Margaret W.

  • Folks, I’ve had to revise the vidchat schedule somewhat this month, so please keep checking that regularly. The reason is, of course, that the organ (supposedly) is finally nearing completion and a delivery date, but this has not been finalized, so the schedule may jump around a bit. I apologize and thank everyone for your patience.

    • The instrument has become more “virtual” than expected…

    • No problem Joseph . . . after all this time! Even this close prospect is exciting! I hope Shiloh copes well. BTW, I got a big laugh imagining you throwing squeeky toys around the living room for her.

      • I have been concerned about Shiloh with so many strangers… I am going to have to put her in the bathroom I think, and take her outside from time to time. As for toys, she still doesn’t know how to play, but she is at least barking now. Slowly but surely we’re overcoming whatever abuse she suffered.

        • I’m sure she will respond to your patient love. I’ve been watching so many pet videos lately of successful recoveries from past abuse. Peaceful thoughts to you and Shiloh.

      • Say, I wonder if Shiloh will sing along with Joseph’s playing, as dogs are wont to do… A friend’s pet boxer softly howls out a harmony every time he plays harmonica or sings. That would be the sweetest thing ever!

  • justawhoaman posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago

    I was lucky enough to attend many of his children’s series presentations through the Cincinnati Symphony. It definitely “colored” my life. He was a national treasure…

  • justawhoaman posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago

    There is the one (and only, IMO) reason for living in Austin. Fabulous Margaret! Too bad I just can’t bring myself to work hard enough to find a place to park and not worry about walking by myself back to the remote parking location that I could find. I thought about finding a tiny apartment there just for the Elephant Room and events like this…[Read more]

  • DownunderET posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago

    Yes, great news and now the New York Times knows what it can do with their best selling list, they can………..censored !!!!!!!!!!!

  • Composers: parents and stepchildren. I distinctly heard the Canadian national anthem (supposed to have be composed by Lavallé in 1880). It’s one of the violin sonata Op. 5 Ns. 1-11.

    • We’re fortunate to have La Follia Austin Baroque and I enjoyed their recent Saturday afternoon concert with 2 performers on 4 beautiful harpsichords (2 Italian, 1 Franco-Flemish, 1 French) playing Buxtehude, Couperin, Rameau, and several Bach family pieces. Mostly an older audience but a few young people and children too 😉

      • There is the one (and only, IMO) reason for living in Austin. Fabulous Margaret! Too bad I just can’t bring myself to work hard enough to find a place to park and not worry about walking by myself back to the remote parking location that I could find. I thought about finding a tiny apartment there just for the Elephant Room and events like this…[Read more]

  • Folks I want to thank everyone who has bought the new book. It just cleared that “magical threshold” I had in my head for this experiment, so I will like do all books in a self-published format in the future.

    • That’s great news. This might also facilitate editions translated into other languages, avoiding thorny issues of rights held by publishers.

    • Yes, great news and now the New York Times knows what it can do with their best selling list, they can………..censored !!!!!!!!!!!

  • Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago

    “To be a philosopher, or a scientific man, you must be as a little child, with all the sincerity and simple-mindedness of the child’s vision, with all the plasticity of the child’s mental habits.

    What are the exercises conducive to this? Extensive reading to begin with. A hundred volumes a year or 3 2/3 days per volume does not sound like hard…[Read more]

  • Live coverage of Swedish election results

  • Tidbit: on solari.com C.A. Fitts and Dr. Farrell discuss “Microcosm and Medium”

  • Kenny posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago

    Heard about this in one of the Vidchats. This is my kind of place, plant fruit do some prayer. Anything to get outside of the dialectical oppositional world. Now I can quiet the mind and work on my coherence hehe.

  • For those who have watched the now “ultra cult” documentary “Everything is a Rich mans Trick”, here is an interview with the maker of the documentary Francis Richard Conolly. This interview is one of the best interviews I have ever heard, it runs 2:10 and is…[Read more]

  • Well, it’s three months now since little Shiloh adopted me, and she says I’m doing much better about interpreting her whines, so she has moved on to barking and teaching me what each one means. This is a good sign that I’m settling in, she says, because she hadn’t barked for the first month and a half in order not to confuse me. She also reports…[Read more]

    • As a person with WAY too many dogs, and a pack of 5 that live in my house (3 are Great Pyrenees), I will vouch for some dogs trying their very best to “talk”. One of the breeds I have is Schipperke, a little Belgian breed used on barges for alarm purposes and rat patrol, is characteristically known for their over the top brains and two of mine…[Read more]

    • I’ve had Beauregard a year now. He was a 5 month old rescue when I got him. If I’m reading he settles down nicely for half an hr. He gives me a short mmn ending on a higher note. That means ‘are you done?’ I can say, give me 5 min and he’ll ‘sigh’ his ok. Then in about 10, he’ll say mmmm in an up and down sing song tone. That means, ‘are you…[Read more]

    • If she’s starting barking now that’s a good sign. She’s started trusting you and knows that it’s safe for her to be herself 🙂 How lovely 🙂

  • Freefall posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago

    Well worth a listen .. Bill Ryan has just posted THIS .. and I have just finished listening .. it’s a WOW !!
    Link .. http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?104116-The-weaponization-of-the-US-intelligence-community-120-agency-insiders-now

  • Boyce, Stanley, Purcell and Valentine

  • Australian surveillance state

  • Barbara posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago

    This is quite awful. I wonder what kind of “ancient technology ” artifacts this museum was keeping?. Fire would be a perfect cover-up in case of pillage.

    • Well, the BBC reported erroneously that the ‘oldest’ human skeleton found in the Americas was an exhibit. There is evidence of a much older human presence in South America, but I suspect that a DNA anyalysis of these remains may have shown affinities with Australian aboriginal haplogroups (see: https://youtu.be/r6IrMjfbh6E). That’s just one very…[Read more]

  • devnull posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago

    Nazis, Stone of Destiny, Tuatha De Danaan, seems fitting for this forum:

    • I like Thomas Sheridan. BTW, Dark Journalist will discuss the roots of Tuatha De Danann and use of the fire crystal technology. See comment above.

  • Forum Borealis has released part 2 of the interview on The Hess Mess. Warning, the download is painfully slow.

    • Thanks Ken. Downloaded OK for me. Also, I see a new interview posted: part 1 of Climate Gate with Timothy Ball, who I don’t know but he’s a Canadian climatologist debunking ‘global warming’ as a hoax.

    • Thanks for the reminder . . . I haven’t sent Al and FB a donation yet this year, and it hasn’t been an easy one for him.

  • justawhoaman posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago

    Regrettably, I think that means “US”… or is that simply, us.

  • Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago

    Hello All,
    Given Dr. Farrell’s post “Digital Reading vs. Real Reading” there may be some interest in the following piece
    “How the Human Eye Reads a Website” from Creative Blog, November 2014.

    Enjoy!

    https://www.creativebloq.com/ux/how-human-eye-reads-website-111413463

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