No Joke

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On the ranch.
(photo P Volker)

Yea, no joke, this blog has been hopping lately. I was really serious about Jessika becoming our new Liaison yesterday. And yes, I was semi serious about all my friends being major quirks; well, maybe just half of them. And no joke our readership is up these last few months. I have to thank Annie and Catalina for mentioning us with their groups. So, welcome new folks, hope you are getting the drift of what is going on here. If you figure it out please let me know, I’d be interested.

But also, no joke, tomorrow is the long awaited election day here in these United States. Everyone here is just pulled as taunt as possible. It is amazing anyone is sleeping anymore. But fortunately nature marches on to it’s own beat feet away from me. The weeping willow still weeps and the nuthatches still hatch right outside the window. This is all fortunate as one needs frequent breaks from the political reality swirling around. Oh, the ravens are squawking overhead, complaining that I didn’t mention them. OK, OK, calm down. Yes, they are still raving.

Our son Wiley and his good friend James and I are off on the big elk hunt this Friday. So, I am making out menus and buying supplies and trying to locate all my gear. So, I don’t really know how may blog posts will be coming out in the next two weeks. There is zero internet and cell contact at our camp or the environs.

So, we all (the American electorate) bravely march on through this Election Eve hoping for the best. Prayers would help from any direction. Fastening our safety harnesses.

weeping, hatching and raving loves, Felipé.

7 thoughts on “No Joke”

  1. Dear boss,

    Yes… we are in one of those “deep times” again, aren’t we? Europe in a lock down, people in the streets complaining again, the USA in the doors of the presidential election… Latin-American countries already in a hole that will cost 25 years to crawl out from… but at the same time, I feel this is one more chance to do the right thing.

    I am learning a lot lately from someone I am working with directly, and from his group of friends. One of them posted just recently a note in Instagram that said something that translated sounds like “Healing has occurred when we manage to stop reacting to things that hurt us, in the same way we always did that also hurt us”. And I was thinking that somehow, that is what this second wave of the pandemic is giving us, a new chance to heal. Will we react in the same way we did before knowing that it hurt us (and hurt others)? Or will we take this new chance to practice other ways of reacting that may lead us to healing?

    How can that look like as citizens of this world? Can we expand the circle of our own wellbeing and think of those I don’t know but would benefit from my actions and reactions?

    I am not saying it is easy, I am saying it is an opportunity.

    Goodwill Hunting Loves,
    Cris

    1. Cris ~ So glad that you are here with us today. Yes, we must concentrate on taking hold of the opportunity of it all. Keep us on that path Cris. Felipé.x

  2. Phil, I am glad to count myself among your Quirky Friends. I used to pray, as a young girl, (from The Fantastics),”Oh God, don’t let me be normal!” Guess he heard my prayer! And gifted me with fellow exceptional companions like you to walk the journey with me!
    Who needs normal loves,
    Henriette Anne

    2. Henriette ~ OK, glad you are with me. And as a matter of fact you are getting pretty darn high on the quirkometer! Bet you haven’t checked lately. But normal is so passé, yes? What was that phrase that we used to have, “beyond normal”? See you this afternoon, Felipé.x

  3. Phil, you guys have an awesome hunt!!!
    I’m a grandma, is my newest news. A baby girl, Zoey.
    Love this big…. just wow 💖

    1. Bonnie ~ oh, I am so happy for you and your family. Congratulations! Thank you for the news. Felipé.x

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