this weeks post in three sections.

I'm going to start doing what i have done here, and break the blog into sections so you can easily visit my updates and find what you came for. 

The Lemon Tree

The tree has seen a lot of growth this last week. It kind of skipped blossoms, or maybe the blossoms happened when I wasn't looking, but skipped straight to buds. While I am definitely not able to make lemonade from my own tree, I celebrated by getting a few lemons and trying a new lemonade recipe. I won't make you read the rest of the blog to get the recipe, because if i do i know you will just scroll to the bottom for the recipe anyway, so here it is, 

Ingredients. 

6-7 Meyer lemons (however many you need to yield 8oz of Juice)

1 cup of Sugar, or honey for a unique flavor.

4 cups of water.

1 cup of peach syrup if you'd like, i like fyi

Instructions

1. Set the cup of Sugar, or in my case honey, and one cup of water to simmer on the stove, your goal is to reduce this mixture to a simple syrup which is easier with powdered sugar. 
2. While the sugar is simmering, juice your lemons, as i have already said, you want 8 oz of juice for these portions which is a cup. 
3. When the syrup is ready, mix it with the lemon juice, then mix the remaining 3 cups or water in a serving pitcher and serve as desired, \
4. Peach syrup makes a nice twist to the lemonade, but only if you feel like it. 

So I made the lemonade in tribute to future lemonade. I will try a variety of recipes which I will surely share with you all. I also added some grass clippings to the pot and one of those tomato wires with the three rings that you stick around the plant. I wanted to help the tree grow a foot or two before it really starts to spread its shoots.

Me.

I spent from sunday july 5 to thursday 9 with my family at Bear Lake Country Cabins in St Charles Idaho. Which is on the North Shore of Bear Lake. My family consists of me and 5 siblings each with families of our own, so my dad bought the Bear Lake Country Cabins some time ago to make sure each smaller family could have private sleeping space, while all sharing space together. This is made possible by the ten single room cabins that all surround the main lodge. All of this helped us social distance. My sister in law had access to a semi private beach because of her family. Even though we are a group of 15 adults and 15 kids, we did a pretty good job social distancing. 

It was nice to reconnect with family in a place that is mostly removed from a cell signal and the excessive noise of the world today. My oldest brother moved with his career to Oregon earlier this year, and his family has the newest addition to our family with a two year old. Who was truly nothing but a delight. 

My thoughts. 

This week I am thinking alot about the truth. I was raised to believe in truth as an objective fact. 2+2=4 and the Freezing point of water is 32 degrees fahrenheit and other things like that. The question on my mind is, is truth an objective fact? Is it a particle of reality?

There is something much smarter men than me call the correspondence theory, which as best I understand it is the theory that “a Judgement is said to be true when it corresponds to an external reality.” or in layman's terms truth is a statement that can be proven by the state of affairs in the world. 

Correspondence theory is good for observable truths. Until you consider descarte. But it really doesn't easily embrace the many different kinds of truth. 

I'm going to ask some questions and i would love your answers

Is truth a metaphysical thing that just exists which all physical things need to conform too?

If an amputee feels pain in their missing foot. If they say “i feel pain in my missing foot” are they lying?

These are my feelings this week. I would love to hear back from anyone reading this to see your feelings on truth, or anything else i have written about.

bit of a bibliography

David, Marian. “The Correspondence Theory of Truth.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 28 May 2015, plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-correspondence/#1.1.

Relman, Eliza. “The 25 Women Who Have Accused Trump of Sexual Misconduct.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 1 May 2020, www.businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12.