Perchance have you ever read the “Jennifer” books by Eunice Young Smith? I grew up on those, loved them, still love them. Jennifer grows up on a “farm” (not much of a one, I must say, given that it was something like seven acres, IIRC, in the midst of Illinois farm country around either LaSalle or Ottawa, Illinois, only a little south of Aurora) probably around 1910.

Miss Smith presented the more interesting and good-natured aspects of rural life, including in her portrait the friendship between Jennifer and her bedridden, crippled friend, whom among other things she teaches to read.

Eventually Jennifer’s horizons grow broader, as her much-loved Aunt Lobelia comes out from Chicago to stay for a while with the Hill family. Later, Jennifer stays for a while with her aunt in Chicago.

These books are not like the Little House books in presenting the real rigors of farm life (in any era). But they’re charming, and to me very interesting and lively. Of course, I’m a farm girl from only about 50 miles NW of Jennifer, so I can relate.

Recommended. –And, Aesop, if you have read them, I’d love to know your opinion. :>)

Thanks for the link to the Ross article. Interesting to read one by someone who came into the light via a Latin-American rather than a European/Eurasian/American route.

I haven’t yet read the article nor seen the video to which Mr. Ross links, but they both look interesting.

Be well and heal quickly!!

VA rooms are 4 patients per. So there’s lots of sleep interruptions. But what bugged me most was a door in the nurses’ station area. When that door closed, as it did many times at night, the thump echoed through the floor throughout the ward. If you were in bed, the bed frame conducted the thump up to your pillow and into your ear.

Finally I asked to talk to the head nurse for the ward. She came to see me, and I explained the thump and the source. Then I told her that somewhere in the hospital’s maintenance staff was a door closer genius. Find that guy, and have him adjust the door closer. I promised her that this guy existed, she just needed to call around until she located him. She did, that day. He came and adjusted the door closer. No more thump.

I still don’t know why they had to do the guy’s bladder at 3 a.m., though.

It’s a feature, not a bug, to be both. That’s our Y.

Arrogant and presumptious much?

So if I take this alchemical Western pill, it won’t have negative effects?

“Lol, if you take this pill, you might have hundred negative effects, including bleeding from all 7 orifices, and even death. Now pay up what you are owed, I need a new Porsche and gold watch.”

That’s your “doctors” boys and girls in the West. The Authorities of “Do no Harm”.

My clients sometimes call what I do doctoring or medicine. I make sure to correct them swiftly. Healing is not medicine, not as you mortals understand it.

The true medical knowledge is only known in some niche and hidden lineages.

All the world is a stage and everything is known? Then why does Snowden live in Russia because he is afraid of the American CIA goons of the Deep State and why does Trum not realize he was being spied on by America.

A lot more things are hidden than apparent, something Americans weren’t indoctrinated with thinking about in school. The masters of the livestock peons don’t really want you to wake up, get woke, take the red pill, or do anything else that smacks of Awakening to who the Judas goats are.

The DS is quite content watching Americans bash each other in this Red vs Blue fight for their entertainment. If Demoncrats win? Great, they get more pedo sex traffickers in. If Republicans win? Great, they get more pedo sex traffickers in….

What difference are you Americans making. What difference does it make.

So much this.

DS: Livestock needs better accomodations? Lol, pull the other one.