Ya Gotta Buy What Ya Gotta Buy

[mallorys_camera]

Oh, this is sad! 😢

The Pine Bush UFO Fair & parade is scheduled for today, and it is raining.

In the mid-1980s, Pine Bush, New York, was the UFO Capital of the Western World. Hundreds of reports described a V-shaped craft adorned with colored lights that hovered slowly and silently in the sky, a sighting that became known as "the Westchester Boomerang" 'cause I guess it was sighted in Westchester County, too.

Of course, Pine Bush is relatively near what was, in the mid-80s, a military base, Stewart Airfield.

I remain agnostic on the subject of UFOs.

And will probably toddle off to Pine Bush anyway in a few minutes 'cause short drive.

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Meanwhile, despite the humid, hot, sticky weather of the past few days, I have been trying to hold off on AC because AC is terrible for the environment (energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions 'cause refrigerants.)

So, yesterday I bought myself a portable DREO fan, which I gotta say, is just amazing 'cause it keeps me cool even when the Patrizia-torium is a sauna.

DREO is made in China, which I don't like. I've been boycotting goods made in China since forever for a reason nobody really cares about anymore: Tibet.

But sometimes ya gotta buy what ya gotta buy.

Comments

[suzannareads]

I get weekly shipments from Amazon for one of my child’s staple foods, and you know, I do feel a little bad about that. But he needs to eat, and you need to stay cool!

I used to follow the Tibet situation in my Shambhala Buddhism days, with rinpoches (teachers) dispersing across the world as refugees. I suppose that the Tibet that once was will be forgotten eventually in China.

[mallorys_camera]

Yah. In the end, Tibet will be just another sand painting.

Impermanence is such a huge part of the Buddhist mindset that sometimes I think to myself, Just let it go.

[smokingboot]

I believe in UFOs. One was seen by family members over the summer place my aunt owned - the two witnesses were very pragmatic people, one kept it quiet on account of it possibly squirrelling his career. The other was so scared she hid under her bedsheets and couldn’t describe it much.

The other occasion was mother seeing one when she was a very small girl. I think she told me this before she got ill. She described being very frightened.

To me, the issue is less whether they are and more what they are.

[mallorys_camera]

I'm UFO-agnostic, as I say. UFOs could easily be true. I just can't verify it.