Category: Inspiration

written & produced by Joni Mitchell
from the album Ladies Of The Canyon (1970)
live in-studio from London (1970)
additional audio/video post-production by sonicboy19

lyrics:

I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, “where are you going?”
And this he told me:
“I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farm
I’m going to join in a rock ‘n’ roll band
I’m going to camp out on the land
I’m going to try an’ get my soul free.”

We are stardust
We are golden
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

“Then can I walk beside you?
I have come here to lose the smog
And I feel to be a cog in something turning
Well maybe it is just the time of year
Or maybe it’s the time of man
I don’t know who I am
But you know life is for learning.”

We are stardust
We are golden
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was song and celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation

We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil’s bargain
And we’ve got to get ourselves
back to the garden

© 1969 Crazy Crow Music (Renewed)

In a school hall north of Adelaide, some of the most vulnerable victims of South Australia’s bushfire crisis are being treated at a makeshift hospital.

https://7news.com.au/news/sa/adelaide-hills-bushfire-ravaged-koalas-cared-for-at-makeshift-shelter-c-638521

And if you want some reinforcement of that man’s view from the military, read some quotes here: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/smedley-butler-quotes

Watch the video and share it if you think so too! If you do get that on which you put your attention, best we put our attention on what we want!

‘Duo Transcend’ Mary and Tyce Nielsen amaze the judges and audience of America’s Got Talent with their mind-blowing acrobatic performance. Tom: Do not watch if you have heart problems!

https://www.flixxy.com/duo-transcend-americas-got-talent.htm

Reminds me of the line, “Most people grossly overestimate what they can get done in a day and grossly under estimate what they can accomplish in a decade.”

So your question for today is, “What activity do you do that is a relative waste of time for 90 minutes a day or 10 hours of your week? Or, if that is too harsh, “What do you presently do for 10 hours a week that is a low priority activity that you could easily drop from your schedule?”

Because that adds up to, let’s see, 10 hours a week is 520 hours a year, 5,200 hours in 10 years divided by 40 hours a week is 130 weeks divided by 52 weeks in a year is 2.5 years.

What major goal would you like to accomplish if someone said, “You don’t have to work for the next 30 months, your bills are covered, go for it!”

Reminds me of the line, “Most people grossly overestimate what they can get done in a day and grossly under estimate what they can accomplish in a decade.”

So your question for today is, “What activity do you do that is a relative waste of time for 90 minutes a day or 10 hours of your week?” Or, if that is too harsh, “What do you presently do for 10 hours a week that is a low priority activity that you could easily drop from your schedule?”

Because ten hours a week adds up to a lot over ten years.
10 hours a week is 520 hours a year or 5,200 hours in 10 years.
5,200 hours divided by 40 hours a week is 130 weeks.
130 weeks divided by 52 weeks in a year is 2.5 years or 30 months.
What could you accomplish if you had two and a half years to do it?

Thonk about what major goal would you like to accomplish if someone said, “You don’t have to work for the next two and a half years, your bills are covered, go for it!”

Now allocate that 10 hours a week to it!

And enjoy the proud satisfaction of production and accomplishment of something worthwhile!

What major goal would you like to accomplish if someone said, “You don’t have to work for the next 30 months, your bills are covered, go for it!”

I found this interesting for a couple of reasons:

1. The amount of effort and the magnitude of scale put into a sctructure that was intended to fail, in order to prevent a bigger destruction and
2. The great example it was of the philosophy of the Lee Child character, Jack Reacher, “Hope for the best, plan for the worst.”

A philosophy sadly lacking in our state and federal governments.

So, as it is the start of a new year, what are you doing to hope for the best with your goals for the year and plan for the worst with your disaster prepardness plans?

When men form communities they soon come to recognize that the protection of property is the paramount consideration in drafting constitutions. Such legal protection, however, has never proved sufficient deterrent to a man or group of men from expropriating the property of others. This theft is often perpetrated by those elected or appointed to make or enforce the law and historically these legislators will go to great lengths to perpetuate their power and their influence over the property of their compatriots.

In light of this propensity of the powerful to deprive the governed of the full measure of their God-given liberty, the trial was developed as a way of providing those accused by government or by other men of violating the law of the land with a process by which guilt or innocence could be declared by a group of men equal to the accused in legal standing, in other words, a peer.

https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2019/09/09/trial-by-jury-a-jewel-of-freedom/