Wendy's Coffeehouse Curious

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." - John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914) OddsnEnds -     "I bought a paranormal property." Brandon Fugal. Newsweek . People often ask me, "Are you a believer"? My honest answer is, "No. I am an experiencer." # SkinwalkerRanch Pentagon seems ready to legitimize UFOs  - and the jokesters are having none of it.  Futurism. Picture yourself in a floating magnetic pod ? Try it. Reuters.   Novel approach. French Military taps Sci-Fi creatives to prep for future threats. The Debrief . Boom to bust - Pandemic Puppy love was temporary . Shelter returns are increasing. (Dogs and Cats) BBC. Fiona finds joy in a rainy day - catching raindrops in her mouth. Fiona the Hippo lives at the Cincinnati Zoo. BBC . Dowsing . "Bull’s calling, he would learn, was in finding things the old way, with his intuition as a guide and a forked stick as a poin...

Alternate realities - 4 to choose from: Down the Rabbit hole, out of breath, expectorant close at hand. "...unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.” - Philip K. Dick, Brain Pickings . Comical Sub-di-version - small bites, often tart. “My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.” - Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, Goodreads . Contemplative Erudite - thoroughly chewed. “Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.” - William S. Burroughs,...