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Celtic Mythology - An Introduction to the Tuatha Dé Danann

Nice presentation and sounds right to me.

Nine Nations: 8/1/2017 and 8/21/2017

Some years ago Dennis McGuire gave me a book written by Joel Garreau. In that book Garreau divided much of North America into what he called 
nine nations. As I remember the book was called Nine Nations. He did a good job of describing much of the continent. I believe the could be called a sociological work.

I am going to try to remember enough of my reading of the book those years ago to write a sort of monograph of each of the " nations" he considered much as he considered it.

Below is a list of the "Nations" as Mr. Garreau named them:
~ Quebec
~ New England
~ The foundry
~ Dixie
~ The Islands
~ The Empty Quarter
~ Ecotopia
~ Breadbasket
~ Mexamerica

I lived in "Mexamerica' when I read the book. and failed to take notes on it as I failed with some of the other Nations. I can say the Republic of Mexico is in it. Spanish of the Mexican sort is spoken widely in much of Mexamerica; a good deal of English is spoken there. There is mixing of the two languages especially along the border.
There is plenty of cultural prejudice there. As I remember Joel suggests that "might makes right in this valley of  tears."

I add that this Nation of Mexamerica may less of a Nation than most of the other "Nations."  For example, The state of Oaxaca and DF  seem much less part of the  Nation than does the state of New Mexico.



post by Richard for Mago Bill

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The Empty Quarter of the Nine Nations

The Empty Quarter is on of Garreau's Nine Nations. I spent a significant part of my life in the thee. It is big and relatively lightly populated. A large part of it can be called desert.  It extends from the northern deserts of Mexico across the U.S and Canada into the Arctic Circle.

The E.Q. contains gas, oil, cattle, mining, timber, and wheat and the people who work in those industries. Some people are attracted by the quiet and the "elbow room" to be found there.

The Athabascan tar sands of Alberta are in the Empty Quarter. There in Nevada is the Home Farm headquarters of The School of the Natural Order.

North American Indian Peoples live in the Empty Quarter of the Nine Nations. Some of them try to live much as they did long ago. But it is not easy. For example, Acoma, Coleville, Navajo, Ute, Wind River and a fe others have significant control of perhaps 50% of the Uranium found here. Native Americans with oil and gas consult with OPEC. Blackfoot, Sioux, Crow, Spokane, and Northern Cheyenne control a third of the low-sulfur stripable coal here.

The land is beautiful and scars easily. It looks to many of us that much of this beautiful land is being needlessly sacrificed to the need and greed of people we do not know. Fracking and the disposal of water of certain industries seems to be a shameful rape to some here. Water has be scarce here and is now being poisoned. Some have told us to pipe water from the Arctic. Might be a good short term solution.  The fresh water of the Arctic was stored in ice. That ices is rapidly melting and flowing into a rising sea.

Triggers for great bombs are made in the part of this "empty zone" closest to the great city of Denver. Testing of hydrogen bombs here still poisons citizens of Utah and disturbs the genetics of deer of North East California.

The south west portion of the US is found in the Empty Quarter. It is there where many of the Western Cowboy films of Hollywood were made. . 

posted by Richard
for Mago Bill
8/1/2017

Writing Skill

Writing  Skills

 

We are born with talents.
Skills are developed and maintained with practice.
Writing is a skill.  

As an aid to improving your writing skills you can keep a free-writing diary as a practice tool. You may also find that it is a great source of writing ideas.

Keep your free-writing in a private diary, journal, or notebook. No one but you need ever read a word you put there. In that private place you can write whatever you want in any way you want to.

You are likely to be very uninterested that I have gotten much inspiration
for this post and others like it From Peter Elbow's book WRITING WITHOUT TEACHERS. 

"Free-writing" is writing without judgement or criticism. Do no editing, corrections,or rewrites. All there is to it is to do it.

Do not throw away what you have free written. You can use it to discover subjects you can enjoy writing more about.

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In your notebook, journal, diary, write. Produce a finished piece of writing. Keep a topic in mind. Digressions are okay, but when you find yourself digressing in this practice bring yourself gently back to the topic.
Digression are to be honored and respected. After all they do come from your beautiful mind. 
The idea in this practice is to keep writing. Do not stop writing. Do not stop for anything but the most serious and urgent reason. 
You may say to yourself "Let's remember the topic," but do not let a little digression of yours bother you.  Do very gently practice the discipline of keeping the topic in mind as you honor and value your digressions. 
It does seem that we writers are very much about digressions. They may lead us to our best writing. Still we do not want them to keep us from finishing a piece of work. 

As an aid toward helping myself to finish a piece of work I have told myself to write down everything I can think about the topic at the moment. 

Keep Writing.

Later you can look for your digressions in you work above.  Do another writing exercise based on your digressions. Let your digressions enrich your writing. Your  digressions may give you topics that motivate the real you.

"Labels"

While you are on Mago Bill and have time go to "Home" page and check-out "Labels."  You might find that the last label is "Your Awareness" and also see that it has (1) next to it. By starting with the first label you will, perhaps, see the label "history" with the number (19) next to it. That number, 19, means that you will probably find nineteen posts about history here on Mago Bill. The second post might be "politics" with the number 18 next to it. Than means that politics is a frequent topic on Mago Bill.


post by Richard for Mago Bill 

Isis

History With RCS: Now and then

 

Isis is an asset and a source of divine power from the Old Kingdom of Egypt. She is the first daughter of Geb* and Nut.
She married her brother Osiris who I know here in Colombia. The Moors knew Isis before they knew Spain. Ave Maria!

 

*Geb was first seen as a man, a man who cared for earth. His daughter and son later became highly venerated in ancient Egypt.

What has Isis become for us?

                                                                                RCS

Mago Bill: a little backstory

Mago Bill animates my connection to history, and more.
He connects me to the US and to the history of Ireland, and from there to history far and wide. "He" helps me to get far back into ancient history and prehistory. And, it seems that, there is a very far back.
* He seems to help me to explore time and space.
* He helps me to see aspects of the ageless wisdom teaching anew.
* He helps me to fresh views of governance, politics, and philosophy.

I need all the help I can get.

A Mago Bill may well have been my paternal great grandfather.

Mago is a very old Irish name, probably picked up from the Phoenicians or the Carthaginians. In the US the name seems to have given Mago some trouble. For there he began to sign his name M. William Sheehan.

                    Here it does not seem unreasonable to add a bit about the connection I feel between Mago and Sheehan. As a US citizen my paternal great grandfather was M. William Sheehan. As I have indicated earlier the "M" stood for Mago. Mago is not an easy name to carry in the U.S. William is a more well known in the US and many Williams are call Bill or Will. As I continue to explore her on thus blogsite, I find it historically significant. The name Mago Bill may be used only by me. I use it because it causes me to smile and site up straight. There are several post at this site that mention Mago, Mago Bill, or both. By looking you are likely to find something of interest to you.

 

 



RCS is the way I will note that a post an essay or the like is written by

Richard Carroll Sheehan

Will Rogers Said.........

Will Rogers is an interesting guy from our recent history.

He is often funny and smart. Check him out online; Wikipedia is a good place to start.

Below are a few things he has said that I have enjoyed. Bet you can find a quote here that you enjoy: 

~ "Ten men in the country could buy the world and 10 million can't buy enough to eat."
    

~ There is one thing in common with all revolutions, nobody knows what they are fighting about. 

~ "This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something."

~ We don't have to worry about anything . No nation in the world was ever sitting so pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is buy it on credit."

~ Villains are getting as thick as college degrees. and sometimes one the same fellow."

~ When the judgement day comes, civilization will have an alibi, 'I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with."

~ "We shouldn't elect a president, we should elect a magician."

~  "...the most unemployed or the hungriest man in America has contributed in some way to the wealth of every millionaire in America. It was the big boys themselves who thought that this financial drunk we are going through was going to last forever. They over-merged and over capitalized and over-everything else. That's the fix we are in now."

~ "Who considers the poor billionaire?"

                Don't blame me for the quotes. Will Rogers said it.
Some people thought that Will was some kind of cowboy others thought he was some kind of Indian. You can learn a lot about the USA by learning about him.

                These Will Rogers quotes come here from RCS Posts. There is more to see and to read at RCS Posts. You can go directly to RCS Posts by clicking on this blue  RCS Posts.

                Thank you for reading!

                                                                                            Richard for Mago Bill

About 3220 Years Ago

Around 1200 BC,  according to my best guess, there were some wide spread happenings on our planet.

Some names that have been given these happenings are: The Great Cultural Collapse, Bronze Age Collapse, The Late Bronze Age, and The Little Ice Age.

Could this big happening have had anything to do with the doings of humanity? Where there major changes in our agricultural doings not long before this time?

It may be rewarding to find out more about our past. It might pay us to share such info.

Democracy Works

Democracy works,  when we work it.

                It helps, of course, when we know more exactly what we mean by "democracy."

                The "comments" section is now working again. In "comments" you may post your comments and questions. There you can post what democracy means to you or what it has meant to others. There you can tell us what you know about the doing of democracy. How does it work? How can I work it? How can you work? How can we do it together?

                In "comments" we can begin to list how we can or could benefit by doing democracy.

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The Next America: The Emerging New Direction as the Old Order Decays

The US has more criminals per capita than any other country. And some very informative real economics.
Rather than more criminals I should perhaps say prison inmates.

How to start a political movement: Rick Falkvinge at TEDxFlanders

When we establish  our goal we can do it. You can do it.