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Aug 9, 2023Liked by John Day MD

Your writing helps me deal with my fear. Thank you.

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You are welcome, Mary.

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Aug 9, 2023Liked by John Day MD

Plato not to mention Nato are indigestible when there’s nothing on the plate. Saw « Roads of the impossible » about transport and survival of ordinary population in Central African Republic and a remote village high in the Himalayas at 4500 m. Two days to go to the market in a truck 50 years old with 100 people, chicken, pigs, stormy weathers, children crying and the thing they want to sell perished because no cooling systems. A boat capsizing, loosing his engine, holes in the boat, everyone pumping the water out with buckets and nothing the matter, continuing the delivery, mission accomplished captain had a good trip. The culture of these people destroyed by wars or gangs, but they never needed them anyway, as long as there’s a little hope and a smile (wonder how and where they get their smile from, and believe me it’s not a fake or sour smile), life is perfect.

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Aug 9, 2023·edited Aug 9, 2023Liked by John Day MD

Your okra plants looks great. I thought they were little fig trees for a second. I am sort of obsessed with fig trees, and am growing over 100 different varieties. Some people invest in real estate, gold, stocks, crypto, oil/gas wells, etc. But, I like to I invest in buying new fig tree varieties, and then I sell fig cuttings when the trees get bigger. Fig trees are easy to grow from cuttings. You can stick a little branch in the ground, water it, and it will grow roots and become a new fig tree. Here's an article I recently wrote about Ficus Palmata, which is a type of edible fig, also called the Punjab fig or wild Himalayan fig if you anyone is interested. https://michaelfons.substack.com/p/ficus-palmata-the-edible-fig-species

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I have a couple of Fig trees, closed-pore varieties, and have rooted cuttings from them, planted and given them away. Figs do that pretty well. I liked your article, but could not tell what size those little figs are.

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Thanks, the ficus palmata figs are a little smaller than a golf ball.

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Bite-size.

:-)

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Aug 10, 2023·edited Aug 10, 2023Liked by John Day MD

thank you for this. my boyfriend forwarded it to me this morning to read. i lost my job of 40 years (costume director of the Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, SC) for refusing to take a covid shot which is funny because in the past, i've had them rewrite my contract taking out the boiler plate clause requiring a tetanus shot and they all knew me to be an ornery character who takes orders from no one.

it's especially heartbreaking how the hypocrisy of the Arts was revealed by the covid panic, the self styled rebels and creators jumping hard on the compliance bandwagon. they've completely lost all legitimacy, crowing about diversity and inclusion while requiring 2 shots, boosters after 5 months, masks and photo ID (something a republican would be branded a racist for suggesting might be a good idea in a national election) all to see a mere concert! obviously, when you reject a great percentage of your potential ticket buyers, your sales go down even as your ESG scores go up. our governor finally made such medical jim crow illegal, but too late for many former attendees who felt that the Festival had broken faith. and ironically, people who had already bought tickets, secure in the knowledge that they would be "safe" from sitting near "any of those unvaccinated plague rats" felt betrayed and many of them asked for refunds.

after i retired from my NYC theater career, i settled down here in 2018 to keep working for the Festival and my boyfriend, a legend in the technical director and backstage world, commuted alternate weeks to NY, while living in and renovating the old house i had bought in 2002.

after seeing Trudeau close down bank accounts, we put our retirement money into self directed IRAs with which we bought a 19 acre restored and furnished plantation with many outbuildings in a small rural town. we can't live there but our friend/partner/manager is there with his family, 4 long term tenants, some BnB guests, a stocked pond, raised beds, fruit trees, 7 cows and a small flock of chickens (it was larger but we had some dog issues).

lately i've been having a disagreement with my boyfriend. he was an early follower of Drs Marik and Kory and had us well stocked with IVM before the government started clamping down on it. recently he was offered a job starting in Chicago and bringing a show to Broadway over the course of 3 months. we heard through the grapevine that the company manager asked "does anyone know if JP ever got vaccinated?" and someone covered for him.

the union pay is great and he'll get another pension credit (he's 75 and i recently turned 70 and started to collect social security) so he was planning on getting a fake card. i think it's important to stand tall and say "i'm not vaccinated" and dare them to fire you. i feel very strongly that if all the fake card people had simply refused, the numbers would have been greater, the impact to the work force more damaging and this pandemic nonsense wouldn't have gotten as far. he's been on the fence.

this morning, after he read your post, he decided to just be honest, if they ask, to tell them that he's not vaccinated and if they fire him, he'll come home sooner. so thank you, i'm grateful.

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Thank You, Sister. I wish you and your boyfriend well in this endeavor.

Here is the story of my firing, while planting the fall-winter vegetables in the garden I grew for my coworkers at the clinic, an ambush gone awry, as it were.

https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/go-down-gardening.html

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Meinst du das oder sagst du das nur so? We were taught our German by an Italian Swiss with four language skills with thick accent.

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John, really nicely written piece brother. I was a very early adopter on the 'make arrangements' scheme so sitting well. I still have mortality and suffering but have found a silent place slowly growing which helps. The garden is looked at in a more ruthless and less idealistic way in terms of cost/benefit. It means my vegie gardening is lower priority than the hot water and heating from wood, fruit and nut trees, eggs and honey. When we have more humans here on my 10 acres I will re-boot the weeding and planting that is the backbone of Veg gardening. Bike riding is coming back to me too.

There is a great deal one can do on a small block with little debt. Always hope and always work to do. I'm most excited about my new rap career starting with the single in late August - "Doomsday Prepper"

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Aug 10, 2023·edited Aug 10, 2023Author

Thanks prepper-down-under brother.

Invasive food species have a lot to recommend them. I experimented with sweet-potatoes.

The Polynesians always planted taro and pigs on an island.

Black-eyed peas/field-peas/cowpeas (African beans) are another invasive food species that does well, but a big field is a mess.

The "Whippoorwill" variety is the most reliable in all soil types and has a long productive season, and fairly good weevil-resistance. Thomas Jefferson grew it and it was the most grown in the US when people still grew them. I have experimented with several other varieties.

At least the sweet-potatoes can be dug up by working in from the periphery. They are always "good" at any stage. How is your soil? How is your water? What varieties might do well which are good to eat?

Oh, do you get hard freezes? Bananas if you don't... You knew that.

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Yeah - you are barking in the right direction. We get minus 4 sometimes and plenty of sub zero here in a very cloudy and grey winter. Potatoes, arugula, parsley, purslane, silverbeet and a few others are all good and easy so yes - thanks for the butt-kick, weedy and easy is better than nothing. I've multi-grafted my pears, apples, plums so I have more variety for less water - our big issue. Soil is worse than terrible but I have imported plenty of really good stuff from my landscaping jobs over the years. I my big frustration is how slow the Chilean Wine Palm grows. Planted years ago and just above ground. The largest palm in the world and the only true coconut for temperate climates - I've eaten them heaps from one in the botanical gardens. Amazing things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByW095AuKmk

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I reckon I’ll plant those beans this year. The coconut you hit with a hammer and just eat like coconut. They grow in Switzerland

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Little hammers for little coconuts, then...

:-)

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Aug 11, 2023·edited Aug 11, 2023Author
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I've researched a bit. Those seeds are expensive in the US and can take over a year to germinate, but are advertised as cold-hardy. "Slow growing" is something you have given context on. I don't know about shipping my field-peas to Oz and your palm seeds to Texas, though. What I find on search looks bureaucratic and requires inspection/permit/declaration form from qualified sender.

Field-pea seeds are food though, and not too expensive.

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Aug 9, 2023Liked by John Day MD

Grateful we are on the right side of history. Deep gratitude to doctors, such as yourself, who spoke TRUTH to medical tyranny. "Like any other medical treatment, the right to choose does not belong to the state, it belongs to the Individual" ~ Rocco Galati I choose to believe the Light of Truth will come to pass for our Creator lives in the TRUTH ...

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Hi John

Dare I say that Western civilization does not exist any more. What exists is the Simulacra of those erstwhile empires and their jaded glory. Also one must pay heed that Western civilization has caused the rest of the world immense misery and destruction - say from the Spanish discovery of the New World to the Atom Bombs of 1945 to dire predicament of massive CO2 emissions in the name of Unlimited Growth.

Western civilization's idea of civilization itself was so faulty, that now it is cracking up, at all ends. Not that any eastern or southern civilization could salvage nor is much different to it's Western version.

Some of the historical actors were indeed "Bad leaders with very bad ideas..." Adios!

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But, but, but "Plato to NATO" and all of that!

:-o

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Your so funny. Love it (Dark)

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Aug 10, 2023Liked by John Day MD

Most people do not know this but our particular cvilization began in the 10th century. Spengler calls this the Faustian Civilization and is separare from the Greco-Roman “Apollonian Civilization”.

Like the story of Faust, our civilization has made a deal with the Devil for unnatural and unlimited desires of the flesh. This is the air we breathe.

The pentultimate expression of our culture is a McDonalds’ franchise on Mars. But tragically, once achieved, our next hollow aspiration would be a cancerous McDonalds’ outside of our solar system.

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Mybe we are beginning the labor-pains of "the dawning of the age of Aquarius"...

"Always look in the bright side of life!"

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" Civilization and is separare from the Greco-Roman “Apollonian Civilization”.

However is it? Look at the American Congress - a copy of the Roman Senate. Look at the British parliament, another derivative of Roman administration. It is called Centralized Rule. That too with lots of violence. How empires functioned back then is still how most empires function now. There is none other way, to control a large group of people. Roman or American

As for Mcdonald's on Mars. Imagine the type of zombie turds, of the future who would

want to consume that sort of trash, out there.

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Aug 12, 2023Liked by John Day MD

Cultures morph into distinct and separate cultures. This is a conclusion laid out by Spengler. A good summary of Spengler, Toynbee, and others is available by listening to a presentation by Professor John David Enbert on Youtube. Highly recommended for overview on cultures and the inescapable birth to death cycle.

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"The Roman Empire never died." -Philip K. Dick

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But it's the Satanic "usury" that controls people, right?

:-o

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Satanic ? Or is it the economy hamburgers!!??

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Aug 11, 2023·edited Aug 11, 2023Author

I meant to be whimsical, referring to the time of divergence when the Roman Pope approved usury for some lenders to fund crusades and things like that.

The usury creates debt-slaves, and what pissed-off Jesus at the temple, where he overturned the tables of the "money changers" and whipped them, which appers to be what got him crucified as a "troublemaker".

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Aug 15, 2023·edited Aug 15, 2023Liked by John Day MD

That may be the first limited hangout in recorded history!

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This thread gets wittier sir !

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We are the People we have been Waiting for.

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Now we must fully become "ourselves", right?

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yes, i agree and that means being human beings, not machines. we need to be aware of all the dirty dehumanizing tricks being played on us and how we can resist that and protect ourselves by being true to "ourselves", whatever that means. isn't that the process of being human? something about balance.

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And spirit, too.

:-)

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Time we inhabit. Existential time. Our life time.

After 2020 pre-Covid is viewed in horror.,

Thus, tremendous fear or perhaps tremendous profit has flung by the ears by laws surrounding the ideology of Covid.

Emergency has generated legal life "categories" none having bearing otherwise on our life. In high school I recall one phrase from high school German, truly, I have no German, but the phrase stays with me, because I think in 1974 there was content for me in imagination that properly there was an important and "real" difference betwixt fact and fiction. "Do you mean that, or are you just saying that?" https://youtu.be/aPB0lZ_UQSw?list=RDMM

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Was ist das? Ich can ein bischen Deutsch verstehen.

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