S&UP
keeping it real
Yeah, I get it, really, how much is there to say about sticks? Well, better that than being a someone professing to be a writer struggling to find a story.
A walking stick doesn’t walk on its own, and no rule says you can’t take your stick walking. If you’re like me, with a two-fisted dog, light weight and portability matters; strapped to my pack it can be deployed anytime to navigate rugged terrain and is a force multiplier in all instances, along with my dog. With me.
From The White House
Sec. 2. FDA Review Prioritization and Right to Try. (a) The Commissioner of Food and Drugs shall provide Commissioner’s National Priority Vouchers to appropriate psychedelic drugs that have received a Breakthrough Therapy designation and are in accordance with the criteria of the National Priority Voucher Program.
(b) The FDA and Drug Enforcement Administration shall facilitate and establish a pathway for eligible patients to access psychedelic drugs, including ibogaine compounds, under the Right to Try Act (21 U.S.C. 360bbb-0a), including any necessary Schedule I handling authorizations for treating physicians and researchers, consistent with 21 U.S.C. 823, and any applicable waiver authority under the Controlled Substances Act.
Seems hallucinogens might be good for us. Been sayin’ that since the seventies, why hallucinogens might very well be the root cause of my present clarity and unparalleled wit and wisdom. One must be witty in order to formulate opinion backed by logic enough to ward off ceaseless scrutiny. By the way lunacy isn’t scrutiny.
Life is a trip: To be archived in The Encyclopedia Galactica as the answer to everything.
Raised in the sticks, trees along with animals were my true friends. Wood has always been a major influence. Warmed by it, fed from it, wood has been a friend to me, we speak a common language. Houses are built from sticks, barns are built from sticks, fires are fueled by sticks, iron is smelted from sticks, coal is carbon derived from biomass also largely sticks, the lumberjack harvests sticks, bows and arrows, tool handles, chop sticks etc., etc.
We are in a world of sticks. Not much to say about it? Lunacy. Wood identification alone is an art and science requiring a lifetime of initiation. Human history and sticks are so intrinsic one would be hard put to name another single object more proliferate.
Hallucinogens aren’t the issue; dictating the journey of another’s trip is. The Buddha awaits those unafraid to travel alone.
Never underestimate a good stick.