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Spring 2023

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Spring in now underway, even though the weather is choppy and changeable, the plants are just getting on, as we all do.

Things starting to poke through, not all identifiable yet, but clearly things I thought had died off for good, didn’t. And some flowers I let the seeds fall for are doing their thing. Calendula coming back, blueberries starting to bud and the rosemary bush is getting ready to flower. So tasty salads to come in the near future.

It’s looking good so far. The elderberry plant now looks established after being a scrawny stow away found growing round the side, so we’ll how that goes this year. Some seeds went out yesterday for a few things, fingers crossed for those, and some seeding is planned. Time to get on 🌿

(c) K Wicks

On The Face Of It

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Clocks – we call the front of a clock a face, because it tells the Time, as does our faces they say. Showing the passage of time in our skin, well for some anyway, maybe not for all if it is true that there are others who walk among us. But behind the face of time, is the truth that we are slaves to it, and are bound by it.

Infiltrating faces – AI and its present set up, seems to be partly about messing with people’s faces and perceptions of themselves and other people. Filters are how it started, seeming innocuous at first, just a bit of fun and a way to see yourself how you might want to be. Now being creepier with technology to remould your face from a bunch of other faces, with the computer deciding your ‘perfect’ face for you. And an extra layer of creepy with people now starting to be aware that the systems are generating entirely fabricated faces, sometimes being used as a representation of a ‘real person’. They call them AI generated or enhanced when the computer makes them up, then call them fake or edited when people do it.

Silence of the lambs – seems like an odd one to throw in maybe, but I thought of it for two reasons. Firstly, the fact that although quite happy with his identity, Hannibal Lector wore someone else’s face to escape. And for Buffalo Bill, who wasn’t happy with his identity or face, wanting to project the face he wished to have, by way of a frightening home-made skin suit, if you aren’t familiar with the film.

Wolf in sheep’s clothing – a camouflage, to blend in. Imitate to infiltrate has been used for many a purpose, and if there is a nefarious agenda, usually any tactic is a possibility. Hiding your true nature, behind a facade of something else. So more a metaphor rather than the previous reference, where they literally wore a different face. Probably more in line with Face of a clown – a masked reality.

I have mentioned it before, and we all know that as humans we learn much by looking, and faces are something that give us a wide range of cues, information and sometimes warnings. All those different ways we communicate before we even need to use verbal language, aren’t just based on the face obviously, but that ties much of it together. Which is why many people were and are against the wearing of face masks in everyday life for no substantiated reason. Because it hampers development, communication and perceptions, which have very real consequences. Communication and the ability to understand people, comprehend situations, meanings and concepts is important. Individually and for the purpose of a cohesive society. Once that starts to become stunted and a problem, other problems soon follow. Even when you are speaking the same language, there are often different meanings and intentions behind things that seem on the ‘same wavelength’ but time or circumstance reveals they aren’t quite as you thought. And sometimes you might even be on the same page temporarily, but in a different book completely in the bigger scheme of things.

With all of the above taking place though, it’s now more important than ever to know who you and who you are interacting with and learning from, in real life and online. Because just as manipulative people in real life know what to do to work on your weaknesses and exploit your vulnerabilities, so do the online crew. Whether it be people or AI, it’s all running to a motive and method, just remember that…

(c) K Wicks

There is a problem… (poetry)

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There is a problem

We can’t ignore

They’ve taken much

But still want more

More of your thought

Your wants and time

To cover the tracks

Of their dastardly crime

That rather large issue

That grows day by day

And no matter their words

It won’t go away

Because we can see

What they try to hide

A disaster unfolds

And we just can’t abide

So many complicit

The network is vast

Thoughts were created

And spells have been cast

Building the stage

For a scene they have set

Hoping that people

Will get lost and forget

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Just what they have done

(c) K Wicks

Pod Life 2

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A follow up piece to Pod life, to the idea of growing babies in external pods, situated in your living room and monitored by a central system. With the ‘parents’ being a strange voyeur to their new offspring’s development.

But the talk has moved on, already. To implants of wombs into men, who want to be women. Removing women altogether from the reproduction process apparently. Odd isn’t it, how on one hand there is a drive to eliminate words, meanings, laws and security for women, at the same time as some people suddenly decide they want to be one, with all the bells and whistles too as one might say. So is it erasure, or replacement? Things being redefined at the drop of a hat to suit a purpose is something we are getting used to. What you thought you knew can be turned upside down in a second, and if you aren’t the type to know their own mind or think critically about information presented to you, then you may struggle to discern what is real or not. And what can be trusted or not, especially if you haven’t yet learnt to trust yourself.

But it sounds like what we once knew as the world of science-fiction, of mad professors and villains, safely tucked away in a film or story that you can put down or switch off. Or ones that end safely with someone shutting down the awfulness, or foiling the plan to expose the hideous outcome that nearly befell everyone, so you can be relieved When someone else saves the day. But no-one does appear to be saving the day in real life, anatomy and meanings are being rewritten and overwritten right in our faces, while people try to say it isn’t. Either way, something is coming. Whether it be the collapse of society, an impending disaster, a split in humanity or just a slow decline from here, who can really say for sure. And it could be all those things, working towards an end goal that just isn’t so obvious yet, throwing caution to the wind and knowing the time is now short, go a bit crazy. Pulling out all the stops to make everything topsy turvy, to destabilise what was and is, to lay the foundations for what will be. If you had a heads up that a world changing event were going to take place, would you tell everyone? Or would you do what you needed to make sure you survive and get ahead of everyone else? Maybe causing some issues for other people to slow them down, or side-track them from also knowing. Sometimes that is how it seems, with no care, thought or consideration for the future, only saying the right things to make people believe you are planning for one, when in reality, they know it’s not going to be there in the capacity we know it, so it doesn’t matter what they do. But everything that is being done, looks like it is for the ruin of humanity and the environment, not the betterment of it. So, I am left to wonder. Why would they want to create such a confused, contaminated and possibly sterile landscape and population, with limited options for growing, created weather problems and division and hatred? Why indeed, and one of the conclusions I come to, is that you want to make it as hard as possible for people to regroup and find their feet. By destroying, poisoning, shutting down and filling in things, they are undoing hundreds of years’ worth of work, time and ingenuity and have been at it for quite some time. Under the guise of progress, updating and improving society, when all the while it has been to infiltrate and dismantle it around us. All the while we were too busy trying to keep up with their distractions and standards to really notice the bigger picture, which now seems to be more in view than ever before.

Those things were the fringe services and areas of society though, with small intrusions into the domestic life and family structure, which has also gathered pace in the last few years. And again, those small things start to tie together to form a bigger more insidious picture than could be seen before. Breaking down values, morals, connections and trust between people, strategically introducing social influences and issues to upset the apple cart, and shake things up. And now we are faced with a wide range to contend with, some of them seemingly more sinister than others, with an overtone and undertone of hatred and malice. Personal agendas are one thing, and quite possibly we are bit more skilled at recognising that in people, but group agendas, well, it seems not so much. Understanding that someone can be executing a personal agenda while working for a bigger cause should be an easy leap in mind to me, but not to everyone. Enough can see it though, and perhaps it is because women understand how a certain portion of men view and treat them, so an alarm bell is ringing loud and clear. It reminds me of reading something online, where a man who wanted to be a woman, joined a women’s group, and then complained that the women were talking about periods, and that excluded him, so he didn’t want them to be able to discuss their women’s problems anymore, and kicked up a fuss. You know, because we all want to join chess club, and then complain that they are playing chess which you don’t know how to play, and isn’t it unfair they don’t play connect-4? Normal people would say, hey, just set up your own connect-4 club. Or get stuffed. But those responses would be applicable for the good old days, not anymore. And of that example, I should point out, there are people who don’t want to work for things, or do things themselves, they want others to do the hard work for them, and then just take it, or ruin it so they can’t have it. Some people actually get pleasure out of being that type of person, so I presume they are present in today’s social landscape too, being agitators and corruptors of a cause, sewing more division, mistrust and hatred. Making people feel like they need to fight for their corner as someone tried to take it away or ruin it.

And back to the main point of the article. With one hand they are encouraging women to be sterilised, or to halt their ability to breed, or have abortions, or birth control. Making it super expensive to have and raise children, constantly interfering with the development by way of medical, nutritional and educational means, putting extra strain on what should be a natural and normal thing. Only mere decades ago (and quite possibly still now), they stole lots of children from single mothers and women they deemed unfit for no reason other than social status by their standard. Destroying families and bonds between parents and children, creating generational trauma to hand down. And with the other hand, they are fawning over men wanting to be women, offering them all the things that many women had to fight for, and suffer for. But they aren’t just offering them their own version of it, with all the medical treatment they could want and facilities and recognition in their own right. No, no, they want everything relabelled that is already in place and full access. It does seem rather odd. Especially as until this recent point, we have been happily integrating with men wanting to be women, and making the transition towards that. But not in a manly aggressive way, which seems to be the new style, and some women are like that too, so that approach can be from all quarters, and rather than specify it by gender, I shall call it what it is. Bullying. And trying to get your own way by intimidation tactics. Weird that it is now becoming about getting rid of one, so the other can feel validated, important and ‘seen’. We don’t want you around or known as you, but want to be what you are and replace you. Like an odd Buffalo Bill Stepford Wife kind of scenario. And like the women in that film, who was happily going about her day, and happy to help someone in need, she gets clobbered and used for purpose. Which is how many feel in this, possibly on both sides, because there is something going on here which is not just about people being themselves, or identity, or acceptance, it seems to be something far more sinister. Which has yet to be fully revealed…

(c) K Wicks

Echoes In Time

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Like on a loop, repeating. This has been the explanation here and there for ghosts and apparitions that people claim to have seen or heard. If you have ever been on a ghost hunt, or watched any of the paranormal programs about haunted locations, you might know what I am talking about. And oddly this piece crosses over into another in progress called Imprinting, but as that is from a slightly different angle, I will keep them separate.

From how it is described by the paranormal folk, I took it as the following. That sometimes there is an event, so shocking, tragic or ghastly, that the energy and force of the event, creates a sort of shock in time as well as in what we know as reality. That it imprints the feeling, or image, or sound onto the fabric of time and space, to be replayed and repeated over and over. As if stuck on a loop with the same frame showing, or a record where the stylus keeps jumping on the same spot, playing the same moment over and over.

So, what is it that occurs when someone thinks they have witnessed something like that? There have been many stories over the years that caught my attention, and I have been very much interested in the whole subject of the paranormal for a few decades now. Tales of headless horsemen, women in white, ghostly battle scenes, haunted mansions and creepy walkways. And I have visited a couple of locations on ‘ghost hunting’ tours, to see for myself what it was actually all about and how they were conducted in real life, not just on the television. I also visited a medium as well as part of the research, again just to know how they appeared in real life, and a friend had visited this one and said it was great, so thought why not. Neither the ghost hunting or visiting a psychic made me suddenly unequivocally believe in them, nothing was revealed or was witnessed within the realms of the supernatural. It was however, rather interesting to see how people behaved in those situations though, myself included (as I am ‘people’ too).

And it did make me think, about what it is that remains, if anything, to keep a feeling or an idea ‘alive’ through the ages. Is there an imprint of energy on that location that can then recreate something given the right conditions? I will bring up Ouija boards here as they have been known to be used for things like this, and again I have speculated about them. It comes back to energy I guess, that maybe when people are giving their concentrated attention to something, while trying to create A portal, something does happen. Makes me think of Stranger Things, where they created a tear in the fabric of dimensions, allowing a creature of sorts to come through and for that world to start seeping through into the ‘real’ one. Like Ghostbusters too I guess, and the entire premise of All Hallows Eve where the veil between worlds is at its thinnest. Or so they say. So, there is a question in my mind on that, if people do in fact see, hear and feel things like that – two options are available for that question. Is it an echo in time, repeating on a loop? Or, is it something that is not actually dead communicating from the ‘other side’ of life, but something that is quite ‘alive’ in its realm, reaching through into ours? And maybe sometimes we too, can cross over in theirs. But when they come into ours, are we equipped to recognise that? Or comprehend what it is we are ‘seeing’, finding it easier to apply a common theme or known possibility of a spectre with a tragic human past, making it easier to deal with in mind. Because if we did know, that something dark and unyielding was lurking just beyond our range, pacing the perimeter of reality like a stalker looking for a way in, would we still go about our lives as comfortably as we do? I wonder…

(c) K Wicks