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In permaculture terms the house is zone zero, zone one is the soil directly next to the house for food crops that grow fast and those requiring more time. And so on.

The monologue in the start is fascism on full display.

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I took cuttings from my very best avocado tree and I am trying to get them to root in the kitchen, under a little grow-light. The kitchen and bedroom both have reasons to claim primacy...

"The house" will do.

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Good to know about the Medicare pay off to the establishment for more injections. Why do I have to sign up for that?

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You don't have to.

Those difficult decisions have been made for you, already.

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You should have seen the lady who cleaned my teeth last week when I rejected the polish part. Haha!

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Warm trusting faces apparently the medical establishment rejects.

What I learned is don't visit any doctors anywhere for any reason as they fired all the ones worthy to pay for advice.

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It seems paradoxical, but on average, people who don't go to doctors live slightly longer, even when using groups with similar medical conditions.

I have always tried to be one of the doctors who does not kill people.

We exist, though we have been getting run out of town for a couple of years, now.

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Like 100 years, really. I am glad you took a new direction, and glad to be able to read your site. Way to sweep the floor, that kitchen looks spotless. Make something messy ok?!

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I haven't really taken any different direction; just got fired for taking a moral stance to oppose dehumanizing a group of people.

All the things I'm doing are things I was already doing, though the house moved into the stage of realization, out of the stage of measuring and drawing plans.

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I can imagine you building tree forts as you mentioned with Meryl Nass, you were not probably a diminutive child! It's important, shaping, those early skills....I only made it to the blanket fort stage, but later learned about furniture making in my first job post college. Mostly, I am greatful for learning how to swing a hammer at that job, and to recognize all the types of hardwood and get to glue up big panels of it for table tops etc. I also remember a finicky Italion dowel shooting gun that was pretty cool. Giant glueing presses. Oak and Cherry and Walnut, Maple and Mahogany. Most of it from the USA. I heartily congratulate you on designing your own house, what a feeling that must be. I do CAD drafting for a living now, so if I sell my 1925 bungalow in the hood I will follow in your footsteps, tracing some old directions. Best

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