Office Hours – Dr. Drake – August 25, 2024

0:30 so hey good morning uh good day good wherever you are good good time um it is august 25th 2024, here for Korean natural farming office hours in the middle of tropical depression, hurricane, home.

1:18 Yeah, it's wild out there. Trees falling down, all kinds of things. I wasn't sure if the internet was working. I was a little late today because the internet came into the office and the internet was down. I'm not sure exactly what it was. I thought it might be a power outage, but it wasn't, I guess. we don't have a power outage that's good we got power here uh off grid what's up yeah so uh yeah you know uh this is it's windy as heck outside and the window right here is just covered in water and uh yeah it's wild it's wild but i'm still here made it made it today

1:55 still alive not dead you know so uh yeah it looks like we're connected volume's coming through what's up yeah thanks stone mason yo yo thanks man yeah um yeah so coming to you for office hours representing master cho peer canna foundation you know all the goods all the greats um and uh yeah so we got an hour to do some natural farming stuff uh and then if we uh we can get in some some madadge no madadge time madadge time we'll see um you know it's been good i've been going through that this whole year it's already august can't believe it a lot has changed um but

2:38 uh yeah so good to see a good crowd there what's up everybody getting into the place so before we get into the whole thing, let's start with a little bit of higher wisdom. Oh, hey, thanks, Cheryl. Yes. Oh, hey. Hey, wow. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. I guess that's what happens when you survive a hurricane. People are thankful. I'm surviving currently. It's a currently active thing. Like wind is crazy outside. Bunch of trees fell down. Wild. I gotta go get the chainsaw out, make some wood chips. Gliracidia fell and knocked down my banana.

3:10 oh man had this fat rack of bananas like huge huge just huge rack of bananas totally got taken down it's like what am i gonna you know and the thing is i'm sitting there with my wife and we're in the bed and we're like it's nice and dry inside because i built a nice house and i think of the cows outside i'm like they're just taking it you know it rained i don't know what eight inches oh my gosh it's windy oh man bananas blowing like crazy out there oh anyway um yeah it's why i think of the cows just sitting out there just just gritting through it just taking it just uh you

3:46 know ain't no shelter for that oh but uh today oh today yeah here we go there's a good one it's splitting apart number 23 so pretty appropriate for today i guess um do not attempt to intervene now. A period has been entered when inferior influences will prevail. Even the superior person who seeks to act now will be undermined by the time. Hey, thank you. Yeah, thanks, thanks, thanks for all the good stuff. Yeah, yeah. There's no reason to resist this state of affairs. Indeed, it is natural that the inferior elements periodically come to the fore.

4:37 Adversity is often a stimulant to our spiritual growth. What is important is the spirit in which we meet it. When challenging situations come to call, we are often overwhelmed with feelings of anxiety, doubt, and fear. We fear that if we do not act immediately and vigorously, we will be ruined. We doubt the power of the creative to resolve the situation favorably. It is when we act upon these feelings that we engage in splitting apart. We split apart from our own spiritual path, our devotion to the higher power, and the wisdom and patient non-action in the face of difficulty.

5:26 If you take this course now, you will prevent the creative from coming to your aid and unnecessarily increase your own misfortune. The guide to proper behavior at such times lies in the image of the mountain over earth. by keeping still and quiet as a mountain, by resting firmly on proper principles, by accepting the nature of the time and not resisting it, you weather all storms. By trusting in non-action, acceptance, and patience, you gain the strength of the very earth. yeah you know it's amazing to me every that's why i kind of read this thing every time

6:18 every day every uh every time we get the office hour because it's just like how apropos is that it's like weather the storm it's like does it really know there's a fat storm outside probably what i'm done you know good to see a good crew assembling the natural farmers from all over the world, being present in office hours, you know, and as things, you know, it's, it's always a thing to like, you know, split apart that thing that says, you know, um, you know, you think it's not going to resolve favorably in your situation and you lose hope

6:51 and then you struggle and then it makes it even worse, you know, it's like at a time like this, where you just got to hunker down, man, you know, even though I look outside and it's like, I gotta go chainsaw a bunch of trees. It's like, I ain't gonna do that today. Nope. Nope. I'm just gonna chill after this. I already moved the cows yesterday. That was good. I already put on my full rain gear, got soaked. But, you know, it's funny. I have rain gear that's really good, but it's also super hot because it's made out of PVC. So, you know, you start soaking on the outside or, you

7:28 know, not getting soaked on the outside, but then you start sweating on the inside and you get just as wet. It's like, you can't have that kind of rain gear and move. I gotta get better rain gear, baby. Okay. My pooch is going nuts out there. I don't know if you can hear. Um, what's up? We got Kristoff in the house. We got Cheryl. We got Robert Charles. what's up um yeah um yeah yeah office hours you know and and also uh um there are too many roosters at the moment yeah hey cecily good to see you yeah uh oh oh yeah oh man that's a long

8:11 long journey there. UK, man. UK in the house. Just stay off my seat. Yeah. So anyway, yeah, here, just as, let me pull this up. What is it? Zoom.earth. Let's see. Let's look at what we got here. Let's put this right here. This one, that one. Is it not going to share that screen though? is it not going to it's it's gonna say one sec let me see if we can get this uh right monitor unlock that see what it does here can I edit this source properties filters displayed oh device not connected or not available oh because

9:01 when I started this uh streaming software my my monitor wasn't plugged in and it won't recognize it without doing that okay well let's see if I can add another monitor I don't know is it worth it is it worth it I don't know let's see add how do I add source main it's hard to do this live um but anyway I was going to show I guess I can't even screen share today oh no I can't even screen share what if I quit and then rejoin the same stream I don't know if that'll work. I don't think that'll work. Um, let's see. Come on. Why is this not?

9:42 Oh man. How am I going to share my dadge today if I can't get this to recognize a monitor? Oh, cause anyway, I had to re plug in my internet. Okay. Well, anyway, we'll just, uh, we'll ignore that for now. Do you want to share this? Oh man. You're only going to be able to look at me today. Oh, the travesty, because this is what I wanted to show you, but there's nothing there. There's nothing there. Let's see. How do I add source? Come on. Come on. Mate. Oh, I don't know. It's probably not going to work. Let's see. None of these work? None of these work.

10:26 It's because the monitor wasn't plugged in when I booted the software. Come on. Unlock it. Oh man, it's not going to work. What am I going to do? What am I going to do? I'm going to turn the screen around, turn the camera around so you can see what I'm looking at.