I would like to add a consideration to this intriguing thread -- sometimes it is reasonable to feel depressed. The culture seems to have adopted a position that depression is automatically a bad...

Wine Empire replaces Redwood Empire

By Shepherd Bliss
WaccoBB.net

Sonoma County has been known as part of the natural Redwood Empire. Wine industry lobbyists re-branded it as the commercial...

A Story from my past.<o:p></o:p>
What one perceives is based on knowledge, experience and wisdom.<o:p></o:p>
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When I was about 10 yrs. old, my dad said he was taking us to church...

This project is clearly too big and too industrial for farmland and the Laguna location in particular. I plan to comment according to CEQA so that I am part of the record for environmental...

Industrial wineries and vineyards--with their monocrop--threaten humans, other critters, and the environment in many ways. Human, animal, and plant life NEED the basics, such as water, food, and...

I am very opposed to cruelty to animals or people for that matter and at the same time I feel that most vegans and animal rights folk are coming from a pain and death free world that just does not...

Larry,
I appreciate your poetry selections so much -- read Chris Dec's "Dog Ate Joseph" at the Healdsburg Literary Guild's Third Sunday Salon this past Sunday, because it was too good not to share....

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Of Life.<o:p></o:p>

All we need is <o:p></o:p>

The Air that we breathe<o:p></o:p>

LONELINESS IS BUT AN ILLUSION<o:p></o:p>

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Loneliness is merely but an Illusion.<o:p></o:p>

Please allow the Buddha to clear up this confusion.<o:p></o:p>

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Do Not Be Ashamed


You will be walking some night
in the comfortable dark of your yard
and suddenly a great light will shine
round about you, and behind you
will be a wall you never saw...

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...

Oatmeal


I eat oatmeal for breakfast.
I make it on the hot plate and put skimmed milk on it.
I eat it alone.
I am aware it is not good to eat oatmeal alone.
Its consistency is such that is...

And mine:

The Alchemy of Age

When we look with soft eyes,
the physical form becomes translucent with age.
Bodies, veils to spirit worlds, wear thin.
Life’s chafing smoothes hard edges and...

Came up with this one yesterday afternoon:

Poetics 101<o:p></o:p>
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Behind every poem there lives a true life story.<o:p></o:p>
Some words are laced with anguish and pain <o:p></o:p>...

Well said Richard.

One of the things that perplexes me is that we have very real threats against us and our world, threats that people are attempting to counter in concrete ways with specific...

Jbox -- Maybe you can explain it to me...but do you really think the quality of the conversation on this forum is enhanced by you asking people to go away and calling them an "idiot" for expressing...

Today's Press Democrat reported on Progressive Sebastopol's community action Wednesday evening demanding the restoration of library hours. ...

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Last night my husband, my 19 year old son, and I went to see Hoytus in Sebastopol at Aubergine. At about 11 PM my son decided to go out and take a walk down town to just see what's going on further...

If Prop 19 gets defeated, it will be interpreted as the "people" saying that they do not want marijuana legalized. It will be a big set back.

Now is the time to move forward! Anything else will...

A Congressman was seated next to a little girl on an airplane so he turned to her and said, "Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your...