The Sky Is Falling & Hollandaise Sauce

in #hive-1063162 years ago

With my deep connection to all foodish things that are far too rich and gooey I'm probably not doing my best to age gracefully, which is what this latest rant is partially about. As for my next annual exam at the M.D. --something tells me my cholesterol levels are going to be a bit too off the charts this time, so I shouldn't worry about being around for the next extinction level event. I've already created it in my kitchen.
But what the heck, I'll share my latest obsession using my Bullet Blender that was supposed to help me juice healthy things. Not three egg yolks and melted butter for a quick and easy hollandaise that will come in handy for your next round of tater tots. Or whatever. I put it on tater tots baked in the oven in cupcake tins and smashed with bacon. Stop rolling your eyes, it was delicious.

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3 Egg Yolks (very expensive these days)
1 tsp. lemon juice
1/4 cup butter, melted
Blend eggs and juice, add in butter. Blend again until thick, about 60 seconds in my bullet blender.
Dump on tater tot cheesy bacon bites.
Enjoy.
(Cardiac Unit may be handy)

Latest rant: What makes someone "qualified" to tell other people what the "truth" is?

Let's start with "facts".
Facts help substantiate "truth".
Ask any of five people who just witnessed a car accident or something equally horrific and you're going to get five different versions of "the facts".
The same goes for delightful incidents, although the less heinous of events tend to be a bit more easily shared across the board of "what happened". That's where trauma comes in to sit on the shoulders of emergency medical technicians and first responders on site. I worked with Police and EMT's to help them become less aggressive with their "just the facts, ma'am" approach as well as their own built-up trauma shields as a result of day in, day out witnessing the after effect of terrible things. Those people have it really rough, and they do deserve our respect in spite of the latest trend in fearing many of our authoritative peacekeepers and veterans.

Anyhow, let's bring it in a bit more for the sake of time and the possibility you're going to rush off and make hollandaise sauce.

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There is a bit of yakking on the woo (and some not so woo) sites about this huge red planet called Hercolubus that tends to swing around into our view every so often. It's the thing that supposedly causes the earth to have cataclysmic events. Some say it was the end of the first civilizations such as Mu, Lemuria and then Atlantis. It seems that we've been here for a very long time, although we can't seem to actually remember to record or leave any sort of report that the giant red thing in the sky is what causes us to have a massive rebuild, over and over again.

So, according to the people who have the gall to tell us that the sky is falling, or going to cause us to fall, we need to make less hollandaise sauce and get to repenting, or ascending or whatever the latest round of enlightenment is called. And to that end (no pun intended) I want to ask, "why?" And here's where the rant comes to sit. When I was in elementary school, we used to have these "They're going to drop the nuke" drills. There would be an alarm, and the teacher would stand up and shout, "under your desks!" and 30 children would do the mad scramble and hunker down. We'd sit there holding our knees, peering out at each other, often making faces.

Leave it to me, after watching The Hindenburg, that I decided that it wasn't worth the trouble and continued sitting at my desk doing my word search or whatever the hell we did in school at the age of ten. I do recall thinking that George C. Scott would have been delighted, and since my father knew Anne Bancroft, I was hoping he'd tell her that I was involved in a rebellion. I ended up in the principal's office after I told my teacher that it wouldn't do any good to crawl under our desks if they were going to drop the big one, and that if it was going to happen, we should just go outside to watch before we croaked. Because we were surely going to die, like everyone on the Hindenburg.
Hey, she asked when I said, "Why?"

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(picture of my Blu-rayDisc of the movie cover)

In retrospect perhaps this is why I became a trauma recovery specialist, because the uproar I caused in my classroom from kids crying and upset parents has sat with me for a very long time.

But it was true, right? Big Badda Boom. Done.

Ask questions if you intend to get involved in the truth business, because your life isn't a press conference. If your questions are met with refusal or that mitigating gaze of "if you have to ask why, then you're not at our level of expertise", move on. Get out from under the desk of delusion. It's worth the walk to the principal's office. When people share their version of "The Truth" though, it's important to do a little research on what qualifies them as the fact keepers, because media is a greedy business. Living is a greedy business, and it can be difficult to make up our individual minds for personal truth. Someone, somewhere, is going to come along and challenge what you "think" is true. Like the comment I just read on twitter about the giant coronal mass ejection on the sun, "The sun has nothing to do with our climate, SUVs on the other hand, do."

Yeah. That.

For me, though, in regard to this massive planet swinging through space I've come across more nonsense than I knew could possibly exist from religious fanaticism to NASA scientists. Is there, or is there NOT a huge planet orbiting our solar system that will rock our boat? The pieces are coming together for me in a way that would point to a "yes", however I'm still skeptical, because of the lack of experts willing to step up who aren't part of some major cultivation or ... cult. I'm still looking for answers. I'll keep you posted in between recipes and heart monitoring.

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I'm an old hand at the Hollandaise sauce lark...and I have chickens so it's Eggs Florentine central 'round here.
As to a 'giant red thing in the sky, I think it likely that we do go through some sort of cataclysmic event periodically and rebuild from scratch. Jason Breshears may interest you. He spent 20-odd years in prison reading material purged from general circulation but still available in prison libraries and has some theories with much evidence to support them, that this is exactly what occurs.

Running across Jason's massive accumulation of work and knowledge was a little like getting stuck on the 405 (California Traffic) with a great audio book. Annoying, but worth it. ROFL!!!
Oh, I'm so conflicted about this. Can you tell?
And I'm jealous of your C-Seeds (someone recently told me that it's best to refer to eggs as such ... and they had a tic-toc video to prove it)

We had to let our chickens go when we moved into this Housing Association neighborhood ten years ago. They're snobs. Betcha they regret it now.

Hahaha, yes indeed, finding Jason was a mixed blessing. So much to read, and so little time but he's answered some questions I've been wrestling with for decades.
I have 18 C-Seed producers and I cherish them, every one...even when I have to wash their behinds.

Yep I have found hollandaise sauce does make everything better!

I do remember those drills. I also share your attitude of going out to enjoy the view. Even if crawling under the desk would help me survive, I dont think living in the aftermath where I have to fight off my neighbors for a drink of water is worth it.

I guess I have always sided more with the thought of eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die, instead of foregoing the hollandaise sauce and such good stuff in exchange for a few extra weeks in the nursing home.

The Big Guy (@Denmarkguy) and I have a play list for The End of The World and a full plan of how it's gonna go down if we go down.
I'm going to be so angry if we don't have a "heads up", and it just goes.

What concerns me the most is that I wonder if we've just been conditioned for The End since The Beginning.

More Cowbell, and Hollandaise sauce. Please.

At the end of the world, there will always be good food!

Evidence of cataclysmic events can be sketchy, because what if that evidence is transient? We know how the Moon — which is not that big or massive — causes tidal movements here on this planet... so if some "object" 50 times more massive than the Moon swoops by at about a million miles away, it would be a cataclysmic event, simply due to temporary gravitational pull... and then aforesaid object (on some giant elliptical orbit) would be way the heck outta sight by the time we spend 1000 years working out how to build a telescope to even start looking for it.

Brilliant writing, as always!

Yeah, but ... the WHY!!!
It's in the why. Since we're both Danish, we understand Ragnarok, we have a destiny to share.

I love a hollandaise. I like it nice and sharp, with more lemon than most folks. My favourite is on eggs Benedict & I think that's why I like it sharp as it cuts through the richness of the egg yolk (a duck egg for this is tdf).
paired with a nice chilled glass of Chablis and it is the perfect brunch.

I'm right there with you, and I like it with a bit more of a spicy kick too, so from time to time I'll add in a tiny bit of cayenne pepper! We're salt and pepper snobs in this house.
HOWEVER, I'm a pinot grigio gal, I haven't found a decent chablis yet.

Pinot Grigio is my go to. Chablis is a £20 a bottle once or twice a year splurge.
& yes that sprinkle of cayenne makes it every time.

& we must swap details on salts some time 👊

Hello :)

Aren't "the facts" and perspective very different things?

I mean...

the fact is that there was a car accident.

How the car accident happened would be reliant on personal perspective?

I mean... how fast the car was perceived to be traveling, as an example.

It would be a fact that it collided with whatever at a certain point... but not necessarily why or how this happened?

I would have to strongly disagree with your statement :D

Especially if you're well versed with trauma and Jungian analysis. Of course!

I see you're a Jungian Analyst? I adore Jung! Genius! Actually carrying another book on him around (have been for a year now :/ that I still haven't had time to read yet)

I'm a bit jealous you're qualified tbh. I looked at studying but would never be able to afford it now. Where did you get your certification?

Ah yeah ... "The Facts" and "perspective" are VERY different things. We don't disagree. 😁
As for the certification, I spent a year at Naropa University in Boulder, another at UCLA after I finished my associates, and then spent years wandering around once I dropped out of my internship (the idea was that I'd become an Adolescent Criminal Psychologist) and eventually became involved with the Heart/Math Institute, where I continue to gain insight and certifications.

I spent a great deal of time with Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, and her mountain of work. The Tao of Psychology is a must have for sure. I tell everyone to start with that when diving into Jungian psychology from a different perspective.
There's that word again.

Ah... that makes more sense :D

So you're not a certified Jungian Analyst either. That's a tough one to achieve for sure!

Thanks for all that info. I had a look at Naropa and it looks really interesting. I'm going to send it to my daughter, in fact. She's busy studying neuroscience at UCT out here and I'm not sold on mainstream institutions with regards to anything to do with psychology or psychiatry anymore.

But she has to make her own way in the world. Of course :)

So you never completed that one? I can't find what certification one has after study there either or how long it takes to achieve it (I'm imagining 4-5 years in full as it's a BA plus additional credits... 120 credits plus 24 additional credits... do you know offhand, perhaps?), but I may write to find out more. Really interesting approach. Especially the somatic part. And combining it with philosophy. Makes absolute sense. 👍

I found the Heart/Math Institute some years ago and signed up for the newsletter for some time to follow what they are up to. What made you decide to roll with that approach specifically, if you don't mind me asking?

Dr Bolen looks like a force to be reckoned with. I'm a Gabor Maté fanatic and also recently discovered Hillman, but will totally check her out.

Yep. It's pretty much mostly about perspective isn't it 😊

Naropa is really a step up, and no nonsense. Ten years ago they offered me a program that would have required both of us (@Denmarkguy and yours truly here) to move to Boulder, and while it would have given us on campus housing for couples as well as a small stipend, it was too much of a sacrifice at the time. I still had kids in College and a toddler grand child, with another on the way. I'm typing that out as much for you to read and for me to see, again.
It reinforces that I made the right decision, because from time to time I wonder. Oh, those "what ifs"...

I don't know what their programs are now.
And that is one of the reasons I started engaging with the Heart/Math Institute. I was introduced to them when I was on the Board for The Labyrinth Society and we did a collaboration with them for World Labyrinth Day.
I dove in, and while I am not entirely enchanted by it all (Heart/Math) there are gems. They allowed me to obtain my certificate without having to have my Masters because I was able to provide documentation for work "in the field", several letters of recommendation and how effin' delightful I am.

Most of the time.

Yes. It does seem really progressive! And smart!

It's often a great idea to look back and write down learning and achievements to see just how far we've come. So often we do the opposite, focusing on everything we haven't achieved or accomplished. When you reverse the thinking it's usually very surprising :)

Meh... we're all delightfully human and perfectly so all of the time!

Thanks for sharing more of your experience. 👍