The Falcon Cannot Hear the Falconer

"The science is settled." They said that about lobotomies. Drilled into the skull, severed the frontal lobe, sent the patient home quieter. Twenty thousand performed in the US alone. The surgeon got a Nobel Prize. They said it about radium. Sold in toothpaste. In face cream. In water tonics for "vitality." The factories that made it left a radioactive legacy that required federal cleanup eighty years later. The women who painted the watch dials were told to lick the brush to keep a fine point. They said it about smoking during pregnancy. Doctors endorsed specific brands. Camel ran ads with physician testimonials. "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette." The settled science of the 1940s. They said it about mercury for syphilis. Rub it on the skin. Inhale the vapour. The cure was frequently worse than the disease. The disease, at least, took years. The mercury took weeks. They said it about bloodletting. For two thousand years. Every major illness. Every fever. Every infection. Open the vein, release the corruption. George Washington was bled of roughly forty percent of his blood in twelve hours on his deathbed. By doctors. Who were certain. They said it about margarine. Heart-healthy. Scientifically proven. Cardiologist-approved. The trans fat content was not discussed, because the people funding the studies were not in the business of discussing trans fat content. They are now saying it about red meat. About saturated fat. About cholesterol. About the LDL hypothesis that has never survived a randomised controlled trial with all-cause mortality as the endpoint. Settled science is where investigation stops. It is also, reliably, where the funding starts.

@Susiehs What a blessing a quiet lane is.

Sunrise walk

@HappeWife @farmingandJesus Praying for you.

@farmingandJesus Oh My Goodness! Thank you. I’m a Christian and have panic attacks! I do have the “background” you mentioned. I feel so alone and can’t talk to anyone because there’s such a stigma. I’m in a great church, but a guest preacher recently said anxiety is torment for my sin. 😢😢😢

One time I had a panic attack in a Walgreens and I laid down on the floor in line for my purchase and let everyone know I was dying 🤓 There was a fireman in the line that checked on me so I felt like I was safe and my panic attack passed….then I (sweating and red faced) got up and bought my items and walked out, never to go there again of course. Talk about embarrassing , did you know people who get panic attacks aren’t people who “worry” or “don’t trust God” all the time? The church can be very hard on people like this and it’s frustrating to me… do we blame the child who was abused who gets them? This is common in abused children and abused women or people who’ve suffered a lot emotionally..even my husband used to tell me to calm down and it was in my head ….. UNTIL he had one (thank God only one) he changed his tune…. It’s a a real thing that comes from an area of your brain called the amygdala ( histamine/hormone/adrenaline release) that is caused by a deregulated nervous system due to MANY factors, sometimes hormones, sometimes trauma or grief or environmental …. It’s not always “you’re scared and don’t trust God” it’s quite literally involuntary and your body’s way of “protecting you” in a stressful situation. When you’re dis regulated your body mistakes a normal Tuesday at Walmart for being chased by the guy in the Texas chainsaw massacre. Once you cross that line in your body coming back is very hard. The amygdala is NOT REGULATED by logical reason. That sucker does this on its own from LEARNED behavior (extreme stress/trauma/grief oftentimes) The body does this involuntary… AGAIN, The body does this on its own even if you’re having a lovely day, not a care in the world.. Fun times. But good news! 👇🏻 The best way to move on from them (along with prayer first snd foremost) is to accept the panic and horrible side effects that accompany it like heart racing, sweating, heart palps, vision loss, throat closing, inability to breathe, racing thoughts, Dizziness, impending doom, nausea, vomiting, floaters, jelly legs, pins and needles , arm numbness , dry mouth, chest pain, horrendous brain fog, forgetting where you are or forgetting words, inability to swallow and so on and so forth lol …. Just accept them and don’t fight them. I did this at work yesterday and it worked, I was getting hit with one BAD and I just went “oh this happens all the time and I don’t die , if I do die I’ll be with Jesus”… finished the lady’s highlights, prayed, and had a snack. It passed. You can get better when you stop fighting it. :) I’m not Better yet but I’m fighting with all I have and this works (along with a lot of prayer/worship of course!) the practice of trusting God and not fighting it gives me so much hope, hope this helps someone, love you 🥰

@Child0God @AndrewZywiecMD Unless it is in "often".

@AndrewZywiecMD Can we go back to pronouncing the letter T again? It is not silent.

Can we normalize speaking proper English again? I'm sick and tired of everyone putting on a performance of sorts. It's exhausting.

Having a family really reveals a lot of things that felt like arbitrary traditions were actually load-bearing Chesterton's fences.

@Susiehs Hello, Finn! Those eyes are irresistible.

New baby! Say hello to Finn.

@curtise3 Bamboo and sloe vines. And Althea.

Ice breaker question: "So, which invasive weed are you most fixated on?"

@MichelleMaxwell I've know several who have gone to Dr. Robert H. Levitt, and recommend him. I've been praying for you.

Now I remember why I almost never go to the doctor. The cardiologist I went to was basically useless. I actually ended up in tears because he made me feel like my situation was no big deal. He never even asked me any questions about my medical history. He decided to do me a favor by scheduling an echocardiogram for the 2nd. Before I left to see him I took my blood pressure and it was 138/90. I took a screen shot of it because I was in shock I normally have super low blood pressure and when mine is high it is about 120 like a normal person. My husband had a heart attack at 46 and open heart surgery where he bottomed out and had to be wheeled back into surgery because they didn’t properly clamp an artery and he was bleeding out into his back. So I have seen first hand how heart situations can turn out. I am BRCA2 positive and have had prophylactic surgeries. One of them was a bilateral Salpingo oopherectomy (tubes and ovaries removed). This caused me to go into shock menopause before the age of 45. So I don’t have estrogen and all of this can have a major impact on the heart. I also supposedly snore and have sleep apnea(according to my husband and daughter)and previous situation leads to this and also greatly impacts one’s heart. This supposed cardiac doctor never once asked for a history and was just basically like, “so what brings you here?” It was the last appointment of the day and a Friday and they already had some lights turned off. I should have just gone to the hospital. I just really needed to vent. America needs more natural health focused doctors that are conservative. I ended up taking two baby aspirin when I got home. This doctor was foreign and could have cared less for what I am experiencing. Sorry for the novel. Going to try and get some sleep. Have a good night everyone. Thank you for caring. Love, Michelle 😘

@txsalth2o I'm sorry you're suffering with this. My suggestion: separate bedrooms.

Anyone have a magic hack to stop snoring? My husband does noes strips & mouth tape, we have white noise but still- he wakes me up, I shove ear plugs in, can still hear him & I start thinking about the all the other things I can do with the pillow…

@bowslingercraft @Mr_Husky1 "lellow" here, too

“Lellow”, but my favorite, which my son said at 3 yrs old to another little girl at his Catholic pre-school, while at recess, was “cinnamon ditch”. The little girl went to the teacher and that’s how she said it - “cinnamon ditch”. The teacher figured out what he said and he was given time out. While in time out, he made up a story that the brown grass at the bottom of a small ditch near them looked like cinnamon. The teacher was very apologetic to me. That night, I asked my son about it. “I told Ms. Kim that I said “cinnamon ditch” but I really said “son of a bitch”. 34 years later and we all still say it.

Admit it: Your kid mispronounced a word three years ago and now the whole family says it that way. What's the word in your house? (We still say 'pasketti' and I’m not stopping anytime soon.)

@Mr_Husky1 umbrella --- "umbuhmba"

@truthandhyssop Here's another recommendation for The Happy Hollisters.

Would love some chapter book recommendations for a newly 8 year old girl. She's still working on fluency, so slightly easier vocabulary is best. Nothing too sassy or materialistic (this is the hardest part, imo). Loves Zoey and Sassafras, Boxcar Children, Tumtum and Nutmeg.

@614clinton lighthouse keeper

Anyone know of a good job for someone who hates people?

@gardenofcolours Periwinkle!

what’s your favorite pastel color ?

@EastTNMama 1 refrigerator, 2 upright freezers in the garage

How many refrigerators and freezers do you have and don’t lie?

Democrats trying to figure out how to make Elon Musk the bad guy for paying the salaries for TSA personnel while the Government is shutdown.

@RolandGunnTN I agree with everything you said. My personal crusade is keeping the sloe vines cut back. They are relentless.

People who have never owned land don’t really understand the upkeep involved in maintaining it at just a basic level, at least in the Southeast. Clearing downed trees, grading roads, bush-hogging etc. in the South if you don’t maintain land ecological succession comes quickly.

@TheKentAcorn Thank you! I am going to trust you, and not clip all the roots. That was actually my project this weekend, so this was a timely post.

@FalconCannot I have known this tree 20 years, and the ivy does not encroach on the branches that hold the leaves

Hedera helix, common ivy The nectar, pollen & berries are an essential food for insects & birds, especially during winter, & provides shelter for insects, birds, bats & small mammals Using trees & walls for support, but it has a separate root system & does not damage trees 1/2

@DavidWolfe Still here, pureblood. And my spouse.

Unvaccinated people, check in. We were supposed to be dead…