GRIFFY LAKE 7-MILE LOOP: I cross one off my bucket list!

February 10, 2025

My older son Sean, who lives in Boulder Colorado, once again (he comes every six months), is here for one week, for daily visits with his paralyzed, nerve-damaged brother Colin, still residing in a local nursing home. 

And so, I took advantage of a great opportunity: to plan a 7-mile hike with someone who also loves hiking, and besides, he’s my other son! (I used to do everything I wanted to do alone, but now, at 82, I’ve gotten more cautious, especially on long and/or infrequently traveled trails).

We did the hike yesterday, and it was a doozer. Only minutes from the north edge of Bloomington, Griffy Lake is one that Puppy Scampi and I visit often, for a 3 mile hike on a frequently traveled trail. So this one would be an adventure.

The entire lake is now encircled with a trail. Sean made sure to take a photo of the map, so we wouldn’t get lost.

Notice, at about 1 PM on the map, the loop that says “hiking trail.” That’s the one we usually take, and since it has both a hill to climb, and a creek to walk along, it’s very enjoyable.

The trail that encircles the entire lake, however, is, I’d say now, only partially enjoyable. The south side, which, you’ll notice, has many comings and goings, due to many small canyons that need to be traversed on trails above. Though much longer than the trail on the north side of the lake, it’s easy and fun.

It’s probably good that we tackled the north side first, while I was still relatively fresh. Because . . .

. . . there were a few tense minutes there, thanks to narrow canyons on that side of the lake. I had to climb them on my hands and knees, grabbing nearby roots to pull me up. Had the trail been washed out? Not sure.

In any case, that hike around Griffy had been on my bucket list for years, and thank you Sean, we did it!

PAUL CUDENEC OVERVIEW: “one massive world-spanning public-private criminal enterprise”

February 8, 2025

While I’m not at all convinced that the various interconnected parts of the onrolling totalitarian takeover Cudenec depicts will actually succeed (nor is he), given the squirrely nature of millions of thoroughly sovereign souls, his is the most breathtakingly detailed depiction I’ve ever come across.

Meanwhile, advice to myself:

Hold your center. Ground into this good Earth while reaching for the stars above. Let the Love that fills and fuels the universe pour through your open heart. And do so, right here, at home, in our Green Acres Permaculture Village, in our Green Acres Neighborhood, in our Bloomington Indiana, U.S.A.

Zisglom

 

Excerpt:

I think it is helpful to be able to understand that the thing in question is not some mysterious, shadowy, otherworldly spectre, but a real organisation, a kind of giant holding company whose sheer size and scope makes it very difficult for us little people to see.

It is called by various names – I tend to refer to it as the system, the criminocracy or the single global mafia.

I also like Mees Baaijen’s term “Glafia” (global mafia), but for the purposes of this piece I am going to use the label Zisglom, being an abbreviation of “single global mafia” with an added prefix to indicate the ever-more evident Zionist aspect of its identity.

Zisglom has been built up into its current über-dominant form over a couple of centuries, although on the foundations of pre-existing power structures and networks.

It was constructed with money gained by usury, sharp practice and outright criminality and used this money to buy power, thus enabling it to engineer further means of increasing its financial wealth at the expense of society as a whole.

The euphemisms it uses to describe this parasitical self-enrichment, the bleeding-dry of nature and people for its own interests, are “progress”, “growth” and “development”.