Year: 2022

  • Rumtopf #2

    Rumtopf #2

    My wife came home this morning from the market with a wide selection of fresh fruits … thank you globalized, season-less food chain. We washed and chopped, and filled the Rumtopf to the top. I’ll…

  • Rumtopf Started
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    Rumtopf Started

    Starting the Rumtopf marks the beginning of preparations for next Christmas. First ingredient: apples. In this globalized economy of food sources seasons are no longer gates.  

  • Putin Said …
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    Putin Said …

    It would be ironic that the Russian landscape that defeated Napoleon and Hitler will now defeat Putin. *** “Ukraine’s farmers now have the fifth-largest army in Europe — or so goes a dark joke on the…

  • Power to the People
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    Power to the People

    This information war we are currently experiencing, as part of Putin’s incursion, whose combatants are the various governments, news agencies, pundits, etc. is a battle for public opinion. The military assets are [factual] information, dis-information…

  • The Big Hope
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    The Big Hope

    I’m finding it trying to follow the news of this “Putin’s War”.  It’s not just the carnage and savagery we are able to witness each day, each hour, each minute, but it has provoked an…