To the seasons of life
Charm
I’m, what promise do you need?
To the one that never severs life from desire but holds both in partnership in pragmatic virtue.
Real or imagined
Which comes first or do you have to build that person on the assembly line of your virtue paid out in gentle steps and being followed in reserved excitement for every moment invested. KDG
You be da judge…
Strategic oil distribution…
So, as covid was starting 2019 in the back and forth about pipeline expansion to the West Coast was still in flux but not so much. At that time executive of Canada bought back from the Americans so the pipeline so that they could double it twin it + bring the oil to the West Coast. To be shipped.
So the Americans in their hegemony, had strategically relied on this. The new administration that came in found out about Canada’s was short of the recommended goal for NATO. That the 2% of the GDP for the countries in that collective security agreement should be spent on defense and that would be at the availability of the resolution # 5 That gave us collective security.
The original trans mountain pipeline in the 1950s was done by an act of the parliament of Canada. It was paid for by taxpayers to some measure,this providing security to Canadians for energy. However, at some point the Americans acquired it + before the twinning the Trudeau government had to pay them and buy it from them in the billions of dollars.
There may have been bad faith there’s you know let’s let him build it and then we can get it away from them again. So at this point we’re considering another pipeline to the coast. We have brought our defense spending up to 5%. So we are not as prone to give “Friend Discounts” now..
The Americans all through their hegemony hovered around 3.6% of their “world’s biggest GDP”. They paid out produceing nearly 800 military bases around the world.
Let’s play and not just get played.
Because Americans will:
Plays to make:
Sell them stock
Short ours..
Create a digital reserve fund as the only pay vehicle for oil.
Accuse the accuser.
Get a security discount for our role.
Play sectors against each other…
Offer governorships to make rivals.
Start wars to make it National security for us to want…
“That’s all I want to say bout dat” Forest Gump
Blah..
This is data, that’s different…
The question is yours to answer.
Why are you crying and who are you looking for?
When people talk about the Imago Dei—being created “in the image of God” (Genesis 1:26–27)—the conversation usually defaults to abstract, immaterial qualities: consciousness, free will, a soul, or a capacity for moral reasoning.
However, focusing on the materiality of the concept radically changes the picture. In ancient context and biblical theology, the “image” is not an invisible, interior spark trapped inside a meat suit; it is a thoroughly physical, embodied reality.
To understand the original material weight of the phrase, you have to look at the surrounding culture of the Ancient Near East (ANE).
* Statues of Kings and Gods: In ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, a king would erect a physical statue (selem in Hebrew, tzelem) of himself in distant provinces to represent his presence, authority, and rule. The physical statue was the image.
* Cult Images in Temples: Pagans believed that through specific rituals (like the “opening of the mouth”), a stone or wooden idol became a physical vessel inhabited by a deity’s presence.
Genesis takes this concept and flips it. God bans carved stone idols because He already carved His own physical image: human beings. Humans are the physical, material statues set in the cosmic temple (the Earth) to represent the divine Presence and exercise dominion.
Genesis 2 explicitly anchors human existence in raw physical matter before any spiritual component is introduced:
> “Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” (Genesis 2:7)
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* The Clay/Dust (Afar): Humans are made from the literal soil (adamah). We are biological, terrestrial material—composed of carbon, water, and minerals.
* The Breath (Neshama): The divine breath animates the physical matter. The Hebrew concept of the “soul” (nephesh) is not a disembodied ghost inside a body; it refers to the whole, unified, breathing physical organism.
In biblical thought, you don’t have a body—you are a body.
Looking at the Imago Dei through a material lens highlights three core aspects:
| Dimension | Biblical Concept | Material Expression |
|—|—|—|
| Vocation & Agency | Royal Representation | Using hands, physical labor, and voice to cultivate creation (“subdue and rule”). Building, farming, creating art, and stewarding physical spaces. |
| Relationality | “Male and Female He Created Them” | Sexual differentiation, physical touch, companionship, and biological generation. The image requires bodily diversity and community. |
| Inauguration / Presence | The Temple Vessel | The human body functions as a physical sanctuary or tabernacle where the divine spirit interacts with the material world. |
In Christian theology, the ultimate expression of the Imago Dei isn’t an abstract ideal, but a specific physical human being: Jesus of Nazareth, referred to in the New Testament as “the image of the invisible God” (Colossians 1:15).
The doctrine of the Incarnation asserts that divinity did not bypass or shed materiality, but absorbed it—experiencing hunger, fatigue, physical touch, tears, and bodily death. Furthermore, the Christian hope ends not with disembodied souls floating in a spiritual realm, but with the physical resurrection of the body and a renewed, tangible Earth.
In short, the materiality of being “made in the image of God” means that physical matter, biology, work, and embodiment are not secondary or lower-tier realities to be escaped—they are the primary canvas through which the divine is reflected.
Well then
Pinch my wrist and my soul will love you 💗😘😘😘💗😘😘😘💗💗
Very comforting…
The wildfires may have met their match at least around the Merritt area.
Melody 88
Peace
Good luck Alberta
Some Jurstictions or job standards require pressed slings however I was never disappointed with any Molly Hogan I made and we used slip a little haywire through the dead horse part of it and then wrap it around with pliers tight and then put electrician’s tape over it.
We used it as well for the overshot particularly. But it wasn’t deep holes.
Some drillers would cut the seventh strand out for the unlikely event in case the tube stuck somehow and a release wasn’t working it would fail there at the overshot connection rather than ruin or break cable.
You could make a knot joining broken cable ends by adding two Hogan’s one inside the other then pulling them into a kind of reef, by squashing the reef with the hydraulic head it secured it.
KDG
Preview
Drill Baby Drill
Paragraph 3:
Extracting hydrocarbons from geological formations alters the localized pressure, volume, and hydraulic equilibrium of surrounding aquifer systems. When oil is pumped from deep target reservoirs, the artificial drop in pore pressure creates a hydraulic head differential, drawing formation waters—and occasionally freshwater from shallower aquifers—downward or laterally to fill the newly created void space. In shallow unconfined aquifers or near-surface spills, the structural interaction depends strictly on phase boundaries and relative densities. Because light non-aqueous phase liquids (LNAPLs, or crude fractions lighter than water) possess a specific gravity less than 1.0, they float atop the saturated zone, resting directly on the capillary fringe above the water table. UNSATURATED ZONE (Vadose Zone)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [ Oil Layer / LNAPL ] <– Floats on water table (Density < 1.0)============================================================= <– Water Table [ Shallow Fresh Aquifer ] <– Displaced downward by oil head————————————————————- [ Aquitard / Confining Layer ]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [ Deep Saline Formation ] <– Moves upward as oil pressure drops
The physical interaction between subsurface oil and water is governed by density, capillary forces, and fluid immiscibility: * Floating Dynamics (LNAPL): Hydrocarbons with specific gravities below water (0.7 to 0.95\text{ g/cm}^3) will float. However, the oil layer exerts a downward vertical force (LNAPL head). This creates a depression in the water table directly beneath the hydrocarbon pool, displacing pure groundwater sideways and downward until capillary resistance and buoyant forces balance the weight of the oil column. * Sinking Dynamics (DNAPL): Heavy crude components, chlorinated solvents, or dense refine byproducts with specific gravities greater than 1.0 sink directly through the water table, migrating downward until they hit an impermeable aquitard layer at the base of the aquifer. * Volumetric Displacement during Extraction: As oil is removed from deep porous media, the void space must be occupied. In primary recovery, expanding formation water moves in to replace the oil. In secondary recovery, operators actively inject produced water or fresh surface water (waterflooding) to push residual oil toward production wellbores, permanently altering regional subsurface fluid distributions
Impact Scope | Observed & Estimated Effects | Projections ||—|—|—|| Land Subsidence | Extraction-driven pore pressure drops have led to ground compaction and surface sinking (e.g., Houston-Galveston basin lost over 3 feet of elevation historically; California’s San Joaquin Valley experienced widespread aquifer compaction). | Coastal oil-producing regions face compound flooding risks as land compaction accelerates alongside sea-level rise. || Aquifer Depletion via Injection | Worldwide, oil recovery operations inject billions of barrels of freshwater annually into deep formations to maintain field pressure. | In arid energy basins (e.g., Permian Basin, Middle East), energy-sector freshwater draw competes directly with agricultural groundwater reserves. || Inter-Aquifer Cross-Contamination | Casing failures or legacy unsealed wells create artificial conduits connecting deep saline brine formations to shallow freshwater tables. | Legacy extraction zones face rising risks of brine and hydrocarbon migration into domestic water supplies as well integrity degrades over decades. |
“Water Squeeze”As massive depleted oil fields transition into carbon capture and storage (CCS) reservoirs, injecting super-critical \text{CO}_2 under high pressure reverses the historical extraction flow. The injected gas displaces deep residual saline waters, potentially forcing hyper-saline plumes upward into shallow freshwater aquifers through dormant geological faults.
Massive injection of produced water into deep disposal wells alters effective stress along sub-surface faults. The resulting micro-seismic activity creates new fracture networks, permanently changing regional hydrogeological pathways and allowing deep formation fluids to cross into previously isolated freshwater tables.
When mature oil fields reach the end of their production life and pumps are decommissioned, natural regional hydraulic heads begin to re-pressurize the depleted zones. This fluid resurgence can force residual hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds upward into shallow water tables that were protected during active production by continuous extraction drawdown.
They did! It, over 30,000 people involved made the TMX expansion project to be a success and now we stand with the tools to beat inflation in our pipes.
Thanks Liberals I’m a conservative with a longer memory than the ones that rely on the smut of the day..
OCanada
So, we are. a nation that lives and dies by our creeds.
Nay we are the national way of compromise and valor over greed.
We know that at the end of the day we must live with our deeds.
This is the creed of necessity over dreams, a virtue strong in seed.
Go long go strong you are the throng!
KDG
NVCAC Merritt BC…
Or go to the show
Tiff -51 coming soon…
August 18 th Tiff
The point is that we are here to heal . The finger pointing is probably not productive. However, discovery is of use and here is what was determined from the Congressional hearings on Dr. Fauci’s involvement in covid-19.
The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2
The congressional hearings involving Dr. Anthony Fauci—most notably the marquee hearing before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in June 2024 (as well as prior tense exchanges with:
COVID-19
Editor’s note: Kudos to The Canadian people, who persevered and prospered and looked ahead. In particular, we think of the Trans mountain expansion that gave an industrial opportunity through covid as well as societal value to those that took up that row through two provinces and a nation. Their hope generation was inspiring.
The Community Arts show is uncluttered and clean with some exquisite work by local Artisans.
The Gallery is at the corner of Nicola Avenue and Voght Street, In Merritt British Columbia Canada.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Look for some oil paintings by new comers, and photography with old hands like our own Angelina.
Hey Merit what do you say?
Kevin Griffiths
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