The Avocado Problem, Crisis of Cuisine…
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This is a problem that won’t go away, getting worse and worse by the day, it seems, with solutions hard to find. Please write your Congressman and demand action. No, this is not about David ‘Avocado’ Wolfe, though he may have a dog in the hunt, so to speak (if you’re a Southerner by birth, or a recent convert, not likely, since the jobs are few). David himself seems to be laughing all the way to the bank. But I digress…
We all know what an avocado’s like when it goes bad, too soft, especially when you didn’t even know that it was yet quite ripe, you a victim of that ‘bad avocado smell’. Words can hardly describe it, as if they could describe any smell, synaesthesia best left to its own devices and the testimony of sense organs themselves. Suffice it to say that you’ll know it when you smell it, God forbid that you should taste it, that dark acrid smell of decay, bad timing and nutrient misuse. It seems to occur on the inner surface of the skin, so that’s one possible way to salvage the fruit, carefully avoiding the skin and removing any pulp in its contact, though if you’ve already smelt the fetid meat first, then good luck, as that smell pervades… (More …)
Imagine a place out on the steppes of Asia, the stepping stones to Europe, maybe the Caucasus, or somewhere farther east, out on the outskirts of the civvies and the cities, say maybe 5-6000 years ago, with the climes warming up and paths leading north, where a group of people probably only a few thousand strong, not so urban, but not so stupid, playing around with wheels and ales and axles and weapons, found a will and a way in this world, spreading outward until they gradually lost contact with each other and their languages became harder to understand, eventually to become the Celts of Europe and the Persians of Asia and the Greeks of the Mediterranean, and the Hittites who never really left, now North Europeans, South Europeans, Indians, Iranians, and… Armenians, who never really left… 
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Kc are discussing. 
I just joined a ‘Spiritualism’ group on Facebook last week, hoping for something more than the usual cat videos and pictures of everybody’s good ol’ granddad. It was pretty disturbing, frankly. First of all, ‘Spiritualism’ apparently not only does not include religion, but religion is outright forbidden, in fact. So I thought maybe my definition of ‘Spiritualism’ was imprecise, skewed if not screwed, but if it is, then so is theirs. They even use the term ‘ Spirituality’ interchangeably, so I definitely know what that means. Am I the only one who sees a clear connection between religion and spirituality? Duh…
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