Everything Has a Deep Dream

I’ve spent many years learning
how to fix life, only to discover
at the end of the day
that life is not broken.

There is a hidden seed of great wholeness
in...

Dear Friends and nodding acquaintances everywhere,

Many of you...

Speaking Tree


I had a beautiful dream I was dancing with a tree.
- Sandra Cisneros


Some things on this earth are...

But you do come across as rather dour, Star Man. As for relationships, I have found them to be--while often difficult--absolutely essential for personal growth and emotional healing. "Finding a...

Dusting


Thank you for these tiny
particles of ocean salt,
pearl-necklace viruses,
winged protozoans:
for the infinite,
intricate shapes
of submicroscopic

November

From the sky in the form of snow
comes the great forgiveness.
Rain grown soft, the flakes descend
and rest; they nestle close, each one
arrived, welcomed and then at home.


If...

Say Yes

The moment I slipped my arms
into the poem of falling leaves
shrugged my shoulders just so
the threads of mystery in the fabric
pulled my body straight
...

Dear Mother,

It began with the article about the birds, the 2.9 billion missing North America birds, the 2.9 billion birds that disappeared and no one noticed. The sparrows, black birds, and...

The Story

Once upon a time the farmer's wife
told it to her children while she scrubbed potatoes.
There were wise ravens in it, and a witch
who flew into such a rage she turned to brass.

The...

Theme for English B


The instructor said,

Go home and write
a page tonight.
And let that page come out of you—
Then, it will be true.

A Map to the Next World
for Desiray Kierra Chee

In the last days of the fourth world I wished to make a map for
those who would climb through the hole in the sky.

My only tools were the...

October

Light in leaves in wind in sky.
Bright October brings beauty
to dead things
and the wingless learn
to fly.
Berries try to stash the summer
in their skin.
Squirrels bury food

i love to see signs up by people. great fun each time i've done it. jude

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/1/7/1177175/-100-Reasons-to-Put-Signs-on-Freeways
100 Reasons to Put Signs on...

For Keeps

Sun makes the day new.
Tiny green plants emerge from earth.
Birds are singing the sky into place.
There is nowhere else I want to be but here.
I lean into the rhythm of your heart to...

Lost

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known....

My Mother's Van

Even now it idles outside the houses
where we failed to get better at piano lessons,
visits the parking lot of the ballet school

where my sister and I stood awkwardly
at the...

My Father’s Boots Say Amen, Amen, Amen


Late August, over the horizon the clouds came
Dark, rumbly gray creeping over the tops of the mulberry grove
The air was deathly silent
Mother called...

For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet


Put down that bag of potato chips, that white bread, that bottle of pop.

Turn off that cellphone, computer, and remote...

A poem sent today by William Rain, a gardner in Boulder:

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Perhaps The World Ends Here


The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat
to live.

The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it
has been since...

Planet Sunburn


It becomes a joke before we even understand it, relegated to a kingdom of cliché:
the whole global warming thing—— it’’s that moment speeding
down a mountain road when you...

Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror


The night sounds like a murder
of magpies and we’re replacing our cabinet knobs
because we can’t change the world, but we can
change our hardware....

Stories re: health-impairment due to vegan diet:

'My vegan diet brought on early menopause': a poster girl for the meat-free revolution. But in a shocking confession, ...

Family Syllabus

The butterfly is quickly seized and eaten just above their lifted heads
the children had trapped it in the house under glass and card
the father brought it to freedom in the...

From the Diary of an Almost-Four-Year-Old


Tomorrow, the bandages
will come off. I wonder
will I see half an orange,
half an apple, half my
mother's face
with my one remaining eye?
I did...

For My Mother

Once more
I summon you
Out of the past
With poignant love,
You who nourished the poet
And the lover.
I see your gray eyes
Looking out to sea

Music


When I was a child
I once sat sobbing on the floor
Beside my mother’s piano
As she played and sang
For there was in her singing
A shy yet solemn glory
My smallness could not hold

In The Caves of Swimmers

In the Gilf Kebir plateau in the Sahara side
of Egypt there is a cave containing rock paintings
of swimming figures. Did these figures represent
escaping an Ice Age...

The Things That Return

I've been down this road a time or two. I've seen the green
grass the green grass and the rabbits running and the deer
coming down from the hills to eat the last of the...

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...

America, I Sing Back

for Phil Young, my father, Robert Hedge Coke, Whitman, and Hughes

America, I sing back. Sing back what sung you in.
Sing back the moment you cherished breath.
Sing you...

For the Anniversary of My Death

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me
And the silence will set out
Tireless traveler
Like the beam of a...

Silly buildings. Flood plains are for water

If It Were Sound

What can compare with the magic
of sunlight on a tree,
edging the leaves
With liquid gold?
Comes a breeze,
they ripple
in a way that,
if it were sound,

Earth Changes

what response
can I give
to the universe

for all the mistakes
this mind
and body commit

On Having Two Hands

My right hand is in its early seventies,https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2019-03-08_11-15-54.png
maybe older. It is very smart.
My left hand has existed...

Repetition, Evolved


The salmon unzip their bodies at last:
stomach, liver, intestine spilling forth
into an ocean of egg possibilities.


Upstream, the river warns with trembling, leafy...

Your analysis is as usual accurate.

Everyone should be aware that when the flood stages reach the 40s, the sewer treatment plant on Llano road is often underwater. This means that raw sewage is...

Of Eons and Epics


I.
We wake with arrowheads—
our hands clamped around dreams,
dreams of hummocky bodies
glacial names tattooed
on each blue-rivered forearm.
What does it mean to hunger

I so appreciate and value this post and thoughts... thank YOU so much.

In this world, where we our sacred connection to nature has been broken, it's nearly impossible
to see the larger picture of...

Well said.

A plug for the Laguna De Santa Rosa foundation that has done so much to preserve and restore portions of the Laguna and serves as an important resource for education and preservation....

As the intercom on the first pilotless commercial flight said: 'This is a fully automated flight and we would like to assure you that nothing can go wrong, can go wrong, can go wrong, can go wrong......

Mike,

The Urgent Care stayed open until 2:00Am during the flood.
Not sure how many people used it but it was there...

Dan

The Urgent Care is proving itself very useful. My friend Ronnie passed out. She tried to get into her MD but no luck. She went to the Urgent Care at the hospital and received some of the best medical...

Here are some photos of this year's flood (2019)
from WaccoBB's crack flood photographer (my daughter, Manna Chertov :hifive:)

See prior posts on this thread for 2017 flood photos

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Kevin,

My wife also went to the urgent care and got excellent treatment by Dr. Flowers.
But what was more important is that Dr. Flowers saved a woman's life the day before.
Most urgent care...

Last Friday, on our way to a restaurant in Petaluma, my wife slipped and fell as she crossed the street. Bracing herself against the fall, she hurt her wrist badly. In the restaurant, we asked for a...

In Defense Of Those Who Harbor Terrible Ideas At Tax Time



:whip:It must have seemed like a good idea at the time.
Like so many others. Sleeping with that guy.
Not checking the address....

Barry,

In response to your request, I'm not sure what questions you are trying to clarify but here are some answers to a few of the posts on this thread:

1) Converting the hospital to most...

They follow their food sources, as all animals do. And big cats don't eat domestic cats. The coyotes are very good rodent control, they hunt for rats and gophers. They will take a small cat if they...