Thanks for posting this!
Let's have SONOMA BE THE SECOND COUNTY TO STOP DOING BUSINESS WITH FELONIOUS BANKS.
At the very next Board of Supervisors meeting - let's show up to say: we, the PEOPLE,...

Santa Cruz county just decided to stop doing business with banks who have been convicted of crimes ... well done Santa Cruz county!
...

Richard,

The reason why I originally responded to this post is that a few people on this list were wondering the exact same question, as if their conclusions about Whole Foods are obvious and...

The Lanyard

The other day I was ricocheting slowly31137
off the blue walls of this room,
moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano,
from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,...

Compassion

Have compassion for everyone you meet
Even if they don't want it.

What seems conceit, bad manners,
Or cynicism is always a sign
Of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen.
...

Dominion

A mandrake quickens
into greed-grab, tears a page
from Genesis. Clods

of earth are clods of god.
Clods of earth are clods
of dendrites with dirt

Hi, I'm a local general dentist and I stand by the Water-Pik. I encourage all of my patients to use the device. The Water-pik should be used in addition to flossing. It is an excellent device to help...

Baking soda can also be helpful for healthy gums... changes the pH to alkali. (I am not a doctor and this should not be construed as medical advice.)
Rev. BE :heart:

The Song of Wandering Aengus




I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on...

Isn't it time for Yeats to be reborn? We need him badly!

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Come… join in the Holiday...

Here's a different video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYSnp1UGVGc

Claim


Once during that year
when all I wanted
was to be anything other
than what I was,
the dog took my wrist
in her jaws. Not to hurt
or startle, but the way

Interesting -- the same thing happened to me in 2012. I understand what Edward is saying, but I have a different perspective. For me voting isn't a matter of winning (or just winning). Voting is a...

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...

There Is No One But Us


There is no one but us.
There is no one to send,
nor a clean hand nor a pure heart
on the face of the earth,
but only us,
a generation comforting ourselves
with the...

You might want to check and see which side has most of the military bases are, where the vast majority of the military officers and enlisted persons come from and where most of America's food and our...

The Kookaburras

In every heart there is a coward and a procrastinator.
In every heart there is a god of flowers, just waiting
to come out of its cloud and lift its wings.
The kookaburras,...

Crow Justice


As I pump gas, a flock of crows passes
Overhead. Then another flock arrives,
And another, and a third, fourth, and fifth.
Jesus, the sky itself is made of crows,
And they’re...

The Second Coming


Turning and turning on the widening gyre,
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The...

Forgetfulness


The name of the author is the first to go
followed obediently by the title, the plot,
the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel
which suddenly becomes one you have never...

Whew!

I've been scramblin' for 7-months straight, ever since my 86 y/o Mom fell and re-broke her hip in Orange County. I've attended to her various medical, support and housing needs since then. I...

The Day Will Come
And the day will come when you hit the switch, but the room will remain dark.

Your computer will not hum, your monitor will not glow, and you will have no flashing games to...

Pig at the Mexican Orphanage


Either it's all okay or none of it is,
like the lonely black-and-white sow with the bristly face,


her sty filled with rotting corn cobs
and the deep...

Hi, Chris!

I read the blog you linked to, and I'll just say two things about it: 1) The writer didn't mount a good argument in support of his position (that the poor don't have more kids than the...

Whole Foods needs our support, now more than ever!

really?

wow! i am very interested in shandi's last line in her post that states the about re: WF needing our support now more than ever...i...

..... snore......

That, of course, is an opinion.

I think she's referring to a different perception of the third step: Person A's feeling is that their idea is being ridiculed and not given respect, much less a fair hearing. Because remember, person...

It's my experience that wild conspiracy theory claims are actually rarely challenged in this forum. And when they are challenged I have found the exchanges have often gone something like this:

...

I'm with you, MW. I find that 'connecting-the-dots' by educating myself is so very important. Those who like to divert the issues to jabs and public ridicule if others have a different point of view...

https://www.mamamia.com.au/social/vaccination-growing-up-unvaccinated/

I am the 70s child of a health nut. I wasn’t vaccinated.

Amy Parker
Friday 3 January 2014 11:45am
...

I too wish to join you in thanking Barry for all of his efforts in providing this forum for the community. It has been a helpful and valuable resource for many of us in many ways!

Thank you...

:fireworks:I want to take a moment, this holiday season, to give thanks to Barry, for the democracy-enhancing gift that Wacco is for our community.

Wacco is a unique'y interactive, non-heirarchal,...

Bees


In every instant, two gates.https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRGokHi5SGyBfkoYR_8iB78pfX84Qx-lLx-Y6UMDo_VDa7LTLkmoA
One opens to fragrant paradise, one to hell.
Mostly...

Reincarnation


What is reincarnation? A cowboy asked his friend.
It starts, his old pal told him, when your life comes to an end.
They wash your neck and comb your hair and clean your...

That seems rather harsh. I hope we are all still just joking around here...
Anyone who says Frisco is disrespectful for the city is just trying to be condescending to the person that used the word....

Frisco, Frisco, Frisco !
There! That felt good ! :nod:

The History Teacher


Trying to protect his students' innocence
he told them the Ice Age was really just
the Chilly Age, a period of a million years
when everyone had to wear sweaters.
And...

Or better yet, broadcast some local comedy!

Speakng of which, since there seems to be a sudden dearth of funniness around here, anybody got a joke or a funny story to share? No cut and paste!...

Friends,

In an obscene development, a Monsanto executive is winning this year’s 'Nobel Prize of agriculture' -- the prestigious World Food Prize -- for creating GMOs. Receiving it legitimizes the...

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

wow. that's it, just WOW.

thx Larry, for all you offer so freely, for the joy the sadness the light and the dark the wisdom the beauty the thought-provoking and so much more that you add to the...

Danny Boy
I dreamed my dead friend, Dan,
came back. All six feet of him,
dressed as usual, minus shoes.


I offered him some brown size twelves
my uncle left behind.
But he shook his head,

I've been thinking about a monthly WaccoBB salon for a while! If you'd be interested in coming to one, please click gratitude.
Barry:waccosun:

The Kookaburras

In every heart there is a coward and a procrastinator.
In every heart there is a god of flowers, just waiting
to come out of its cloud and lift its wings.
The kookaburras,...

Following is the best article that I have seen, by Rebecca Solnit, about the hero Edward Snowden. It is being widely published, also at Reader Supported News.


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You/He nailed it (so to speak). Here's hoping Bradley Manning can hear the words to Alice's Restaurant within the depths of the US Inquisition System.

On Television


It is best to turn on the set only after all the stations have gone off the air and just watch the snowfall. This is the other life you have been promising yourself; somewhere...

Objector


In line at lunch I cross my fork and spoon
to ward off complicity—the ordered life
our leaders have offered us. Thin as a knife,
our chance to live depends on such a sign
while...