yes i was a frequent member of the disestablishment who frequented that cafe. Now it's sort of millenial depresso spot. I don't think i can fault anything you just said. I have nieces and newphews...

i tend to agree. but what, after listening to the inspiring speech from Mike Prysner, or reading the very articulate and inspiring articles at the fb PSL site ( Party for Socialism and LIberation)...

even if there were places out of the city in a pleasant area, where you could build thinking that the homeless would go there willingly there would be no infrastructure for them, no hubbub. It would...

We are then talking decades of legal obstacles, with no local incentive to get action on what is RIGHT NOW an aggravation for everyone. And shedding responsibility and handing it over to legal...

human beings deserve a place to have shelter, no matter their degrees of mental health or economic tier. So it seems to me it is everyone's benefit for all to share in the responsibility. Didn't the...

its certainly invigorating to see so much public viewing of corruption in the Trump Presidency, i don't recall such during the previous administration. Not to mention nepotism, not since Rome...

Quite right; those that are home schooled by Fox News will not have it, as they are validated every day by right wing commentary. Spoon fed they have no other dish to their liking. On the other hand...

If you want to have a discussion have at it, but you have no facts, only some sort of magic wand. You wave it all you want, but have no words to discuss this thing called your "leader". Every day is...

You mean the people fleeing atrocities in their lives, and the crisis created by your leader? Of course if you stop the natural flow and prevent them from their legal requests you are going to create...

Trump has said and believes what he says - "that Mexicans are criminals and rapists" and that there were “very fine people on both sides” of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. He...

I have no doubt that Hilary would have been a wonderful president, the most prepared to ever come our way. But i am not crying she lost, but will probably remain shocked. If i am crying, i am not...

Those who object to the electoral college do so on several grounds, and yes one of them is electing someone who has not been given the majority of votes. and it is the electoral college itself that...

By tyranny of the minority meant a 3 million vote majority should have led the dems to victory. Certainly we have the majority in the house, but still nothing can be done until the senate takes up...

We don't have a current leader capable of fixing what we have now. Is this a statement that you wish to take an opposing view? And we have to stay in the present to fix things, there is no time...

seems to me we do not have a tyranny of the majority, but a tyranny of a minority. Is this not what you are seeing?
The following is representative of these opinions, from the article in the NYT...

I turn to Robert Bly, who comments ( American Poetry, pg. 34)

"Our poetry took a wrong turning years ago. Some centuries have a profound spiritual movement: poetry, when vigorous, always a part...

this is another by James Wright

Lying in a Hamock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,
Asleep on the black trunk,
Blowing like a leaf...

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2019-02-25_19-57-12.pngJill C. contacted me recently needing a remodeling of her website, which was somewhat dated and needed an infusion of new...

There are a few that make something out of nothing and even without punctuation
one of the newer experiments poets are imitating from ws merwin

I can hear Coleman Barks in my minds voice. ( was that the translator?) On my list of 100 to read i have the masnavi, will i live that long...

One of our American greatest poets, in clarity and unassuming humility to the world, but also feels like a transcendentalist. I was introduced to him thru the poem "traveling through the dark" by...

here is one good one. there are many.

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of...

when i first saw this post i went over to facebook and found the emanji buddhist temple and copied and pasted the post "Dear Enmanji Temple... " . That was Friday 3:31pm and still waiting for their...

My first Peets coffee was at Walnut Square in Berkeley probably around 1970. I had a lot of barista friends working there, and i would begin my 8 mile run there, up Spruce and around and thru the...

Faces
first you buy a green truck, make it a ford ranger.
you drive it home, and on the road
you see forty or fifty green ford ranger trucks,
just like yours.
then you buy a book you've been...