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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 o...

Bovine Bob Finally Finds His Voice

A 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 Pasture

Another 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 b...

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...

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 weeken...

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 ...