WHY IN PERSON VOTING IS BETTER NOW... The Registrar of Voters has stopped processing mail-in ballots for now. Only in-person ballots will be processed through election night at 7pm. After election...

I would send an email to the mayor, Patrick Slayter - [email protected] - you can go on the City Council's website and get the other emails, if you'd like to write to all of them. You can, also,...

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...

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...

The Gift

Time wants to show you a different country. It's the one
that your life conceals, the one waiting outside
when curtains are drawn, the one Grandmother hinted at
in her crochet design,...

Indeed they are, Conrad. :-)

"Fear of Jewish influence had its American moment as soon as the Jewish population hit 2%--about the same threshold at which American anti-Catholic hysteria kicked in...

Film Recommendation: “Please Stand By, Boldly Go” with Dakota Fanning

I just saw the 2018 film “Please Stand By, Boldly Go,” staring Dakota Fanning as Wendy. I will soon return it to the...

The Press Democrat did not publish the following letter to the editor that I sent them Sun. afternoon in response to their excellent article on veterans and dogs. So I am posting it below:

I...

The Diameter Of The Bomb

The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters
and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters,
with four dead and eleven wounded.
And around these, in a...

Yeah that was my experience...they came within a few days and simply pulled the smart meter out and replaced with analog. The units just snap in and out. Took about 5 minutes!

Holy As A Day Is Spent

Holy is the dish and drain
The soap and sink, the cup and plate
And the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile
Showerheads and good dry towels

And frying eggs sound...

A Spiritual Journey

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles,
no matter how long,
but only by a spiritual journey,
a journey of one inch,
very arduous and humbling and...

Idée Fixe

No woman wants to be low-hanging fruit,
my glamorous girlfriend says, but I’m indiscriminate
and love all fruit, I’m tempted to list each kind
right here, in and out of season,...

Age Sixty-nine

I keep waiting without knowing
what I'm waiting for.
I saw the setting moon at dawn
roll over the mountain
and perhaps into the dragon's mouth
until tomorrow evening.
...

Cannabis, which this elder uses to sleep through the night, is certainly not food ag., as it says on most of the containers. The corporate wine and cannabis barons have made it difficult to do food...

I guess since I started the post, "some people" refers to me. Truth is I have chronic lyme and MS and my brain over-reacts to most things: meds/supplements/cigarette,wood,bbq smoke, gas/perfume/...

Your concern about splitting the Dem. vote brings up a good point.

In the 2016 national election, poll after poll showed that Sanders had a better chance of beating Trump than Clinton did, yet all...

What We Did While We Made More Guns


Prayed.
Dug mass graves.
Raped the daughters of the enemy, who,
in their terror,
turned back into swans.
Placed war orphans in loving homes.
Pinned...

My Grandmother’s Hair

I wash and comb her hair
Sweep up long gray strands,
an old world bun
reminiscent of a former life
She leaves her family,
her home
her country
her language

Waking

A massive blue stallion rears before me 42435
out of a midnight lake of dreams

Moonlight flows
like fire along his flanks, and

an inner blaze flares
from the dark mystery of his...

Officials are NOT going to really address the problems of homelessness. People who were burned out were sent to Catholic Charities and were immediately spirited away for immediate assistance and...

Some of us don't like Zane or the BOS, and have a good reason to be critical and cynical when it comes to their intentions, and we're entitled to our opinions and feelings. For some of us (especially...

well, talk is cheap. - oh hell,
can't even pin the City Council down to do anything about the homeless, in fact, They stepped up their infraction ordinances concerning the homeless, and now they...

what can we say about Shirlee Zane that's even a little flattering, maybe the way she does her hair. zane is always imagining things shirlee's way. one doesn't hear her going on and on about...

Falling

In these awe-filled days of fire and flood
We watch and wait and wonder
When that fierce hand
Might reach at last for us.

Those of us not yet touched by calamity
Quake, knowing in...

Litedep means light deprived. So if you have a greenhouse with a daily cover you can regulate sunlight to produce buds. Two to three crops per year with far less energy cost than indoor. With smoke...

Hole in the Wall suffered a 20 hour power outage in January, they lost over $15,000 in food. Insurance covered less than $3,000.
Starbucks is moving to McDonalds (Spencer Fish) site. Subway is...

OUR VOICES ARE BEING HEARD!!! DON'T STOP SHARING TALKING AND BEING ANGRY AT THIS!!! THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO DO!!! KEEP FIGHTING WHILE WE STILL HAVE SOMETHING TO FIGHT FOR!!! our voices got...

Here's the thing. While it feels terrible to lose an election, we need to keep this in mind. It's just an election. The people who were assholes and jerks two days ago are still assholes and jerks...

Oh, pleez, spare us all any more of this “naive farm waif” drivel.

As chair of the Sonoma County Democratic Party, I met with Ms. Hopkins at TinyTown in Forestville on Jan. 15, 2016 at 10 am and...

Kitty, What comes as no surprise at all is the PD's support of Lynda - her supporters are their advertisers.
Big business (VINEYARDS, WINERIES, MINING, REAL ESTATE, ETC.) is what supports the Press...

Yes, Hopkins is Efron 2.0

Just wanted to let the community of Graton know that if you have been seeing Monarch butterfly's in the area it is due in part to the efforts of my partner, Darlene . This is the second year of her...

It sure sounds like you are against business interests. Now as the head of a union may I ask you if business interests create jobs, even union jobs? But you oppose a candidate because local...

Wow! Another day another glossy $20-40,000 mailer from the Hopkins campaign!
But don't be fooled by this seductive assault on your mailbox!
This isn't a "fresh face" by any means, even though we...

Mr Lynch- Deputy Sheriffs are NOT SEIU1021 members. The top pensions are exactly as I said - department heads, administrative managers and directors ( also NOT SEIU members) If you were truly...

Sonoma County supervisor contests will determine balance of power

SONOMA SUN
The Community's Independent Voice
May 27th,2016
Sonoma County supervisor contests will determine balance of power
...

Love After Love

The day will come when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say,
sit here, eat....

Whoa...hold the show here just a bit. Firstly, implying that right off the bat, homeless are somehow a bunch of "folks with mental problems" is a mischaracterization of what being homeless...

I'm all for tiny homes. but he difference in cost of building a 500 square foot home and a1500 square foot home is minimal all things considered. Bedrooms are cheap. You can put more people in a...

You forgot "stopped the nearly yearly flooding of Guerneville" and "providing water for the current residents". Nearly every city grows until it reaches a level of misery where an equal number of...

the beauty of things :: robinson jeffers


To feel and speak the astonishing beauty of things—earth, stone and water,
Beast, man and woman, sun, moon and stars—
The blood-shot beauty of human...

Post time


What my father loved about the track —https://espn.go.com/photo/2012/0503/espnw_g_tickets_300.jpg
time compressed into three-minute segments,
the idea of someone losing his shirt
or...

So many of us have experienced depression, including me. This looks like a very helpful new tool to help with the darkest of times.

Barry
...

Song Weaver

for Ronnie Gilbert

"Good night, Irene,"
she sang, "Good night, Irene,
...

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Chicken Scratchings for the Soul

It wasn’t one of my better meditations
It started out with promise…
I had a vision
My heart was encased in concrete
God’s chisel had cracked it open to...

Water Shed


The green expanse of duck weed
Parts and there he sits,
Proud - or so I imagine -
In all his feathered irridescence,
Shedding water with neither thought nor effort.

Shepherd (and Assumpta)

Thank you so much for including us, your community, in your reconnection with Assumpta, and to that ecstatic feeling of romantic kinship, and beyond that....a moving...

A Second Chance—25 Years Later
By Shepherd Bliss with Assumpta Ortiz
WaccoBB.net

A “Second Chance,” after 25 years of absence and silence, was recently offered Shepherd by Assumpta. Her email...