Sigh.

I wish you all the best, my friend.

I have derived much pleasure from and even got my feathers in a ruffle sometimes with the lively and controversial discussions I found here.

I am...

Tuberculosis is a complex but fairly easily treated BACTERIAL disease. There is a vaccine for it but is not widely used in US because we have had very few cases recently. The vaccine is used in...

I first heard the howl in Petaluma. My daughter sent me a video of the sound out her window. My first thought was: how silly... millennial techies with nothing to do while working from home. I had a...

Hope haiku

A bird
A bit of burnt string in her beak
Weaves a smoldering nest.


C.Dec 2017

...in fact, Shepherd...from today's Alternet Headlines:
More Arrests for Marijuana Than for Violent Crime Last Year

Phillip Smith / AlterNet | September 25, 2017

Despite spreading marijuana...

Shepherd, I know you are writing specifically about California growers, so you do not address the red-white-and-blue elephant in the room, the Federal government. As more states "legalize" cannabis,...

wow.

I am touched by this memory poem.Today, Memorial Day, I think of my father who wasn't just called to service, to kill Germans and Japanese humans, and without question... it was more of a huge...

Lost in the Mail

Madeleine Bell, at 2240
in her wavy print dress
hobbled up to the mailbox and
inspected each piece:
another sympathy card
for her run over dog,
this from her bridge...

YES! We have to do all we can. I know it feels like a drop in the bucket of his enormous wealth, but always remember Wendy's... one false claim of a finger in the chili went viral and they had to...

Celestial burial is practiced in Tibet, since the country has little wood for funeral pyres or cremation, and rocky soil that makes grave digging impractical. A specially trained holy...

Let me add: So, if you are going, bear in mind it was Barry Ponneck's own money he had to put up, and we are asking two things: to donate to Bernie's campaign by going online, and to donate cash to...

It is my (small, imagination-based) understanding that bitcoin, while being the object of suspicion and fear among credit card users from 'safe' banks in first world economies, is taking off in third...

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The posting from the Sebastopol Farm Market and Shandi’s response rekindled a long-simmering fire of mine. I have thought for several years about what it means to Buy Local.

I started looking...

"...we feel that war is acceptable; in general, nobody feels that war is criminal or that accepting it is a criminal attitude.
In fact, we have been brainwashed."
— from The Realities of War, by...

Hello Waccos! Santa Cruz Supervisor, Ryan Coonerty, has generously offered to talk with our Sonoma County officials regarding divesting from the Big Five Wall street banks. In fact, he is...

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/pbi/pages/289/attachments/original/1437945887/jail-banksters-31.jpg?1437945887Two weeks ago, encouraged by the news from Santa Cruz County, I wrote a letter to...

31226My dear friend Zira Wilson, owner of Penang Kitchen, had her trailer stolen right from the front of her home. Zira works hard to make and sell her delicious Malaysian food at street ...

Hello, Fresh Breath!
I love this type of conversation.

I have had dentists recommend the waterpik, but both gave me coupons which had their names on them which meant they were rewarded for the...

Red Hearts


When I became aware, immersed in puberty
I put nine red hearts in a cardboard box
and tucked that box away;
These would be my life’s supply,
they would mime fallopian paths
I‘d...

Dog Ate Joseph

Every other figurine is there in place:
the sheep, their herders, the mother and the infant
But there is no Joseph... the dog ate Joseph
And all I can do is leave an empty space...

What I simply cannot understand is this: they found no pulse, and no breathing. No one at that moment knew why. Wouldn't a trained law officer know how to administer CPR or mouth to mouth...

Thanks for a sincere attempt, Barry... but it got censored.
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I always enjoy poems about poetry. My contribution...

Faking Poems

Only the really shrewd can tell.
I'm moaning in meter,
under white sheets of paper,
Turning some trickery
In pseudonymph...

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Markham was deeply touched by a woodcut print he saw of an exploited laborer. It haunted him and his emotional response resulted in the poem. His words:

“As I studied Millet’s The Man...

Typing in the Dark

For W.B. Yeats

Don't feel sorry for me
I have only 24 hours to live every day.

I'm looking for letters that glow in the dark,
hidden among the...

This incredible poem, after so many years, still manages to stab me in the heart when I read it. One of the best.
I am at once the falcon and the falconer, trying to hear myself.
Thank you, Larry,...

Hi, Teri... You are welcome. I designed this system for myself, but I am sure improvements will arise from the masses of worm farmers out there. Tub number one's lid does not get drilled or cut....

Carrie... I am a seasoned worm farmer. I have eliminated almost all wet garbage from the weekly pickup, and have benefitted from these critters' valuable worm casting fertilizer for the vegetable...

The Death of Her Dishes

There was a phone call.
When she got the news, she chipped a plate on the faucet,
and dropped it in the sink to finish it off.
Then she grabbed two more and hurled...

Check out the therapist closely.

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I buy my groceries from money I make as a graphic designer. I've created advertising for clients, using my computte skills, my sense of design, creativity, and in large part, information I get from...

OMFG: Whether it is an art or a science, handwriting analysis will be a thing of the past as handwriting itself will soon die out; public school decision makers have omitted cursive from the lower...

Can I stretch the geography a little and include the sweet and enduring Speer's Market, (in Forestville on Mirabel at River) which is where I go when I don't want to venture into the "busy town"...

I have enough Gold and Diamonds... from a Nigerian deal I made last year.

Yeah, I was one, and it came from Mrs1 @ WaccoBB. But my beloved Sonic's Spectacular Spam Filter caught it.

Yes, particles in the atmosphere do affect the water content in snow and are, to some extent, present in the snow flake. It's not necessary however to have a piece of foreign material 'nucleus' since...

Right! Which is why the critical conspiracy (real one) we need to fight is the government's/shadow government's anti-whistle blower policies. [Remember when we were promised transparency in...

Wow... I didn't think I would see this experiment again in my life. The first time was in high school physics class. Let's see if I can remember the explanation:

1. Ice is a solid form of water,...

Food For Thought Antiques is a fabulous antique store south Sebastopol which does a great service for the community. They are run by Food For Thought food bank in Forestville.

They handle estate...

In late Medieval Europe, humans didn't have a knowledge of the science we now know. Unexplained mysteries, like the discovery of and new use for an herb, were feared and deemed sorcery. Those who...

... and let's not forget the subsequent steps of siting an internet link, sometimes reputable, sometimes not, with Person B calling that link total BS, and refuting with an opposing internet link,...

Another factor: The Center for Disease Control has estimated that over 70% of pertussis infections in babies is caused by adults infected by the bacteria. Adults may not even know they have whooping...

Hooray. And another fact that was not stressed in this article is extremely important: if your child is not vaccinated, that increases the chance of an epidemic, which puts ALL children, including...

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H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y, B A R R Y

Thanks for a good laugh, Larry! To hear the old coot perform this poem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnGNXoNX0Ag

Hi, Dixon.

The only thing 'weirdo' about you is that the majority of people are uncomfortable with rational thinking, and so they probably labeled you with that word to establish their normalcy,...

Wonderful. I am going to do this with my utensils today, whevever I go, and pass the lovely prayer along to the diners next to me, and maybe they will pass it along, until we are all doing it...
...

Hi Teri:

22615Read the text, and look for the crossed out words... I just put those business names in there as suggestions to anyone who would run with this idea and propose this way of supporting...