Dear Barry - Thank you for creating such a beautiful space for community all these years. You've cultivated a great thing for this community. Your kind and caring way with people has always moved...

The Hill We Climb

When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade?

The loss we carry. A sea we must wade.

We braved the belly of the beast.

We’ve...

On the Pulse of Morning




A Rock, A River, A Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9nTt2F0Kdc
Hosts to species long since departed,
Marked the mastodon,
The dinosaur, who left dried tokens

Wacco BB closing reminds me of good friends who lived on Mark West Road talking about how the fires fractured their long term community; I have been on this forum since 2004 if I recall correctly,...

Mark, I'm going to miss your informative posts. This has been the best place for me to get the real dope on
so many things.

Thank you, everybody, for your kind words! They have really warmed my heart and given me a sweet afterglow for this endeavor. Big Smile:waccosun:




I am very happy to hear this! I've been in...

January 14

309 New Cases in Sonoma County. Follow Cases in your zip code here. https://experience.arcgis.com/experi...page/page_30/w

7 Sonoma County Residents Deaths were attributed to Covid-19...

It’s Time


Stop the digging
There is no pony down here
Despite the stink


It’s time to look upward
At the narrow ribbon of sky

What nerve you have! Michael has volunteered his time and energy reporting daily case statistics for Sonoma County since April 1. He has earned our thanks for providing this valuable service, and he...

<br><br>Varda was kind enough to set up [email protected]. She announced it the following discussion thread: New North Bay Online Group Invitation.

thank you for an informative article. I will add, if your bilirubin is higher than normal, or if you have poor liver health, you might be taking a vitamin D supplement (which should be taken with...

Two dear local friends got it, one very severely and they have lingering side effects; their descriptions of the experience is way beyond any flu I've ever had; there's a kind of malevolent presence...

July 5

County did not report again last night. They may have their hands full. Sonoma State has told The County they are ending their agreement to use parts of the campus for the fight against...

Thank you Barry the Barack and Michelle duet was needed medicine.

that's the part I care about. It sucks to be sick, but low(ish) odds of dying make it easier to take risks. But odds of living the rest of your life with these kinds of impairments are high enough to...

Here's some good common sense written by James Stein, MD, a "Jewish vegetarian cardiologist". After much research, I tracked down the original post to his facebook page here. :waccosun:


...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pptyJgq4zkM&feature=youtu.be

On Healing


I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections.
And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill.
I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep...

Amy Goodman interviews leader in Virology who knows the sources and explains the science.

"Pure Baloney": Zoologist Debunks Trump's COVID-19 Origin Theory, Explains Animal-Human Transmission

...

Gargle Daily



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Gargle Daily

The Peace of Wild Things


When despair grows in me
and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the...

re: hardware store masks - this is an older article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3373043//
Also gives directions for making very unstylish masks... LOL

Many who sew are making...

49077

You tube link-
https://youtu.be/ygUi1fnF45A
Vimeo link (same video- better quality)
https://vimeo.com/397901253/78a0c9d587

49072On March 11, 2020 the Sonoma County Herb Association held a free...

Community ~

This is an awesome 4-minute message we all need to listen to:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-SyZiwXKs0&feature=youtu.be

I omitted the quoted post below from the digest, without enough consideration. Sorry about that.

Seems there may be something to this. The proposal is to use 2 already approved drugs that are...

Coronavirus outbreak: Canadian WHO doctor returns from China with critical COVID-19 lessons


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUI6DIswmFk

Dr. Bruce Aylward, the Canadian head of the World...

When I Am Among The Trees

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would...

Thirst

They are all older than me —
the mountains, seas, trees.
They hold the wisdom of the years,
the secrets to survive.
They know not to fret
over small things,
that the world goes on...

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From Reb Irwin

On Tuesday this week, the President said, “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think...

Questionnaire

How much poison are you willing

to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are...

The Ancient Ones


From the beginning
We have been with you.
We are the Ancient Ones
And we remember.

We remember the time when there was only love,
The time when all breathing was one. 


Democracy

It's coming through a hole in the air,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHI9BTpGkp8
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feel
that it ain't exactly real,
or...

When I worked for the Ski Hut in Berkeley in the mid-sixties, my boss, Alfred Smith, came to work one morning and told me that a new coffee shop had just opened over on northside and let's go have a...

Love This Miraculous World

Our understandable wish
to preserve the planet
must somehow be
reduced
to the scale of our
competence.
Love is never abstract.
It does not adhere

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2018-04-16_13-31-27.png
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert,...

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Last night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,
what joy
to come falling
out of the...

On Children

Your children are not your children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g0RZh0GlgQ
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4aw-fB8GT0I've been really struggling with the death of Dolores O'Riordan. I wasn't a huge Cranberries fan, but for some odd reason, three days before she died, I...

This Year

Assemble
resolve
good thoughts
merriment
humble pie
friends
unusual words
only good thots

Life While-You-Wait

Life While-You-Wait.
Performance without rehearsal.
Body without alterations.
Head without premeditation.

I know nothing of the role I play.
I only know it’s mine. I...

When Fire Swept West

When fire swept west in Annadel Park
there appeared no stopping it
from descending to devour our street and house
and when it halted, we wept
with gratitude then went...

45 Years of My Words Away

So how do I write about something
that took 45 years of my words & art away?

Journals, articles, poems, drawings, paintings, manuscripts,
travel sketches, a library...

Choosing A Dog

"It's love," they say. You touch
the right one and a whole half of the universe
wakes up, a new half.
Some people never find
that half, or they neglect it or trade it
for money...

In Blackwater Woods


Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars

of light,
are giving off the rich

The Cure At Troy

Human beings suffer,
They torture one another,
They get hurt and get hard.
No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.

The innocent in gaols

Choosing Who To Be

You, who wake up each morning remembering who you are,
must think it strange that I, upon awakening
have no idea who I am, or what I’m doing in this room,
in this bed,...

Let's not forget that it was Rachel Carson's 1962 book "Silent Spring" that lamented the loss of song birds. This helped initiated a robust environmental movement over 50 years ago. It is good to...

I gotta chime in here!! I LOVE Mocking birds...their song completely delights me and often I laugh out loud at the wonderful twists and turns in their varied solo symphony!!! Another miracle of...