Words Without Voices https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun06_Post.mp3 One of my favorite scenes from TV and Movies is from the first season of “The Last Kingdom.” The English were fighting against the Vikings. And one Viking leader lost a battle, and converted to Christianity. This is more or less historically accurate. In real life, the […]
Separation Anxiety
Backpacking Trip I was backpacking with friend once and I had a particularly frightening experience. We’d been planning this trip, a five day loop in the sierras, for a few months. Part of it involved taking a shortcut that was suggested in the guide. Shortcuts Never Work Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov30Loop.mp4 We got halfway […]
Hallucination Instinct
Viking Invasions During the early middle ages in Europe, life was very chaotic. One reason was that for about 300 years, the Vikings had a short term, lighting attack based, military superiority. They had these thin boats that didn’t need a lot of depth. They could sail up rivers, deep into Europe. […]
Truth Beyond The Veil
Landscaping Neighbor I have this neighbor that has been, for the past six months, working tirelessly on his front yard in his backyard. He’s got himself involved in a kind of do-it-yourself landscaping project. He’s a very, a guy you wouldn’t quite expect to be doing that. He’s a very blue-collar guy. He works […]
Social Status and Wealth
Ancient Vikings There’s not a lot known about bronze era Scandinavians because way back in the bronze era which, was before about 1200 BC, there was never a large enough population to create lasting infrastructure that historians and archaeologists can look at and try to piece together what kind of society they had. All […]
Cracks In The Foundation
Next Door Construction I have this next door neighbor that has decided, he and his wife have decided, to tear down and rebuild their entire house. He let everybody in the neighborhood know how long this would take and what to expect from the construction company. I was just curious why he decided to […]
The Viking Yin Yang Connection
World Mythology I watched an interesting video series recently on world mythology. It was a 60 video series and each video was 30 minutes. It took a couple of months to watch. The first 10 or so were on Greek mythology, Greek and Roman mythology so it was somewhat familiar. The next 10 or […]