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Comfort Food@Jeremiah73 | Here’s a great culinary moment from a bookClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "I thought I would respond to this prompt about a great culinary moment in a fictional book. And the book that immediately came to my mind was written by Ian Fleming. And the book was Dr. No and featured his main character of all of the Bond books, James Bond. And James Bond was a ladies man. He was a great spy, a secret agent."2025-04-0806 min
The Daily Perspective@Jeremiah73 | Tariff’s are a TAXClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "The idea that he can put a tariff on something and the next day we have a factory in America producing the widget or whatever he's, he's putting this tax on is just, it's just ludicrous. Tariffs are a tax."2025-04-0302 minThe Daily Perspective@Jeremiah73 | 401k 301k 201k 101k zero!Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Yes, I, I watch the, the stock market somewhat closely. Not, not as close as I probably should, but yeah, I'm very, very worried about my 401k. It's not a really, in the, in the greater scheme of things, it's not really large retirement nest egg, if you will, that I have. My wife and I both have 401ks that are hovering around $100,000 each."2025-03-1204 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | 75 years old.Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Maybe if I'd have been more physical, physically graced, I would have done harder work and my body would be more broken. I worked in retail in big box home centers, so I walked across concrete rapidly hundreds of times a day sometimes. And so that's probably where I get my strength, my legs."2025-03-1013 minThe Daily Perspective@Jeremiah73 | Carville needs to go home.Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "I'm not sure if we're going to be able to vote our way out of this. I'm not sure that, you know, there's enough people of character left in Washington to do anything to stop the oligarchy that has consumed our country."2025-02-2605 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Catch upClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "But yeah, it's just been a really, really rough, rough, you know, just darn near a month. Just, just been really hard. My birthday is coming up on March 11th. I believe that's the ides of March. And this birthday, I will be 75 years old. Three quarters of a century. Oh, on one hand I'm, I'm. I've."2025-02-2403 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | My time spentClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "I joined the army when I was 30 simply to provide food for my family. And I've always been very, very interested in politics. And I'm so disappointed when I look at my life and I'm wondering, you know, I spent so much of my energy trying to create change, and it really failed miserably. I've been on scores of protest marches in many different places. I've marched for peace. I've marched for gay rights. I've marched for women's rights."2025-01-1004 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Tis the season.Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Hi, everyone. Just a quick, quick note about the season that we're in. It is the holiday, the holiday season for most Americans in one shape or another. Even I think the atheists at this time of the year, you know, get caught up in the magic of Christmas and the lights and the trees and all of that. I was driving in my neighborhood going home from my job as a crossing guard and I noticed this sign."2024-12-0904 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Joy of Yuletide the endClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "I also was, I think, probably the only person in the group that didn't have a significant college education and degrees and did not have any of that. And so, truthfully, I was always acutely aware of that. But that's not to disparage Unitarian Universalism. It's just to kind of tell you where my mindset was. My time there as a practicing Unitarian Universalist was spiritually one of the best times of my life."2024-11-2504 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | What’s for dinner? Lets talk chili!Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Out of the town plazas because of restaurants feeling that they cut into their. Into their business. But that chili takes pork and tomato and again, about five different kinds of dried chili pods, Mexican oregano, and cumin and sausage. So it's got two kinds of meat, and I believe it is as fine a bowl of chili as you can get as far as beans. Sometimes I put them in and sometimes I don't. I lean toward. I don't more often than putting them in."2024-11-2104 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Joy of Yuletide part3Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "It means the making holy the ordinary things of life, affection and friendship, eating and drinking and merry making. And for me, Christmas has always been about being able to blend that story with the pagan joy of the yuletide season. When I first began my walk on the pagan path, the crooked path, I wanted to tie all my belief in Yule into just one day. I wanted pagan Christmas, Yule and the solstice to be all one and the same. Well, I was not very successful."2024-11-2104 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Joy of Yuletide part 2Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Without the idea of winter, half the charm of the Christmas carol spirit would be gone and most of its mystical spirit. Because this story transplanted in the imagination of early Christendom from an undefined season in the hot Middle east to a very different Europe at mid winter. And because of that, the nativity story has taken on a whole new magic with the thought of the bitter cold and the birth of a baby born in a stable."2024-11-2004 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Joy of Yuletide part 1Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And I'm not sure whether my listeners, my swell listeners, want to hear necessarily the sounds of Christmas yet or not. But irregardless or regardless, it's impossible to escape at this time of the year. I was in stores and they were playing Christmas music already. As a pagan, I follow the turning of the wheel of the year. I find it easy to celebrate Christmas and I do celebrate Christmas."2024-11-1904 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Darkness is blood redClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "They don't know why, but it's just the way they're supposed to be and they will bring harm. It's these people that just make me sick to my heart because they hate so much. I'm 74 years old. I don't know how much longer I have in this. Go around in this place, in this time. Love is not going to win. Not this time. Hate is going to rule the day. I just. I just."2024-11-0804 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Today’s the dayClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "If you care little about yourself and the impact of this election on your own personal life, I would only ask that you vote. You vote for your children. You vote for your grandchildren. You vote for the women in your life that you. That you love. Your sisters, your nieces, your daughters, your granddaughters, your mother. You vote for the oppressed, those who are bullied. You vote to preserve our democracy. Bless you all. Keep the faith."2024-11-0502 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Stealing signs and other MAGA shenanigans.Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Hello, everyone. I hope everybody's having a great day. I thought I would do an update on the upcoming election here in the Midwest. I made my first swell cast a while back where I put out that I had a goal of getting a hundred people to the polls. Well, as of right now, I've got somewhere in the neighborhood of 122 people that have either voted or have committed to voting for Harris Walls."2024-10-2404 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Homeless on the cornerClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "You know, we should have been able to do something, but it just goes to show you, homelessness and possible mental struggles can happen to anyone and can happen anywhere. It's all around us, and we should all do as much as we can. If all we can do is just be kind, then that's what we need to do. But we don't need to reject one another, but keep each other as comfortable and as close as we possibly can."2024-10-0104 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Branches off the spiral path part threeClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And one of them said to me after I asked them how school was going, she said, I think school starts too early. And I said to her, you know what? I believe you're correct. I think there's even been a study done. And so we had that little moment. But during that period of time in my life, I was very focused on the injustices and what was wrong with what I saw in the world. It was a. It was a."2024-09-1704 min
The Daily Perspective@Jeremiah73 | Schools are closing across the U.S. due to threats of violence. Are threats of violence making it to your community? What should be done?Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "It's. It's. Pardon me. I had to stop and wave to one of my children. That always drives by me when I'm standing out here. But, yeah, we need to get to the root. And the root is that we are a very violent society in America. We glorify guns and war, and we need to change the whole mindset, and we need to really tighten down access."2024-09-1704 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Branches off the spiral path part twoClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Do that with the power that you already have inside yourself. Never believe that you are powerless, because you do have a great deal of power to affect change in your life and in the surrounding environment around yourself. The way that I always did it, is if I wanted to become something else, I just immersed myself in what I. The goal that I was going for. If I decided that I wanted to no longer be working in retail, but rather be a cook."2024-09-1604 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Branches off the spiral path.Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "The branches off the spiral path is in reference to my belief that our time and our existence is not a linear thing but rather a spiral and that there are many branches that go off of that path. And so that's where the name came from. I hope you enjoy it or enjoy some of the pictures and some of the quotes. So that's what I thought I would do and let's see how it goes. Everybody have a great day. Bye."2024-09-1302 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | ReleaseClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And one of them that I said was, when you see something that interests you, go like hell, do all of it you can, as fast as you can before you get bored. And that's what art and music is for me. I have a lot of things, but I'm nothing good at any of them, but I'm willing to try everything."2024-09-1304 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | BBQ is a religion for many. Discuss...Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Hello. What a great swell. Barbecue is a religion for many. Discuss. Yes, indeed. I have been a student of smoke, spice, and fire for many, many years. You know, there's a couple of different kinds of barbecuers, and I'm not saying that one is more correct over another, but I definitely fall into one group. I am a purist, I guess. I like charcoal and wood, and."2024-09-1304 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Observations by the old Crossing guardClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Just incredible. But enough of that. That's all been rehashed and hashed over again and again. The only thing other I'll say is it's very easy for me to get people signed up and committed to voting this election. Now, fortunately, a lot of people have seen that clip and realized this mandev, this man needs help, not votes. Today was a beautiful day in Minnesota. The weather has been spectacular. The ground bees are really active. They're getting ready for winter."2024-09-1204 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Back to schoolClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And I will tell you that since Kamala Harris of the vice president has entered the race, my job has gotten a lot easier. Right now, my count of committed folks is 127. And of those, 15 are working on their own lists of 100 names, too. And these are people that are all committed to voting for the democratic candidate. So, you know, every voice can, can make a big difference."2024-09-0604 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | A camping trip that I still remember…Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Well, on the last day, after three or four days of this, and it's going to be the very last day, we decided to go really low and get right into the thick woods right by the entrance to this area. And I'm exhausted. I'm tired. I haven't been sleeping. I'm just really, really tired. And so we all take off and very various directions, and, you know, we're doing this hunt."2024-05-1705 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | The Tower of LondonClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Manicured lawns, and there's all of these ravens. And the story is that the ravens ever left the Tower of London, the empire would fall, England would fall. Well, the ravens have stayed there, but just to hedge their bet, they've clipped all the wings of the ravens. And there's actually a person there whose job is to make sure that the ravens are happy and well fed so that they don't make any attempt to leave. So I thought that was kind of curious."2024-05-1604 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | The city of BathClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And so that's her face, I think she's a very striking looking woman. And then that other picture is a picture of the pools that the Romans and their guests would bathe in. Very, very interesting area. Outside that, in the little stores, we had their famous bath buns, which is a sweet roll. It was very, very good. And we, of course, drank a beer there as well."2024-05-1404 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Trip of a lifetimeClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Hello, everyone. I just went on the trip of a lifetime, and I got back last week. I had a little hiccup at the end because right at the end of my time on the tour in the UK, I somehow contracted cool. And so that really knocked me out of my first week home. So that's why there's such a delay in me posting about this trip of a lifetime. It was absolutely wonderful. It was ten days long."2024-05-1304 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Covid round twoClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "I lost my voice and I would cough non stop and uncontrollably for basically a week. But this time, because so much scientific research has been done, they were able to give me a combination of three pills, great big, giant pills. And I took them for a series of five days. And these pills are so strong that I couldn't take any of my regular medication. I have mild cholesterol and I have mild gert, and I take a few pills for that."2024-05-1304 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Trip of a lifetimeClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Yeah, and then we'll end back up at, with a. We'll go through Shakespeare's hometown, and then we'll end up in London again, where we hope to do some garage sailing or thrifting, go to some charity shops and some street markets and that sort of thing. That's something that my wife and I really love to do. We'll also see Bath. That'll be in the, in the front part of the, of the trip."2024-04-1903 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | How do Jehovah’s Witnesses shaped my view of spirituality?Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "They believe that the only safe thing is to give him absolute adoration. This is a God that could ask you to kill your own child, and you must do it. He's a very very vengeful God. So that's the my first bit of religion. I'm going to keep talking on the next swell about my upbringing."2024-04-1704 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | #Perspective | My thoughts on the existence of a parallel universe...Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "The veil is like a curtain and it can be pushed from both sides. My thoughts on the greater existence, if you will, is that time life is a spiral. It's not a linear thing. You know, we want, especially the western mind anyway. We want to think of things in a really easy yardstick kind of way."2024-04-0804 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | 2024 pigskin kickoffClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "I'll hang six racks of ribs in this barrel. Now, understand, I only need to turn in three bones. So I'll have almost six racks of ribs to give away to the public. And that's always a great deal of fun for the folks that come to eat barbecue and to just enjoy the day outside and the smell of the smoke and the good fun that a bunch of us old guys, young guys and gals enjoying what they like to do, which is barbecue smoke meat."2024-04-0804 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Let’s talk about God.Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "I think historically, if we look at the record, it's pretty clear that the God that is worshiped by those three abrahamic faiths, because they all three traced their roots back to Abraham, all worship the same God. Now. They've, of course, each in their own way, refined their image of God into one that exists now. But at their very root, they all worship the same God."2024-04-0804 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Do you like potato salad?Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "I like a potato salad that has a lot of stuff in it, has onions in it, and celery is a must. Also has crispy bacon, top of it, and hard boiled eggs are also in it. The dressing is pure mayonnaise and liberally salt and pepper. To me, that's potato salad at its finest. But I do enjoy a german potato salad, a vinegar and mustard baste with sauteed onions and bacon. And I find a great deal of delight in that as well."2024-04-0703 minJeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Daniel Craig or Sean Connery...Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "They were more almost cartoonish representations of James Bond, where Sean Connery and Daniel Craig were both very, very gritty depictions of James Bond. I read James Bond books at a very, very early age. I was probably, I don't know, 1112 years old. I read these books way above my. My reading group. And so James Bond holds a very close. I really hold it close to my heart. So thanks for this question. Great question. Bye."2024-04-0404 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Cantonese dinnerClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And so one family makes the entree, the vegetables, and any kind of bread that we're going to make and drinks. That's the host family. The guest family is in charge of a dessert from the country that's being studied and learned about. And my last country that I did two weeks ago was I was challenged to do a cantonese dinner. And it was hard. I had not ever made anything like it."2024-04-0204 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Change, good or bad?Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "It is no longer a party that believes in fiscal responsibility or in even democracy in some ways. So my question is, can the people who are making these changes to that party continue to call themselves republican? Or have they moved so far away from the tenets of the republican party that they are no longer Republicans and really are just usurpers of one of the political parties in our country? Let's talk religion."2024-04-0204 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Happy birthdayClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And so that's how I look at being 74. For the most part, I'm not going to tell you that there aren't. Sometimes I don't look in the mirror and think of my age and go, oh, crap. I've just about used this go around up. But for the most part, I am really thankful for the ride, for the journey."2024-03-1104 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | How can I forgive?Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "You. I was born in 1950 to a woman who was born of an irish immigrant and a scottish immigrant in New Jersey. She grew up going to the bar with her father and soon became an alcoholic like him. This is a picture of her when she's probably about 16 years old. And the man next to her, I believe, is my father, but I'm not sure. She got pregnant and she gave me away. No paperwork like you."2024-03-0604 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Forgiveness.Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And just that they held different political views and it wasn't a deal breaker. They could be my friends, we could break bread together, that sort of thing. But then along came Agent Orange. And when I saw this guy, it was really not a question of, oh, goodness, if the Republicans get in, they're going to take away benefits or we won't work on climate like I feel like we should."2024-03-0604 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Dungeons and dragonsClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "But it's creating this story, creating an alternate Persona and fleshing it out. I think that's one of the best parts of DND, and it's one of the parts that keep me and keep my mind fresh and young. I'm always looking for a new character, a new adventure. And if I die, well, you know what? I have three death saves so I can come back. And since I believe in reincarnation, it fits just perfectly in DND."2024-02-2604 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Get outside!Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And these are the things that I think really make your life full. If you're fortunate enough to have a dog, I encourage you to take your dog along on these walks. But that's what I do. I go outside. I see a lot of people when questions like this or this question is raised, they talk about prayer. And that's a great thing. That's a great thing. I am not minimizing anybody's faith. For me, nature is divine."2024-02-2604 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | It really is the little thingsClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "I've been on nextdoor, I left, and I'm fixing to leave Facebook. I just really don't like to have that steady diet of anger that some of those social networks produce. I don't know about TikTok and that I have to sneak up on technology. I'm not up to TikTok level yet, but, yeah, look at that. I got a flower. I got a flower. Made my day. I hope your day is going good."2024-02-2204 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Simply TalkingClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Hello, everyone. What I would like to talk about today and would love to get to hear some of your responses, if the topic interests you, is how we speak to one another. The reason I chose this topic make is quite frankly, I was invited to swell. The person who initiated this swell did so in a measured, reasonable and kind fashion. And it was about college and the relationship of a college degree and your work experience."2024-02-1905 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | My first carClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "I believe it was a very fast car. When I think of muscle cars, I still think of that car. I knew another person who had an old beat up Studebaker. I think it was called a champion. But the thing about it that really stood out in my memory is that the front of it looked like an airplane, like a fighter. And I'm sure it came to be after World War II and kind of reminiscent of fighters."2024-02-1604 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | School safetyClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And this school bond was for one thing and one thing alone, and that was to improve, enhance and ensure that our schools were secure and were able to be locked down in case of a mass shooter. The school I work at, like many of the other schools in my community, and I'm sure around the country, were built during a great period of expansion back in the 1960s."2024-02-0804 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Capitalism is not Democracy or democracy first capitalism secondClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "You. Hello, everyone. I thought I would post this swell to get everyone else's opinions and thoughts on this. I contend that capitalism is not democracy. It can be, but it is not always democracy. And. And I think that a lot of our politics in America is geared towards saving capitalism at the expense of democracy."2024-02-0804 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | ApologiesClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "I think the world would be so much better if we remembered that simple lessons we learned when we were young, that if we've done something that isn't kind, that we apologize. I work at an elementary school, and I hear kindergartners and first graders apologies to one another all the, you know, as a rule, those children really get along well with one another."2024-01-3004 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Primaries just party politicsClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And now here we are, and all the polls tell us that the only Democrat that could possibly lose to Trump is Joe Biden. And yet the Democratic Party is going to give us Joe Biden. I was involved with the Democratic Party for probably 30 to 35, 40 years, a very long time. I held positions within the party. I was a county chair. I ran under the party banner in various elections, won some, lost some. So I kind of know how the democratic party works."2024-01-1904 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | A few thoughts about Swell.Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "But I never have received the types of responses from folks like I have here. If you were to go to my Facebook page, for instance, you would find that I have about 30 people that I am engaged with. And here on this platform I have over 130. And what's really unique about it is none of those are my family or my friends. These are all new folks that I've engaged with. And that's just awesome. It just really is."2024-01-1904 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Iowa votes!Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Probably the single largest reason that the voter turnout was down. Secondly, and one I did not hear mentioned, is the fact that Trump was talked about as the winner of the Iowa caucus from the get go. They were talking about how it was going to be a landslide and nobody else had a chance. And so a lot of people probably stayed home because they know my guy's going to win anyway, or what can I do? He's going to win anyhow."2024-01-1704 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Ritual practice makes a spiritual manClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "You. I believe the thing that has always been constant in my life is that I am a spiritual seeker. And I have spent a great deal of time studying spirituality. Ah. And then acting on what I have learned. And at this point in my spiritual journey, I am being very introspective. Early on. My very earliest encounters with spirituality of any kind was with Jehovah's Witnesses as a young child."2024-01-1704 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | What’s my line? Or is it a line?Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And I was having a bit of a break with two of the other tutors that I work with. And these are very nice people. I am so honored and blessed to get to work with these young women. They're just fabulous, and they help me so much because as an older guy, technology is probably not my strongest suit. But anyhow, I don't know how the conversation got around to went. Basically, the question was posed, do you believe that the Ouija board works?"2024-01-1104 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Vote!Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "So now I have eleven and I need to get 89 more. And what I have done is I've downloaded the polling locations for my community. I've downloaded the paperwork necessary to register to vote, and I've had cards printed up with my name and my phone number and a commitment that if they need to transportation to the polls, I will make it happen. And so I am very serious about this. I fear for my grandchildren if this man is allowed back into the seat of power."2024-01-0904 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | What comes next is what you do 2Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "I had about a couple of cups of those cooked cups, and then I took the and drained the broth off of the lentils and put it in my pan, and I diced up three small potatoes and put those in there. I had a can of stewed tomatoes. I put in a couple of good size fistfuls of collard greens, and so that was my vegetable base. And then I added the chicken back. For the actual curry, I made my own blend."2024-01-0803 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | What you do is whats next.Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "I want to be Santa Claus and go into homes with adults who are at risk and who have challenges in their life, they deserve Santa, too. So those are my four things. What are you folks going to do? You all have a wonderful day. Bye."2024-01-0304 minJeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | What I most grateful for at work.Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And I know that there's probably some teachers out there that aren't as kind as they should be, perhaps, and maybe are not as dedicated as the ones that I see. But for the most part, these teachers that I work with, they're selfless. They do so much above and beyond the bare minimum."2023-12-1404 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Hitchhiking and I meet the GoddessClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "So we got into a car, and the car that he wanted me to drive was a Volkswagen, a little bug, probably a 65 or so bug. We got in and we got on the highway, and immediately the Mooney, he opens the glove box and he sets up some holy cards and, like a bell and stuff like that, and he begins to chant, and I can still hear him chanting, Rama, Rama, Rama, on and on and on."2023-11-1704 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Tis’ the season to make giftsClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And so I watched a whole bunch of those and I ended up putting that together. I used ginger and just a whole lot of other things. So that's, ah, what I've been doing. What have you been doing to get ready for the holidays? Because it is the season to make gifts."2023-11-1304 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Becoming a soldier.Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "But we packed everything in a great big old land yacht, Chevrolet, Caprice, station wagon, and I moved my family back to her parents'farm in southern Minnesota. And I boarded a bus first and then an airplane, and I flew to Fort Jackson in the Carolinas for my initial improcessing and then to Fort Benning, because to get the bonus, I had to go into the infantry. And so I went to Fort Benning, Georgia. Now, I was 30 years old."2023-11-0704 minJeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Why is our flag always at half mast?Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "You. Hello. I'm just going to, I guess, rant a little bit about a personal thing that really upsets me. It seems like our flag is always our nation's flag is always displayed anymore at at half Mass, really, ever since 911. I think it's really accelerated on the reasons they put the flag at half mast."2023-11-0704 minJeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | DNA unlocking secretsClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "You. Good morning, everyone. I have a topic that I would like to put out and see if people are interested in. I was listening to a podcast today, and they quoted a doctor who does research on DNA it. And what the doctor found and his search team found was that our DNA really has remained the same since we were hunter gatherers. In fact, they found that only about 5% of our DNA has changed or modified itself from the times that we were huntergatherers to."2023-10-0402 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Crafting, making, DIYClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And never having done any of this, I just rolled it out with a baker's pie roller that I got at a garage sale for fifty cents. And I started cutting shapes. And the first thing I did was make some ornaments and put them in and by golly, they turned from clay into stone. And that was pretty cool. So I've been on the hunt for low cost items I can use for creating my clay masterpieces. This was my latest efforts."2023-09-1904 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Should i give religion another chance?Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "You. Good morning. Swellcasters. This morning I'd like to pose a question that I've been thinking about a lot lately, and that is whether or not I should give organized religion another chance in my country tree the United States. Christianity is really what I'm talking about, but that's only because that's more or less the only game in town is a variety of Christian churches. And to give you a little background, I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness."2023-08-2404 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | This one hero.Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "It seemed to be a joyous gathering and a very energetic and powerful gathering. So I got closer and I listened to the man, and I could hear a lot of punctuated words. And the crowd would respond in kind with cheers and with fists pumping in the air. But it was a very happy crowd. There was lots of smiles. Well, when it was all over, the man that was speaking kind of went out into the crowd and was shaking hands with everyone."2023-08-1704 minJeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Why are people leaving the church?Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Hello, everyone. I'd like to pose a question and get people's thoughts, and that is, why is the Christian church in America in decline? I across my Apple News feed. There was an article in the Atlantic magazine Zine where the author describes all the reasons why people no longer go in to church and go to church. And there was a variety of reasons. Millennials are busy with their families and working."2023-08-0304 minJeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Old dog new trickClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "But anyway, Irregardless, my new job is I'm going to be a reading tutor for children at the same school that I'm the crossing guard for. And I think that's going to be so much fun. And I get to put on my resume that I have worked for AmeriCorps."2023-07-2503 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Speaking out of boundsClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "I'm very guilty of that. I always thought that it was important for people to see that there was people that were different from them, that agreed with them, but he was pretty animate about no input needed. And so I I don't know exactly what what to do with that."2023-06-2204 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Living in America means living in fearClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "I think some famous person in the great past, the Greeks and Romans or whatever, made a comment that great countries aren't brought down by outside forces, but by themselves, from within. And I'm fearful, and I'm scared for all of us. Thank you."2023-05-1004 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Becoming a spiritual personClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "It isn't because I'm flighty, it's just because I want to see, I want to learn and then I want to go on. And right now I consider myself a guian, a worshipper of Mother Earth. At various times I've considered myself a pagan, a wiccan, and many other many other things. And I was just wondering how is everybody else arrive at their spirituality? And do they feel comfortable with where they're at on their spiritual path?"2023-04-1903 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | The Gaian Creed3Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Truthfully, with the lag between emissions and warming, not to mention positive feedback loops being unleashed as the world warms, it is far too late, isn't it? But it is not too late to slow down or to use Pandemic language to flatten the curve of the collapse and in doing so, save billions of lives. A great portion of the land, habitats, species, all that are in danger of being lost. That's the broader movement across races, cultures, geographies and genders."2023-04-1704 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Crossing guard reads a poemClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "A poet could not be but gay in such jukand company. I gazed and gazed, but little thought what wealth the show to me had brought. For oft when on my coach I lie in vacant or impensive mood they flashed upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude and then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils. I wish every one of you today to get to dance with the daffodils. Peace and blessings."2023-04-0503 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Crossing Guard thoughtClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "A child's outlook for many of us, today was just a rainy day here in Minnesota and gosh, it made things messy and all of this, but a child sees a puddle and sees an opportunity to have some fun. So that's one of the things I love about Crossing Garden. Another thing I'd like to just talk about briefly is tomorrow is Caesar Chavez's birthday and it's a federal holiday in many, many places."2023-03-3104 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | The Gaian Creed 2Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "You. The earth is our mother. The fundamental starting point of Gaia ethics is planetary obligation. Gaia is a living planet, one which we depend on and are part of. And it is our duty to care for and actively heal Gaia until once again healthy. This stems from the ancient understandings an ancient confucian code of obligations to parents. Our parents cared for us when we were defenseless and provided us with food and nourishment."2023-03-3103 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Crossing guard aloneClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And it just breaks my heart. Today there are families that are grieving. And they're grieving because they sent their child to school or they went to work at a school to teach young people. It's just wrong. And we will do nothing. I know that this probably isn't the place for it, but I believe that all automatic firearms should be outlawed. I believe that all pistols should be outlawed. I have been a hunter in my life."2023-03-2904 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | For the love of fire and smokeClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Later in the spring, I'm going to cook some beef ribs or dino ribs, and I'll be using my pit barrel, so it's going to be kind of an indirect thing, and I'm looking forward to doing that later. The picture is is a leg of lamb, and that was a lot of fun, and it really turned out nicely. Did a garlic, rosemary, and lemons with some olive oil, and that's what I basted it with."2023-03-2004 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | The Gaian CreedClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Everything has a spirit. The rule that I have followed for the vast majority of my life could be summed up in the witch's riddy and ye harm none, do what ye will. But I have come across something that has really interested me just recently and that's the Guyan way to actually put a religious name to what I have felt to be the truth for a very long, long time. The guyan way. I don't know quite frankly how active it is."2023-03-2004 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Fire! Oh no!Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "The temperature today is nine degrees, and it feels like temperature is ten degrees below zero because there's a pretty good breeze, which probably increase the danger of the fire. But people will go out. I do it. Everyone in Minnesota does it that does not have a garage. You go out and you start your car and let it run and warm up. We call it warm up."2023-03-1702 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Crossing Guard musingsClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And then it proceeded to methodically tear this little bird up. I don't know if it was a territorial thing or if it just wanted to prove a point to me that this wasn't my corner, this was its space. And the second thing I wanted to talk about, just for a second, is the snow."2023-03-1604 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | The best timeClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And I got to thinking, the way he was dressed, that he might not worry about having to wear a mask or feeling that he needed to wear a mask, because people might not have been so judgmental. His eyes sparkled. He had a great smile that came from his eyes, and he had a nice voice."2023-03-1502 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Crossing guard lamentsClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "There's a complex here of probably eight, maybe even more buildings. Each one of them contain 16 apartments, I believe, and it's filled with folks from Africa, from South America, and folks from many other parts of the world. And it's just great. It's just awesome. The people have really embraced me here."2023-03-1404 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Storytime 1973Click here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "It seemed like 100 miles an hour straight back into the garbage pit, which was on fire. The trailer went completely into the pit and the truck went about halfway into the burning pit of garbage. I jumped in the truck and put it into the lowest gear possible and it just grabbed barbed wire and such and wrapped it around the axle. I exited the truck when the rear tires started blowing up from the heat."2023-03-1304 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Crossing guard thoughtsClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "And when we act in destructive manners on Earth, if we do it long enough and we do it enough, pretty soon Gaia Mother Earth is going to take actions to eliminate the part of her that is causing distress to the whole. And that's why I believe we see storms and all manner of events on Earth, earthquakes and all of that, even right on down to birth rates. Birth rates across the world are down. There are more old people than there are babies being born."2023-03-1004 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Thursday thoughtClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Christianity, as it's shaken out in my country. The USA is a very hard hearted, unloving, judgmental bunch of elderly white men with some elderly white women that want to put their will, force their will on everyone else in the country. I much rather they just kept their faith to themselves and they can believe whatever they want to believe. But do not try to force it down somebody else's throat, especially using political power to leverage it. That's just unacceptable."2023-03-0903 min
Jeremiah Myer@Jeremiah73 | Crossing Guard musingClick here to reply to @Jeremiah73 "Because kindergarteners and first graders don't always make the best decisions when it comes to traffic. So everybody have a great day. Peace. Believe in yourself. Bye."2023-03-0802 min