Gypsey and Chris are right. As a teacher of all grades and now with my own preschool, I teach children to develop a relationship with all things living on this planet. Where would they (and we) be...

Here's a flyer I created to post and hand out, which Barry kindly made into a postable image. It's just a starting point. Please download it, change it if you wish to in any way, and distribute it....

thanks for posting, barry. this is another great reason that we should all be using sonic. another major reason being what barry also mentions, that they are part of the local economy. and their...

Good news! I just talked at length with Larry at the wildlife desk at F&G.

F&G does have the resources to tranquilize and move the bear, (or sometimes they will simply capture it without...

With all the recent privacy concerns, it's good to know that our local ISP, Sonic.net, comes out on top of The Electronic Frontier Foundations survey of who helps you protect your data from the...

Oh sure they do, but even after listening sometimes ya just can't fix something that just needs to be talked about, and talked about and talked about.......I'd better go now.

Has anyone besides me noticed how we have all united on Wacco to talk about wildlife and especially "our" bear? With all due respect to my fellow feisty, caring Wacco-ites, today we're not arguing,...

Dear Ray,
I am sorry you didn't find what you were asking for from our conscious community. In my experience with WACCO, people are generally very willing to help those in need when they can. I...

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Is WiFi destroying your brain?
https://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2013/05/21/is-wifi-destroying-your-brain/
by Mark Morford

Is your...

OG SKOGEN

Every forest has
a central tree,
one the whole forest
leans on.

You may not
be able to find it.
It lives deep

Ross, I suggest you review the entirety of the "Sebastopol Farm Market in the Plaza or at the Barlow?" thread before making up your mind.

The simple logistics of the market is that more vendors...

The Dead Woman

If suddenly you do not exist,
if suddenly you no longer live,
I shall live on.


I do not dare,
I do not dare to write it,
if you die.

By my count there have been 33 people who have posted to this thread. That's not bad (and thank you all for chiming in!) , but I agree with you that more would be better! If you haven't posted your...

Wow, lots of back-and-forth opinions on this thread, but there really are only a few people participating.

So . . . I hope no one is going around spreading gossip that the residents of...

This has been a very active thread. If you are getting instant email updates and would like them to stop, all you need to do is click the Unsubscribe button on the bottom of your email. That will...

Nancy:

As someone who has always had respect for your family's hardworking values and your dedication to the land and support for farmers, I would like to offer you the following advice, and...

The White House recently sent out an email asking for nominations for the 2013 Citizens Medal. I felt inspired to suggest Bradley Manning, the young soldier who provided much useful information to...

The Pope's Penis

It hangs deep in his robes, a delicate
clapper at the center of a bell.
It moves when he moves, a ghostly fish in a
halo of silver sweaweed, the hair
swaying in the dark and...

I'm sending this on to you. I found it very hard to watch but it is so worthwhile and I think profoundly necessary that we keep it going.





https://www.midwayfilm.com

Well, I don't know any humans who don't have judgements or opinions and one certainly need not have an advanced degree to have one. I don't think I made any reference to being opposed to people...

In Praise of Worry


Think of it and it won't happen,
I've often thought. Too unlikely
to imagine the accident-you
in the car in the rain-then receive
the call. Too uncanny,
too much like a...

Why do they do this? Because they can. Junk food manufacturers refer to customers as "stomach share." PG&E can ignore stats about the deplorable condition of their transmission pipes because we're...

[This is a looong article - I've only read part of it, but the stories are very disturbing]

https://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/

Bitter Pill: Why...

I do not know "countless people" who drink irresponsibly. I do know one person who is in my opinion an addict who happens to be on the periphery of my life. The dude is bipolar, on SRIs, pot, alcohol...

By Ernieman
WaccoBB.net

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2013-02-28_11-49-33.pngPeople have asked “Killed over marijuana?” Recently, there has been little good news with home...

If you haven't done this already...

Change pharmacies! I took all my prescriptions to the small local pharmacy instead, and am just as happy with their service.

Change banks! I pulled my meager...

I agree, and "dedication" is the right word. We feel your gift personally, Larry, but our benefit is collective. Your dedication to bringing poetry into our lives moves us subtly and immeasurably in...

Larry,

I thank you for your dedication in providing these nuggets of truth daily. I read one that spoke to me the day it was available, and now read everyone of them . They seem to follow my...

A New Year’s Blessing


Unhurried mornings, greeted with gratitude;
good work for the hand, the heart and the mind;
the smile of a friend, the laughter of children;
kind words from a neighbor,...

https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy

Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy

New documents prove what was once dismissed as...

I'm glad I'm still here to celebrate my birthday! :waccosun:

As someone who doesn't know any of you personally, and knows very little about the specific issues you're addressing re: the market, policies, etc., I will say this:1. My god this is getting ugly! Is...

The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart


How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,
and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say,
God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the...

Happy Thanksgiving!


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WiFi is limited to 400mw - that's milliwatts, so four-tenths of a watt.

Compare to AM radio or television service at tens of thousands of watts, and you'll understand why concerns about WiFi are...

Hey friends,

A very important debate within Occupy will be happening over the next few months, and probably longer, about our movement structure. While this debate can seem boring, I think it's...

As founder of Move to Amend Sonoma County it is tempting to agree with Barry that focusing on one issue-ours-would be the best choice for Occupy. But that is not within the nature of Occupy, nor...

Barry,
I agree with much of your analysis, although not with the inappropriate apostrophe in "it's". The original occupation of Wall Street sparked a great number of sympathetic local actions...

I appreciate Barry's thoughtful reflections below. I want to offer another point of view. Occupy is still an infant, not yet even a toddler. Its accomplishments in merely a year have been...

Barry,

It's easy to criticize, more work to participate. Locally, in Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Sebastopol, there has been much activity around issues that effect people in the community. In Santa Rosa...

i understand the situation exactly as you, however i have a different emotional reaction. comcast put in the wifi without notifying anyone using the permissions for their already existing cable...

Well of course Dane; the tin-foil hat wearing cracktivists (crack-pot activists, like it?) only care about the appearance of things, and nothing of the facts. When your service offer was refused, it...

I would really love it if sonic would come back with their proposal - after the election. I am still all for it! In fact some friends and I were just talking about this a couple days ago........

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Winks, Are you voting in California? Have you read my previous posts about Safe States vs Swing States?

Ralph did say that, and I marked it at the time. I have repeatedly said in recent...

I think that voting local Green candidates into power is a good idea. But voting Green on the bigger races, such as for the President's office is dangerous and unproductive. I would like to see the...

There Is No Word

There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery store
with a gallon jug of milk in a plastic sack
that should have been bagged in double layers

—so that before you are even...

Winks et al,

We had the same thing happen with the WaMu -> Chase mortgage switch, but managed to refi with Redwood Credit Union. They gave us a better rate, too.

Best regards,

:thumbsup:
Dear Winks et al:

Our mortgage was highjacked by Chase in the same manner, but we managed to get a new one using Exchange Bank. I suggest you now try either Exchange or Community to...

In the Beginning

Sometimes simplicity rises
like a blossom of fire
from the white silk of your own skin.
You were there in the beginning
you heard the story, you heard the merciless
and...

Chase Bank is a wormhole that sucks money from our community
and pumps it to Wall Street where it will no longer circulate in our local economy

Scott McKeown
WaccoBB.net

It’s unfortunate how...