Genzano it story: 2013

http://diybrickwork.com,

Australian houses in Brisbane, Australia affordable houses

Some hub links

Travel Videos - Fountain cavallina, Genzano, Italy - The Compulsive ...

Most interesting photos from Genzano di Lucania, Basilicata, Italy

Where is Genzano di Lucania in Basilicata, Italy located?

Friday, December 6, 2013

Dreams could be classified

WELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. ENJOY YOUR TIME WITH US AND IF YOU WANT WRITE A COMMENT
-
Welcome to our blog, Genzano it story
and this post, dreams could be classified
-

Dreamland is all in our fantasy

When we sleep at night we may dream many dreams that we could be able to classify, in order to see what they could mean.

Dreams could be classified

In this post we are trying to classify the types of dreams, so, let us talk about dreams in a general term while we try to classify them the best way we can.
I believe that generally speaking there are two types of dreams, which are: the dreams that we dream when we are asleep, and the daydreams that we dream when we are awake. The dreams that we dream when we are awake are just wishes and thoughts that we have while we are awake, so one could say they are just wishful thinking; but let us first talk about the real dreams that we dream at night.
The dreams that we dream when we are asleep can be divided into three types at least:
(1) Shallow dreams that seem body dreams.
(2) Normal mental dreams and deep psychological dreams.
(3) Dreams from the unknown, as the Afterlife world and also the cosmic world.
All the dreams that we dream when we are asleep are linked close together, and they can be so close together that it is hard to know when one ends and the other begins, in fact they usually overlap each other a lot. And sometimes also the daydreams can creep into the night dreams.
We will talk about the daydreams later on, but now let us talk about the dreams that we dream when we are asleep.
Sleeping dreams, Type-one.
These dreams seem to be mostly shallow dreaming, and they are often only a reflection of life that we happen to live at that particular time, and part of these dreams we’ll dream while we are half asleep, and part of them when we are fully asleep; these dreams will usually reflect the happenings of the day before the dream, or something that we have thought that was about to happen, or something that our body needs and the need surfaces in our thought as we sleep, so we can say that our activities would and could show in our dreams.
-------------------
Our activities are shown in our dreams
Since our activities would be shown in our dreams specially in dream type one, it is very likely to happen that if we have had a very busy and confuse day, our dreams will usually show that feeling of confusion, and while we dream of one thing it suddenly changes to something else, and there are times when the very same objects that we have used during the day may come into our dreams, perhaps they will be there only for a split second, or they may be replaced by something else and only the rhythm of the happenings may be present on our dream, we need to look at all those things put together if we want to understand our own dreams, and it would be good to remember that it is the dreamer himself that would be able to understand his own dreams better than anybody else.
Anyhow, these types of dreams seem to suggest that our mind is sorting out the happenings of the day before or recent activities, and perhaps filing them in its own way in a corner of our brain, before our mind can have a real rest and move on doing something else.
A second type of these dreams is when we are asleep and our body feels the need for something, then we may very well dream of the desired things: So if we go to bed hungry in our sleep we may dream of food, and perhaps we may try to eat it but usually we would not succeed, so that our hunger remains with us. If we are thirsty we may dream of water, and of fountains and of any other sort of drinks, but somehow we don’t drink and if we do we wonder why it doesn’t quench our thirst; and this is all because our body needs is still present in our dream.
If we need to go to the toilet for a piss, we will dream of trying to find a toilet, and we will have all sorts of problems to find a spot to piss, and when we have found one and try to piss we wake up, and find out that we have really to go to the real toilet.
If at night we have a bad digestion or something else that affect our well being, whether we are aware of it or not, we may very likely have a nightmare. Here it seems to me that our mind doesn’t want our body to relax completely, so we have a nightmare in order to keep our circulation going faster that it would normally do if we were sound asleep, and in doing so we may solve more readily our present physical problem.
So all these types of dreams seem to have a purpose, which is to adjust any difference needed between mind and body while we are asleep. And also our mind needs to dream in order to review those day happenings, and file them in its own way.
I believe that it might work very much like this:
For example; if you fill up a clean glass with dirty water, and then leave it on the bench overnight: In the morning you will find that most of the impurities in the water are settled at the bottom, and a few that are lighter than water at the top, so most of the water now is clear water.
In a parallel way like the glass of water, while our body rests at night our mind works by settling things down, so during our dreams our mind seems to be looking at the impurities settling down, and our dream are the process of settlement and purification, and when everything has settled our mind then will file them to keep a record and shut them down in a corner of our brain.
The conclusion for this type of dreams is that: Dreams type-one have something to do with the ever present body needs of the dreamer.
What I have written above is an explanation for type 1 dreams; type 2 dreams and other explanation will be written in our next page or article, because here under I would like to write about the cosmic or spiritual dreams, since these writings now are being modified and follow more closely our religious views, and the cosmic dreams would or could be linked to religions, as they seem somehow removed from our bodily needs, or at least they seem to be that way?

-----------------------------------------------

Genzano it story

Dreams could be classified

IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;

Next time with, Explaining cosmic dreams

-------------------------------------------

Some useful links

http://diybrickwork.com

Australian houses in Brisbane, Australia affordable houses

Some hub links

Travel Videos - Fountain cavallina, Genzano, Italy - The Compulsive ...

Most interesting photos from Genzano di Lucania, Basilicata, Italy

Where is Genzano di Lucania in Basilicata, Italy located?

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Menfranco dreamland

WELCOME TO FRANK MENCHISE BLOG OF GENZANO DI LUCANIA, YOU ARE INVITED TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. ENJOY YOUR TIME WITH US AND IF YOU WANT WRITE A COMMENT
-
Welcome to my blog, Genzano it story
and this post, Menfranco dreamland
-

When we sleep we dream our dreams, they are all sorts of dreams, some people believe that all the dreams mean something to the dreamer, one way or another, so it would be helpful to know their meanings.

Dreaming is a night vision of our own minds, they are our thoughts that become mixed up with other existing elements that exist in the universe, so they can be just about anything, and sometimes they can even be strange to ourselves.

We dream many strange things in our dreams, but a lot of these things are influenced by our own activities during the day, they may change shape and color, but somehow they are linked to our own experience and desires.

Menfranco dreamland
Now, let me introduce you first of all to my general dreamland in a light hearted way:
YOU ARE ALL WECOME TO MY DREAMLAND MY FRIEND!
THIS IS THE LAND OF DREAMS AND FANTASY
Welcome to the land of dreams and fantasy!
Let me welcome you to dreamland my friends!
You are all welcome here, and you can stay here as long as you like, because dreamland is free for everybody that in dreams and fantasy likes to dwell.
You can dream whatever dreams you like in dreamland: sweet dreams, love dreams, good dreams, strange dreams, wild dreams and even nightmares. And perhaps if you feel like telling us your dreams after dreaming them, you could even tell us your dreams, since we would like to hear them of course.
And if you happen to tell us one of your dreams, or if you listen to a dream being told, please remember, that in dreamland nobody can tell whether the dream that we may be telling is the truth as well. Since in dreamland lies may seem truths and truths may seem lies as well; because even I, and I am the dreamer of dreamland, but even I don’t know what’s the truth as well.
This is how we feel about dreams when we dream some impossible dreams, where we want to continue to dream whatever we dream, in the hope of being able to achieve that something that is missing in our normal everyday life. We dream also about our day dreams that usually mix up at night with our normal dreams. Anyhow, let us talk about our dreamland modified.
-----------------------------------------

Dreamland Modified

Dear readers I need to say here that this article was written the first time to cover all sorts of dreams, but now it has been modified because we want it to cover mostly the religious side, so that, it could become part of these religious writings that we are going to write here, you see, it has become necessary to modify my dreamland writings, because I have had a lot of religious dreams that I am going to write here in these religious writings, therefore I need this dreamland article to somehow explain to my readers what these religious dreams might mean and where they may come from if possible.
Having said that, it does not mean that I am changing my dreamland completely, it only means that I am going to add some more articles to explain the dreams of religious origin and at the same time take away some stuff that would clash with my religious writings. So if you find sometimes that it does not flow exactly according to religion, it is because this article of dreamland had to fulfil many explanations of dreams, like day dreams, normal dreams and religious cosmic dreams, I hope you see what I mean. So, now let us go back to the way it has been written the first time and then explain what we need to change.
This is the land of, DREAMS AND FANTASY
We dream many dreams during our lives, and the dreams in our lives cover a very large field, some of these dreams can even be daydreams and some others just plain dreams that we dream at night, dreams happen for many reasons and some of these reasons we are going to discuss in this writings, the word dream has many meanings, you see, at this very moment even the dream of writing about dreams can be said to be a dream?
Now, let us talk about dreams in a more personal way and about my own dreams; dreams are usually linked with our own happenings, so dreams may be true or false, I need to explain here and I have to say that, of course I have dreamed the dream that I am telling you and that’s true. But it is only a dream and it cannot be the truth just because it is a dream; but at the same time it cannot be a lie as well, just because what I am telling you, it has really taken place at least inside my mind as well; therefore dreams have many sides and depends on the way you see your dreams. You see, dreams are dreams and they can cover a very large part of just about everything, so, you can just dream about anything including say, some YouTube videos, you see it all can be a dream and here is a link to YouTube just dream about it;
Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time
----------------------------
Now let us talk about day dreaming
So, here I am, in my dreamland my friends.
Because this is where sometimes I like to dwell nowadays, whether I like to be in it or not makes no difference, because my lifestyle seems to have forced me to be in dreamland. You see this is how I felt when I was writing dreamland for the first time, as I was daydreaming to escape so pains.
It had to happen to me, because somehow during my life I got tired and bored from the painful events of my life, and in order to escape my pains and boredom, I have tried to find a way out capable to break that boredom and gloom. Therefore, nowadays in the land of dreams and fantasy I often happen to dwell, which is a situation forced from my life’s events, that were and are even now mostly beyond my control. I believe that most of us end up in a situation that doesn’t agree with us and we try to escape even if we do that by dreaming a day dream.
I don’t like being in this sort of situation, because by nature I am a doer and not a dreamer, so I would like very much to do some physical work, since that would keep my body fit and my mind occupied, and it would also give me some pleasure when I finish a task, because then, I would feel that I have achieved something worth doing.
Instead I am ruining my health, and perhaps I may be wasting away in the land of dreams and fantasy. But in my forced and hopeless situation I can’t do what I want, and therefore I am forced to dwell in the land of dreams and fantasy, just to keep my mind occupied in the hope that I keep it healthy. So you’ll have to forgive me if sometimes I will sound a bit strange, because in the land of dreams and fantasy everything can feel or be strange.
I suppose by now you know, or perhaps you have guessed already, that in the land of dreams and fantasy there are no restrictions whatsoever, so anyone can dream anything, say anything, think of anything and do anything at all. Because in the land of dreams there are no man made rules, and one is set completely free of all human acquired restrictions.
Because of this great freedom one can let oneself go wild, and dream or think of anything that one likes; and in doing so a person doesn’t harm anyone, or break any man made rules, since it all happens in one’s own mind.
Therefore, in the realm of dreams and fantasy just about everybody may willingly like to dwell sometimes, just because one can dream of anything that one wants; but can’t have it in real life. And in doing so one may be able to avoid being depressed, since one avoids that despair that otherwise may sent one crazy. Therefore, for someone to dream in the land of dreams and fantasy may be said that it is an escape from realty: But at the same time there is no harm done in dreaming, since it becomes an essential escape that serves well all humanity, because somehow it is able to help in keeping a balanced mental health, even if these dreams sometimes happen to be plain daydreams and nothing else.
So, let us try to classify the type of dreams that we dream.

--------------------------------------------------

Genzano it story

Menfranco dreamland

IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;

Next time with, Dreams could be classified

-------------------------------------------

Some useful links

http://diybrickwork.com

Australian houses in Brisbane, Australia affordable houses

Some hub links

Travel Videos - Fountain cavallina, Genzano, Italy - The Compulsive ...

Most interesting photos from Genzano di Lucania, Basilicata, Italy

Where is Genzano di Lucania in Basilicata, Italy located?

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Compare farming part 2

When I was young there were already in use this harvesters they were horse drawn devises that would cut the wheat and tie it in bundles.

This is the very old way of harvesting fields of wheat a man with a sickle, you needed a gang of man to harvest a small field.

Harvesting the very old way

Farming today compared to the old way

This link above is the link to our hub pages, where this article has more photos to see.

Dear readers, this post is the continuation of our last post Compare farming, so you need to read our last post first, in order to follow what we are saying here; you see we would like to compare the old ways of farming with today farming, therefore, we need to say at least briefly how harvesting wheat was done the old ways; here we need to say also that I have personally witnessed the last part of this old practice when I was young. You see, when I was young we were already using a horse drawn harvester, and it was very helpful; but there were people that had some very small holdings and we had one of these ourselves, so we had to use the old ways of harvesting our wheat for that small wheat field, because that was the only way to do it, as it was hard or almost impossible to take any machines there for one reason or another.

So, let me describe how harvesting was done in those old bygone days; at harvesting time strange as it may seem today, one could hire some specialized people that were good at using the sickle, these people usually went from town to town to do this seasonal harvesting job; here we need also to explain that in Southern Italy because the terrain has different altitude the wheat reaches maturity at different times, this geographic position was helping these seasonal workers to have a longer span of work, so they would go from town to town until the harvesting season would finish completely. Now just to compare those very hard times with today times, I have to tell you that these workers were sleeping anywhere they could on a sack filled up with straws under a shelter if they could find one, as they could not afford anything else. In the morning if they had already been hired they would get up early and go where they had to go to work, if not they would wait in the town square hoping that somebody would hire them for the day.

Now let us say that we had a small plot about one acre and we could not use the harvester of those time, because it was not possible to go there, we would then hire four people and form a gang that could harvest one acre in one day and collect it in hips that would be later on taken on a cart to the farm house to be threshed one way or another.

In the old times anything that had grown in the field was collected, it needed to be collected for the people to survive, it was the only way because the fields did not produce as much as they do today, because they could not be cultivated as good as we do today.

Now I suppose I have to say briefly how the older generations used to thresh their harvests, in order to collect all their produce. Now, let us suppose that it was only a few bundles of wheat to be threshed one could even extract the wheat by hitting them with a stick, but let us say that we had a cartful, or many cartfuls for that matter, then we had to use a different method, which is the way that most farm used in the very old times for centuries, so let me tell you how it was done.

I happen to know this procedure, because in the farms when I was young we were still using this method with smaller crops most likely broad beans, lentils, chick peas, linseed, and other farm produce, and the elder would always be telling us that this was the way that they used to collect their wheat as well and usually it took them a few months to collect all the season produce. So now let me describe this to you, so that we would be able to compare the great difference.

In order to do this, first of all we needed to prepare a piece of ground that is very solid and smooth, this could be achieved by stripping the old dry grass on a piece of land that had a large clay content, then wet it with a little bit of water to make it compact; once that was ready we would place our wheat or whatever was to be threshed and collected on this clean ground, then we would get our horses mule and donkeys whatever animals were available and drive them around and around until everything was threshed. Of course there was a lot more to say, but let us make it short otherwise it would become too boring.

Now, once the threshing was done we has to separate the produce from the straw and any other foreign matter, this was achieved by removing the straws from the top layer making sure that no produce was left with the straws, at the same time we would collect the bottom layer in a hip, once that was done we would have to clean that produce by using the wind, to take away the finer parts that were still mixed with the wheat or whatever it was, and there were many other things that we could use to get this wheat clean, by the end of the day we could have collected two or three hundred kilograms of produce.

In the very ancient times was even worse, see what they were using in the Medieval Times, here is a link to check out some ancient farm tools including the Flail and Winnowing Basket used to collect and clean wheat.

Medieval Farm Tools

I hope that this gives the modern reader a view of how thing were done in the old times, so I do not want to say much more about how all this threshing and cleaning of the wheat was done, because even writing about it is boring today, but anyhow it needed to be done in those days, because that was the only way to collect our wheat to make bread and other things. Now, my dear reader’s do you see how hard was then even to collect wheat for ourselves.

I hope I have been able to write something that really sets up the great difference of the ways of life that we were living then and the ways of life that we are living now, for this I want you to compare and judge for yourself how much better off we are today.

To the young people who think that today life is hard, let me describe to you what I have witnessed when I was young, because then life really was harder then today, you see those days everybody had to find how to earn enough to feed themselves there were no handover from the government. So, the very poor people of those days were trying to collect anything they could to feed themselves.

So at harvest time this is what I have witnessed, I have seen old and poor people mainly old ladies go around the fields and pick up any ear of wheat that was left behind in the fields, one ear of wheat here and anther there until they had the strength, each day until harvest time was over and there was nothing else to collect; and I tell you what these poor people were happy if in the end they had collected enough ears of wheat that they could trash and clean themselves, perhaps they could have collected enough to make 50 to 100 kilos of wheat during harvest time and they were happy because, they could make bread from this wheat and not go hungry for a few months.

Now I hope that you see what I mean when I say that the youths of today don’t know anything about hard times?

---------------------------------------

---------------------------------------------------

Genzano it story

Compare farming part 2

IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;

Next time with, a different story

-------------------------------------------

Some useful links

Australian houses in Brisbane, Australia affordable houses

Some hub links

Travel Videos - Fountain cavallina, Genzano, Italy - The Compulsive ...

Most interesting photos from Genzano di Lucania, Basilicata, Italy

Where is Genzano di Lucania in Basilicata, Italy located?

Friday, October 11, 2013

Compare farming

Modern harvester machines
Harvester machines and how harvesting could be done today. But I have to say that this photo is just an exaggeration because it is too crowded with machines.

Single horse pulling a plough, you just compare this to the modern ways of working the fields.

Compare wheat farming the modern way

Farming today compared to the old way

Farming today compared to the old ways

Today we often wonder how easy it is to grow and harvest wheat, at least it seems so when we look at a video that shows harvest time in the wheat farms, we see a few harvester machines in a field collect the wheat in no time at all, and because of this speed of these wonderful combine harvester machine food is a lot cheaper today than it used to be; of course these machines are only part of the machinery that helps farmers, because there are many more, like the tractor and other devices to till the soil and to sow the seeds, and all these machines put together make farming a lot easier today, and therefore wheat can be produced a lot cheaper, this of course helps keep the price of bread and other wheat made products down.

Of course if we want to talk about farming in general there is more to say than just wheat farming, because there are many other things that the bloke on the land can produce, see this link here-under how Wikipedia explains farming.

Agriculture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dear readers, now let us go back to talk about wheat farming and the great benefit that we get from it, today we are writing this article because we see that there is a great difference in the ways of living and they are a lot better; so, for comparison sake let me explain you this, today here in Australia there are a few places that a 600g loaf of bread costs you just one dollar, we know that this bread is sold at a very special price to get the customers to the shop, but we often wonder and we do not know how it can be done but they do it anyhow, this very low price of bread is possible only because the farmer can produce the wheat cheap.

Because the wheat is cheap and therefore the price of bread is cheaper, the supermarkets make it even cheaper to attract customers, the supermarkets have a price war also on milk and we can buy a two litre bottled milk for two dollars, that works out at one dollar per litre, again how they can do it I do not know, but they do it anyhow; so there is plenty of cheap wholesome food around for us to enjoy, thanks to the farmers and the supermarkets. But people still complain about the cost of living today, I know that what I am talking about here are only a few items and a lot more are needed to live well. Anyhow, when I was young things were a lot harder and they were very different then, in order to show you what I mean hereunder I am going to describe how it was done at the time when I was young and also how hard it was for some people just to have a piece of bread to eat each day, so let me describe to you farming the old ways.

-----------------------------------------------------------

Farming the old way

Farming the hold ways

Dear readers in order to explain how farming was done when I was young, I am going to write here-under is the way of farm life that was going on then, I know that things have changed for the better now, as we have already written above, because of the tractor and new farming machinery that have come out since then all due to the industrial progress, but when I was young there were a lot less advanced farming machine that could make farming easy, so we had to do most things the old ways, so let me tell you how life was in the farms of southern Italy in the early fifties and earlier.

It is a well know fact that in those times and even now, there were/are two times during the year, when in the farms everybody would be really working hard and working very long hours; one of this was/is sowing time and the other is harvest time, let us start with sowing times. When I was young the working day at sowing time would start two hours before dawn, because we had to make the horses, mules and other animals ready for working in the fields, we had to feed them and water them as well, it had to be done in such a way that everything should be made ready in order to go into the fields at daybreak. At that time of the year in the morning it would be very cold and there are lots of frosty days, so in the morning the outside temperature could be around zero or below, it is very hard then to harness the horses to the plough as everything one touches is so cold; but then when one gets going it is not so bad, because walking in the fields holding the plough in one hand and guiding the horses with the other hand is hard work and it makes one warm. This type of very hard work at sowing time goes on for about a month if the weather is good and perhaps it could be longer than a month. When the sowing is done then everything slows down again, but we had still to look after the farms’ animals and do other farming chores.

Now let us talk about harvest time, since this is the busiest time in the farms, because harvest time is when the farmers collect the fruits of their hard labour that they have done during the year, so there is no time to waste at harvest time, this was and still is the most hectic time of them all for the farmers, and it is a very worrying time too for the farmers as well, you see if something goes wrong all their work goes down the drain for the whole year, so to speak. Here I am talking about mostly how things were run then in the farms when I was young.

Now let me say a few things about today farming, especially about wheat farming, because wheat is one of the main important produce that we need from farming, as I have already said at the beginning of this hub. With wheat we make bread and pasta and other bakery products, therefore is perhaps the most important farm produce that we use. So, let me compare what is changed in wheat farming since I was young:

The following description is the way harvest time used to be when I was young. When I was young we had already a horse drawn harvester that was helping us, this early harvester was able to cut the wheat plants and tie them in bundles, so we were already half way down the track of progress. At this time of the year everybody in the farm works hard and for very long hours, it is very hot at this time of the year and everything is very dry. We get up very early in the morning, we get the horses ready for working by feeding them and watering them, then we harness the horses and set them to pull the harvester, and off we go in the fields for another day of hard work, if everything goes well, we might be able to go over a ten acre field just in one day with this harvester. So the harvester needs two people to get it working, one drives the horses and another regulate the harvester, the harvester goes around the field and leaves these bundles of wheat or other cereal, whatever has been sown in the field. Now these bundles of wheat will be collected in hips around the field and later on when we finish with the harvester, perhaps in a week or two, and then we will go back to the fields with a cart to take everything on a special plot near the farm house, where the trashing machine will be hired and set. When we collect and cart everything to the farm house, we work very long days, we get up before 4 am, but we have a break of two or three hours at lunchtime because it is too hot to do anything, then we go back to work and between real work and looking after the animals we finish at dusk around 8 pm, after that we only have to feed the horses: this sort of work goes on for more than a month and sometimes up to two months, with no breaks at all seven days a week. Everybody in the farm works to their maximum and they are very tired, they are also very worried about the possible fire hazard, and also of any thunder storms at this time of the year, since anyone of these happenings can destroy the whole crop, and a whole year of hard work could go up in smoke. When one goes through these life experiences in the farm one knows that it is really hard life farming, but since this is the only way to grow things for food, we the farmers keep working in our farms to feed the rest of the community.

So we feel that it would be right if the rest of the community should be thanking us for all the hard work that we have done, but it does not happen that way because, even when we are working our guts out, and while we are doing that we are becoming dull, the rest of the community does not care and they label us as dull people, just because we are farm people, but we did our part for our own benefit and also for the benefit of the entire community.

This is how life was then in the small farms of Southern Italy, and this is one of the reasons why I migrated to Australia.

Dear readers to understand in full the difference of life, you need to read also our next post, Harvesting the very old ways; see you there.

------------------------------------------------

Genzano it story

Compare farming

IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;

Next time with, Harvesting the very old ways

-------------------------------------------

Some useful links

http://diybrickwork.com