Taking road trips, “flying by the seat of your pants” on the spur on the moment was always the best!
I did things like this too- with my female cousins- back roads and dive bars were our thing- we didn’t drink in the car, but stopped at every. single. dive bar we passed. The rules were always drink out of a bottle, never sit in the toilet seat, and stay long enough for one game of pool (or darts). Those were crazy days in my twenties. Thank God we stayed alive. Thank God we never hurt anyone along the way.
.. great telling ! Had no idea you were into competitive ultimate .. my cousins were - among others.. i just loved finding ‘great air’ & 2 or 3 of us shrowing freakshow long floaters & sailors through perfect up & down draughts.. all while the charcoal is getting right & BBQ time is nigh !
I fear that the people of today are being conditioned to see their basic, inalienable rights as rare privileges, bestowed to them by their supposedly benevolent governments. Ask not what freedoms are you allowed in your country, but what privileges does your government enjoy.
In other words, what makes a person unhappy with his normal mind that he/she seeks to alter it?
Thanks Dee, I will be there attempting to lay out the pharmacology of the particular substance discussed. For example, alcohol is a Central Nervous System (CNS) Depressant. As it is consumed, it takes the user down, respiration & heart-rate slow, one goes from slurred speech to inebriation to sleep to coma to death as the rate of ingestion exceeds the liver’s ability to process & excrete. One doesn’t get high, alcohol brings us low. Tolerance can be developed, but it still slows the CNS as the brain is bathed in the blood-brain bath as the BAC increases.
I believe it’s all about discomfort. People alter their minds with substances because they’re uncomfortable. That can be a result of trauma, shyness, external locus of control, loneliness, a terminal sense of uniqueness—whatever it is that sets them apart from others in their own minds. They seek to “cope” with that feeling of discomfort temporarily—and it mostly works until it doesn’t.
People cope with food, social media, whatever—to counteract the discomfort—plain and simple.
One of the most difficult aspects of long-term recovery is to be able to sit with one’s own discomfort.
In brain chemistry, many family members of OD deaths articulate that the brain of their loved one was hard-wired in the womb so that “Johnny’s” brain receptors were helpless when the specific substance entered their bloodstream & satisfied their particular hard-wired receptors. This explains why I blog on substances from the perspective of prevention, not recovery, and I strongly believe that a minimum of half the funding should be directed to prevention. Accepting for a moment the “hard-wired” belief, why would anyone think it is fine to play roulette with a young person’s brain receptors in order that the substance they are vulnerable to can satiate their receptors. There is great risk in letting any young person to set foot onto the “substance use disorder” treadmill. Arguably, there are persons who have lived a full life without ever learning the substance that they were hard-wired to crave.
I don’t disagree Phil. “Just say No” and so many other prevention messages were abject failures. It can be tough to prevent that first encounter. But we must keep trying 🙏
Our similarities will never fail to amaze me - from God, to music, to US road trips and Cheese It’s - you are my spiritual gangsta/spirit animal.
This is incredible Dee. Love it in every way. Happy 4th my friend.
I love it. Thanks Kristin 🙏
Wonderful song of the open road. Happy 4th to you, Dee.
Thank you Heidi!
Taking road trips, “flying by the seat of your pants” on the spur on the moment was always the best!
I did things like this too- with my female cousins- back roads and dive bars were our thing- we didn’t drink in the car, but stopped at every. single. dive bar we passed. The rules were always drink out of a bottle, never sit in the toilet seat, and stay long enough for one game of pool (or darts). Those were crazy days in my twenties. Thank God we stayed alive. Thank God we never hurt anyone along the way.
Sounds like we’d have gotten along great 😊
Probably even now! I’d love to meet you and your wife someday
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🙏❤️
Enjoy your 4th and enjoy your Freedom my friend!
White line fever. Following the hood ornament. Seeing what’s over the next hill. It never gets old.
‘Merka! What a country.
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.. great telling ! Had no idea you were into competitive ultimate .. my cousins were - among others.. i just loved finding ‘great air’ & 2 or 3 of us shrowing freakshow long floaters & sailors through perfect up & down draughts.. all while the charcoal is getting right & BBQ time is nigh !
Great game!
I fear that the people of today are being conditioned to see their basic, inalienable rights as rare privileges, bestowed to them by their supposedly benevolent governments. Ask not what freedoms are you allowed in your country, but what privileges does your government enjoy.
That is a reasonable fear that you express.
Someday, an article on the topic of “altering our minds” with substances.
Your wish is my command Phil.
In other words, what makes a person unhappy with his normal mind that he/she seeks to alter it?
Thanks Dee, I will be there attempting to lay out the pharmacology of the particular substance discussed. For example, alcohol is a Central Nervous System (CNS) Depressant. As it is consumed, it takes the user down, respiration & heart-rate slow, one goes from slurred speech to inebriation to sleep to coma to death as the rate of ingestion exceeds the liver’s ability to process & excrete. One doesn’t get high, alcohol brings us low. Tolerance can be developed, but it still slows the CNS as the brain is bathed in the blood-brain bath as the BAC increases.
I believe it’s all about discomfort. People alter their minds with substances because they’re uncomfortable. That can be a result of trauma, shyness, external locus of control, loneliness, a terminal sense of uniqueness—whatever it is that sets them apart from others in their own minds. They seek to “cope” with that feeling of discomfort temporarily—and it mostly works until it doesn’t.
People cope with food, social media, whatever—to counteract the discomfort—plain and simple.
One of the most difficult aspects of long-term recovery is to be able to sit with one’s own discomfort.
In brain chemistry, many family members of OD deaths articulate that the brain of their loved one was hard-wired in the womb so that “Johnny’s” brain receptors were helpless when the specific substance entered their bloodstream & satisfied their particular hard-wired receptors. This explains why I blog on substances from the perspective of prevention, not recovery, and I strongly believe that a minimum of half the funding should be directed to prevention. Accepting for a moment the “hard-wired” belief, why would anyone think it is fine to play roulette with a young person’s brain receptors in order that the substance they are vulnerable to can satiate their receptors. There is great risk in letting any young person to set foot onto the “substance use disorder” treadmill. Arguably, there are persons who have lived a full life without ever learning the substance that they were hard-wired to crave.
I don’t disagree Phil. “Just say No” and so many other prevention messages were abject failures. It can be tough to prevent that first encounter. But we must keep trying 🙏
https://deerambeau.substack.com/p/its-about-wantnot-need
Love this ❤️
Thank you friend 🙏