The electronic devices keep the mouth open so they can transmit their subliminal suggestions in order to control your mind and convince you to trade in your money for their worthless garbage.
And when the mouth is open, people complain all day about their problems that can only be solved by buying stuff that will make all their problems go away.
These people are so busy working and spending so much time in their alternate electronic universe, that they don’t realize that the reason why there is never money left at the end of the month is the fact that they are trading it for all that stuff that is cluttering up the house.
But if that same person turned off the electronic time consuming device, shut the mouth, and opened the eyes, an amazing thing happens. The complaint can’t find it’s way out of the mouth, so it’s sent back into the brain where the data is sent back and forth through the neurons and dendrites until the complaint finds it’s way into the long term memory.
When this happens, the data is processed over and over again during R.E.M. sleep until one day, it pops up over the head in the form of a clever idea.
Like this one:
Lettuce can be grown in any window, or on any point on earth that is touched by sunlight. It has been scientifically proven that lettuce has nutrients necessary for proper cell growth, and optimal health. A diet high in lettuce can prevent obesity, cancer, heart disease, and depression. Lettuce is also far too expensive. I like to eat a giant bowl of it every day for dinner and lunch. So I decided to grow my own, and since then, I have discovered amazing discoveries.
You can save the end of romaine lettuce from the grocery store, stick it in soil and it will grow roots and grow a whole head of lettuce. You can cut the leaves from lettuce in the garden, and it will grow right back. If you grow lettuce in nice soil and keep it moist, the lettuce won’t be bitter. And the last interesting fact, I can drown it in salad dressing, and still loose weight as long as I don’t eat any bread with it.
I have also stuck carrot tops and the bottoms of cut onions into soil and grown new ones.
AWESOME!
I love the art work here and the advice and you are so right about lettuce 0 it is far too expensive! So, do you think that a Scottish lass like me has much chance of growing lettuce in our dreich (dreary) climate?
Wow! What I wouldn’t do to live in Scotland. It seems like the best place to grow things. Actually, lettuce loves cold wet environments. I live in Texas, and it is so hard to keep lettuce watered in the summer, but it grows great all winter long. Is Scotland similar to England? There is a famous Food Forest in England. I would say you will do great with growing things, but only if you want to do great. Believe in the power of the human mind.
Very nice. But it may not apply since like half of everyone has REM disturbance. 30% from alcohol (sherriff’s dept figure) { made up numbers follow} 7% from habitual pot smoke 2% from other drugs 50% from tv induced poor sleep short sleep and insomnia 10% from psych drugs (?) 20% from work related bad sleep 9 % school related bad sleepp…
Did you know that fifty percent of all statistics are made up?
I really love the idea of growing my own vegetables. When I’m out of my student flat, I hope to begin, cause now there’s almost not room for me, not to talk about lettuce.. but yeah, I guess I’m just proving your point on “stuff that is cluttering up the house”
Nice post!!
I have a thin rectangle planter in my windowsill that is filled with basil. There is a big locavore movement in New York City and I have seen pictures with people growing hanging hydroponic planters filled with lettuce and herbs.
Very interesting comments on lettuce. However the picture of a hungry woman holding what looks like a fork and eyeing a pet goldfish hints of a story yet to be told.
That is an edible tilapia in the tank. I should have explained that.
electronic time consuming device LOL Yes, SO true! Much better to dig in the dirt and grow things.
Today is the birthday so to speak of the FED
All true. Also, just planting a little plot of edibles and tending to it regularly requires us to get up off our butts for a few minutes a day — which will further help recycle those complaints into clever ideas.
When I was a young, working-two-jobs single mom on a tight budget, my son and I grew all kindsa vegetables in make-shift ways (empty milk cartons proved ideal for indoor tomato plants); we even coaxed some corn out of a really big pot the landlord let us use, and turned a 1-foot strip of dirt into melon patch. I wish people would realize it ain’t hard: vegetables are just plants, and plants want to grow!
Plus, it feels really really good to eat something that you grew yourself.
I like the story of your single mom days, gardening with your son. It seems like doing that kind of thing with your kids is so nurturing for the soul. How did your son turn out, if you don’t mind me asking.
He does have a good soul — it’s his decision-making I’m not so sure about! But he’s a grown man now, so his stepdad and I just have to learn to back off and let him solve his own problems. (Truthfully, he asked us to just that, which was tough to hear, but he’s starting to get his life in order, so he must know better than we do after all.)
Great idea! We do need to get back to nature.
I had no idea you could do that with romaine lettuce! I will be digging out my planter and trying it in the New Year.
I love lettuce! Salads are my favorite. I’ll have to try your romaine lettuce tip in the spring. Thanks! -Lori
Have made 3 salads for tonight’s supper. Love the artwork. Must take ages and ages… Thanks for the like!
Thank you for visiting my blog – it led me back to yours, which I have really enjoyed reading. I am also taking away some useful tips! I will definitely be attempting to grow lettuce at home from now on – what a great idea. We are halfway there, as we already grow our own herbs and use them in cooking – this seems like the next logical step! And I love lettuce!
Cool blog. I have a garden and grow hundreds of pounds of food each year. I make all of my own pasta sauce and it is so much better than the jar stuff. I will have to try the romaine lettuce idea. I have not had much luck with lettuce in the past.
Okay, wow. You are so awesome! High five for growing your own food.
All fresh veggies are getting outrageously priced. I wish I lived someplace where I could have my own garden. It’s the one thing that stinks about inner city living.
I have heard of community groups getting together and building gardens on empty city plots. I know there are some in Chicago and New York City. There is even a guy who keeps bees on the rooftops of buildings in New York City.
Clotildajamcracker, loved this! Your voice is unique and energizing.
Maria
Nicely written, I agree with you 100%
Eat raw! A plant based diet is optimal, as live as possible should be the aim.
Are you a raw vegan? I ate a completely raw diet for two months last year and I lost ten pounds. It’s so healthy.
I am eating about 80% raw vegan and cooked vegan for the rest. I have lost a lot of weight and I’m feeling extremely healthy and creative.
Omgosh! I’ve tried and tried growing lettuce from seeds, and i just can’t produce anything edible. I will be giving your tips a shot!! Tank you for sharing!!
The buttercrunch lettuce sometimes comes lives with the roots still on.
Thanks for dropping by. Your lettuce experiment has inspired me to try it out.
Keep up the good work.
I will certainly try this out, sounds great as I loooove salad. Thank you so much, I learn a lot from you! Merry Christmas! Ute x
i like this a whole bunch.
I think you can do the same thing with celery too.
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I think this is so true! How about a new perspective on all those shiny new presents you got for Christmas this year?
For Christmas this year, my dear friend, who knows me better than anyone else, made me a 1950s apron from a vintage pattern, and she also bought me a farmer’s almanac. My husband bought me a box of soap. I guess he thinks I stink. My mother in law made me a box of homemade stationary. Grandpa gave my husband and I twenty bucks. And my sister in law gave me a very interesting painting that her baby made with her feet. And that’s all I got. Now my kids…. dear lord, why? The relatives bought them loads of gifts.
Okay, to be honest, my husband bought the rock band attachment for the xbox so our kids can learn to play the guitar, drums, and keyboard, and how to sing in key. It even comes with lessons on how to play. They make a guitar for the xbox that is actually just like playing a real guitar. I think it’s practical… music lessons for four kids can get expensive if you hire a professional, so hey, it’s a bargain.
(Okay, I’m a hypocrite, but I have a right as an American to justify my wrong doings so that I can appear to be perfect, and therefore have enough self esteem to hang my head high and make it until tomorrow.)
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Hi Jamcracker! I too love the magic lettuce plant that continues to provide leafy new nourishment as I peel away the outside leaves; and I must say I agree that it’s become way too expensive. I had no idea I could use the end of the romaine to start a new one though, so I’ll be trying that. I live where it’s dark and cold so may have to wait for warmer weather, but it will be a fun science experiment. Thanks !
I love your blog!
Not just REM sleep, but whatever happened to quiet contemplation?
What a fantastic idea, I think I may have to try it out!
It’s encouraging for me, a Baby Boomer (1955), to see someone much younger who appreciates that life is more than electronic gadgets. Here’s to a future of thinkers who want to work with the wonderful Nature we were given by God to solve problems and prevent unnecessary ones!
This was a fun read. And thank you for your frequent visits to my blog. Please let me know if there is anything related to the financial markets you’d like researched. Best wishes.
Cool ideas Clotildajc, your drawilngs are sooo cheerful
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