When the well runs dry.

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Adventure Christian Kids

The Rain Dance.💃🕺🏻

Exercise the pipes.

Sing a new song.🙀🎷🎺


More isn’t always better🍺


A wise person has a reminder hanging in his kitchen.💡


”Save Water. Drink Beer”


Or at the very least, start praying that your reach is ok.

No one person generally chooses to be on the side of the road standing next to their car.🙀


Comparison shopping is not all it is cracked up to be.

Perhaps self examination is in order:

Which is better.

A rat.

Or a drowned rat.

A rat.

Or a thirsty rat.


Beer is 90% water.

Right?

So is lettuce.

Right?


Promotion exists to seduce us.

Into something.

Into buying it.

Into buying into something.

The ultimate buy in.

And while the liquid and cash dries up,

The well may run dry too.


What then is there left to do?

Promote oneself?

Be very, very careful.

Stay awake.


Solicit the rain Gods?


Soliciting the rain God is a precarious dance.

Mixed with sugar, can be a delicious concoction.

It can bite, too.


Desperate times can call us into desperate measures.

Not just talking about one cup of the crystallized goodies.

Savage Love.

Robots Beware.

Some persons are awake.

Now.

Under desperate circumstances.

The struggle is real.

Waste and consumerism and where in the world do you put it?

Pack it.

Store it?

Stow it?

Where?………


Many good, good things are borne from within.

The Arts.

The Sciences.

The Arts and Sciences.

The Brain.

The Sciences.

The Brain and Sciences.


Did you know? Chewing gum is good for the brain😃.


While exploring how to “fill the cup”, Inspiration is everywhere. You just gotta know where best to look for it…..look it up sometimes.


And sometimes it arrives in one’s “in” box.


Magically. Even.🙀

God-like-ly.


Intuition.

Decision making.

Came across inspiration.

Made a decision.


Kids listen up.

Awake.

For just a sec at least.

Stop the bumping and grinding and twerking and dragging for long enough to consider that the adults in the room may not have your best interest at heart.


David Rand and Gordon Pennycook explored the synthesizer.,

The synthesizing of news and information.

That reaches your “in” boxes.

And your brain.

Your minds.

And how stuff affects your brain and minds.

Your beautiful brains and minds.


And it is something worth knowing. Worth considering.

Before you get back out there and bump and grind and all that stuff.


Before you re-tweet your next thought for all the world to to see.

That you do indeed exist.


”Poor truth discernment is linked to a lack of careful reasoning and relevant knowledge, as well as to the use of familiarity and source heuristics.” (gp,dr)


Cool!


A lot of big words used in that sentence. But I have faith in your abilities beyond performing the jig of wasting your lives away staring at a screen.


Further.


”There is also a large disconnect between what people believe and what they will share on social media, and this is largely driven by inattention rather than by purposeful sharing of information.”(gp,dr)


All sounds good.

In-attention is never—

Good.


What then helps?


An intervention, of course.🙂

An intervention can successfully nudge a person.

To the better, brighter side of life.

The upside: To focus more on accuracy.

The downside: Crowdsourced veracity ratings can also be leveraged. Yours.


The upside: Now we know.

The downside: Insurance premiums have sky rocketed.


As our hippo campuses have also become crowded.Crowd sources with details and figures we will never, ever have the capacity to remember. Or recuperate from.


Maybe.

Just maybe.

The right way was not learned in the first place.

In first place.


Before you get all jiggly, bumping and grind-ey.

Perhaps consider.

Mistakes were made.


Big ones.

Hyperbole-type ones.


Hyper mistakes were made.

Some blinked.

Others panicked.


Fake and false come at a person in many ways.


Overall beliefs.


A good place to start.

That and with the help of smart guys.

(My apologies to the girl adults in the room)


Gives new meaning to the phrase “Having it all”

Would you or wouldn’t you agree?


I heard once that beer is actually good for the hair!

Hurray!


Friends come and friends go.

But the loyal ones do not have to decide which side of the fence they will choose to sit on tomorrow, or the next day or the next day.


And so on and so on.


Prior to popping the corks on the next bottle.

Perhaps ask yourself,

Still or sparkly?

Because chances are good that if you ride the fence too often, you will be getting neither, or neither. Depending upon the pronunciation or proclamation.


Of what side you prefer that others prefer that you prefer so that they will prefer,


You.


Let the stories and dancing begin! bumping and grinding too.


But. Leave me out.

Thank you.


Having only two dance partners in one’s life is not a bad thing. In fact, I prefer it.🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸.


From my point of view it is “The Cat’s Meow” for those of you that speak that language.


What scares me the most?

A cat.

Especially one that has not earned its stripes.

And runs in the opposite direction when it gets too

“Hot”.


Katty be the the Kat.

We are all trying to protect someone.

Heck.

Maybe it is really ourselves in the long run—from staring down the


The Big Cat.


The Courageous Cat

The Prideful Cat.

Who stops at nothing to protect the Family.


Tricks, Confidence tricks, Turning tricks all aside.


Call me square.

Prudish.

Nerd-like.

A fun-hater.


When you learn from the best, you learn from the best.

What to do.

What not to do.

When to take it on the chin and look foolish for the sake of the bigger picture.


When to drop and give twenty more.🙂

Not with intentions to make a difference.🙃

With intentions to make a difference😃


”As long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to exhort you and in my usual way to point out to any one of you whom I happen to meet.” (Plato’s Apology).


Stick-to-it.

Don’t change your mind.

The adults have left the room—bare.


”The fisher who draws in the net too soon,

Won’t have any fish to sell;

The child who shuts his book up too soon,

Won’t learn any lessons well.


If you would have your learning stay;

Be patient—Don’t learn too fast;

The man who travels a mile each day,

May get ‘round the world at last.


Best wishes and intentions taken from “McGuffey’s Reader”!


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July 12, 2023 14:28

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