Earth Service Corps

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The first music I have authored in some time. This was the first song getting back into the music last year. Previously found on loudly, I have moved into N-Tune as my DAW.You will likely hear more as I have been writing music and poetry my entire life, just didn't have the confidence to perform. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Do I Exist If I’m Not Thinking About Myself?Whoever asked this question, you are our hero for the moment, and a small part of me might actually be in love with the part of you that got your fingers moving!Try as we might, no matter how earnestly we endeavor to not think, we inevitably end up thinking about not thinking!Sabrina and Yobi capturedd one of our recent attempts at “un-being”.It reminds me of the flight lessons of my youth, where my 1st lesson was to understand that the art of flying REALLY resides in one’s ability to throw themselves at the ground, and miss.Pondering whether the bags will hold all the way down-digital art by YobiI was an abject failure.More extra strength garbage bags, even if they are attached to shoulders, all the ‘kid logical’ body parts, or gripped in believing fingers, never equated to any slower decent from the roof of my home, than the previous attempts.My partner entertained no such ‘illogical’ fantasies in her youth, but I can carry her away in my overabundant enthusiasm from time to time. It was with this aforementioned enthusiasm by which we strove to go from:“I think, therefore I am,” to,“I do not think, and therefore I am not”It was a sight here in our little Airstream home, not 20 minutes hence, where we made the attempt to “un-be”.We are sorry to say, it was unsuccessful. It is with heavy heart we report this to our reader family. Please do not think less of us, and know, if some adventurous reader succeeds, that you do so on the shoulders of giants.GIANTS!!!!Post Script: Sabrina respectfully submits that she is not a giant, and that she did not have high hopes for success. If one thinks of the statement “I think, therefore I am.” as a conditional statement, “If I think, then I am”, the inverse statement, “If I do not think, then I am not.” would not necessarily be expected to be true. Similarly, the converse, “If I am, then I think.” need not be true, as any inanimate object could attest (well; maybe not; that being the point). However, the contrapositive should be true: “If I am not, then I do not think.” ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

What is integrity and how is consistancy are part of it?

Bovine Bob Finally Finds His VoiceA story about how one Bovine dealt with important information when no one else was listening!Bob watching the sunset out in the fields of The PastureAnother day in the field, with wonderfully green tasting grass. The sun was setting in the distance. It was a glowing ball, crowned with strings of melting gold filaments as it is extinguished in the darkening pastures, just beginning to blossom in violets, maroons, and various pinks and yellows.A sting pinched at Bovine Bob’s rear haunch, and he instinctively swatted at it with his tail and looked at his rump, the ‘food of the gods’, grass, hanging from his chewing jaw, allowing Bob to catch a glimpse of the sun as it gave up it is life to the slice of earth’s horizon.“Hmmm. Another gorgeous day’s sun goin’ out on the earth’s unforgiving sharpness. Sliced away into all those pretty colors till the next sun makes its appearance.” Bob thought to himself. He was an average bull in his herd, and he never made much of a fuss and kept to himself in most things, as good cattle oughtta do.He turned back to gather up the last of the days’ vittles before he headed back to bed down with the rest of the herd in clumps for the night. As he lowered his head to a particularly colorful patch blade that was under another member of herd’s ol’ chewed up and discarded eatin’s, he noticed something popping out of it. It looked like some shrooms that often dot the field after a moist evening or morning. An awful lot of em, in fact, but Bob didn’t mind. They usually just added a nice flavor to the vittles he was eating, even though they could be right bitter-tasting every once in a while.These were not. These mushrooms made the grasses they were laying on taste wonderful! He pondered this as he turned and made his way back to the herd’s sleepin’ place, which would be getting reasonably dark once he made it there.By the time he was about to plop down on his favorite spot, Bob was beginning to see a ‘spectrum’ of colors. “Spectrum? What’s that word doin’ in my head? And how do I know what it means? Whoa!” and that last thought echoed and shivered itself into layers of free associatin thoughts beyond the usual ‘moo’ we all know and love. He began dancing through the blinking things in the dark skies above, jumping clean over the moon while doing so. He turned into a lady singing on stage by the name of “J-Lo”. He was, for a time, a fly sitting on his rump, extremely hot and annoyed at something for what seemed like an age. He got deep, realizing something he hadn’t ever thought of before. He was A cow! He felt like doing something like, uh, laughing or something? He didn’t know how to describe what he had never experienced before. He also felt despondent, and above it all, he was hungry for a hamburger, whatever that was supposed to be, food maybe? Whatever it was, he somehow knew it to be delicious! His thoughts were bumping into each other as they turned into the herd of his youth when he was just a calf, before his Ma and Pa had taken the Journey with the Handlers to join the Big Herd in the Big Field.This memory was much more vibrant than anytime he ever thought about those days that had gone before, echoing sounds crisscrossing before his nose, ticklin’ a bit, then becoming visible themselves before him. He again watched the Handlers’ “Hiya,” and “There! There! That’a’way!,” his Ma and Pa into the boxes to take em to join the Big Herd. Except this time, he popped out of his calf self and into his Ma’s head!The slide-box they were in had slits which Ma could see out of. But moo, it was a bit crowded and uncomfortable. An interminable amount of time passed, and Ma, Pa, and the others were trying to get a hold of the Handlers to let them know of their discomfort. Sometimes it just seemed like tha’ Handlers could hear, but were ignorin’ em on purpose. The movement of the box was making a couple of Ma’s stomachs woo-hoo-zy!The box stopped jostling, then opened, and the Handlers were “Come on y’all, Hiya!” and “Here, Here” -ing them. Suddenly Bob’s view shifted, and he was in Pa’s head now. Ma had just entered a larger box ahead of Pa, and Pa could see movement out inside of it. Pa was dreadfully confused as to where they were all at. Where he and the others were at didn’t look like a large pasture at all! Pa was getting very anxious and crowded in by the others. Some of them were trying to ask the Handlers questions directly, but they didn’t seem to notice or respond. Pa had just made it through the opening of the large box and could make out, “no, that didn’t make sense. What would cattle be doing with their hooves in the air?”“What were those horrible cries from the ones ahead?” Pa thought, then Pa got an honest good look at the one’s ahead, and Pa’s mind just went white with fear, confusion, and horror!Bob was a-mooing all night, right bothering all the cattle near him. Some had to move away to have any hope of sleep whatsoever. Whatever Bob was a dreamin’, it was unusual, those who were near him commented to each other, and that was sure as milkin in the morning for the Milk Cows!Bob woke with his head feeling like he had licked far too much salt the day before. Like he had been kicked hard in the head by ‘nother member of the herd. It took him a while to get his legs under himself to stand, and his legs were shaky. One of the Handlers took notice of Bob’s trouble getting up and was beginning to come over to him, a thing that would typically have been a welcome thing to occur, but this time, Bob shivered from the top of the dome of his head down to the start of his tail. He also started moving quickly to stall the Handler, placing a hand on him. He half walked; half ran to join the others.When he had caught up and finally fallen into a regular gait, he settled into the relaxing walk into the fields that was a nice routine he could easily allow himself to relax into. He began to listen to the usual morning chatter that was a staple of the herd, making it out to the fields for the day.“Francine said she heard Betsy tell Georgine that she had heard Marla say she had overheard, the Rancher’s daughter says we were going to be taken to the Big Field to join the Big Herd at the end of this week!” said Claudette matter — of-factly.Bob’s limbs stiffened, and after a moment, he found himself compelled to speak up.“We shouldn’t get in the Boxes then!” he had more than spoken up. He had darn near shouted it out. “The Handlers are going to take us to another, larger Box, where they are going to,” Bob shuddered. He couldn’t help it, then he continued, “they, they are, are going to KILL US and the Ranchers will EAT US!”His statement echoed over the herd, making his head hurt even more. It felt like he was get...

Sure, I could have added the sound effects, but the download was taking HOURS! So, here is the all-at-once reading of "Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Like a Kick in the..." until I have a better version. For a sudden read & one pass through the editor, you won't be disappointed! If you are, well, your likely one of those six ol' soreheads I am always seeing on city signs around the country. You can read the entire article on Medium if you like, here. If you enjoy it, it would help improve the productions to have a larger audience! Subscribe! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

My youngest son, Judah, a.k.a. June (pronounced Jew-see), got a couple of early B-day gifts, a wood-burning kit, I and, surprisingly, a djareedoo. Almost 15, he learned he enjoyed wood-burning, and he is a natural, near-savant level of talent with the djareedoo! Inside of 30 minutes and he was outperforming anyone I have ever known who played. Listen to a song once or twice, and he was picking it up. To enshrine the weekend, I composed the music while he burned wood, then did a live cast with him. Despite some technical challenges, we got something packaged and uploaded. Here are the two raw files ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Fred, a new contributor to the E.S.C. Hatch who is quite the character! He recently read an article decrying the loss of memes to the younger folks through their commodification and essential copyright of these "memes" through the use of Non-Fudgable Tokens, or N.F.T.'s. NFT's are being bandied about and can apparently solve all problems from the screws used in your dishwasher to every single onion layer of animation, and all the way down to Inspector 19, who inspects Fruit o the Loom, is lining up to get their just deserts! Fred has some definite thoughts on this, and all under 3 Minutes! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Three veterans, a Marine from the 1990's, an Army veteran from the 1980's, and an Army veteran from 2016-2018, debates Truth, Discuss Story and current events, and Value.

This show is about Truth, as is every show, but the full concept of what the basis for an ESC Hatch is about. This was recorded In Adin, CA, from the Haven of Rest. We headed up to the clearest skies in the country on Mt. Shasta and the surrounding countryside. My youngest son has a telescope, and we cannot get good views in the Bay area, so we are checking out the son's telescope and the stars and planets. Not sure if we will make it back in time to do a Sunday night show, so this is the stand in for that possibility. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Got new skills and new tools.  'mic check' was eventually cashed, then I explain why the Truth of Human Life is the foundational cornerstone for The ESC Hatch, and all Pilgrims and Greenhorns engaged with it. Then Ali calls in from India. He is a 22 year old student studying to become a govt diplomat, with his goal to become an ambassador and retire at 60.We exchanged very open and deep questions, then dove into the meaning of living at all. After the call, myself, along with some mixed culture "yuths", @Stuart, @ZomieLover, et al., did a "post show" exploration of human social engagement where they chatted my channel up. I also learned to be a 'podhuld', or 'cuckpod', or 'livecuck'. Whatever you call a host whose audience has taken over the chat, leaving me to read their chat in a multitude of voices, From Donald Duck, to James Bond. Droopy Dog, Shaggy, the Ice King and many others. I also reported on our current project progress. Check us out to find out when we will be 'hatching' in a city near you!

WE are Earth,And Our Garden,Does not seem well.Eden cries out,That it is not hidden,Nor lost.Marco Molitor on UnsplashEden wants to be seen,Under Our feet,Felt in Our blackening lungs,In the unnatural grit,In Our teeth when We drink,And in other Deep Places,Of which We do not speak.MEAX on UnsplashWhether YOU see, or sense is irrelevant,Once OUR Collective Self,First knew, Its own mortality,Our absolute lack of ability,To save, or ever after answer why,Would our Creator make,Such beauty, only to annihilate,Our Earth, Our Garden, Our Blue Sky?David Sutton on UnsplashIn fathomless sadness,We refused the Knowledge,Of Ourselves, within ANY Garden,Choosing to live within the waterfall,Of every single tear, from every eye falling,In each, and all, and any coming year.Matteo do Orio on UnsplashWe must release Our Fear.The requirement of Life, is its Death.Yet that does not mean, We should part early.If We stop what The Fear, shall never mend,And in Love Born in One again,Will All grow strong, As Love Borne by All, Once Again,... yes, Again.Matte Adame on UnsplashLet Us continue, with the only Eden,We will ever have, and have ever known,From the start of the Big Loud Bang,‘Till the flat Ultra Vanta Black,Freezes even the Thought of Heat,And all Memory of Water, or Ground.Vruyr Martirosyan on UnsplashThis is the moment, We must choose,To, WAKE UP!or lie Forever,Having not chosen, in Our Self-Made Prisons:Frozen,Floating,In eternal terror found.The ESC Hatch by A. P.Y. Blumberg ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

I’ve seen enough people who die for an idea. I don’t believe in heroism; I know it’s easy and I’ve learnt it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.~Albert Camus, from The Plague, 1947.On Monday, October 26th, 2020, my brother-in-law, whom I have known since I was 8 years old, died from complications from COVID-19 and a heart attack in Odessa, Texas.Read more hereFollow me here

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