Rambling

Joe:
There is nothing like riding on a road trip. You ride a motorcycle. It’s like the roller-coasters at an amusement park. And then, it’s also like taking the skyline or a gondola. Everything is more powerful and in your face, but at the same time calming. It’s all so open.
On the other hand, you drive a car. It may get farther, but you are so much further from everything. Always driving; Always trying to get somewhere. You think all these comforts and conveniences make things easier, but they only do so in the short run. At the end of the day your back hurts even more in your lazyboy seats, you’re car sick and feeling stuffy even though you were watching movies in the back, falling into the window with every turn. You have no idea where you are or where you’ve been. Mindless. You see things, but they’re dull through your little window or windshield. It’s the same old same old.
It’s like a microcosm of everything that is wrong with modern society and why everyone is so depressed. You work hard and spend all your money on the expensive toys that take you further away from truly living. It’s the same in every place and every industry. We watched the movie Fresh when we Stayed with Jim Rah at his little farm. It talked about how U.S. farms all make miles and miles of corn and Soybeans. Every processed product is full of corn and soy products: High fructose corn syrup, corn starch, corn oil, soybean oil, soy sauce. Everything is simplified and efficiently productive. The government only gives subsidies to farmers who grow these two products. But the farmers can only sell the stuff to one company that processes it and they have to sell it for next to nothing. The food companies get the corn and soy for amazingly cheap and the taxpayers pay the farmers just enough to stay alive.
Also, nature doesn’t like when an area gets populated with only one species. The microorganisms, and little pests that feed off of the one species will multiply out of control and take over everything. We try to spray pesticides, but that creates super powerful pests that are resistant or we use so much pesticide that the people who eat the food are being poisoned. We tried to create this overpopulated efficiently productive single species farms with livestock too and now these farmers have to spend a fortune on tons and tons of antibiotics to keep these animals alive shoulder to shoulder 10,000 pig to a building or 100,000 chicken. The movie was amazing and eye-opening. It gave all the answers too. It’s so simple. Duplicate nature. Keep everything happy and varied. Keep the animals moving with the smaller animals trailing behind and cleaning up. Then, plant crops behind the chickens and make sure you are growing lots of worms. The big animals mow our lawns, the little animals pick at droppings and leftovers behind them and the land is beautifully fertilized as opposed to our current crisis where our soil is dying.
This type of organic farming is also very cheap and profitable from all the savings on chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and antibiotics. The farmers make ten times more money, they just have to stay away from government subsidies and this crazy unsustainable system. It just takes a lot of know how.
Well, that’s enough political crap. I love seeing little details while riding. I love this vine that has red leaves, but climbs up green trees. It looks like Christmas decorations. I enjoy seeing adversity; something odd in a sea of the same. An unusual house; a rock bluff; a dead tree; an interesting person. I also like seeing the patterns in the sameness of everything. I see a lot of oneness. Everything whizzing by. I’m transient. Not just being transported, but floating through things in my perfect chi gong posture and breathing. I’m vibrating with energy and I have nothing but a smile on my face.