampoos,
conditioners, et al., that go down the drain.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WASH. MACHINE</span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.85pt;" valign="top" width="126">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Must have the yard space for a
large volume of water.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3</span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.05pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Easy to do and provides large
volume of water for irrigation.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be mindful when you purchase
laundry detergents.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DISHWASHER</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whatever the argument, I still
believe that the simplest path is the best, and that the most natural course of
action is the most ideal for the most people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That which has worked for millennia should still work as long as people
are willing to slow down, and quit their blind faith in a technological god
that they think will miraculously save us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">THE LEADING EDGE OF TIME</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>google.com, pub-8623877305223293, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Christopher Nyerges</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[Nyerges is an educator and the author of
many books, including<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Extreme
Simplicity,” “How to Survive Anywhere,” and many others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More information is available at <a href="http://www.Schoolof">www.Schoolof</a>Self-Reliance.com].</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I have nearly always thought deeply about time, even as
a young child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was 10 or so and
enrolled in Catholic school, the nuns and priests schooled us in the dogmas of
the Church, such as “God has always existed,” and “God has no beginning and no
end.” I don’t recall if my classmates ever exerted much mental effort to
consider the application of the dogma that we routinely recited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that I spent considerable time wracking
the nerve endings of my still-developing brain trying to see how something –
anything – could have no beginning and no end.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I had less trouble with the idea that something could
have no end, since to have no end, a thing would simply need to continue to exist,
endlessly, forever, continually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But to
have no beginning?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How does one reckon
backwards? How far back is too far?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
span of time called infinity, going backwards in time, seemed impossibly
difficult to grasp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regardless how far
back in time one could go, that’s still not infinity, still not back to the “no
beginning.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Doesn’t everything require a beginning?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even God? There never seemed to be a rational
way to extend backward into infinity. Something that never ends, of course, is equally
without ration, but it’s slightly easier to grasp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The thing continues to continue. OK.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In time, I had neither the luxury or desire to solve Catholicism’s
most fundamental dogmas, and mysteries, as many more pressing and practical
matters pressed upon my mind.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As a teen and growing older, I often obsessed about my
future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not “the future,” but “my” future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where will I be in 5 years?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What will I be doing? Where will I be
living?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In time, this expanded into “the”
future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What will the world be like in
10 years?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will we all be using flying
vehicles like in the Jetsons?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will our
food become nothing but pills?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will
world civilization evolve and flourish, or will it devolve into a Dark Age?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">But a more fundamental question was: How will I know
that I have arrived at the future? Thus began a lifelong consideration of the
nature of time, past, present, and future.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I remember some of the catch phrases from the 70s,
like “Be Here Now.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember a guru
who would say “Now is the only reality.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of course, I expected gurus and their types to expound with abstract
phrases, and even nonsensical statements that have no basis in the real
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yet, as I passed through the
hours of each day, finding myself back in school another day, finding myself
getting ready for bed again, and observing the current experience, a very
simple realization began to hit home as a fundamental reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized that I never experienced the
future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, I don’t mean that on Monday when I think
about what I might do on Thursday, and then Thursday comes and I do what I do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thursday is the future from the Monday perspective,
but when I experienced Thursday, it was in this moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The moment of Now, the now that is the only
reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As I move from Monday to Thursday, and from Saturday
to Tuesday, and from March to June, I never experience the “future.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only live and can only live in the leading
edge of time, the now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It sounds
abstract but every one must know that this is so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sun rises, goes across the sky, sets
below the horizon and thus measures our sense of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things change, things are born and they die,
and yet, we never, ever experience this thing we call “the past.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can recall it, and hopefully learn from,
but we only experienced it as “the now.” And the flow of time and the changing
of scenery continued, all in the Now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And we never, ever experience the future, because “the future” is simply
an abstraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the supposed future
arrives, we only experience it as a flowing moment of time in the Now.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">All this is not the mathematics of calculus,
necessarily, but is the reality of our subjective experience of life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This knowledge of The Now informs me about so many
things. For example, how dwelling on the past and all your mistakes can sap
your energy and provide nothing useful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or, dwelling on the future to the extent that you are not living fully
in the moment, since your mind is elsewhere. We generally, collectively, do not
fully live in the Now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Multi-tasking is a bogus concept where we kid ourselves
into thinking we can do many projects at once, as if we were running out of
time!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, multi-tasking is nearly
always doing more things poorly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a
form of trying to be fully into the Now, but because we are not mentally
focusing our attention like a laser beam, multi-tasking is not living the Now. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Time is like a train that is constantly moving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It cannot be stopped, but just goes on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">What is the practicality of all the foregoing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t say to forget the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learn lessons from it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Identify what you did wrong, and what you did
right, so you can always improve your actions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And I didn’t say that you should not plan ahead. You should and you must
plan ahead so that you don’t just wander through life bouncing from thing to
thing that “comes along.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Procrastinators
live in an imaginary future that never seems to come, though they often say “I
will get to it later.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Living in the moment and understanding that the Now is
all we have for improving our lives is a step in the right direction on the
path of our human evolution.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Outdoor Survival Skills” by Larry Dean
Olsen 7<sup>th</sup> edition now available.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-M6a_QWTAw4cg6J75wVmvvaKtoTrtZXIAaE7tyU3Ud0ltY2ym2m22eqXWvbIixlk4sSDvkwK-FgUCONF3u4Y9MsuBC6pvYv9KoJzpNEUX97E0OxmQQmxeoK0b225G4VZlnxyhYw/s499/OlsenCover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="334" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-M6a_QWTAw4cg6J75wVmvvaKtoTrtZXIAaE7tyU3Ud0ltY2ym2m22eqXWvbIixlk4sSDvkwK-FgUCONF3u4Y9MsuBC6pvYv9KoJzpNEUX97E0OxmQQmxeoK0b225G4VZlnxyhYw/s320/OlsenCover.jpg" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Foreword and Photos by Christopher Nyerges</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[Nyerges has been an author and teacher of ethnobotany
and survival skills since 1974.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This new
book is available at www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Legacy and Lineage of Larry Dean Olsen</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Anyone who has been teaching outdoor survival skills
for any length of time has undoubtedly heard of Larry Dean Olsen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">born in 1939 near Jerome, Idaho. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After Olsen graduated from Brigham Young
University, he began teaching survival field trips through the college’s
Continuing Education Division in 1968, sharing his love for the outdoors, and
his intense interest in the skills of the local indigenous peoples.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At the time, there were scant few others teaching the
skills that sustained indigenous peoples for millenia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a Mormon, Olsen was devoted to always
being ready, including being able to survive in a harsh wilderness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, there were very few native
peoples teaching the old ways of plant uses, flint knapping, trapping, and
fire-making because most were too occupied just trying to stay alive in the
modern world. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As part of his outdoor training, he would take
students into the desert of the Great Basin area and live off the land for a
week or longer. They had to learn how to eat wild plants, trap small game, make
fire with local materials, build a shelter, weave sandals, find water, and
more. It was a grueling adventure.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He wrote “Outdoor Survival Skills,” first published in
1967, which described all the survival skills he’d been teaching. His book has
long been considered the definitive classic book on the subject.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book has been updated every few years and
remained in print all these years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Larry was the originator of the Rabbit Stick
Rendezvous, a gathering for a week where people could camp out and learn the
skills in a more leisurely manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
event – and various knock-offs -- continues to this day, continued by students of
his.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His students began the Boulder
Outdoor Survival School, and Larry continued to work at the Anasazi
organization, which he co-founded, which gave guidance to youth in the
wilderness.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Larry was perhaps the most visible person teaching and
sharing the extreme art of living off the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is not an overstatement to say that everyone today teaching these
skills has some lineage, direct or indirect, that leads back to Larry Dean
Olsen.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I remember when I first found a copy of the original
edition in my older brother’s things. He was a camp counselor and thought the
information would help him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took the
book and studied it, and it became a part of my life as I pursued learning<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>outdoor survival skills and the uses of the
many plants that the indigenous peoples used.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Olsen’s book became my “bible” of a sort – the key to
the actual application of every skill needed to stay alive without the
assistance of civilization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was amazed
that such a compact resource even existed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I began to practice making fire with the bow and drill because of this
book, and I learned the process of weaving sandals from cattail leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also started making primitive weapons and
traps, and I began the dangerous path of flint-knapping, which is the art of
flaking a piece of obsidian or other hard material to produce razor-sharp arrow
heads and spear points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s dangerous
because if you don’t do it right, you take off pieces of skin, as I did too
many times.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My school friend Nathaniel and I often practiced the
skills together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had heard about the
budding Rabbit Stick Rendezvous, and wanted to attend a session in Utah. But
for us, in high school at the time, getting the money together and traveling
there was insurmountable for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I
recall, the cost for the week was something like $70, but it might as well have
been a million dollars for us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Still, Larry was like an idol to us, you could say he
was our cult leader in our secret wilderness sect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We worshipped him from afar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, we had no golden idol, but we invoked his
name at nearly every occasion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Over the years, I would quote<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Larry
in the many books and newspaper articles I wrote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, around 2004, I became the editor
of the Wilderness Way magazine, and called upon Larry for some advice, and to
write for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We talked on the phone,
and shared e-mails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never got him to
write for us, but I did get lots of good advice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never managed to get to the gathering that
he started either, though I followed many of his journeys and adventures from
afar by reading reports from other students.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was saddened when I heard that this gentle giant
died in 2019.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had always wanted to
meet him, and to learn at his feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
about that time, I was asked if I could update Larry’s classic book! What an
honor it was to be a part of the Olsen lineage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I spent many months lightly editing the text, and adding some charts and
short paragraphs where I felt it would enhance what Larry wanted to say. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The hard part of the revision was to provide all new
color photos for all the skills listed in the book, including new photos for
the various wild plants described for food, medicine, and other uses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though I have been teaching for over 40
years, I was only able to draw upon my last nearly 20 years of photography with
a digital camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whereas the original
black and white photos had the feeling of going on one long trip with Larry, my
pictures were picked from many classes over a long period of time, with men,
women, children, and people of all walks of life. In many cased, we had to go
into the field to take brand new photos of certain skills or crafts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzV9U_AGmIbWZrdLLALgC1nEncGc1hrHaWB2ijiUTVoITY_gg6XwTsVLpSEShGWNSrgjoOMG_GdEOvkAo2rbC9ZcEDDyaeYvyD_Ft0YpOoTaGFRSVFGv-DuqCExtL1BfnwowMNgA/s1920/08-050.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzV9U_AGmIbWZrdLLALgC1nEncGc1hrHaWB2ijiUTVoITY_gg6XwTsVLpSEShGWNSrgjoOMG_GdEOvkAo2rbC9ZcEDDyaeYvyD_Ft0YpOoTaGFRSVFGv-DuqCExtL1BfnwowMNgA/s320/08-050.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The result is the 7<sup>th</sup> edition of “Outdoor
Survival Skills,” a book I am proud to be a part of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope that the memory of Larry Dean Olsen
lives on, and that the introduction of new photos in a revised book will
continue to inspire a whole new generation to learn these most fundamental
skills.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvi9gKvAi9S3Je-OqH_roT6hY9IF9av1M8iauLAsMLLGsk7_nItzGc2bzSm9ZuEeXsXAmrOmjWBLmKfDyNudaLrej0l21YNl4IPXAAAD1VdkKWHsUeUdqCcqYn5uH4Iqk-QyyR6g/s2048/IMG_2243.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvi9gKvAi9S3Je-OqH_roT6hY9IF9av1M8iauLAsMLLGsk7_nItzGc2bzSm9ZuEeXsXAmrOmjWBLmKfDyNudaLrej0l21YNl4IPXAAAD1VdkKWHsUeUdqCcqYn5uH4Iqk-QyyR6g/s320/IMG_2243.JPG" /></a></b></div><b><br />... Memories, inspired by the events of January 20, 2021...<br /></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[Nyerges is an educator and author of
nearly two dozen books, including “Extreme Simplicity,” “How to Survive
Anywhere,” and others. Information on his classes and books is available at
www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Over 20 years ago, when I was living in Highland Park,
my wife and I wanted to get another dog as a companion for the one dog we
already had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were away from home a
lot, and we felt that our one dog would not feel lonely and would feel content
with another dog. We went to a lot of dog rescue places, and were starting to
feel that we simply would not find the right dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, one night, we decided to accept a
dog which seemed to have been abused, and which needed a good home. The dog’s
name was Mona. Mona was a bit older than we were looking for, but she seemed
very appreciative towards us as we were taking her to her new home.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We did our best to help Mona fit in, but she really
was what you might call a “problem dog.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Initially, we attributed it to the fact that she had been abused when
younger, in various ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I recall the
first bath I gave Mona, which actually seemed like the first bath she ever
received.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She didn’t ever like being in a
bath, and I always had to struggle to keep her in the tub. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Very soon, Mona because very protective of us, and
would wildly bark anytime anyone approached our front gate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She would throw herself against the gate with
such great intensity that her mouth would be bleeding and people never got
close to the gate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neighbors spoke about
our “killer dog.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We quickly saw that Mona might not work out, and tried
to find another home for her. Various people came and sat with Mona, trying to
see if it was a good fit. But she always maintained a low unfriendly growl, and
no one could grow close to her, and we never found her another home. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She got along well enough with our other dog, but I
always felt very alert whenever I walked her, keeping on a harness and using two
leashes so she didn’t get away and wreak havoc on the neighborhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once, a dog not on a leash approached her,
despite my trying to scare the stray away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mona went right for the neck of the little dog, and was only able to
tear the little dog’s flexible skin before I could pull Mona away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was horrified. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I continued to walk Mona and try various ways to “civilize”
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But while walking her, she would
often snap back at me and bite me. I was bit four times, mostly superficial
cuts that ripped my pants or shirt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
learned to be more careful when I walked her, because I realized her own neck
skin had been cut at one time, and it probably hurt her every time I walked her
with a neck collar. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">During the time we had Mona, I lost a full-time job
and by this time, we actually had three dogs, which means, three dogs to
feed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It now became even harder to come
up with the money to buy all the dog food, and I found sources of low-cost and
even free pet food in the community. I knew that whatever happened, I would not
take Mona to the pound, which almost certainly meant sure death.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mona was always a challenge, and I always had to check
my fences for weak spots because I always feared that if she got out and killed
a neighbor’s dog, or attacked a person, the financial aspect alone would be
devastating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately, nothing bad
like that ever happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, I was
never at ease, never calm, never letting down my guard as long as we had
Mona.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got so used to living in
subdued stress and fear that we felt it was “normal.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eventually, Mona was displaying some obvious signs of
pain and distress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took her to our
veterinarian. The vet told me that Mona had a certain infection, and that he
could operate and fix the condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mona would cost me another $1000, but I said OK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He called me later to let me know that Mona
died on the table, before the operation could begin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously, I was sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went to pick up Mona’s body and I buried
her under a fruit tree near where her doghouse had been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My wife and I went to bed and slept well.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The next morning, we stood in our front yard looking
out into the neighborhood. There was no Mona.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We expressed our sadness for her loss and for the hard life that she’d
had. We also noted that suddenly, inexplicably, a deep transformation of the
atmosphere had taken place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We noted a
feeling of calm, and peace, and that we were not experiencing inner anxiety at
whatever might happen next if Mona got out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was an odd mixture of sadness for that being we took in, and
simultaneously calmness, freedom, peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We stood there for perhaps 30 minutes, basking in the mixed atmosphere
of both sadness, and calm joy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A feeling
of calm descended upon us.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I have not had that particular unique feeling for a
very long time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The memories of Mona
flooded back to me at noon, Wednesday, January 20, 2021.</span></p>
<p> </p>christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029025626490085431noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22844005.post-39790040514331642262020-12-30T13:30:00.003-08:002020-12-30T15:30:10.146-08:00ENCOUNTER WITH AN UNKNOWN SAVIOR<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">ENCOUNTER WITH AN UNKNOWN SAVIOR</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5FbdqqzTRKLbxxvR130sVP_szIxBHydn23wv6iG0y7u_hpi3VsHbavDuxM7-B0RCBVp5cT0N1dmiAlQZ4oeGV7rpOCnvFgjy6ShzR9_Pl2KY1mPd9v3SOsxoUaU7i3iGF7q_0SA/s990/pOOL-BatonRouge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="647" data-original-width="990" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5FbdqqzTRKLbxxvR130sVP_szIxBHydn23wv6iG0y7u_hpi3VsHbavDuxM7-B0RCBVp5cT0N1dmiAlQZ4oeGV7rpOCnvFgjy6ShzR9_Pl2KY1mPd9v3SOsxoUaU7i3iGF7q_0SA/s320/pOOL-BatonRouge.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Christopher Nyerges</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[Nyerges is a writer and teacher of
self-reliance topics. This article is part of a book Nyerges is working on about
his youth, tentatively titled “Out of the Loop.” For more information, go to
www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">On average, about 10 people die from drowning every
day in the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About 20% of
those deaths are children under 14 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When I was 6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or 7 years old, I
almost became one of those statistics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I was the youngest of five boys and all of us had a
history of attending the Boy’s Club down on Villa Avenue, just west of Los
Robles Avenue where we lived. Since a bus stop was located just across the
street from our home, we could easily hop on the bus and take the approximately
two mile or so ride closer to downtown Pasadena, exit on Villa, and walk to the
Boy’s Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I enjoyed the Boy Club and the complexity of life that
occurred there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a small train
that could be ridden around the back 40, there was the art classes, the metal
shop, the wood shop, and the game room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every
summer, they held a Tom Sawyer Day with numerous special events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there was the swimming pool, which was
the center of social life at the Club in the summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the Boy’s Club was still fresh and new
to my young eyes, it was exciting to walk down the long corridors, enter the
noisy locker room, and then enter the pool.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">On this first time swimming there, the pool area was a
cacophony of men, women, boys, girls – I presume that the Club opened the pool
to anyone and everyone who wanted to swim there on the hot days of the early
1960s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was crowded! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I was there with one or two older brothers, and some
friends of theirs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was told to stay in
the shallow part of the pool since I didn’t know how to swim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I had never been in a deep pool before,
I assumed that I probably didn’t know how to swim and so I agreed to stay in
the shallow side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The pool was very long – I remember about 150 feet by
perhaps 50 feet – though this is just a memory-guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shallow section was where you could enter
by means of these cement steps, where you just walk into the water. And for me,
that meant the water would come up to my waist in the shallowest section. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I was in the pool, it was very
crowded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t know anyone, and my
brothers and their friends were off somewhere having a good time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I just walked around, and noted that the
pool very gradually got deeper as I walked westward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So eventually the water was up to my
chest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I walked back into the shallow
area, and back to the deeper part of the shallow area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How far out could I go before it was too
deep?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I tried to look into the water, to see the bottom, but
it was not easy. For one, there were a lot of people moving around in the
water, and so the water was not still and clear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I just kept walking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suddenly, the shallow section rather rapidly
became deep, and even though I could feel my feel slipping out from underneath
me, there seemed to be nothing I could do to prevent going under. I went under,
and I don’t recall if I panicked or not, but I remember flailing and trying to
get my head above water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seemed like
an eternity and I felt that everyone who was good in the world had abandoned
me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As I flailed about, suddenly a hand grabbed me and
pulled me into the shallow water, and I could touch the ground again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man looked at me with concern – actually,
he was an older boy, older than me, perhaps only 14 or 15.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looked at me and asked me if I was
ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told me to stay in the shallow
water, and then he disappeared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
stayed in the water, and looked around for a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one seemed to have been aware of what just
happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the boy who saved me
seemed like a god in my eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a
handsome black boy, obviously in good physical shape, and I remember the neat
trim of his hair, and his serious expression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now he was gone, and there was no one to tell about how he rescued me,
no name to put to the deed. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">After I got out, I never saw the boy again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He either merged into the crowd, or he’d
departed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told one of my brothers what
happened, and he just said “Oh,” as if maybe I was making it up. I never told
my parents. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Boys Club of that day was like a United Nations
gathering. About half of the boys who went there were black, and the Latino and
white boys were more or less equally divided. Asian boys were a minority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Boys Club was a good introduction for me
to the world as it is, and whenever I encountered overt or subtle racism, I
often thought back to my many interactions at the Boys Club, including the camp
adventures in the San Bernardino National Forest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bad behavior came in all colors, and
obviously, so did good behavior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The nameless
boy who saved me from drowning that day didn’t know me, and didn’t hang around
to receive any praise. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did not ask my
name, age, race, or religious when he saw me flailing in the water. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did a good deed and he moved along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned more from him that youthful day
than I ever did from the vast majority of preaching preachers, and philosophizing
philosophers, and other teachers who purported to tell me how to live my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s sad that racism is still such a viable part of
the American way of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still look
forward to the day when we can treat everyone the same, based on the quality of
their character, and what they do, and not on their origin or racial
characteristics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though it is obvious
that we have a long way to go, the solution lies not in some governmental
edicts, but in the choices of individuals to go beyond their mostly mental
barriers, and get to know people outside of their own groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that sense, my active participation in
the programs of the Pasadena Boy’s Club was one of the most positive formative
experiences of my life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In time, I spent a summer with my older brother
learning how to swim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We went through
the swimming program from rank beginner to the highest rank, which took us
nearly to the end of summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My brother
and I were the only two students who stuck with the program week by week, five
mornings a week,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>until the very end,
until we could do every stroke forward and backward, stay under water a few
minutes, and have no more fear of ever drowning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cost of the swimming program was a few
dollars for each week, for five days of instruction of about an hour and a half
each class. It was perhaps one of my parents’ best investments ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
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IS A REAL “SANTA CLAUS”</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; tab-stops: -1.25in -.75in -.25in -5.95pt .25in .75in 1.25in 1.75in 2.95in;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0OuLI8n6B7naD3Y_605z_Pk_ClgVK2_50mcmNzBz7NgtAGcUHriIAnRU0ypk7srxLpD3o3Cevt_EhK6UYsAfyoBBSb4CEAXAIR2GFeg19ajYj1dOcf0GO6nwSM51DKtrsfbX3vg/s960/ChristmasArroyo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0OuLI8n6B7naD3Y_605z_Pk_ClgVK2_50mcmNzBz7NgtAGcUHriIAnRU0ypk7srxLpD3o3Cevt_EhK6UYsAfyoBBSb4CEAXAIR2GFeg19ajYj1dOcf0GO6nwSM51DKtrsfbX3vg/s320/ChristmasArroyo.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><br /><span style="font-family: "CG Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "CG Times";"><br /></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.25in -.75in -.25in -5.95pt .25in .75in 1.25in 1.75in 2.95in;"><span style="font-family: "CG Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "CG Times";">[<i>Nyerges
is an author / lecturer / educator who has written such books as “Extreme
Simplicity,” “How to Survive Anywhere,” “Enter the Forest,” and other
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classes is available at <a href="http://www.schoolofself-reliance/">www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance</a>,
or Box 41834, Eagle Rock,CA 90041]</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; tab-stops: -1.25in -.75in -.25in -5.95pt .25in .75in 1.25in 1.75in 2.95in;"><span style="font-family: "CG Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "CG Times";"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: -1.25in -.75in -.25in -5.95pt .25in .75in 1.25in 1.75in 2.95in;"><span style="font-family: "CG Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "CG Times";">Recently,
while doing some painting on an outside wall of my home, I had the radio on
just to listen to people call in and talk with the host.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One man called and complained that people pay
more attention to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Santa Claus during the
Christmas season than to the birth of Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He argued that this was proof that “we” have allowed secularism – and
maybe even paganism – to creep into the Christmas tradition. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The host just politely listened, thanked the
caller, and then went on to the next call. Really?, I thought.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: -1.25in -.75in -.25in -5.95pt .25in .75in 1.25in 1.75in 2.95in;"><span style="font-family: "CG Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "CG Times";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: -1.25in -.75in -.25in -5.95pt .25in .75in 1.25in 1.75in 2.95in;"><span style="font-family: "CG Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "CG Times";">Who,
anyway, is this Santa Claus?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isn’t he
just a fictitious jolly man to make us feel happy during the dark of December? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, Santa Claus is not a myth and he wasn’t
a pagan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There actually is an historical
figure upon which “Santa Claus” is based.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: -1.25in -.75in -.25in -5.95pt .25in .75in 1.25in 1.75in 2.95in; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "CG Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "CG Times";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: -1.25in -.75in -.25in -5.95pt .25in .75in 1.25in 1.75in 2.95in;"><span style="font-family: "CG Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "CG Times";">Nikolas of
Myra was an historical 4<sup>th</sup> century Bishop in the Catholic church of
Asia Minor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was born on March 15, 270,
in Pataya, Lycia, in Asia Minor, what is now modern Turkey. At that time,
however, the area was culturally Greek, and was politically a part of the
Roman<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>diocese of Asia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the only child of wealthy Greek
parents, who both died in an epidemic when Nicholas was young. Nicholas
inherited much from his parents, and was then raised by his uncle (also named
Nicholas), who was a Bishop of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Patara,
and who trained young Nicholas into priesthood.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: -1.25in -.75in -.25in -5.95pt .25in .75in 1.25in 1.75in 2.95in;"><span style="font-family: "CG Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "CG Times";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: -1.25in -.75in -.25in -5.95pt .25in .75in 1.25in 1.75in 2.95in;">Nicholas
was said to be deeply religious even at an early age, and he always fasted on
Wednesdays and Fridays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of his
outspoken beliefs, he was persecuted by the Romans<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and was imprisoned during the persecution of
Diocletian. </p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;">In case you never heard of the
“persecution of Diocletian” (I hadn’t),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it
was the most severe of the persecutions against Christians, simply because they
were Christians during the time of Roman Empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was also known as the “Great
Persecution.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 303, four emperors
issued a series of dictatorial laws which essentially did away with any legal
rights of Christians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The edicts
demanded that the Christians comply with traditional Roman “religious”
practices, meaning, giving sacrifices to the various so-called Roman gods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This persecution was severe, and was weakest
in the British colonies where the Empire had the least sway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the most severe in the Eastern
provinces, where Nicholas lived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;">Since Nicholas refused to worship the
Roman gods, he was imprisoned, and suffered hardship, hunger, and cold for
about 5 years. With the rise of Constantine to power, the persecutions came to
an end in 313.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nicholas was soon released.
Constantine is known for pragmatically “Christianizing” the Roman Empire, and
re-naming all the Mythraic and so-called “pagan” holidays so they could all now
be regarded as Christian holidays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saturnalia,
the feast of the winter solstice, for example, became the Mass of Christ, or
Christmas.</p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;">Shortly after his return to his homeland
in 317 A.D., Nicholas became the Bishop of Myra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;">He was later invited to attend the First
Council of Nicaea in 325, the famous council where much of the modern dogma of
the Catholic church was determined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nicholas of Myra was one of many bishops to participate in the Council
at Constantine’s request. He is listed as the 151<sup>st</sup> attendee at the
Council. There, Nicholas was a staunch anti-Arian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Arius, from Alexandria, held that the Son
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God did not always exist, but was
created by the Father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nicholas
disagreed with Arius, and defended the developing orthodox Christian
viewpoint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to stories told,
Nicholas got so angry at Arius that he began to duke it out with Arius, punching
him in the face!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Proto-Santa Claus punches a fellow man of the
cloth? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It must have been an amazing
thing to witness.</p>
<p style="line-height: 150%;">Back in his homeland, Nicholas became known as a
very generous bishop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember, he
inherited wealth from his parents, and he would sometimes give gold and other
valuables to those that he heard was in need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I like to think that Nicholas was someone who truly embodied the tenets
of original Christianity, someone for whom the church should be most proud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%;">In one case, it is said that Nicholas tossed a bag
of gold coins into a needy family’s yard, anonymously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was apparently humble, and didn’t want to
be seen giving money to people, so he did it secretly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was so famous for wanting to give such
gifts in private that when he traveled the countryside,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>parents told their children to go to sleep
quickly or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nicholas would not come with
gifts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This, apparently, is the origin
of telling children to go to sleep or that Santa will not come.</p>
<p style="line-height: 150%;">In one story, he apparently snuck into the home of
a family where the three daughters of a poor man were about<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to get married. Nicholas put some gold into
the stockings which the girls left by the fire to dry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This, apparently, is the origin of hanging up
stockings on Christmas eve.</p>
<p style="line-height: 150%;">He was also well known for the gifts that he gave
to newly married couples during the already established Christmas season. (Remember,
the “Christmas season” predates Christianity by several millenia – Christianity
simply re-defined the Winter Solstice commemorations of the so-called “pagans.”)</p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;">And so it goes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nicholas was a complex man, part of the new
Catholic tradition which celebrated the birth of Jesus on the already-observed
winter solstice. (Early Judeo-Christians did not celebrate the birth of Jesus,
a date that has been lost to history, but was definitely not December 25).</p>
<p style="line-height: 150%;">Nicholas died on December 6, 343, which is to this
day known as “Saint Nicholas Day.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon
his death, he was buried in the cathedral of Myra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is revered as a saint in most versions of
Christianity and is especially honored in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.</p>
<p style="line-height: 150%;">By the year 450, churches in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Greece and Asia Minor were being named in
honor of Nicholas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was officially
honored<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as a saint by the Eastern
Catholic Church in 800.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>December 6 began
to be celebrated as Bishop Nicholas Day in France<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by the 1200s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;">As time went on, when ever someone
received a mysterious gift, it would be attributed to Saint Nicholas!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;">The Dutch called Saint Nicholas
“Sinterklass,” which is the most likely manner in which the name Saint Nicholas
gradually evolved into “Santa Claus.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Along the way, Saint Nicholas was given some of the attributes of Odin,
the Norse God, who could travel through the sky and who had a secret home
somewhere around the north pole. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come to
think of it, even the Superman story also borrowed from Odin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember how Superman sometimes goes to a
secret cavern in the Northern coldlands and converses with his ancestors via
ice crystals?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;">The image continued to morph over the
years, with the Coco Cola company giving the world a somewhat sanitized and
plumper<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saint Nicholas-Santa Claus with
their early 20<sup>th</sup> century advertisements. There we began to see the
fatter bearded man in the red suit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;">Today, the man you see in the mall is
the modern condensation of fact and myth, embodying the generosity of one
Catholic Bishop, the good will of all – including parents -- who give gifts in
his stead, and bits of the mythology of Odin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></p>
<p> </p>christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029025626490085431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22844005.post-45523730080717723792020-12-24T11:17:00.001-08:002020-12-24T11:17:40.796-08:00<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CHRISTOPHER
NYERGES’ “FORAGING ARIZONA”</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">JUST
RELEASED November 2020</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzQmLtq6edXNSGhNCsUPihvWq1UyArYID1SzXjbLnHWvbMld0LNFS9s_JJ05yqfJx1pkIXk0jyM6kbdZ7eg0ayT2IG8fDvpAyJ0UdTtq-b1cpo8uKC7s8jzi34Y3p15hyphenhypheng6gmmvw/s499/51VeePNCJML._SX331_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzQmLtq6edXNSGhNCsUPihvWq1UyArYID1SzXjbLnHWvbMld0LNFS9s_JJ05yqfJx1pkIXk0jyM6kbdZ7eg0ayT2IG8fDvpAyJ0UdTtq-b1cpo8uKC7s8jzi34Y3p15hyphenhypheng6gmmvw/s320/51VeePNCJML._SX331_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" /></a></b></div><b><br /><br /></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[Nyerges can be reached at </span></i><a href="http://www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com</span></i></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.</span></i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Christopher Nyerges’ seventh book for Falcon Guides,
“Foraging Arizona,” has just been released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This botanical guide was written by Christopher Nyerges, the author 22 books,
who has been leading wild food and self-reliance classes since 1974.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Foraging Arizona” is a fully-illustrated guide to the
edible and medicinal plants of Arizona, with lots of historical recipes and
useful information about the flora of Arizona.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">California residents, and residents of surrounding
states, will find many familiar plants in this book because many of the common
plants of Arizona grow over a wide territory in the Southwest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The very stereotypical desert plants are
found in this books, such as the various cacti: the prickly pears, the barrel
cactus, the apple cactus, the saguaro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nyerges has also found many recipes for how to use the fruits and pads. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, he points out that it’s a myth that
you can get water by shoving a spigot into a barrel cactus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book includes some 70 year old recipes
for cactus dishes from the Cactus and Succulent Society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A photo series shows how to clean and eat the
prickly pear pads.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBwv4Cmkbto2BBi_EDuvHsSuD7eDV_2QFIuuBUpfZWHE7q9hpNnUhZvVsrrwFOCLc3GmSf1dYJp-XUi2fn4umaoS1aK9MSLo3_TNdhbAXYh1Z6BFbplzVpK0cZfNS06McH2OH3pA/s2048/pricklypear-process-06.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBwv4Cmkbto2BBi_EDuvHsSuD7eDV_2QFIuuBUpfZWHE7q9hpNnUhZvVsrrwFOCLc3GmSf1dYJp-XUi2fn4umaoS1aK9MSLo3_TNdhbAXYh1Z6BFbplzVpK0cZfNS06McH2OH3pA/s320/pricklypear-process-06.JPG" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Some of the common wild food seeds of Arizona include
chia, mesquite, palo verde pods, catclaw acacia, walnuts, and acorns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the native green leafy plants
include amaranth, wild rhubarb, and miner’s lettuce. Botany students will find
many of the introduced European “weeds” – so common over the entire U.S. – also
included in this book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These include
common introduced plants such as dandelion, sow thistle, mallow, purslane, and
mustards, all of which are found throughout Arizona.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqxE0z2b_z0LWRyZUbFg2nlQw1cvvaFMfJJih_ooFJE1Yuji7ITOUV1mXy-Twcf20gGtkzBG-u6jCmyauJiM-KfMzi9LvTidJuEOrD5vMSBcSgDgbO41hazHdKZRsahJAfX4JYvg/s2048/x-Paloverde+pod-Cervera.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqxE0z2b_z0LWRyZUbFg2nlQw1cvvaFMfJJih_ooFJE1Yuji7ITOUV1mXy-Twcf20gGtkzBG-u6jCmyauJiM-KfMzi9LvTidJuEOrD5vMSBcSgDgbO41hazHdKZRsahJAfX4JYvg/s320/x-Paloverde+pod-Cervera.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Strawberries, blackberries, rose hips, and
coffeeberries are all found in Arizona, and “Foraging Arizona” provides clear
photos and descriptions of when and where to find these.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is a nutritional chart in the front of the book
showing the nutrient value of many of the common wild foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Included in the book is a chart showing that
acorns are indeed a quality food, and that prickly pear – with all its
essential and non-essential amino acids – can be called a superfood.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Though “Foraging California” is primarily a book about
edible plants, there are some other uses mentioned, such as medicinal uses, and
plants used for soap or rope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The willow
plant is included in the book, which is not a food, but a source of medicine
(salicin) and a source of wood that has long been used for craft materials. The
Creosote plant is also included in the book, which is one of the most important
medicines from the native American traditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Again, since many of the plants listed are fairly widespread, people
from other states have told us that they find the book useful there also.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwkXt2Vr2RlO_Gn3J-DgHbpr51npKcvny0DqG08uwTfIIXEKVaxvDuKU42XS8xvzsf6DSMNRWZVrDQGpK2fpfrBUYzn_nRtcyww4z6IYnlpjf_Hg8Q8SF3BizFpNw9QGlEHJj-g/s2048/WILLOW-04.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwkXt2Vr2RlO_Gn3J-DgHbpr51npKcvny0DqG08uwTfIIXEKVaxvDuKU42XS8xvzsf6DSMNRWZVrDQGpK2fpfrBUYzn_nRtcyww4z6IYnlpjf_Hg8Q8SF3BizFpNw9QGlEHJj-g/s320/WILLOW-04.JPG" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Foraging Arizona”
includes many non-native plants, because these so-called weeds are routinely
killed off by gardeners and farmers using weedwhackers, plows and poisons, and
yet so many of the common weeds are good food and medicine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the “invasive” plants turn out to be
some of the most nutritious plants in the world, such as lamb’s quarter (poor
man’s quinoa, and a rich source of minerals), purslane (highest plant source of
Omega 3 fatty acids), and dandelion and its many relatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are all described in “Foraging
California.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The book is dedicated to Nyerges’ chief botanical
mentor, Dr. Leonid Enari, who had degrees in botany and chemistry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nyerges studied with Dr. Enari at the L.A.County
Arboretum, and privately, and Dr. Enari assisted Nyerges with his first book,
“Guide to Wild Foods.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Foraging Arizona” is available from bookstores, from
Amazon, and from the School of Self-Reliance</span></p>
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<p class="MsoTitle" style="text-align: center;">THE ZEN OF PAINTING</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">40+ Years Later and the House Demolished, Did It Matter if We Used
Glossy or Flat?</b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY6cP1TRy7-Ugrhdyfw4lHFMmN_ssOKyPBF4q6vU6OUbKW-vvB5ssMzRyzeN7ElCnQiT2AYO9_qy7xlfg0nWzSNGROc7FAjcZJ7Xt5dussvaw5tzG1xnovnqc3sr3bJJvhyt5ghA/s1920/11-14a-2011+006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY6cP1TRy7-Ugrhdyfw4lHFMmN_ssOKyPBF4q6vU6OUbKW-vvB5ssMzRyzeN7ElCnQiT2AYO9_qy7xlfg0nWzSNGROc7FAjcZJ7Xt5dussvaw5tzG1xnovnqc3sr3bJJvhyt5ghA/s320/11-14a-2011+006.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">[www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com]<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">It was the summer
of 1973 when my brother and I lived on my grandfather’s farm in Chardon,
Ohio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One day, we decided to paint the
kitchen a beautiful shade of light turquoise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">We turned on the
radio, and began our task.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We opened the
windows, and I did the trim while my brother rolled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We listened to the radio as we busied
ourselves with our individual tasks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
worked the corners, the edges, the front surfaces.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">There’s something
about painting -- perhaps it’s the fumes, perhaps it is the long quiet times of
many little tasks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Painting requires no
moral decisions, no great choices, no necessary pontifications about the
meaning and purpose of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yet<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">...</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">And yet, there you
are, with your self, and the task before you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For me, painting time has often been a time to re-enter the inner I, to
think, to remember.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In many ways, it is
the ideal task for self-enlightenment. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">When we were done,
we felt we’d accomplished something, and felt we’d given something back to the
old farmhouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">When the weekend
came, another uncle came to visit us .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He strode into the kitchen, looked around at the paint, and simply said
“you didn’t use glossy!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Glossy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were teenagers from California, visiting
the home where our mother grew up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Though it may be second-nature to us today, back then we had no sense
that a kitchen should be painted glossy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Glossy vs. flat were not issues that we thought much about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We didn’t think it mattered all that much? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">But Uncle Joe
seemed to think it was a big deal, and just one more bit of evidence that
teenagers from “the big city” were a bunch of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>dimwits who wouldn’t know a cow from a goat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uncle Joe shared it around to family and
friends that we’d painted the kitchen in “wrong” paint, so we heard about in
the weeks that followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some relatives
didn’t care, but others would comment as they came in, “Oh, so there’s the flat
paint job,” instead of, “Hey, hello, long time no see!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Dumb city boys who
don’t know the difference between flat and glossy paint, who actually had the
stupidity to paint a kitchen in flat paint. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Of course, our
intent was to make the family happy that we’d improved the old farmhouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wanted the relatives to comment that we
were industrious nephews who proved that all city boys were not idiots.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Today, while I was
painting my own bathroom -- glossy paint, white -- memories of the summer of
1973 in Chardon began to play again in my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perhaps it was the paint. Perhaps it was the cool breeze blowing fresh
oxygen through the room. I heard the chickens out back and it reminded me of my
brief period of farm-living.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">I began to think
about how Uncle Joe responded, and how he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">could
have</i> responded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized then the
great truth in the phrase that WHAT we do is of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>little or no importance, but HOW we do it is everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Uncle Joe died
over 10 years ago, and when I visited the old farm site in 1999, the entire
farm house and barn had been torn down and were now just a field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of it mattered anymore in the world of
physical reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joe was gone, and the
entire farmhouse was simply a memory, glossy or flat.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Joe could have
congratulated us on taking the initiative to paint, and could have explained
why kitchens are always painted glossy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He could have told us that it was a great<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>primer coat, and enthusiastically offered to
drive us right then to the hardware store to get glossy paint, and we’d all do
the final coat together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That would have
been something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our memory would have
been profoundly different had Uncle Joe taken that route of inclusiveness,
familyness, and helpfulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not fault him for what he did do -- he
probably knew no other way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact,
from what I knew about his father (my grandfather), his father probably would
have beaten him had Joe painted the kitchen with flat paint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So to Joe, that was just one of millions of
automatic reactions to things in his world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He probably forgot about in a few years, after the novelty of talking
about Marie’s silly nephews wore off.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">I realized then
how important such “little things” can be, and I wondered how well I would do
when my next opportunity arose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
especially important with impressionable youth to do the very best we can to be
a good example. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">It seemed like an
important insight, that the “how” is more important than the “what,” and that
flat or glossy really doesn’t matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perhaps it was the paint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps
it was the cool breeze blowing fresh oxygen through the room<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">....</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"> </p><br /><p> </p>christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029025626490085431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22844005.post-42426184741998879662020-10-15T22:23:00.000-07:002020-10-15T22:23:01.631-07:00EDDIE VAN HALEN: TEEN MEMORIES<p> <b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">TEEN MEMORIES OF EDDIE VAN HALEN</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Christopher Nyerges<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>[Nyerges can be reached at <a href="http://www.schoolofself-reliance.com/">www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com</a>.]</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It was late Sunday night,
and Eddie Van Halen had died 4 days earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My wife and I were on our way home and we were talking about my memories
of Eddie. We felt inspired to go see the Van Halen landmark, the curb where
Eddie carved his family name in wet cement many decades ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04aG0raQyEvrsS6YpnS9LZTGRwJuGksWpGB0j3uD7x8SoCjcHTv0GAGYDdJ1Z0nPyy6E6FU6wjrDB_fEZiA8i468KVLFOxD7l991-dUt-0C8IbuA41LygBMXix57YQp2Mvm4CCA/s968/Eddie+Side+WalkThank+You.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="663" data-original-width="968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04aG0raQyEvrsS6YpnS9LZTGRwJuGksWpGB0j3uD7x8SoCjcHTv0GAGYDdJ1Z0nPyy6E6FU6wjrDB_fEZiA8i468KVLFOxD7l991-dUt-0C8IbuA41LygBMXix57YQp2Mvm4CCA/s320/Eddie+Side+WalkThank+You.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It was past 10 p.m. when
we arrived at the curbside candle-lit landmark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“There it is,” I said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fans had written
messages on the sidewalk and left candles and paraphernalia all around the Van
Halen inscription.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Large letters
spelling out VANHALEN decorated the lower walls of the line of stores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As my wife and I took a
few photos, fans continued to stop and take pictures, and talk about how they
wish they had met Eddie. As I was telling stories to my wife of my high school
youth, some people overheard and asked if I really knew Eddie.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-KmfwfV45MPccHdekEIIpmaYmsJtBnjTfxeju-tSRGEDqe8btHuTPcptFKtSkvGMpc3m1LXgKkiNjHEUFM_2-eHJAJWFXw3FE7UJ5elGHP8-AZ8KUlS6Fu1oqolCswGDQ4n3-Fg/s1031/Christopher+at+VH+side+walk.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="1031" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-KmfwfV45MPccHdekEIIpmaYmsJtBnjTfxeju-tSRGEDqe8btHuTPcptFKtSkvGMpc3m1LXgKkiNjHEUFM_2-eHJAJWFXw3FE7UJ5elGHP8-AZ8KUlS6Fu1oqolCswGDQ4n3-Fg/s320/Christopher+at+VH+side+walk.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Yes, I knew Eddie,” I
told them. “We hung out together in high school.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">People were impressed
that someone who actually hob-knobbed with the Great Eddie could be there on
that dark night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One man, a true devoted
fan, drove over from Long Beach to honor the man’s shrine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A group of young people showed up, most
dressed in hard rock-black – one with a guitar, and two with long hair just
like Eddie -- to pay homage to The Man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These young men and women, were <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>too young to know Eddie in the day, but old
enough to have listened to and admired his music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During our short visit, maybe two dozen
people came by and drove by to see the shrine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0hE1-8H-HY4H3a_OSoJF5Miku37pfFWhvKh0g_bZ86vIxkux4jIxtjYML06rCXMKClAaUbxlOutSOmGUaR0CGIIrwcTXndk0GDKLWR9zzrSQhFesHGPdEulyeplhByMibTzagCg/s1632/Christopher+talking+with+young+Fans+cropped.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="1632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0hE1-8H-HY4H3a_OSoJF5Miku37pfFWhvKh0g_bZ86vIxkux4jIxtjYML06rCXMKClAaUbxlOutSOmGUaR0CGIIrwcTXndk0GDKLWR9zzrSQhFesHGPdEulyeplhByMibTzagCg/s320/Christopher+talking+with+young+Fans+cropped.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I knew Eddie well
enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It began when I went to John
Muir High School with David Roth, taking Spanish with Roth, and circulating in
the same social circles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was through
David that I got to know Eddie Van Halen and the band. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David Roth dated the sister of my best
friend, and through Joe and Debbie Sierra, and John Linthurst, and the John
Muir Conservation Club, I got to know David, and through David, I often went to
the parties as the unpaid group photographer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Eddie attended Pasadena
High School on the other side of town, so we saw Eddie and the band on the
weekends, or when the band was practicing in the sound-proofed back room of
Homer Dollar’s home on Maiden Lane. My close friend John Linthurst rented the Dollar
place, and so John would call me when the band was out back practicing, and I
bicycled the short few blocks from my parents’ house to listen, and take
pictures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I liked Eddie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was friendly, open, never conceited or
preoccupied with himself as a star.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
liked his smile and his enthusiasm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
very much reminded me of the humble nature of Jimi Hendrix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, I never met Jimi, but I recall his quote
saying that he never thought he was that good on guitar, and that he had so
much more work to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The true and deep
artists are often that way, deep into the art, always looking for ways to
improve and conquer the next challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So Eddie was like that – much more than an entertainer. He was the
consummate artist. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>met Eddie, David, and the band in 1971 or
’72, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>during the time that they were
evolving from “Mammoth” to “Van Halen.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
could not miss Eddie’s excellence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
course, the fans <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>focused on David too <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– he was the lead singer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In our little social group of friends and
schoolmates, I don’t recall that anyone ever believed the group would hit the
big time. Still, when we sat around talking about the things that high school
people talked about, the talk would get around to Van Halen, and to Eddie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I recall once when a
friend was describing how Eddie was so good on guitar that he could exactly
replicate Jimmy Page’s Led Zepplin songs, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton of Cream, and
others. Eddie could replicate these masters so well that you could close your
eyes and believe you were listening to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eddie was good, and everyone knew it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I often felt a kinship
with Eddie because our birthdays were so close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We were born in the same year, 1955, and he was born on January 26, about
2 weeks after my birth in Pasadena.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eddie was born in Amsterdam, and in 1967, his family settled into
Pasadena.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born of musically talented
parents, both Eddie and Alex were playing music from their early years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eddie once shared that he’d never learned to
read music, and that he just practiced all the time and learned to improvise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My personal interactions
with Eddie – mostly during the pre-fame days -- were brief and spotty, though
he left a special mark on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I was their periodic photographer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Van Halen was getting started, I was
getting started with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>journalism at John
Muir High School, and David always saw me with a camera – either super 8 video
or 35 mm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He invited me to take their
pictures, so I would drive with the band in their packed van to take photos at
their gigs at the Cucamonga Connection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I also went to the Pasadena Civic, and various Pasadena backyards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One such backyard was within walking distance
of my parents’ home on Los Robles Avenue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">David Roth always seemed
to take the center stage and was the idol of all the teenage girls, which
continued to bring in the crowds at their rented halls or backyards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, there would have been no Van Halen
band without Eddie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And certainly, Alex
the drummer kept the musical composition tightly woven with his technical
mastery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Though David seemed to do
most of the talking and singing, Eddie did most of the smiling. Gregarious,
positive, always friendly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that
lots happened once they signed record deals and began touring, and I rarely saw
any of them anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would read about
Eddie in the newspaper, or hear something on the radio, and always wondered how
much was truth, and how much just part of the developing myth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I prefer to remember Eddie as the young and
innocent teen who was my friend, and who never seemed puffed up with pride, and
could genuinely smile at anyone in his circle, including me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel that Eddie played for the pure love of
it, for the manifest expression of excellence, with no rival in recent memory
except possibly Jimi Hendrix.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">After we finished talking
with the young fans at the street memorial, we went to the old Van Halen family
home where a similar shrine had been set up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, this felt different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was quiet and dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple quietly
moved along as we walked up to the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A few candles were lit on the sidewalk, barely making the shrine
visible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a spiritual quality
here, a solemn silence, and it felt as if Eddie was back at his old home,
looking at friends and fans who came, pondering now whatever is next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was there as a friend, not a “fan,” and I
quietly let thoughts of Eddie fill my mind, in this place where the spirit of
Eddie would be if it was anywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZkiM9NiPEl337GR482Q-deUOenSdS4yvLbQvdnD6CfGRa4MBZN77Dy2wTRGO1f5DEq1LAwYr693gJxvFkMHIJpUo-pQYIorxlLk-vpQphhVUV396O_p9KcWhxIlnbnHMfxQQhDQ/s2000/Christopher+at+Eddie%2527s+Home.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="947" data-original-width="2000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZkiM9NiPEl337GR482Q-deUOenSdS4yvLbQvdnD6CfGRa4MBZN77Dy2wTRGO1f5DEq1LAwYr693gJxvFkMHIJpUo-pQYIorxlLk-vpQphhVUV396O_p9KcWhxIlnbnHMfxQQhDQ/s320/Christopher+at+Eddie%2527s+Home.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">After some moments of
quiet reflection, we drove home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Eddie, we’ll miss your
smile and your musical genius.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May your
journey be filled with peace. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYR_83-JX4v5DU-elN8SFWswpruvEkjArXWjKNuIxc7HJRji_Ws2hdC4J3VSkh8eECRQd6EggjzAWvrjRa1G9T5uUOcBnuJ2SEHQ_Euc_Rd4ivpPVcE1WyniqRKNBDBr4_-CzbUw/s1127/Side+Walk+RIP.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1127" data-original-width="528" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYR_83-JX4v5DU-elN8SFWswpruvEkjArXWjKNuIxc7HJRji_Ws2hdC4J3VSkh8eECRQd6EggjzAWvrjRa1G9T5uUOcBnuJ2SEHQ_Euc_Rd4ivpPVcE1WyniqRKNBDBr4_-CzbUw/s320/Side+Walk+RIP.png" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><p></p>christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029025626490085431noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22844005.post-6149128040941441752020-04-04T14:48:00.003-07:002020-04-06T15:20:45.029-07:00THE BIOSCARF -- especially now<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #453f43; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Bioscarf: A big scarf with a built-in N95 filter</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #453f43; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">PRODUCT REVIEW</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #453f43; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By Christopher Nyerges</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">[Nyerges is the author of “How to Survive Anywhere,”
“Foraging California,” “Extreme Simplicity,” and other books. He has been
leading survival classes since 1974.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>More information at www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com]</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">BIOSCARF SPECS</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Weight:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">19.4
oz</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Width:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">84
inches</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Length: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">9 inches</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Material:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">100%
polyester that is made from recycled PET water bottles and recycled PVC</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Source:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> https://www.g95.com/?rfsn=3861014.66a45d</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I recently had the opportunity to
test something called the “bioscarf.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes, it’s a scarf, and everyone knows I like scarfs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve worn them all my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to love alpaca wool scarves, and find
their comfort impeccable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then I was
given a Polartech scarf, which is a polyester product that strives to duplicate
wool without any itching or scratching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have come to prefer my Polartech scarves, which are also easy to clean
and dry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I like long scarves too, but not the
very long scarves that really get in the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I cannot get the story of the famous dancer Isadora Duncan out of my
mind, who loved very very long silk scarves, and she enjoyed wearing them in
her convertible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was 50 years old at
the time, she was driving one day in September, 1927 in Nice, France, and her
enormously-long scarf got caught in the rear hubcabs of her car!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a ghastly accident and she was
strangled to death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you read about
Duncan, you’d think her great legacy is that she had a famous dancing career,
but the first think you read about is that she was strangled to death by her
scarf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, I don’t drive a convertible and I cannot
imagine wearing a scarf that must have been 10 or 12 feet long, or longer! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anyway, the bioscarf that I had the
opportunity to use and test actually measures in at seven feet long, and 9
inches wide. That’s big, but not too big to get caught in your car’s or
motorcycle’s wheels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bicyclists should be
careful though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I like its size.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s long, but not quite too long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have enough scarf to know you’re wearing
a scarf and not forget it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It comes in
white, olive, black, and camo, and since I had the choice of color, I couldn’t
resist the camo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But its main selling
point is not the size – it’s what’s hidden inside the fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bioscarf is actually a stylish air
mask that keeps your neck and head cozy while filtering out unwanted air
contaminants, germs, second hand smoke, pollen and other allergens. This can
protect you from colds, flus, pneumonia, tuberculosis and allergens. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bioscarf is the first scarf with an N95 air
filter layer built right into the inner layer<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>of the scarf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When tested by Nelson Labs against normal
masks and respirators, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the bioscarf
outperformed some of the most popular masks available today with a 99.75%
average filtration efficiency. In addition to doing its job effectively,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the bioscarf is made from sustainable
materials. Post-consumer recycled PET water bottles go into the fabric, while
the signature labels are made from recycled PVC. It is also built to be long
lasting and reusable, meaning less disposable air filters in the
landfill. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this filter is
reusable – just wash the scarf by hand from time to time after use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So, if you’re in a situation where
you might otherwise put on a face mask, you can just wrap the scarf over your
mouth and nose, and breathe through it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe you’re an allergy sufferer, visiting somewhere with poor air
quality, on you’re on a bus or plane where everyone is sneezing and
coughing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe you’re on a campout and
the smoke from the campfire is excessive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bioscarf will give you some protection.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I like the multi-use aspect of the
bioscarf, and when I’m wearing mine, it gives me the feeling of being
protected, as if I’m living in a Mad Max, Book of Eli, or Bladerunner,
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that’s a crazy idea, since everyone in those
futuristic dystopian societies would probably be wearing rags.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, the bioscarf is one of those multi-purpose
garments that you’ll be glad<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you
purchased. It’s functional, and provides a layer of protection that other
scarves just don’t provide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They run about $45, and are
available at eartheasy.com, or Amazon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">COMFORT</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’ve had the opportunity to wear
this scarf in cold weather, and found it to be a bit warmer than a comparable
scarf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is probably because it’s not
just a single layer of fabric, but actually 3 layers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scarf is not thick however, and it has
the comfortable feel of a “normal” scarf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The length is a bit longer than most scarves, and so you have just a bit
more fabric that you can wrap around your neck, or your face.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div style="line-height: 15.95pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Washing Instructions: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hand wash only</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029025626490085431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22844005.post-60758162905442793232019-12-26T22:50:00.001-08:002019-12-28T21:07:29.772-08:00Meet Victor Migenes<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some of the old-timers in L.A. might
remember Victor and his father’s traditional landmark cigar factory in
downtown L.A., La Plata Cigars established in 1947, where the finest cigars
were made by Cubans. We first met Victor when we read about La Plata in
the L.A. Times, and a group of us took a field trip into downtown L.A. to visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a place! The walk-in humidor was
amazing, and it was quite educational to watch his workers roll cigars.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Victor is also known around town as a
drummer in several bands. notably Dance Hall Pimps, but these days he pays
his bills as a realtor.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Victor Migenes is an old-school
hard-working realtor in Northeast Los Angeles. We meet at the Old L.A.
Farmers Market on Marmion Way one Tuesday, and over some excellent non-GMO
tamales, we discussed the local real estate market, mostly for my edification.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Migenes, who works for Keller-Williams
Realty and Property Concierges Brokerage, points out that the Northeast
L.A. market has changed considerably over the past several years, a point which
has also been an issue of controversy. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He points out that buying into Highland
Park was a bit cheaper than buying, for example, in Los Feliz or Silver
Lake, and younger executives moved in over the past several years,
purchased Craftsmen homes and bungalows, and renovated them. Some were
just flippers, but many came to stay. The trend, which has occurred in
many U.S. cities, is called Gentrification.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The word “gentrification” means different
things to different people, depending on whether you are a renter, a buyer, a
seller, or someone who has lived in the neighborhood for generations.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Remember,” says Migenes, “that many of
the younger executives from the entertainment industry saw Highland Park
and the overall Northeast as an affordable beginning of home
ownership. They felt priced-out of Silverlake and the more popular areas,
and they moved to Highland Park and began fixing things up.”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He’s empathetic towards those who have
been displaced by the changes that have occurred. Still, Migenes, as a
realtor, works to help people sell their homes, or to buy the best possible
home. His job is to help buyers and sellers avoid the many pitfalls that can
occur during the buy and sell process.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He points out that you can buy a house in
Texas for about $240,000, and a similar house here will cost you about
$800,000! “Why?” I ask. “Because everyone wants to live here. It’s
all about demand that drives up the price,” he tells me.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The entertainment industry has
changed, and continues to grow in our area. Fewer young
executives are buying into Hollywood unless they have some attachment to
that area, and the entertainment industry is today more focused in Glendale and
Burbank,” he says. And the Northeast is regarded as a more affordable
segue to home ownership.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">His advice to buyers is to consult with a
good realtor, and to get to know the individual character of the
neighborhoods. Even if the prices seem to be on the higher end, Migenes believes
that most of the neighborhoods have improved for the better in the Northeast. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Still, even though it’s a sellers market
today and the prices seem to be on the high end, the buyer should be very picky
about where to buy. You have to consider how long you want to be
there. For those who intend to stay, and be a part of the neighborhood,
your home values are going to rise over the long run of say the next 10
years.”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Areas that seem to be over-priced, where
there is a lot of renovation both in residential and commerce growth, are the
very areas that will maintain or increase in value over time, advised
Migenes.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“There are still pockets here and there
that I would avoid,” adds Migenes, and that’s the sort of thing that you can
find out by asking around.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I told Migenes about real estate
predictions that I’d read about on line, mostly from people who were selling a
financial newsletter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Subscribe to our
newsletter and you’ll survive the financial collapse of western civilizatioin” seemed
to be their selling point.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Migenes smiled, and said, “We do not have
a crystal ball. Some actually thought that there would be a minor crash two
years ago in the housing market, but that didn’t happen, largely because of the
maintaining of low interest rates by the Federal Reserve. But at some
point, there is an adjustment. It always happens. When it becomes a
buyers’ market, in the wave of time, the prices may dip or level off.
That always happens in a changing market. So if you need to buy, you need to
buy smart. And over the long term, you will earn some good equity.”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As for advice for those who need to sell,
Migenes says that if you have a well-maintained, but older house in good
condition, paint goes a long way. “By that, I mean professional painting.
But don’t make it personal. Do neutral tones so the next buyer can
visualize more readily how they may want to personalize it later.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He does not recommend renovations of
bathrooms or kitchens, since it may be more money than you’ll get back from
that work, and you don’t really know what the buyer may want.
Instead, Migenes advises sellers to make sure the plumbing and electrical
systems are sound.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Landscaping can also add a good appeal to
the house you are trying to sell, but keep it simple. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <i>[Victor Migenes can be reached
at (213) 718-3558.]</i></span></div>
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of Self-Reliance, and author of books on self-reliance. He can be reached at
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029025626490085431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22844005.post-6633972622486154002019-11-24T18:04:00.001-08:002019-11-24T18:15:01.856-08:00"SEIKEN WAY" -- a new book by Barton Boehm<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">BOOK REVIEW</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Lessons from a 21<sup>st</sup> Century
Samurai.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SEIKEN WAY.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Completing the Circle, A True Story” by
Barton Boehm with Don Howell.</span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i>
<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[“Seiken Way” is available as a paperback
from Amazon.com, or as a Kindle download].</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the late 1970s, when I first moved into Highland
Park,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could count on one hand the
three individuals who “knew everything,” mentors who I could go to with
questions, concerns, problems. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two of them have since passed away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The third is Barton Boehm (pronounced “beam”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I met Boehm through my association with the
non-profit WTI. Boehm was introduced as a friend of the non-profit’s founder,
and as a martial arts master.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">After the Korean War, Boehm found a master living in
Japan, and moved into the master’s home and became his full-time student for five
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His story is remarkable!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As I got to know Boehm better, I became his student,
taking classes in his home dojo. There, during my private evening classes, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned about holds, and getting out of
holds, and falling, and punching, and all the ways to quickly avoid a fight, or
to never start it in the first place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You don’t want to fight,” Boehm would tell me in his
gregarious voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“People get hurt when
you fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You want to end a fight as
quickly as it begins. You want to dispatch your opponent as rapidly as
possible, and get out of there.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless
to say, Boehm was not a fan of the martial arts movies where fights go on for
30 minutes, with actors flying from rooftop to rooftop, breaking bricks, and
continuing the battle in every possible position.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When we discussed the popular Kung Fu TV series with
David Carradine, Boehm pointed out how “Caine” often had many opportunities to
avoid a fight, and when he did fight, it often went on way beyond what was
necessary to end it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We had many discussions every night after our practice
sessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I particularly enjoyed the
stories Boehm shared about his training with his master, Peter Kiyoshi
Suzuki.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I taped many of those
conversations because they were so full of insight. Plus, they were highly
entertaining: Some were funny, some deeply profound, and all had a highly
pragmatic nature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I taped all my conversations with Boehm, with the goal
of working with him to one day produce a book of his experiences and insights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew it would be a book like no other, for
Boehm’s five years of daily training, living with the Master, was unlike any I’d
ever heard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we never finished the
book project. Then I got divorced, moved, and re-married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Years went by. My second wife and I sponsored
stick-fighting classes with Boehm in our backyard where he shared the
psychology of the Samurai, and ways to stop the fight before it gets
started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More years went by. My second
wife died, and that was 10 years ago, and Boehm now lived too far away for regular
lessons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Imagine my great happiness at receiving a package in
the mail with Boehm’s book!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did
it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book is an incredible
introduction to his Master’s system, Seiken. The book’s full title is “Lessons
from a 21<sup>st</sup> Century Samurai: Seiken Way, Completing the Circle, A true
Story.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">During my off and on training with Boehm, I got glimpses
of how Boehm met his Master after the Korean War, Peter Kiyoshi Suzuki, and how
Boehm then lived with the master for about 5 years, sleeping barely more than 4
hours a night, 7 days a week, and losing 50 pounds after his first two
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a story of a man desiring “Power,”
but, as Boehm told me, “I didn’t know what that meant at the time.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boehm’s stories to me were filled with how Suzuki
trained Boehm to repeat endlessly until a new technique was mastered, and to
always “feel” what you were doing, and focus on the goal, so you don’t get lost
in roteness. Boehm’s stories were also filled with fascinating stream of people
that he met through his master, who was blind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The Seiken Way” fills in a lot of the gaps in Boehm’s
training that I never heard, such as the early days of meeting Suzuki, and how Suzuki’s
wife and two children responded to having a hakujin, or white man, living with
them in their small barracks-like home in a low income part of the town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The Seiken Way” points out that the full system
taught by Suzuki is not just training the body, but also training the mind and
the spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boehm’s book explores all
the major aspects of his training, and how a blind man developed and mastered
several entire systems; this book focuses only on Seiken, meaning “kind hand,”
the system taught to Boehm. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The full
name of the system is Wado Goshin SeiKen Jitsu, the wide, deep, kind hand
system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If you’re looking for a how-to book on martial arts
systems, this is not that book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(In
fact, no one learns martial arts from a book – you must learn directly with a
teacher).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this book shows how the
dedication of one man led him on the path of his own self-awareness, where he
realized that he could and would even kill for his Master. Eventually, Boehm
saw that his relationship with Suzuki was unhealthy, and he came back to his
home in the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He realized
that he’d become a Master in his own right, and his book is one of his ways to pass
along that hard-earned knowledge that he gained through his unique and painful
experiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Boehm is now 71 and retired from an engineering
career, and continues to teach the few students who’ve stayed with him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">His book is highly recommended to anyone seeking an
insight into the world of Japanese martial arts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I regard the book as both a standard, and a
classic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interestingly, in a disclaimer
in the beginning of the book, Boehm states that the writing is biographical
based on real events “but is a work of fiction” because the actual
conversations and details of the interactions were necessarily re-created from
memory or imagination in order to re-tell the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This admission does not diminish the quality or
the significance of this work.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[Nyerges is an author and teacher, and can
be reached at <a href="http://www.schoolof/">www.Schoolof</a>Self-Reliance.com]</span></i><br />
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