7.6.25 - Day 6... its not going well or could be better 🫠

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Deranged cook

Yesterday I made elderflower fitters for the first time. It was really good. Used tempura batter 

I love my life, but for the past two days the fast was not quite a fast. Well yesterday I did fast for 20 hours, then I had a blowout. Well, not really a blowout. Honestly, I must just not be so hard on myself. I did have some veg this morning though, but still, it's ok. Not the end of the world.

I have the vision for the sessions for the young people. BUT I really want to work this up beautifully. Really get all the expertise in place before I pitch it. I have this vision and detachment which is awesome.

I have had such a great time this last term. Things are drawing to a close for me and all the pain of the last 5 years has almost all gone. I feel released. It took only 5 years for things to settle down.

The US is imploding. The thing though is they kind of did it to themselves. So they have no one else to blame but themselves. I suppose I have seen this thing coming a waaay off, but now it is here - because the people who were in charge refused to do anything about it. I could say I don't understand how come they are so stupid and never saw this coming, but I DO know how it happened. It happened mostly because of human weakness. Vanity, greed, hubris (pride), sloth, envy - all the seven deadly sins. All of them, all on full show. It's just simply wonderful that this problem has been identified for hundreds of years and knowing what we know, we still just walked straight off the cliff.

Well, is it enough that I say I didn't take part in it? No, of course not. I have also been fighting the good fight in the places which matter. The edge and the corners. Building the second house so that when it all comes crashing down, at least we built the second house.

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