The most compassionate columnist at the Press Democrat is Chris Smith. Erika, please contact him tomorrow, explain your situation as you've done here. Thousands of people read Chris's column and I...

I realize that most folks don’t know me, but I could use a little bit of help. I am trying to find someone who can gain a bit of traction with the right people.

I recently found out that I am...

Why Then Do We Not Despair?

Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold,
Death's great black wing scrapes the air,
Misery gnaws to the bone.
Why then do we not despair?

By day, from the...

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The Moon

Look out at the moon in the sky, as she is right at this moment.
Does she have to be in an eclipse to be so...

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Stone by stone I pile
this cairn of my intention
with the noon's weight on my back,
exposed and...

Interesting to wish for a small town with low rents and no traffic yet adjacent to a much bigger town with access to all those big town amenities but somehow no responsibility for the issues those...

Hi Nick;
Composting by it's nature is run by Bacteria,mold,enzymes,yeast,and air. or the lack of air.
I am interested in your experiment. I teach composting and generally use a...

Via a colleague, here's today's opinion piece from New York Times columnist. Jude

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If we can get Freitas off our necks at the recall election, maybe we can replace him with someone good.
Moon

40734
Former Commander John Mutz
Candidate for Sonoma County Sheriff...

I went over there today and spoke to his wife who's name I do not know. I had the CAFF info written on a piece of paper and gave it to her to give to Lao since she cannot read. She got very defensive...

You can also use 30 percent vinegar. You can dilute it as needed. It costs about $20 a gallon on line. You have to be very careful when you use it or dilute it. Don't get it in your eyes or...

Kathy Tresch, by the way, is a long-time farmer, whose husband's family has ranched on their land for many generations. She is a very credible source.

Here are more exact instructions for 2 recipes. The orange oil people think theirs works best. As far as Dawn dish soap goes, I'd rather use that than Roundup any day of the week.

Vinegar /...

what is really in Dawn dish soap? Like, just because it works to wash oil off of sea life doesn't mean it's not toxic... plus there's fragrance, ew.
...

Glyphosate to be Listed under Proposition 65 as Known to the State to Cause Cancer

April 18, 2017, www.winewaterwatch.org

We are living in sacrifice zones for profits. Do corporations have...

I suggest an entirely different approach. Just as an experiment, try letting the restless movements really go--perhaps even into more extreme vibrations or thrashing around, wherever they want to go....

Dear Tom Lynch,

From your post above...
"....Supervisor Efren Carrillo, who’d been wearing a political bull’s eye on his back ever since the Great Carrillo Dating Debacle of 2013.... "
...

It was Michael who edited it out because it was not nice and it would have rescinded my previous apology. Then later this afternoon, I had a big ah ha moment when I realized that it is actions like...

Dammit!

I knew Hillary was one of those treacherous "Reptilians!"

What we need to do now is make sure Donald Trump is elected president and I have no doubt that Trump, being the macho man that...

Early August Evening

This time of year the grass
on these gentle uplands
is already dry
except for the green swale
bordered by blackberry and wild rose.

We're picking Gravensteins now
and...

Black Lives Matter is not a racist hate group; it's a group that's long been needed, to defend Blacks--and other people of color--from police.

Can you tell us how to read the tables in the...

Clouds


My brother is a birder.
He has a life list
and when he adds new birds
it’s considered polite
to feign excitement.
And I am excited
for him.

I Was Just Reading A Beautiful Book of Poetry


and I glanced down
at my hand holding that book
and my hand—
it had to have been my hand
because I was the only one there
and I was the one...

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Hi Tommy,

The manure was actually composted that I got from Grab and Grow and put in Warren Dutton's manure spreader and tractor I rented. The City of Santa Rosa reused it on their...

Don't worry joybird, it will soon be illegal to disagree with man made climate change ... I wonder if I could also get arrested for mentioning geoengineering? ... lol ...
...

34943I want to propose a GIVING event;
probably early morning near a cafe
the late afternoon near the farmers market

maybe the only participant being me!

I am disenchanted with the Yard...

The Powwow at the End of the World


I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall
after an Indian woman puts her shoulder to the Grand Coulee Dam
and topples it. I am told...

I stopped by Sonoma West last Friday night when I was concerned about some pain I was experiencing related to a car accident I had a few days before.

The staff there were so friendly and...

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Lower Your Standards


Bill Stafford
continues to encourage me.
“Lower your standards,” he says.

I try.

But this morning,

It's a very thoughtful idea, and I think that many people may be swamped with holiday fever, so you may not get the response you hope for. Since replacing these items isn't time sensitive, if you...

Moonless Night, Tomales Bay

bioluminescence – n. the emission of light from living organisms


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I set out upon an...

Three Seasons

In the early seventies
Greg and I moved back to the land.
Here, no National Guard, no protests
on the steps of Bank of America,
no hash to smuggle into Isla Vista.
We watched...

Good Morning:

Yesterday Larry posted a poem by Mark Nepo and it received a lot of positive comment and approval. I was surprised. I had a different take on it, a different response. I don't...

I think he's on it!

Wow. So THAT's what happened to the beautiful mural? That really sucks.
Well - once California legalizes recreational pot (and it will...) some of those empty, unrented warehouses would make some...

YAY finally someone remembered the GUYAKI Mural! It WAS beautiful , and I was appalled when I heard Barlow required it to be removed so they could set a new "post industrial tone" for Sebastopol. YUK...

Here's the fourth of 500 friends for rain*:


meditation

raining.
in our dreams it’s
raining.
we dream showers,
thunderstorms, & torrents.

My friend Jim Wilson loves syllabic forms and has created one of his own: 100 Friends. Fifteen lines carry 100 syllables over 15 lines in this order: 2, 4, 2, 4, 6, 4, 6, 8, 6, 8, 10, 8, 10, 12, 10....

Before The Men's Retreat


She asks: “What is it?”
And I say: “100 men naked in the woods.”
She wrinkles her nose and says: “No clothes?”
And I say: “Sometimes.”
And she says: “What do you...

It’s 2 am and, after binge watching
the third season of Downton Abbey,
Lady Grantham’s housemaid, Anna,
is in bed with me. She’s been sexually
assaulted by a slimy visiting valet and
I’m...

Why I am an “Anti-Vaccer”

Almost 40 years ago, while preparing for the birth of our first child, we received a letter from a close friend. He was very upset by our decision to have a home birth...

For the signage to be truly appropriate and organic with the architecture of the Barlow, I would suggest that it consist of huge block letters, the full length of the tin walls, saying SARDINES.
...

I agree with you. I think it's excessive and not attractive at all. But then I don't have to see it, since I don't live in Sebastopol. I guess that's their particular font, but it doesn't have...

Waccopedia

I just received two different emails from this address ... @b-digitalwebvps.us>
One was for a Walmart survey/gift card reward and the other was a notification that someone ordered a background check...

Here's some assorted comments from me and others.

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2014-07-02_19-15-31.pngFirst, I also want to thank Helen, John, their un-indicted...

What about an orchard, an urban food forest of sorts? Maybe with an outdoor community kitchen. I've always loved the outdoor wood burning oven at Community Market in Santa Rosa, though I believe it...

Thanks to all who've expressed gratitude for our perseverance. I wish we could have achieved the ultimate win of persuading them not to build there. We took our best shot, and I believe this outcome...

Thank you, Helen, for your tireless efforts on this project as well as so many environmental issues I have seen you take on!! You're a true super HERO!