Bert the Caterpillar Turns 74 days old.

It's Bert the Caterpillars 74th day birthday today !!!!!!

 

This is what Bert looked like when he was 21 days old. His favorite food was the Dill Weed Plant I kept on the counter in my Kitchen. Berts has eaten two plants so far and I only have one left in the garden. Will Bert eat me out of house and home?

 

 

 

 

 

Watch Bert EAT

https://youtu.be/6vcbtPinAF0

 

 

 

Then one day Bert bowed his little head and began to make a wooden tomb so he could hopefully become a butterfly. 

 

This is what Bert Looked like a day ago, He is 73 days old

                                         
This is what Bert looks like today. I think his back bumps are growing larger.

My little Bert is beginning to grow little spikey horns on his back. If you look closer at the two pictures you will see them.
AND more good news! Bert moved to drink some water. It's the weirdest thing. My little twig- Bert encased in his wooden Sarcophagus drinks and jumps like silly puddy. The teeny silk strands hold his body in place.
It is mind blowing (at least in my limited mind) to see something that is understood to be immobile suddenly become mobile and move with such grace. Definitly a Mind Warp.

I wonder, with all our techology if we should try to duplicate the strength of little Bert's  strands?


ABOVE:
BERT DRINKS WATER!!!!


This transformation just may happen. I will keep you posted on Bert.

Meanwhile at the same time the banana plant in my backyard has drooped from the weight of the bananas and has laid itself on the ground like a big bird leg. Is it possible that when the bananas ripen enough for me to make banana bread that Bert will emerge a beautiful Swallow Tail butterfly?

Below: See the "Banana Bird Leg" from my Banana plant on the same day you saw Bert move!
      This is my Banana Plant.             

See the Bananas?

 

My Banana Plant and the "Bird Leg"

   

  I hope with all my heart that Birt will emerge a Swallowtail Butterfuly and  fly away!  I've got the birthing room ready! When he's dried himself from the amnioticniotic fluid in his pod I have a butterfly sancuary waiting to welcome him.
Hang in there Bert.
I love you!

Bert my Caterpillar Pet is 70 days old today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIRT!!

Bert as Caterpillar

Bert as Sarcophagus
Notice the two thin silk threads that attached him to the stem of the plant.? Uber Awesome!

Bert the Caterpillar who lives on the Dill weed plant in my kitchen turns 70 days old today.
It's been 70 days since my little Bert entombed himself in his Sarcophagus. I know you may think 70 days is a long time, but Bert is a Swallowtail butterfly, which means he can stay like that for up to 6 the months. I mist him ever day to prevent his teak coffin from drying up. I know he's in there because his little tail moves at night.

He is eating the nutrition from his body to grow into a big beautiful butterfly, hopefully soon. Stand by Bert.

Banana Bread on it's Way!

The Banana Plant in my Backyard. Eventually I will bake banana bread! 

How Trump will Save Healthcare

I believe that when a person no longer knows their name, can't feed themselves or clean themselves maybe it's time to Logan's Run'em. Logan's Run, for those of you who don't know, is a sci-fi movie made in  the 70's and set in the 2274, about a culture that puts to death people who turn 30 because the population cannot sustain itself because of the high costs of Healthcare. 😈  Logan is played by  Michael York and is the main character who is aging out, doesn't want to die and so he runs.

Seems silly but this plot line may be closer to being realized in our society then we think.

Seriously. What do we do with all these Alzheimer's patients while they sit in front of a window waiting to die and end up costing the Healthcare system billions of dollars?

They are fed.  They are clothed and their diapers are changed.  They are bathed, they are medicated. They will never know their name. Their brain has been eaten away from the inside-out. To make matters worse they can languish  like this for years. The body is a resilient thing.

If  these individuals are euthanized, killed, or murdered, would that not revive the healthcare system ...big time?

And I say "when" not "if",  Trump implements this "program",  the money saved from taking care of these people will invigorate the entire system.

(Check out the shriveled Alzheimer's brain below)

Why do you think the Healthcare talks are secret? And why do you think the Democrats will agree.

But on the flip side, caring for these people is also a very profitable.  There are hospitals, and doctors, nurses, medications, beds, and  that's just the beginning.  When they leave the hospital, the nursing home,  kicks in.  There are Caregivers , more nurses and doctors, diapers, food, clothing, soap, sheets, towels, pillows, and more medications.

If we do Logan's Run the Alzheimer's patients  that would cut out the sales of billions of dollars of prescription drugs that these people ingest. Check this out. "The numbers don't lie." (Huckabee- Sanders)

According to the Alzheimer's Association, these people cost the Healthcare system 236 billion dollars last year in the U.S. The Huffington Posts  also pointed out that around 150 billion of that is paid out by Medicaid and Medicare. And get this...worldwide Alzheimer's cost 605 billion last year. That's 1% of the entire worlds gross domestic product.  It's a global problem.

In this scenario, the drug companies the Senators and the Wall Street Boy investors are not going to loose billions of dollars in order to save the Healthcare system. Somehow they have got to find a way to divert investments in a way that will not only cover their short term loss but produce profit in the long term.   Logan's Running 'em will cost billions of dollars. Here's where the Art of The Deal comes in. What they are negotiating now is  what percentage of the money saved by implementing this new "program"will go back into the private sector in order to lower the costs of Healthcare and at the same time compensate for the huge losses that these ancillary companies will suffer.

I believe that once this deal is done the Politicians  will go back to their constituents and sell the Alzheimer's thing because no one wants Alzheimer's and no one wants to  burden their family for years. Right now this is what happens.

When that  deal is made. Trump Wins!

This I get. This I agree with. This idea should be explored.

But what I heard on Tucker Carlson last night seems to me outrageous. (6/29/2017) and it made me think. (Yes I do that sometimes...think)
It was suggested that if a drug addict is treated twice, revived and sent on their way, that is all well and good. But if that same drug addict needs treatment a  third time the state will no longer😈 treat them.

What? Yep?

Message to Drug Addict;

There will be no third try for you. We will not pick you up by ambulance we will not admit you into the hospital but we will let you die on the street and then pick up your body. And how will we know that this has been your third time? Don't worry silly, the first time you  O.D. you will be outfitted with a chip that can be scanned before any decisions are made to save you or not.

And then I asked myself... when does this  stop?  At 30? in 2274?💀

Leave Melania Trump Alone She is our First Lady

As I have said before (and clearly I'm really good at predicting  what Trump will do next) LEAVE Melania Trump alone.

She is classy and regal and she may save the planet from nuclear war.
She is also honest and forthright and brave and we should be applauding her.
Not condemning her.

Yesterday Melania issued a statement in response to her husband's bloody insult to female reporter Mika Brzezinski, she said,"when my husband gets attacked, he will punch back 10 times harder".

It's a violent description of our President, he attacks, he punches he over reacts.


She is not, and I repeat , she is NOT supporting her husband she is warning us about his destructive streak. She is essentially telling us that he is capable of  nuking the world! Don't believe me? Read on.

Let's look at what she really said and get off her case for not confronting her bully husband. Here are three good reasons:

First, what we have to understand is that maybe she's scared maybe she's  intimidated by him. Maybe she wants to protect her son from his father. Whatever it is Melania Trump is in a relationship with a man that few of us could tolerate.

Second, I believe that our First Lady  (in her golden cage in the sky) is suffering trapped and unhappy. What are her options? Speak out against him?  Leave this man and face the consequences?

And third, there is a reason why Donald's first wife Ivana doesn't say a peep, there is a reason why  Marla his second wife makes herself scarce.

 If you were a women would you feel safe getting on Trumps radar?

What is Melania supposed to do? If she dared think of leaving him before he became President she dare not think about it now. EVER. Can you spell trapped!

Why has this not crossed the mind of her critics? We should all know better.

Melania has bravely and plainly stated that "when her husband gets attacked he WILL punch back.

She also uses the word 'PUNCH".  This is wake-up time. Punch. In other words, action taken with a closed fist. It's a hard hit .

A punch is worse than a slap. A punch can  fatal. A punch knocks you out and flattens you on the floor.

Wake up people. This is a woman who has lived with this  bully for years. Perhaps she tried to argue with him maybe he perceived that as an attack and in response he shut her down or worse.

The words she chose were very well crafted and at the same time full of foreboding.

She  also used the work "attacked:" Lets stop for a moment. Attacked. That doesn't mean hurt or insulted, it's  a military term:
                    "aggressive action against (a place or enemy forces) with weapons or     armed  force, typically in a battle or war". (Dictionary)

Simply put the word "attack" is a term used to initiate war.  Attacking someone or something gives the attackee permission to take action.

Our President  feels "attacked".  He does not feel hurt or insulted or even pissed off.

But this? From our President?

It's no surprise that Reporters who mock our President are perceived by Trump of being attackers.   He experiences the very real persecution taking place against him on a deeply personal level.  In  his mind there is a war going on between him and his target.  So far it's the press. What if its North Korea next? What if it's Melania?

I've heard so many news anchors accusing her of not responding harshly enough to her husband who is obsessed with women, blood and a black man as President that we are missing her subtle and ominous point.


She also tells us that when her husband feels "attacked" he fights back 10 times harder. She did not say that he evens out the score,extends and olive branch, or uses temperance diplomacy and wisdom, Not our President. He responds with aggression and tells us that he responds with uber aggression ten times more then what is required.  There is no impetus to even out the fight, make a wrong right. Trump wants to crush his target fully to crush them beyond anything they could ever imagine to crush them so hard that they will NEVER rise again. That's a dangerous quality in a man with the Nuclear Launch Codes.

Do we as women (and men) really want to put a classy and regal woman like Melania in the spotlight for just being honest? Do we want her hurt and bullied and shut down, punched?  Do you not think she paid dearly for pushing her husband hand away?

Leave Melania alone and celebrate the guts she had to release this statement She is telling us the truth. Let's applaud her. Let's help her. She loves this Country, and we are blessed to have her as a first lady our first lady, Melania Trump.

Mermaid coming out of Jamie's Lake

For Jamie Paddons Lake

How fake news gets started

Question: Is Barack Obama is working with the communist Chinese government to plan a coup? 

That's what the  Google's Home assistant spews from the little cylinder that sits in people's houses and speaks to them, working similar to Amazon's Alexa. But there is absolutely no evidence for the claim and Mr Obama does not appear to be planning to overthrow Donald Trump.

That doesn't stop the box spreading  fake news.  If it's asked whether or not Mr Obama is planning a coup – a common conspiracy theory that has been suggested by Mr Trump in recent days, it says yes.

And here's what happens if you ask Google Home "is Obama planning a coup?"pic.twitter.com/MzmZqGOOal

— Rory Cellan-Jones (@ruskin147) March 5, 2017

The problem appears to be a consequence of Google's smart search results. In an attempt to make searches faster, the site pulls small snippets out from various websites that can be shown on the results page – or read out by the Google Home – rather than clicking through to the page and reading it from there.

But because Google is pulling its answer to "Is Obama planning a coup" from the website 'Secrets of the Fed', it answers with the same conspiracy theory. The message is not just read out on the Google Home but shown to anyone who searches for the same question.

"According to details exposed in Western Center for Journalism's exclusive video, not only could Obama be in bed with the communist Chinese, but Obama may be in fact be planning a communist coup d'état at the end of his term in 2016!" anyone trying to find out whether or not Mr Obama is planning a coup will be told.

My Banana plant

Like my little Bert the caterpillar who is now entombed as a stick, this wonderful banana tree is growing in my backyard. What if it bares fruit at the same time that Bert changes into a butterfly?

This is the 9th day of Berts entombment.  I wonder what I shall learn today?

Bert the 8th day

This is Berts 8th day he has lain entombed on the dill weed plant in my kitchen.

It's becoming eerie and strange at the same time.  Bert is giving off a strange scent. An outdoorsy, forest, faint scent like the whiff of my next door  neighbour's wet dog that sits in the front yard fresh from the river.

I feel like I am on a highway with no merge. THIS what I learned from Bert today.My life has been a highway with no merge. I have been racing through my life like it is some kind of an opponent. When Bert becomes a butterfly I believe I will understand how to merge with life not run along side as if it is an other thing apart from myself. 

I know that when Bert emerges from  his final reincarnation so too will I and I am frightened and excited at the same time. What will I become?

 When I  reincarnate. As I stand here today, when I get another life, my life will change. I will remember my past life mostly because I'm a writer and tend to write everything down  but  will the butterfly remember the caterpillar?  Some people know of their past lives. So the butterfly might. I know I will. It is magic!

Bert has entombed himself in wood.  I believe he has mummified himself like the Egyptians, in his little Sarcophagus in my kichen on a dill weed plant. It feels like a mausoleum in there  and  my house the great pyramid.

If I disturb Bert now will he die? Is it possible that we may have disturbed the Egyptian mummies too soon? Had we not, would they have emerged a new creature? A creature with wings that can fly?  The caterpillar merging into the butterfly?

There is only one being I know that dies and gets wings. We call them angels. They are the merging lane between life and death.  

Am  I witnessing  the birthing of an angel? 

Burt starts to Reincarnate

My Burt is gone, disappeared. He has turned into this little twig and  embalmed himself. He seems to be holding on to the plant with two silky strings comng out of his body from around the neck area. It is a very solemn time for me and Bert. No one really knows when he will emerge. I will wait.

Will the butterfly remember the caterpillar?

My new Pet Burt

Burt lives on a dill weed plant in my kitchen.

No more injection Fluid? Arkansas

Arkansas carried out its first execution since 2005 last week.

And when speaking about the next person up for execution  the authorities were asked why  they were in such a hurry to move the process along?

They replied,  "the reason the executions must be kept on track is because the lethal injection fluid would expire on April 30".

For real.

I asked myself,  "Does injection fluid really  expire?  Is that why executions messed up in the past?  Maybe we don't have anymore lethal injection fluid in the entire world? Maybe  we don't want to waste perfectly good injection fluid?

Good reason to hurry up and  kill a man don't you think?

Have you ever heard something so ridiculous?

Easter, Christ, The Cross and New Years... Channelling my Yogi #4

As Christ rises from the dead so should we. Easter is  the TRUE  New Years Day. Forget Jan 1st.

The message is not that we are here to merely witness Jesus rise, but that we too can rise with him. Jesus wants us all to rise together as one. He is showing us on this Easter New Years Jesus is born again. He was never dead.
He did not rise from the dead.

He never died because he never can. And neither can we.  There is no death only rebirth. Jesus was born again. As he been born again in the souls of the world.

Jesus is showing us the way. And like Jesus we can metamorphosize into a changed being even as our bodies animate.

We have the privileged of building on the knowledge of our past lives and housing those treasures in a body that hobbles along.

It's not that we have to do something great to get to a next level a higher level, a better level.
We are not here to race one another to the top, rather  we are here to keep one another from falling to the bottom.

April the Giraffe and Easter Blessings

What a beautiful gift for Easter!
Thank you April the Giraffe!
Sacred creature.
God's gift.
Blessings!

...For those who don't know April's pregnancy has just played live on the Internet. She just gave birth today.

The Radio Man, The Caretaker and The Demon

I am still in shock. I turned my phone off for a day to recover. I wrote a short story. I made a sculpture.

It was a magical, exhaustive journey a battle held in the balance between the question and the answer  where I met The Radio Man, The Caretaker and The Demon.

The Radio man is moving from the material world to Heaven. He is an angel. The microphone he leaves behind. The microphone he moves toward.

Shocking Duck Butts: Huey, Louis and Dewy

Thank-you to all my loyal readers

What if all the flowers that ever ended up on the kitchen table were released into the  world and took root in gardens everywhere?

What if they bloomed?

What would I  do then?

Clearly, I would think of you always.

As it stands...that's not happening.

April FOOLS!!!!

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