Today’s 420 Ramble includes a lot of information about how to regulate your Central Nervous System. If you find yourself flying off the handle, find yourself repeating patterns of behavior over and over, find yourself in beefs because you are intoxicated, this one is for you!
It’s been two weeks since Ma passed away.
Thank you to all who reached out with condolences, sent flowers, and to all our family, dispersed across the world–South Africa, America, Australia, and Canada–a special thanks for the shared memories and photos. I look forward to connecting more at Madalein Gericke‘s celebration of life in May.
Of all the great photos I received of my effortlessly beautiful mother, I love this one of her lounging in her reddish-pink shirt above the most. (I feel like she would judge me right now for being too lazy to figure out the exact shade, like an oil painter might. lol)
This photo represents three generations of South Africans: my mother and her brother, Schalk, his wife Elizabeth, and her mother, Tannie Mimi, who, as a good friend of my Ouma, always played a role in my life, and me, in 1988, in my vintage store white dress with the handkerchief hem. I lost my virginity in that dress.
This is next to the pool at our home in Colbyn, where summers were spent swimming, braaing, drinking, arguing, loving, laughing, and living.
My mother had a hard life for someone so fortunate. Her stroke changed her, but her sense of humor and spark remained until the very the end. For that we were lucky.
Right after she passed, before my sister called me, a huge bird landed right in my eyesight as I was pensively staring out the window trying to process the reality of her impending death.
I believe she was coming to say goodbye, and now I will always see her in all the birds, which means she is forever around me. 
Politics is the Art of Hypocrisy! International documentary film crew in town, it is time to Free Ian Freeman and other crypto political prisoners, Democrat Trinidad Tellez voted against a bill to do away with inspection stickers, yet hers is expired??? Keep red flag laws out of NH, thank you to the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance for another excellent Gold Standard, officer involved shooting at the Planet Fitness in Londonderry, Sunshine Week, and more! LIKE THE NEW SHOW? Subscribe!!!
Heading home late after seeing Kraftwerk with some friends in Boston. Barely squeaked in for the day, but I hacked it! 🙂
The jokes could write themselves today, but alas, was pressed for time, and also, since X was hit by a major DDoS attack, things on my end are super funky. Personally, I think this is a tell that there’s fishy stuff up with my account, but who knows… hopefully it is just unwinding the attack that’s making things weird, including being unable to embed, so here’s the link to yesterday’s MLX for now. I’ll try again later.
For some reason, this X Live is showing up as a link instead of having the video embedded. I’ll need to look into why that is, but in the meantime, here is Sunday’s “Series of Self” with today’s word “Self-awareness.” Towards the end, I merge my discussion with what is needed for a genuine apology: the self-awareness of what you did wrong. Without that, an apology is just an empty promise that will result in the same behavior in the future.
Day 67 Take Two because I apparently missed Day 65. Cut me some slack, it’s been a rough time this past few weeks!
With all this nonsense chatter about “left” and “right” libertarianism, and who is “winning” and who is the “correct side,” or more “based” (an entirely meaningless, made up word designed to prime your ego; clever), may I remind you, libertarianism is a political philosophy that TRANSCENDS the culture wars (individuals’ personal preferences).
Anyone who is selling you on one side of libertarianism over the other is an agent of state (whether they know it or not), because “left wing” and “right wing” are wings of the same bird: Statism.
I welcome all Free Staters who want to CREATE A SOCIETY based on INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS (not collectivized “based rights”, i.e. “bullshit that makes me feel good”<–propaganda) to join me in New Hampshire:
Libertarianism: A political philosophy prioritizing individual liberty, advocating minimal state interference in personal and economic life, based on self-ownership, free markets, and the non-aggression principle.
Non-Aggression Principle (NAP): A foundational tenet of libertarianism stating that initiating force, fraud, or coercion against another person or their property is inherently unjust, except in [immediate] self-defense or to protect one’s own rights. It permits voluntary interactions but prohibits aggression as a means of achieving social, political, or economic ends.