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...

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Lots of factors have converged to make this the appropriate...

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Twilight in Hendy Woods


This is the hour of magic
When this world and the other world
Touch in a lingering kiss
And a deep stillness settles over all things.


This is the hour of magic

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Hey Folks,

Regarding the gas station and junk food store proposal at Llano & 12...

In case you have not heard, in a very unusual occurrence, the Planning Agency canceled the virtual public...

Birthday party leaves 18 in Texas family with coronavirus


June 25, 2020

CARROLLTON, Texas (AP) — A surprise birthday party that resulted in 18 people testing positive for the coronavirus...

LET'S TALK LOOTING


Over the past 60 years, whenever there has been an uprising in the Black community that involved destruction of property, a reaction against "looting" has been part and...

"Almost all conspiracy theories can be dispelled by applying the principle known as Hanlon's Razor: "Do not attribute to malice that which is more easily explained by stupidity."

"However, I...

Hello friends,

49473I'm reaching out as the organizer of a discussion series - Pt Reyes: A Wilderness in Peril. We are a grassroots group of citizen advocates, biologists, filmmakers and local...

They're Back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins!
Thank God for the church


These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced at church services:
...

Maybe try posting on Waco Elders or at the senior community center, just a thought.

Okay, I am back. Please tell me, dear person who is extra vulnerable to the coronavirus, if I can do your shopping for you. I can do shopping for you after my normal work hours after 5:30 PM Monday...

While we are busy being concerned about dividing the Democratic party, the party, in all of its centrist wisdom has overwhelmingly voted to continue the very non-democratic Orwellian governmental...

Wash your hands

like you are washing the only teacup left that your great grandmother
carried across the ocean, like you are washing the hair of a beloved who is
dying, like you are washing the...

Fantastic Fungi, directed by Louie Schwartzberg, is a consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground...

48826

Thoughts on the Joe Rodota Trail (JRT) Clearing & Closure

On Friday afternoon — between visits to the JRT and meetings with County and city staff — a KQED reporter asked me a question about the...

Fifty years ago, Bernie was getting arrested as part of his civil rights activism.
Today he's (STILL) working for all of US with Medicare for ALL, free college tuition, ending corruption and the...

I'm a 77-year-old female and I have tramped through the encampments in Roseland, the first Rodota camp and now the current Rodota camp. I was there last Friday just walking and talking to folks. ...

Reposted from Lynda Hopkins facebook page from Monday, Dec 30th, by Barry :waccosun:

****JOE RODOTA TRAIL — PERSONAL THOUGHTS & COUNTY UPDATE****

TL;DR SUMMARY: County is investing $11.6M in...

Wow, these comments about the safe disposal bins for sharps (needles) are sickening. Diabetics use those bins. There are other medications that people inject. Sure, people who inject street drugs are...

Thank you Lynda, for your post on Wacco, and for your courageous stand, on finding a solution to those camping on JRT.

I'd campaigned & voted for Noreen... however you have my full support...

A Christmas Carol


Away in a manger
or a crack house
or under a bridge
or in a bombed-out village
or a refugee camp
or in the mesquite shade close to the border wall
some Mary is giving...

Blessings for the Tomb, the Womb, the Cocoon
(the Liminal Spaces, all)


May you surrender to the sacred gravity of your grief and loss

May you give honor and homage to that which has fallen...

I think it would be more to the point, more neutral at least, to have this thread titled

"Is Medicare for All a Losing General Election Position?"

The media, and centrist Democrat talking...

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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....

46112My feelings about building on this particular flood plain are unmixed.

The Laguna de Santa Rosa is an internationally recognized wetland, although it's a ghost of its pre-European invasion...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZuNVIb2w4MHere's a little bit of the backstory to the current "Crisis" in U.S. / Venezuela relations and President Trump's obsession with promoting 'regime change' in...

I received the following email from Enmanji Temple. I want to appreciate them for their prompt response and decision to stop using RoundUp (Glyphosate).

Dear Dr. Bliss,...

Ray50sfo, you may not know that Shepherd has been working many years to hold the Wine Industry accountable. Unfortunately, our county has elected, and continues to elect, supervisors who only drag...

fyi... I googled and found that the poster is from the Main Street Alliance, https://www.mainstreetalliance.org. You can print the poster out from their website. It is a fresh authentic voice,...

Wow! This is a very powerful message. I challenge everyone to accept her challenge.....if we have the courage!

Özlem Cekic's email inbox has been full of hate mail since 2007, when she won a seat...

With that lucidity that all his scholars and readers admire, but also with his unwavering vocation as a revolutionary to transform the world and make it more just and livable, the Mexican thinker...

Grieving the Death of All Singers by John Omaha Copyright, 2018 All Rights Reserved


I've been listening to the outpouring of songs sung by Aretha Franklin that have...

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Many thanks to all comments here. As an old protestor of the Vietnam War, it all started with a few people and grew larger and larger over time. Yesterday our "president" told us all to not believe...

Bears do not want confrontations with humans. They are just looking for food, so secure your garbage and livestock and keep small pets inside at night. Our state was once full of bears, until humans...

There is an interesting article about gun violence in the March issue of Scientific American.
Why are White Men Stockpiling Guns by Jeremy Adam Smith
...

Thank you, Larry, for your year-long gift of poetry, and for your presence in our lives.
Roland

The Menacing Insect Omen

by Robert Hunziker
Downloaded December 26, 2017 from https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/26/the-menacing-insect-omen/

The world is experiencing a massive loss of...

42172Susan Campbell gave me permission to forward the following email regarding John Taylor. I think that it puts John’s decision to take his own life, in the same way that that his sister did, in a...

I am grateful for your piece on Homelessness after the Fires. As a urban planning consultant for many years, I found your ideas on these issues to be among the best I have read and heard discussed....

Hello neighbors of Sonoma County,

THE HOMELESS POPULATION ARE OFTEN ON MY MIND. I see several reasons for the problems. There are several solutions that come to mind also. As we move forward in...

:birthday:

Happy Birthday, Larry!

On behalf of all of Waccodom, thank you so much for sharing poetry with us!
It brightens my day and many others! :waccosun:
...

From Lynda Hopkins (5th District Sonoma County Supervisor) facebook page:
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” -MLK

...

There are different kinds of capitalisms. We are experiencing brutal capitalism. It is my opinion that the American Empire is coming to an end. My hope is that the values of the American Republic and...