Newsletter - July 25, 2023

Dear brothers and sisters,

It’s not too late to plant your Victory Garden.

We urge you to  emulate your forebears,  the Greatest Generation! Dig up your backyard,  your front yard and plant! Join a community garden! Create an edible schoolyard! Transform a public park into an edible landscape. Not only is it all possible but in times such as these, it is our duty. We can not remain wholly dependent upon food grown by others.

Please follow along as we plant heirloom varieties of lettuce and kale. We then do Swiss Chard and cilantro. We also do a cauliflower called Amazing. It should be producing  magnificent heads by October 1st. We conclude with cucumbers and summer squash. We gotten these seeds from the Seed Savers Exchange and  Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. They are wonderful organizations working to maintain and preserve your  heritage in plants and seeds.

Then Calikim tells us how to make black gold. I’m referring of course to those banana peels, apple cores, carrot tops, egg shells and coffee grounds can be composted into life sustaining rich, black earth.

Our special this week is Pumpkin Seed Butter. We’re taking $3 off the list price.

Our Victory Garden Sale includes Almond, Cashew,Brazil Nut  Innovation Butter, Turmeric and Honey Butter and Black Beans.

We present an article from the Wall Street Journal, Why High-Powered People Are Working in Their 80s. It begins,”The first thing to know about people who shun retirement to work past age 80 is that they are probably busier, and possibly cooler, than you.” We can be active, dynamic and vital all of our days. Especially in these times of delirium it is essential that we stand up and be counted.  

This week’s recipe by The Simple Veganista is for Cranberry, Pistachio, Oatmeal Energy Bites. They are  chunky, delicious and easy to make. A cinnamon date paste is made and mixed with oats, cranberries, pistachios, and chocolate chips, then rolled into healthy energy bites for a nourishing and delicious snack.

Human consciousness continues to baffle researchers. In a brilliant article, Tzvi Freeman maintains “All we are adding is that your neurons are not the primal origin of this experience. Your brain is only harnessing a fundamental element of the universe and limiting it within the playing field of our reality as we know it. And that’s what makes you a denizen of this hard, high-definition reality.”

He goes on to say, ”… there is a deeper reality behind all we see. As we come to observe this deeper, more unified substrate as it is sharply manifest in the wondrous patterns of the observable world, we come closer to recognizing that matter and spirit are one, because their Creator is one.”

Please accept our mid summer best wishes for your good health, prosperity and success.

Your comments and suggestions are most welcome.

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

by Callum Borchers

(Wall Street Journal) The first thing to know about people who shun retirement to work past age 80 is that they are probably busier, and possibly cooler, than you. 

One said an interview would have to wait because he was traveling to France for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Another said he would be free after hitting a research deadline and organizing his Harvard Business School class’s 65th reunion. A third, available on shorter notice, emailed a physical description before meeting: “In the spirit of YOLO, I have blue hair and tattoos.”

Growing numbers of 80-somethings are deciding that if days are finite, they are better spent on the job than in retirement.

Harrison Ford, 80, is releasing his latest “Indiana Jones” movie, Jane Goodall, 89, is still protecting chimps, Smokey Robinson, 83, is still touring, and 80-year-old Joe Biden is still governing (and seeking re-election), so why not keep going too?

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In 1998, a scientist and a philosopher made a bet. Neuroscientist Christof Koch bet philosopher David Chalmers that science would uncover the mechanism by which the brain’s neurons produce consciousness within the next 25 years.

The 25 years were up this June. Koch lost; Chalmers won. At the annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) in New York City, they both agreed that we have not yet found a satisfactory mechanism to describe how consciousness emerges from the brain. Koch came with the case of wine he had wagered and handed over the goods.

Now I’m receiving emails and texts telling me “they’ll never figure it out,” and “eventually, they’ll have to realize there’s a soul.”

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