Month: April 2020

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Factory Farm Fun” Activity Page

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Factory Farm Fun” Activity Page

An activity page with Factory Farm attitude. In a way, it’s too late to satire their destruction of the natural world; because they’ve already shed the “Stewards of the Land” skin and put on the mantle of “The Important People Who Feed the World.”

I had a feeling that this was coming last year when I met an Ag Professor returning from India: He responded to the issue of rural health and reduced life expectancy by stating it was “a sacrifice that was necessary to fight world hunger.”

This fits in with the Cornithaca concept of disposable people: Other people. Different people. Lesser people.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Second “Find the differences . . .”

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Second “Find the differences . . .” page 1
“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Second “Find the differences . . .” page 2

Another visual wake-up call. Have fun.

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“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Second “Find the differences . . .” SOLUTION

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“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Find the differences between these two pictures”

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Find the differences between these two pictures” picture 1
“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Find the differences between these two pictures” picture 2

This is not a test – it’s for fun. There are a fairly large number of differences of varying subtlety and perceptual camouflage. You can’t sleepwalk your way through this one.

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“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Find the differences between these two pictures” SOLUTION

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“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Humanity: “Isn’t it time to give it up?”

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Humanity: “Isn’t it time to give it up?”

On this and other pages; there’s space for coloring and writing your own thoughts. Perfect for a post-apocalyptic collaboration. [You’ll have to fight over the crayons, though.]

I once wrote in an application:

I’ve no skills to fill my resume.
No credentials or honors that weigh.
And no previous year
Saw my writing appear
In a journal, I hope that’s OK?

I didn’t get the job. I guess would have been ashamed if I did. I guess.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Handy Land” Game Board

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Handy Land” Game Board

Rural America is the “handy” dumping ground for the unwanted and dangerous by-products of our society. Unreported and unrepresented; rural communities have become a dispossessed and marginal population that is ridiculed by a city-centric urban media.

In this scarier version of the children’s confection favorite: Your children are dropped off at the Ag Ghetto border, and must make their long way home safely.

The copyable book pages will include a 15” square game board in four parts, and all the color and special game cards needed for the game.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Proverbs Remix Redux”

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Proverbs Remix Redux”

This second group of remixed proverbs are skewed even more towards humor and satire; and push the reader to view things from a different angle; or in a different way. For a healthy intelligence: Rote won’t float the boat.

The definition of insanity is thinking the same thing over and over, and thinking the same thing over and over.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Proverbs Remix”

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Proverbs Remix”

These remixed proverbs are intended to shake up the rote repetition and involve the reader in thinking about the true beauty of human perception and wisdom that classic proverbs embody. At the same time, I would like the reader to use that expanded awareness to view things from a different angle; or in a different way.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Easy Riddles – The Two Sisters”

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Easy Riddles – The Two Sisters”

“It’s your excuses that define you.” That should be the touchstone for “action distancing” in the New Millennium Normal. You’re not doing something bad to someone; you’re making a better future for yourself [or more hypocritically: “your family/gender/race/everyone”]. “You’re owed it” is a well that never runs dry — as long as you keep filling it.

Interestingly, every famous icon of human compassion, dignity, and equality is uncompromisingly opposed to discriminatory action in any form. This is a common thread from Confucius to Lincoln to Frederick Douglass to Martin Luther King Jr. to Mother Teresa . . .

Or you can stand with those who excuse their actions and oppression: Hitler, Stalin, Mao . . .

So maybe your excuses can define you after all.