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I grew Salvia spendens as a cut flower not Salvia divinorum. I'm real careful as the farm is a direct neighbor to a Head Start Center ( with very serious federal protocols for whom can enter) ) a high school, and a religious day care center. One day I looked up and two very heavily armed people dressed in camo were leaving the wooded border in the South of the farm moving roughly North towards the high school. It was part of the swat team doing a drill where in the high school had a hostage armed intruder situation. The police caught holy heck from the synagogue day care after alarming both the kids and their caretakers! They had the drop on me, but identified themselves and explained it was a simulation, not for real. Another time the local peace officers went under cover at the farm hanging out and in our walk in cooler as the watched a neighbors house for her son. He was a convicted felon and wanted for homicide or some other such nonsense. It truly is a funny farm !

Second and third opinions from qualified medical people are always a good idea... Seek help. Keep trying don't give up.

Earlier today my brother called me over to a group of trees stating there must be 50 humming birds up there. There were at least that many, all waiting their turn at the milkweeds flowers. Which is a great source of nectar not only to them but many other critters too. The group of trees have several different clumps of milkweed within 50 yards or so and I kind of take it for granted. Every once in a while I pull my head out of the work at hand, harvesting summer squash this morning, and am reminded of how incredible the natural world is. Early one summer Sunday I was walking the perimeter, (an organic farm is required to maintain a border between land the manage and land they don't) I began regretting a row of salvia I had planted for cut flower sales. I hadn't harvested a single stem! Then I noticed the humming birds. The hundreds of humming birds enjoying the salvia. Still enjoy that memory .

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There often a great release of tension with thru a good old guffaw, especially one unexpected!

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Personally I enjoy the humor, and many of my posts may or may not be found funny or pertinent to the OP. And as Apech and Marblehead pointed out this is more like real world conversations and not so much a formal classroom setting. That being said I too accept full responsibility for each and every one of my posts, and if anything I have posted has caused legitimate hurt please contact me and I will delete or edit.

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under your feet and feel the sky come tumbling down Carol King sums it up well

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"When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States in the mid - 1990s, after being absent for nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred, effecting hundreds of other species. The species remix that was created by the wolves has also changed the rivers in the park." goodnewsnetwork.org Natural kind of ends when we get to be messing about eh? Here in the states we have a National Organic Program which relies heavily in part on the Organic Materials Review Institute for what is allowed in certified organic food production. Flame weeding using propane or butane as a fuel source is allowed. Using corn gluten as a herbicide and or source of nitrogen is allowed as long as the corn it was sourced from is not genetically modified. The old saying goes God is in the details and I suspect so is Dao. As the man said why do you do it Hank? He replied I'm just carrying on an old family tradition... Semantics, or do ticks have semen?

Are we not natural? Haven't wolves changed the course of rivers, after they returned / repopulated, after our harassment ? Weather be it rain or lack thereof, wind, lightning causing wild* fires transform the environment? Which brings on the question are man made fires natural? Does not the Dao encompass all?

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I am free no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable ; I tolerate them. If I find them obnoxious I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Robert A Heinllein

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I second the good wishes to you and your mom!

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Well the Preakness, the Belmont and the Kentucky Derby for instance are well known races A key characteristic is they are run by horses. Other characteristics include that they are run on dirt tracks, and the horses are thoroughbreds. One thing perfectly clear is this race thing ain't black or white

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