Friday, July 24, 2015

Greetings From/To the future

So I assume all of you regular readers are aware that this was not posted on time, but that it appears as if it were, hence the title... I am writing to those of you in the past, but you are all reading it after it has been written and there for I am only capable of sending it to those of you in the future...

I must apologize for my lax posting, I know I have been doing that a lot lately but as per the last post... Life, am I right?

My uncle was in town this week, and I haven't seen him in nigh on nine years, so that was good times. It was cool to be able to share with him the kids book we wrote and have the courage to tell him how much I looked up to him growing up.

He is my father's younger brother, and only about 12 years older than I, so when he was around he always seemed like an older brother to me, which I didn't have... In fact I have never had a biological brother. It was also interesting to reassess how many of my personality quirks are genetic.

That stuff is really interesting to me. I remember when The Prince Badger was born and I realized how much of the family is in our coding, we can change it, we can fight against it, but for the most part, with my family anyway, all of the negatives are more fun to live with than without, and trying to change them would not make anyone happier in the long run.

Your Biological Badger
The King Badger

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Nobility

There is nothing noble to being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self.
Hemmingway-

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Life... Am I right?

So, I must apologize to you, the readers, the life blood, the essence, the reason we do this... and so on, for my lack of a post for the past time I have been absent. Life has been in the middle of happening.

Sadly it has not even been interesting stuff. I didn't even come out with a good story... Okay, thats not true, I did get one good story... It is from last monday, and I will be sharing it with you all when I have some time to write the whole account as I recall it, because it was a great day and quite interesting. Anyway, please flood the comments with your disappointments.

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Depression

I don't know how many of you currently are, or have suffered from depression, though I assume a number of you at the very least... I mean you saw a post with the title and had to keep reading, right?

Anyway not many people can fully appreciate the true feeling of depression without having been there at least once. I don't just mean sad, I mean an icy grip in the middle of your chest that tells you that you wont amount to anything so why even try. That ball in the pt of your stomach that says just go back to sleep if you don't wake up ever again you will be happier for it. That throb in the back of your head that makes you want to cry , and scream, and spit, and punch, and maim, and burn, and destroy everything staring with yourself... Thats what i am talking about.

Though, I am sure all of you are aware, I have never had to deal with this particular malady, as The King I reside well above the problems of mortals. But for those of you who have felt this way, and those of you that do, and those of you that are going to. I say unto you, unprompted, unscripted, unsolicited, and unwashed There are people out there that care about you. People that want you to stay alive, people that will help you if you let them. In this world with its billions of people we are never truly alone... And it may seem it, but we are never truly insignificant either. I hope this helped I truly do, and I am always willing to talk in person, over the phone, via email, instant message, carrier pigeon (though I will have to learn that one) with you if you just need a shoulder.

I may not actually be good for much, but I have a sympathetic ear,
Your King Badger

Saturday, July 11, 2015

And the Rains Finally Came.

As I sit here preparing to officiate a wedding, I look outside and see that finally, the blessed rains have come! Huzzah! The heat has broken and the skies have opened up. Truly it is a blessed day. What a day for a wedding! Too bad it is an outdoor wedding and I must stand outside in the rain as I speak of love and forever.

Speaking of love and forever, isn't that an interesting combination of words? I mean think about it. You are promising to love someone FOREVER. As far as I am concerned this means even beyond the grave and I don't understand how you can promise a concept that may not even exist. Well, to each their own. I am sure it will be a beautiful wedding. May they devour all their cobras!

The grand BadGer LanDo

Friday, July 10, 2015

Meditation

So I recely found a book that I had purchased quite some time ago and never opened until now... It is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius... I am not far in yet, but it did set my mind to contemplating meditation (Ironic) and how much trouble I have had with this is the past... My mind does not shut up, attempting to clear it is like trying to clean mud out of a rug in the middle of a puddle during a rain storm... Literally, I barely make a trail though it before it fills in from both sides with dirt.


But some time ago, I began reading up on alchemy and found that my problem is I am trying to utilize eastern meditation when I should be using alchemical meditation. The principle, as best as I can recall, is unlike clearing the mind one plants a seed of something and allows free flowing thoughts to rub up against it like puzzle pieces until one clicks and you start to see a larger part of the image. I can't clear my brain but I can fertilize...

Yes I did just say that my brain is full of crap, as are most of your brains, but thats part of being human. Did you ever do something mundane, like mow the lawn, rake leaves, wash dishes, hell read your favorite book, or watch your favorite movie (something that you have done many times before, and at least once while you were child) and realized that it all made so much sense... how did you not get it? You have just had an epiphany about how if you just rake the leaves into a pile and put them in a bag the job will be done... And then spent 30 minutes wondering how you never put it together as a child?

I have one of those once a month, hell sometimes about topics I have had many on, so filling your brains with crap has one solid effect, and that is a comparison, you may feel like you wasted thirty minutes of your life watching that South Park episode, but in the end in five years you will thik back and reflect and suddenly realize that you took a small piece with you and is has slightly changed the course of your life... Only you can chose if it is for the better or not, but remember you are the only one that has any control over for the better r not also.

Your Meditative Liege
King Badger

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Craftiness and Art Therapy

There is a craft fair this Sunday that I will be a part of. I feel like I need to be like the four arm guy from Mortal Kombat to get all the stuff done that I need. Long nights and early mornings have been the routine this last week.

Creating things with your hands knowing that someone is going to see it and feel some type of way about it can be nerve wracking. I know I make quality products, I am very skilled at what I do, though the week before an event such as this I often find myself freaking out over the little things. Today I got distracted and gave an octopus a ninth tentacle. I have never done that in my nine years crocheting. It's like my mommy brain has taken a turn for the worse.

All anxiety aside making things is the best therapy ever. When I'm mad I start a small project and the sense of accomplishment that comes upon completion washes out my anger. I have thought some of my worst problems out while crocheting. All people are different, and so are all forms of art. They do however have that one thing in common, they help your mind open up and think.

So next time you're angry pick up a pen, hook, brush, or whatever your medium's tools and "art" it out rather than blowing up at someone or saying something you'll regret. Trust me this is the far better option.

-Badger Rose

Light

Did you know the suns light takes approximately 8 minutes to reach our planet earth? Neptune is 2.7 billion miles away and light that we witness has happened four hours in the past. What a crazy time we live in now. Enjoy it!

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Manliness

So I have been contemplating what being a man means recently, as it is a phrase that we (Males anyway) hear a lot growing up... And I think it ruins a lot of us.

Phrases such as "Don't cry, be a man." "Men don't have emotions." "Man up, quit being scared!" "You'll do it if you want to be a man." I find that things like this are terrible ways to make someone feel especially in the current day and age where persons are mocked for feeling of a different gender than they were born with. Being a man, and being a woman on a mechanical level is really all about procreation, thats how genetics works.

However being a man is much more than that. There is an amazing sight out there called The Art o Manliness which I avoided for a long time because I thought it was more of that old "To be a man you must be a robot that knows only when it needs fuel and how to kill everything" Bull... But obviously with how this is being written I don't feel that way. It does have many aspects about masculinity and what not, but the thing that I really enjoy about it is it takes a step back and is more of a guide (when offering guidance) on how to be a gentleman.

I talks about grooming, it talks about socializing, it has advice for men who don't have much confidence in themselves for whatever reason. Nothing in this blog is about tearing someone down for not being "That Man" but for the people who aspire to be more Manly it offers advice and discusses things that I, as a man, was curious about or think more men should do.

Either way the whole spectrum of being a man is difficult enough, I assume same goes for ladies but I don't live in that life and have only outside perspective. So with all that being said to anyone out there that thinks they have the right to tell anyone to "Be a man" by putting down someone for having emotions, being hurt, caring, not killing things, not attacking something for no reason, etc... I hope a herd of buffalo maul you in your bed. Being a man is more about respecting others than it is about forcing people to be like you.

The Manliest of Men
King Badger

Sunday, July 5, 2015

Freetime Anxiety

This past week I have had so much freetime I don't know what to do with it. I've been busy but its because I have chosen to fill my freetime with activity. We floated two different rivers, a total of nine hours spent on the river this week. We had a pool party for Independence Day.

My oldest is camping with my mom until Tuesday, he's been with her for three days already and I miss him so much. The baby takes naps and usually that's my chance to spend some time with my oldest. So now when he's napping I'm not sure what to do. I could crochet something for my shop, or paint something. Though, sitting down and relaxing just causes me to stress about how I'm not being productive. I can't be alone in this, does anyone else feel that way?

Why is it that we feel the need to always be doing something? To always be moving? I don't understand it I just do it. I would like to turn off my Type-A tendencies, but if I do that then what if I become too "chill" and don't ever get back to work? These are just the things I think about while I sit here trying to find something to do for the next hour so I don't have to beat myself up on the inside for not doing anything. Hope you all had a good holiday weekend!

-Badger Rose

Friday, July 3, 2015

Independence Day PreRamble

So as my sibling pointed out earlier this week there is a ban on fireworks in our town because of fire dangers... And I am sure some of you reading this are quite frustrated by this.

And I know what all of you out there are thinking, "Honey Badger Don't Care! I'm Gonna blow a hole in this country! Its my God given right! I A 'Murican!" I really hope none of you think like that but I feel to some degree that is a pretty solid translation.

Remember one of the key lessons on being a Honey Badger about taking what you want however. That lesson being to consider the consequences, I don't mean legal either. What I mean is, if you were to go out and pick up a box that you will set aflame, that will throw balls of burning gas and twinkling stars of burning powders, that makes a tiny representation of the known universe being eaten by a Pirate Donkey and a Ninja Elephant all while farting The Star-Spangled Banner, and summoning The Great Old Ones from Raleigh. That yeah its going to be pretty fucking spectacular. Hell I would sell a few first born children for that, but at the same time you are spraying super heated compounds into the bone-dry undergrowth around you.

I know in a perfect world we would never have to worry about grass or trees or anything because the entire world will be paved and the oxygen content of the air we breath will be so low that nothing is capable of combustion, and once we have blotted out the sun to keep the ozone layer from getting any worse we won't have to worry about it being too hot ever... But I side track.

Remember this isn't a warning saying "Don't do it, because Honey Badger doesn't want to pay a fine, or do some jail time or whatever..." because the true honey badger will take that into consideration and determine whether or not he wants to spend an extra forty dollars for front row seats of Cthulhu eating that dick that has to play his car stereo at 5am with full bass, or watching The Creeping Horror Nyarlathotep flip neighborhood dogs that shit in your lawn inside out. Hell or even having Ulthar over for a barbeque... Fuck I don't care which Lovecraftian Terrors you summon for whatever reason... What I don't want is to have the thirty minutes worth of fun, and hours worth of work because my entire neighborhood is on fire and they all know it was me because guess who was seen lighting off the little cardboard box in the shape of the White House with big letters proclaiming "The Biggest One" and some level of warning in Chinese telling you that dragons are hard to tame and impossible to train so summon them at your own risk.

What I am saying is, I swear to all of the Elder Gods if I come home to find out that some asshole was playing with fireworks with a ban in place, and it burned down my home or otherwise put my kitty at risk I will find you...

Your very warm and fairly disgruntled
King Badger

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Floating



As I was drifting on the river yesterday I was thinking about how fortunate we are in Montana. I love that we live in a place where we can do something like this. If I wanted I could go drop my car off at a bridge, float to my actual street, and walk a few blocks up it to get home. Then get a ride to my car later. It’s absolutely perfect. Not to mention the view down that section of river is awesome. Granted further up it has a far better view without any buildings or streets for most of it, but it's still so beautiful.

Yesterday it was so sunny and perfect, but we didn’t get on the river until after six so for the majority of the trip we were in shadow. Which is funny because my boyfriend is so skinny he was shivering and purple and my sister had to help paddle and she was next to him splashing him the whole way. She kept saying "I'm so sorry. I just feel so bad."

We passed so many people it was surprising how many people were just as late getting on as we were. In a normal summer we would float a quite a bit, probably twice a week. This year is different since we didn’t get enough moisture. We passed trailer trash beach and it was so full of people, I was quite glad that I was in the water and not on the beach.

My seven-year-old got to come with us. He has such a big imagination that floating the river in his mind is always just as exciting as riding a roller coaster.  His favorite parts are when I freak out because I’m a scardy-cat. Watching his imagination take us on these epic adventures makes my heart so happy. He is always thinking up a back story and working to complete the adventure. I remember being that way. He turned a simple floating trip into so much more, I hope I never forget to help fuel his imagination and keep it going strong.

 -Badger Rose

The beginning of certain truths.

Truth. An idea that is entirely too simple a word. To say a word has one meaning or is an ultimatum of circumstance is not only ignorant but short sighted. For example: light that is received and mirrored in the conscious and subconscious of our human brain, in the myriad of facets of our observable spectrum that we understand as light and our senses being the recipient of that and the entirety of our own life, can also be manipulated or decided as we see fit to alternate the outcome of everyday choices and dreams. Truth can be viewed in many facets, however it's important in any decision to start small. And we do, as the result of a soup of cells and a biological DNA chain that intersects and multiplies in a womb of another human. And YOU, the fastest and brightest new generation of the other guys and gals, come into the world as... well... YOU, the next step or sequence in your families chained history of adaptation. Before that? We come from electrons, neutrons, protons, and gravity, that gravitated after a millennial eternity to a condensed area becoming one of many clouds of atoms that after a considerably longer amount of time, reached a tipping point. Equilibrium, a big bang, an explosion of ultimately the most fascinating chemical reaction(s) of any discovered instance of existence. A star exploding into a supernova, a quasar and other stars and planets that combined to create matter from what we recognize as oxygen, h2o, carbon, hydrogen, not to mention minerals that took even more time to become more solid matter that we humans walk on today. From there? LIFE. Creation and death measured and weighed. Observed by us the individual. Marked by manner, the manner of what we call history, of books and record. Whether twisted or manipulated, it is ultimately: observed. But through that observation why does the continuing sequence seem to be nothing but a slightly altered version of the previous? Why can we not changed our outcome in this experience immediately? Well some people come to mind. Zeus, Hades, God, Satan, Rha, Horus,Thor, Loki, Hercules, Jesus, Moses, Osiris, Muhammad,  Buddha, Shakespeare, Mozart, Beethoven,  Leonardo da Vinci. Representing evolution or more appropriate words delightfully intellectual  and confusingly individual adaptations stemming and flourishing from other standpoints and understandings of life. Lessons in moral compassing? A parable to experience what some would call spiritual realization? Past reincarnations or lives? Ultimately? New ideas. When observed in an open environment. Beauty in the creation of some new thought and idea. The issue? Our brain can experience our body's chemical reactions when it comes our senses, vibrations in frequencies that pass messages or input that we respond chemically to in many fashions, joy, fear, love, anger, confusion and even loathing. These experiences are the past which is present and future and all simultaneous. One and the same. The difference between the three? Your choice. Start small. Take it with a grain of salt so to to speak. Take it from there. "Engage the experience of the experiment." Wise words. Not my own.

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Anime vs. Reason (Warning: Anime series spoilers!)

Hello all,

Today I would like to discuss the topic of anime. I have recently been watching a lot more and just finished watching Gurran Laggen. It was a wonderfully absurd anime about the indestructible nature of the human spirit and the need for species to evolve to the heavens. I loved it because the message was general and straight forward and the over all premise was absurd.  Humans have been driven underground be the spiral king and their fight for the surface results in robot space battles that span and entire universe and a couple alternate dimensions.

Here is the thing, American t.v. and animation seems to be striving to be normal with the exception of some notable shows such as adventure time and regular show. I love the fact that anime is what it is. You want to make a show about alchemists? Go for it! Want to make a show about a half fish girl who helps a kid get over the loss of his own father while she is running away from her father, the sea witch? Yes please! You want to make an anime about a high school all male host club? Well...I won't stop you...but...huh...ok then.

Anyways, my point is, anime creators seem to have a real sense of creativity and I love it. You should watch more anime.

Have a great day!

The Grand (and overly warm) Badger Lando