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Fire Recovery Heart Sutra

My house is nothing more than emptiness,
emptiness is nothing more than my house.
Home is exactly empty,
and emptiness is exactly home.

My house is empty: ...

Sometimes it's hard to be kind in the face of ridicule and labeling. It would be difficult for me, and my response would come from my honest feelings of being invalidated. I've witnessed this...

Because Even The Word Obstacle Is An Obstacle


Try to love everything that gets in your way;
The Chinese women in flowered bathing caps
murmuring together in Mandarin and doing leg exercises in...

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Yielding


When I inquire
about prayer and opening
to the Great Mystery,
the I Ching responds with
“Field/Yielding” and
the Mother Goddess,
the Dark Animal Mother.

Agreed. But the insinuation is a disturbing one, nonetheless. If you were a dictator and your defense minister refused to use the military domestically to crush civilians, the logical action of a...

Time to take a breath


Now is a time of deep relief,
of grief for the brokenness of things—
certainly, no time for gloating
nor for complacency.


We have work to do,

I don’t see this as “news” to anyone except those that want it to be to try and support their own agenda.

This was a superior court judge in Sutter county, the second time a judge their has ruled...

When Fannie Lou Hamer Said


I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired


She meant
No more turned cheek
No more patience for the...

This Kevin Kiley is a damn Republican and of course, he doesn't like anything Gov.Newsom does or says. I don't listen to a Republican for any reason. I am mostly grateful for what the Governor has...

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Everyone is focusing on the number of cases, when one should be focusing on the number of deaths!
What many people don't know is that the test that is being used to diagnose the virus is not made to...

Just had my hair cut today at Olde Time Barber shop in Cotati. There's only one person working in that barber shop at this time because of Covid. We both wore masks, everything was very clean. He...

searching to see if FB and Google own large stakes in Moderna (which I haven't confirmed yet, if anyone knows), I found this bit, a tiny snapshot of how the inside game goes. Millions and billions,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb_F-X7z-4Y
Robert Reich, Oct 23, 2020

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich breaks down four key takeaways from the final presidential debate.

This final...

I think I will check out of this thread - it is taking up too much of my time and energy - good luck to everyone finding the truth about our current craziness, there has been so much obfuscation of...

Autumn Passage




On suffering, which is real.
On the mouth that never closes,
the air that dries the mouth.

As an evidence-based physician, I have to say that anyone who says today that the COVID-19 vaccines are "safe and effective" does not have the facts. We have not had enough time to demonstrate that....

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Autumnal


after a line from William Stafford


When the leaves are about to yellow and fall
ask me then how I tried to hold on to what was green,
how I thought perhaps I was different,
how...

And Will They Ever Com


And will they ever come, days of forgiveness and grace,
when you’ll walk in the fields, simple wanderer,
and your bare soles will be caressed by the clover,
or the...

For four years I've had a little garden patch that I've successfully watered with grey water, which food particles make nutrient-rich. Also, starting 7/1 each year, I put each day's excess grey water...

Note Organizations on left are organized in approximately
(somewhat) progressive to conservative
More info at http://electioninfo.org/
:waccosun:
...

The Costa Hawkins Act is responsible for the hike in rents and greed, seriously! It's insane! Vote yes on Prop 21! The ads on TV are designed to fool you! Follow the greedy $$! VOTE YES ON 21 to...

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PD Editorial: Yes on Prop 25, end California’s cash bail system
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
October 8, 2020, 12:10AM

The...

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Election

I voted.

I voted for the rainbow.

I voted for the cry of a loon.

I voted for my grandfather’s bones
that feed beetles now.

Factually, the third leading cause of death in the US is iatrogenic -

Definition of an “iatrogenic” disorder: A disorder inadvertently induced by a health caregiver because of a surgical,...

Hot off the presses:

Hi friends-

Here it is, my personal voter guide for the November 3rd, 2020 election, both attached as a .pdf file and in the email below. If you’re voting absentee,...

It takes more than one person to have a coalition, unless you're schizophrenic.

I'm a citizen and do not agree with your wanting him to resign. Count me out.

In my humble opinion your timing is reckless. California is under siege and you want to just get rid of the current administration? I suggest you read the newsletter Cal Matters daily for a few weeks...

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...and? I'm pretty certain you're simply another bot designed to troll the board and spam (normally a tactic of the waste of DNA who currently occupies the "WHITE" house) in order to incite hate and...

YES!!!

Going forward:
Mandating gray water systems for new construction and retrofitting existing structures would not only save precious water and save energy with vegetative 'insulation' but...

Great idea! let's hope there's some rain to collect; I believe that's part of the problem. May there be abundant rain to collect.

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We are staying at a family member's home in Marin until the fires are controlled enough to return to our house in Santa Rosa. Right now, authorities have our part of the neighborhood blocked off to...

so, what are the solutions that he's failing to pursue? excuse me if I suspect you're going to prominently involve law enforcement, with a big side dose of tax cutting. I'm maybe a bit cynical.

You post almost suggests Cal Fire which is in charge takes less an effort in stopping fires that head in our direction? Not to squabble but that is just a ludicrous notion. There is a lot of steep...

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Avot V'Imahot
Initially I resisted, then ultimately embraced their wisdom, their strength. Every day their truth pulsates through me, for they gave me breath.
L’dor V’dor.

For unimageable...

This poem made me realize something that had slipped my mind. Now that I think about it, I see more clearly what has been missing these past 4 years.


GONE

There is
No music.
No...

Good question, where are the alternative sites?

There's always lots of opposition to whatever site is suggested.

Housing in the Azure and Sebastopol Inn is a good solution... for a few of the...

Could COVID-19 Have Escaped from a Lab?

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