The beauty Of Nature
Nature is absolutely incredible; I have some thoughts today in regards to some things I have personally learned and observed.
I’ve personally taken notice to the what I call “personalities” or what is the instinct or nature of a specific type of living organism.
Termites, Ants, Moth, Human etc. use pheromones to communicate, at least to some degree.
Termites use pheromones to tell the colony what to do in regards to production of which type of caste. (Alate “reproductive”, Nymph, Soldier, Worker) for the needs of the colony. They also use pheromones to communicate where a source of food is.
Some species of Ant send out the old older ants to go find the food. This is because they are the most likely to die because of age. The younger Ants will have other duties within the colony. These foraging Ants find a food source and create a pheromone trail back to the colony so that the workers can come and pillage.
Moths can detect pheromones from quite a long distance away, they are also pretty specific to what type of moth as well.
Humans are also attracted to one another in regards to pheromones. These attractants are released largely by sweat and over time will turn sour and be a deterrant as well.
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I was reflecting on a time back in 2007. I did not actually think much about this but I believe this was actually a potential factor in why this relationship was a failure.
One of the members of the metal core band I was in “Ash Season” had some lotion that his relative had to throw away because it had become illegal to sell. This lotion’s ingredients included some sort of pheromone.
I remember grabbing that stuff, not understanding what it really was and lathered it across my body. I jokingly said “I’m going to find my wife tonight”.
That evening we were playing a show at a friend’s house in Skandia, MI with a couple of other bands. I believe it was a Birthday Party Show.
I remember the odd abnormal attraction from about 3 girls but I had forgotten I had this lotion on. It was more-so for a joke earlier in the day.
Long story short, I met my first wife that night. I don’t know if it was because of the pheromones or if we actually had a legitimate connection at the time.
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It is very interesting to me as well what nature pushes.
It pushes reproduction; survival.
Most Insects are female…
The Honey Bee workers are all female, at the end of the season they have no need for the male drones to continue to spread the genetics of the hive. They push all of the males outside and they die outside of the nest.
Aphids are very interesting as well. The females already have babys that have babies inside of them. These babies are all direct clones and there is no fertilization involved; absolutely incredible.
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I recently took a trip down to Minnesota to discover a new state that I’ve never previously adventured. I observed many Dragonflies. I noticed that the larger females were green and the smaller males were blue.
A female and male were spinning around; it looked like they were dancing back and forth together.
Another male arrived into the circle, they spun around for a couple of seconds until the female decided to rest on a lillypad. The two males were spinning around with each other, I presume in attempt to win the female. They would spin near the female and she would get back into the mix. Eventually she rested again. Another male came from somewhere else and took her away where I couldn’t see them anymore. I thought that was a wonderful display of nature.
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Taking another view on nature. It is also extremely interesting to me that the fibonacci sequence is so prevalent.
Found in many areas of nature from flowers, plants, and animals it is very interesting to learn about how mathematics are very key in the breakdown of what nature is.
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What about crystals?
One that I tend to mention is quartz. Being piezoelectric, if pressure is applied an electrical current is produced.
Being the most prevalent mineral on earth I would presume that it is much needed within our environment.
Quartz regulates frequency they are used in many different electronic items to include some radios and watches. In a watch, the quartz regulates the frequency and allows the watch to tell more accurate time. The most accurate watch in the world is because of the quartz inside of it.
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Previously I had written about how it is important to understand your environment. These are not all things that you can understand by physically seeing it. Most of everything is invisible to the human eye.
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Vibrations
Mathematics
Pheromones
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I’ve spent a lot of time in cities, I’ve noticed the difference in human nature compared to humans in rural areas. I believe frequencies are causing a negative effect not only to humans but to the entirety of nature. I will touch on this now and expand on this in the future.
Spending time in nature for prolonged periods increase your ability to understand more about the environment around you. Even subtle cues or vibrations have been easier to detect.
I was walking next to a lake on a trail. I had stopped to enjoy the view. I had a very odd uncomfortable inner feeling. I felt like I needed to move. I did not see or hear anything. So I back tracked about 5 feet and stood and looked around to try to understand why I felt that way.
There was a Yellow Jacket Wasp nest that was less than 4 inches away from where I was standing. They were casually flowing in and out of their nest.
I wonder if I had felt the vibration and subconsciously knew to move even though I did not take notice of any sound, did not see any of the wasp, and was not stung.
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Nature is incredible; slowly I see it being destroyed by modernization. This includes housing, industry, human expansion, pesticides, etc.
After being in the city for quite a few years I had noticed that there is some sort of disruption. I am unsure if this is because of frequencies are being pushed out by everything. These frequencies are man-made.
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Is this something that may be considered for issues with the earth itself? Does the earth regulate its frequency being that quartz is one of the most abundant minerals?
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I stand back and am in awe of the complexity of our nature on this planet. I believe it is something we need to take focus to ensure its conservation.
A Frigid Reflection 1.
I remember driving up after a Christmas spent with my grandparents in Idabel, OK where I was born. We were headed north, my parents, brother and sister were all inside of a silver caravan. When we arrived we found ourselves in a parsonage on McClellan Street. I remember that was the first time I had seen more than a dusting of snow. The year was 1994 and I did not know anyone.
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I attended the Church of Christ across from the High School, because my dad was their new preacher. I was enrolled at Sandy Knoll Elementary School and started 1st Grade there. I remember one kid came in wearing roller blades, he glided around the room with ease. It was pretty cool.
I grew up within the Marquette school system from Elementary (Sandy Knoll) to Middle (Graveraet) which later transitioned to Gwinn Middle, and High School. In my senior year I had taken a Health Occupations class where I commuted to Marquette.
During this time I had established many relationships, as people do when they are growing up.
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Most of my friends were involved with the Church that our family went to. I did have some friends from school, or that lived nearby.
I would say that I was very sheltered growing up. I did not comprehend or understand a lot.
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In 7th Grade, my dad had lost his job as a preacher at the Church of Christ and we moved from the parsonage to a 4 bedroom unit previously used as family housing for the KI Sawyer Airforce Base.
Starting at Gwinn Middle School I was in my first classroom waiting on the teacher to start school.
I looked over at a kid next to me. he said “Are you a Fudge Packer?” I was so oblivious and innocent at that moment in my life that I had to ask him what it meant. In which he laughed hysterically.
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My Dad had been in the National Guard as a Chaplain since I was in 4th Grade. Previously I had heard stories about Special Forces training in regards to training to become an “Aid Man” 18D (MEDIC). He also served in the 82nd Airborne Division as a Medic until he got out. He then got a Masters Degree In Divinity and was commissioned with the Michigan Army National Guard.
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I remember his first Deployment. He was assigned as a Chaplain to work with a Blackhawk (aviation) unit out of Rhode Island. He flew off from Ki Sawyer Airport over to Rhode Island to meet up with the unit before the deployment to Iraq.
I remember seeing him wiping his eyes looking out of the window of the Airplane at us. My mother had even verbally stated to us that he was crying.
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This was the beginning to a new era for me.
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Reflection, My Era Of Hype. Part 2.
I remember this time when I was at my buddy Mike’s house. It was in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the winter so there was a bunch of snow and was quite cold out.
Mike and I decided to go build a fire… and make some marshmallows. So we decided to start the fire with gasoline… Terrible idea for a fire intended for marshmallows. Mike poured some gasoline on the wood we placed on the snow and lit it on fire. We decided to add more gasoline… of course. At that point the flame had ignited the tip of the gasoline can. This was not a modern gas can. It did not have the safety features that we have today.
Mike started yelling, and was flailing the gas can around in attempt to put out the flame… This caused the gasoline to fly all around him. The tip ignited the gasoline and it was shooting around him like a flamethrower. Gas was on the ground and there were flames everywhere.
While this was happening I was laughing so hard I barely could breathe. I said to Mike, broken with laughter. “you’re going to die!”
I at one point thought the gas can was going to legitimately explode and ran into the back door of his garage.
I forget if I told him to, or if he did it on his own, but mike shoved the tip of the gas can into a snowbank and that stopped the carnage. I remember the gas burning past the time the can was put out. We used our feet to stomp it out.
Mike and I did so many things together. I believe the first time we ever hung out he came over to my house on Ki Sawyer. I had a paintball gun and we wanted to have some fun. We went on the hill behind my house near some woods and brush, a playground very near. Mike took his shirt off and was running around while I unloaded a lot of paintballs. He ended up with so many welts. When his mom came to pick him up, she was not surprised… It was mike.
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We have done so many random, crazy things together that I don’t think I could legitimately recall all of them.
The first time I ever tried dip it was with Mike, he had been doing it for a while and I finally wanted to see what it was all about. He only chewed Grizzly Wintergreen. I was in a break between my morning Class in Marquette doing Heath Occupations and my afternoon regular High School classes. We met up and I took what I would say now as an admirable size dip. I felt horrid, I am pretty sure I puked. I drove woozy to Gwinn high School for my classes and when I arrived, I felt very sick. I ended up going home.
80’s Day at Gwinn High School
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We also were in a Metal band together called Ash Season. Originally my buddy Billy was the bassist, but he moved to a town in Wisconsin. So, Mike took his spot. I think Mike actually used his Bass for a while until he got his own. We played some pretty sweet shows at the cornerstone. It was a building literally right on Marquette Senior High School. This place would get packed. At that point in time the emo, hardcore scene was poppin.
Ash Season at Corner Stone.
One time we were at the church helping with some type of massive sale of people’s belongings. It was like a massive garage sale. There was a bowling ball… So, we decided to play catch with it. Mike and I threw it up and towards each other. We did it until the bowling ball came directly down and onto my face. That wasn’t very intelligent.
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When we were in high school, I started seeing this girl “S” after we had gone to Prom together. She was the sister of “C” one of my friends in my high school class. I had set up Mike with C as an out-of-town Prom date.
After that it was amazing, for a while. C and S’s family has a beautiful home on a lake which also had Jet Ski’s. The ladies would relax and sunbathe on the dock while Mike and I would go out with the Jet Ski and Innertube and launch each other high into the air attempting to cause as much destruction as possible… as always. It was literally another excuse to have so much fun together.
Hawt pose on C & S’s Jetski.
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I do miss all of my friends from those years. Those days were probably some of the best I’ve ever had. I had found myself forgetting them for many years. Distracted by the new objective Infront of me. But those were the days with a very different type of hype.
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Reflection, my era of hype. Part 1.
Bathroom at a Dance Club. I was alone.
Part 1.
Thinking back at the times that I was feeling at my highest, i was also pretty dang low. I lived a very chaotic and random on the spur life. I was in the middle of… multiple potential relationships and was dancing every weekend, as well as some of the days through the week. If my bro’s did not want to come with me I went all alone. I’ve always enjoyed the experience of going somewhere new solo. I’ve been to underground raves, a lot of metal shows, many many dance clubs of all varieties… My favorite was Sharky’s or their neighbor club Secrets.
There were times that I wanted to go home so bad to marquette, mi but i was in myrtle beach… I had a 3 day weekend so I immediately started driving up with only stopping for gasoline. A couple of times I did this, i would not want to be seen and would only share with very few people that I was in the area. Sometimes I would just go sleep in the woods, or on the beach along Lake Superior.
One thing that I was doing for sure, was going down-town. Washington Street. Remies has always been my first spot that I head to. I usually ended up there towards the end of the night if the dance clubs “Skeet Skeet” we will call it… and the irish pub across the street were closed.
No-matter what I also had to go to my favorite brewery. Black Rocks. I was there within the first day or two of them opening since I lived 1 block over. I purchased a hand crafted mug there that they store in-house. This was a very limited time period, and it was difficult to find mugs. I picked mine out of a cluster of just a couple of mugs. Best $40 I’ve ever spent. I would tend to see people there, I especially enjoyed when I would bump into the german mother of one of my friends.
I would show up randomly at my parents door sometimes and surprise them. One time I found my ex-wife with the dude she cheated on me with at a local brewery. I never knew what was going down randomly in marquette, mi. It was always a new, refreshing, experience when I took those trips. I took one of my army buddies up with me once and he did not like the experience… I was all about minimalist camping, and he preferred a bed. [He was not an Infantryman]
I’ve been told by a couple of my friends in my army friend group that they had to take turns partying with me cause I was so constant. I was usually somewhere else, If I was at home, I was playing my favorite PC game Insurgency.
Thinking farther back, even when I was in high school I would be either doing something somewhere, or I was at home. Taking care of my siblings, cooking them brownies or ramen noodles 80% of the time. My Dad was deployed to Iraq and my mother was very on edge and sometimes not there when I would return from school. I don’t mean writing this as a stab at anyone, it’s just how it was.
I was a wrestler, they called me gumby because I was so flexible. I wasn’t the best wrestler, but I made sure that I was not pinned. I found how to channel my motivation through wrestling. This became beneficial in moments where during extreme physical exhaustion I was able to push on and accomplish my goal. One being my first 20 mile trail run. I had never competed in a long distance run before and out of the entire battalion and more that wanted to join. I finished 7th place.
One time I decided to follow the advice of my bro “Delta” and get a pedicure. A couple of weeks later I did a 20 mile ruckmarch. At mile 11 I felt a lot of pain.. Even after consistantly rotating socks (combo of thin and wool socks) and powdering my feet, by mile 20 I had ripped the skin off the ball of my feet off. [HERE IS THE PHOTO] I returned after the ruckmarch and spoke to the medic about my feet. I went by the CP and one of the Squad Leaders asked “why did you keep going?” I replied, “Because I don’t stop.”
I would pre-game every 20 miler (run or ruck) with a 12 pack of Guiness stout and a large bowl of some type of pasta. Before the run I would drink half of my large Bolt House chocolate drink that had 65g of Protein and a high amount of potassium per bottle. When I returned I would finish my drink, and the unit FRG would have pasta and fruit for us. We would stop by the CP and grab a beer from our command as well. The medic would pass out a pill form muscle relaxer to us and we would clean our weapons until the most of us passed out then we would be eventually released to go home after we turned in all of our “clean” equipment.
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Introduction
Hello,
I thought I would write an introduction to this blog.
The things I do tend to change and modify as time goes on, so at this moment this is what I plan to do.
I would like to express experiences I’ve had and my personal thoughts on them.
I do not claim to be good or bad, but some of these experiences I’ve had may be shocking to some, but to me it is part of my life. I do not wish to offend.
I also want to allow others to be more aware of their surroundings.
I will post my personal resume on the “links” page if anyone wants to know more in-depth professional information about me. A couple of jobs aren’t in it currently, I may need to update it in the near future.
-Josh