What About Drugs?

All pharmaceutical medicine is descended from nature’s bounty. Plants, animals & fish, minerals, and oxygen are all drugs nature provides. Even the sun provides endorphins, which are feel-good hormones for people and animals. All of these are critical for humans to survive.

Science has largely ignored plants and their potential beneficial uses, instead preferring to focus on sensationalistic and negative aspects of drug use. Too much of anything will indeed kill a person. Too much water will drown a person from the inside. Too much oxygen will cause oxygen poisoning, which is called oxidative stress. And everybody knows that drugs can kill when they are misused.

The benefits of drugs are numerous. Medications are helpful, from pain management to cancer treatment and Vitamin C to nitroglycerin. Since the caveman discovered that certain plants have unusual or medicinal effects, drugs have been used.

Who am I to say no to such a long history of drug use?

Throughout time, people have learned that too much of anything is bad for a person. Caffeine can kill when it is abused, just like any opiates. People have known to be moderate with drug use rather than radical. Things that kill are to be avoided. It’s just common sense.

I know whereof I speak. Drugs I am familiar with and comfortable with are many. The illegal ones are THC, tetrahydrocannabinol, found in marijuana, and psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms. The legal ones include a lifelong love of caffeine and a relatively long duration of smoking nicotine.

I am 67 years old now, and I’m just starting to think I should have tried more recreational drugs. Fortunately, it may not be too late for that.

LSD is the only extra illegal drug that I have tried and liked. I was too afraid of it, though – the news people scared me into thinking it was a dangerous and suicidal drug. As a result, I couldn’t relax enough to enjoy it. But in retrospect, I am rethinking my views. Maybe it is time to revisit LSD and see what happens.

I am just saying.

The pharmaceutical drugs I use regularly are antidepressants, Prosac, and Abilify to kick the Prosac. I also take Ativan occasionally to sleep and for fits of nervousness. Ativan is a drug like Valium.

Then too, I take vitamins and Trelegy for COPD. I am on oxygen as well. Any of these can kill me if I overdo it. Fortunately, I have too much common sense for that.

Recently I’ve been watching Joe Rogen on YouTube. He inspires me to continue with my drug experiments. My recent experiences with magic mushrooms have been epiphanies for me. They are simply lovely for various reasons. Magic mushrooms are mood elevators and color brighteners, and they help me to think more clearly.

Crazy Is As Crazy Does

A state of mind is like a dark cupboard, very spooky if you don’t know what’s in there. Worse too, if you keep hearing weird banging noises every once in a while.

OMG! Just stop talking. You’re making me crazier than usual. And the banging? I can account for that. Oh yes, I can.

Ok then.

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Why I Stayed Up All Night Or 1950s People Don’t Play That

Ok, what happened was that I essentially stayed up all night long, and that’s unusual for me because I’m a 9-hour-a-night sleeper, if not 9, then 10. However, I would not recommend staying up all night either; it’s hard on the body, possibly even traumatic. And it takes a few days to get over.

So then, stop talking and say why you damned fool. I was on this 50s Memories website because I was born in the 1950s and had occasional nostalgic twinges. Plus, I was invited to it by my sister-in-law. So I checked it out to be polite and joined up. My peers, after all.

I was checking out the 50s Memories website a couple of days ago when I saw this fantastic picture. It was of 4 1950s women, standing in a row, dressed in fabulous 1950 dresses, and they were all pointing handguns straight at the camera. Also, they were all giving deadeye looks. It was so cute that I couldn’t resist commenting on it.

All I said was, and this is paraphrased because the 50s people deleted my post, so I no longer have any access to it; that’s what kept me awake all night. I wasn’t even angry, more like stimulated, and I wrote all night long.

What I said was that only women and not men should be allowed to carry guns so that criminal behavior would be way down. It was a smart-ass remark, done because I thought it was amusing, also because I genuinely believe it and have said it before. Anyway, there was a firestorm within a couple of hours – I pissed off a lot of people, it seems.

To be entirely fair, though, opinion was divided and a lot of people, men as well as women, enjoyed and appreciated the comment. Unfortunately, since I am now censured by a website of a couple of million people, I don’t have any statistics on the matter. Before I got cut off, though, I had over 300 comments and likes within 2 or 3 hours.

It was every writer’s dream. I might have even gone viral. But there were supposedly many complaints that the remark was political, and the 50s Memories people deleted my comment in a few short hours. Bullshit, I say to that. Bullshit!

I don’t know what the administrator was thinking, but I believe that websites like traffic, the more, the better. Not the 50s Memories people – they booted my ass toot sweet. And that is why I stayed up all night.

Reflections: Mourning

And now I’m in deep mourning myself.

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Deep grief has to work itself out.  It cannot be ignored.  Talking to and about the lost one helps, reliving and rehashing, bringing the events close at hand again, touching gently the memory, then harder, to poke the sore point again and again until the pain begins to recede and morph into an altogether different pain.

http://www.helium.com/items/2183053-deathmourninggriefgrievingwidowwidowerreflections

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Murphy Blue

This book is well worth reading.

linhah

My novel has been seriously mis-understood, mainly due to my ass-backwards method of book describing.  My novel, Murphy Blue, is a cat murder mystery novel, a beast fighting man type of thing.  There’s also a little side story about some poor bastard who gets convicted of murder and dances the death row shake, rattle, and roll.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/33542

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Soup, Butter, and Beans

I really have to wonder.

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Supper tonight or political commentary?

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Improving the world starts with us

I mean this as much today as I did in 2012.

linhah

The greed of this world is not right.  We no longer have to accept it in any way.  We all have the capacity for change and growth.

Improving the world starts with us.

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A guide to corporate ethics

Hell, yes, I’d like to know how British Petroleum is going to fix the mess they created?

linhah

We have no bananas today.

Then when troublesome disasters come down, like when British Petroleum poisoned 25% of the world’s oceans; but it was okay because that company is an investment for a bunch of retirees. So those retirees would be very hurt by legal actions against the corporation, which is now like a father to them.  So no harm done, no foul.  What the hell is more like it?!

http://www.helium.com/items/2185958-corporationbig-businesscorporate-mentalityethics-in-businesscorporate-ethicspolitical-influence

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Crazy Is As Crazy Does

Oh, I’m crazy you say?

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A state of mind is like a dark cupboard, very spooky if you don’t know what’s in there. Worse too, if you keep hearing weird banging noises every once in a while.

OMG! Just stop talking. You’re making me crazier than usual. And the banging? I can account for that. Oh yes, I can.

Ok then.

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Q&A Update

Hubpages has stopped their stupid Q&A Update. They did it 2 years ago. Squidoo lives on.

Volunteering

• Thank you so much for your interest in volunteering with Jameson Humane in Napa, California. We look forward to meeting you.This tour and orientation is a part of the requirements before you can begin signing up for volunteer shifts at Jameson. In this orientation we will tour the site and also provide a background on Jameson including our mission policies and an overview of the various opportunities and programs that our volunteers can participate in.If you have any questions in the meantime or if you need to reschedule, please feel free to reach out to me.Thank you,Shannon
• Shannon Roskosky
  Interim Volunteer Coordinator
  Jameson Humane
• 1199 Cuttings Wharf Road,
• Napa, CA 94559
• 650-417-1827
• Cellshannon@jamesonhumane.org
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• Hi Shannon, You must think of me as an absolute idiot after our phone conversation earlier today. I am so sorry, but my little dog ran away three times today. I tried to walk her with my walker, and that accounts for the first two times that Molly ran away. The third time was completely my fault since I opened the kitchen door while the garage door was open.
• Anyway, I have her safely back at home with me and I’ll be looking for a dog-walking volunteer.
• I didn’t even know the exact date of today and I thought Molly was scheduled at Jameson for tomorrow. After studying the calendar though, I can see that my imprecise calculations were dead wrong. I’m afraid I must apologize for not getting it when we spoke this afternoon, I’m going to blame my lack of knowledge of a viable time frame on my recent widowhood.
• It was in January of this year when I lost my long-term partner and I’m just now deleting 1000s of e-mails without even looking at them. So, I would like to change my Sunday appointment at 2 p.m. to May 17th at 10 a.m., when my little dog arrives at Jameson Humane for her spaying procedure. If this does not work for you, please let me know before Sunday at 2 p.m.
• Sincerely,
• Linda Hahn
• P.S. This note will also be published on my blog, since I’ve never addressed my widowhood. And I don’t know what else to say.
• LH

four

Buttercup yellow!

a north east ohio garden

usually there are three petals and three sepals. this one is four and four…

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Season Of The Crush

By Linda Hahn

Crush parties are being planned all across the Napa Valley. Harvest season is underway. It starts with the sparkling light varieties and continues with the white wines. The bustle of activity is unmistakable.

Grapes must be picked when they are ready – not before and certainly not after. The sugar content must be perfect for the flavor. Two gadgets have been developed to measure sugar content – a refractometer or a hygrometer. Winemakers use one of these to test the grapes.

Also, the color of the grapes is another indicator, and the juice content of the grapes counts as well. But the most essential thing for winemakers is the taste. Nature says, when the birds, squirrels, and raccoons start eating grapes, they are ripe. When left too long, the grapes begin to wither and lose their flavoring.

August is the beginning of the crush, with most grapes harvested in September and October. The grapes are crushed for wine immediately after picking. Then, the stems must be removed. Ripe grapes are a beautiful sight to behold.

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