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...

Personally, I think that any conversations about non-profits soliciting donations from their community is worthwhile--particularly when there is discourse in the air already...

As a recent former...

Hey, Frank, your bitching and moaning about the alleged promise-breaking by the Indians misses the point that they should not have had to make any promises to us in the first place. Get it through...

A few thoughts from a theist:

There are really excellent works, both modern and ancient, that illuminate the case for the existence of God. I've spent a lot of time reading them. I still think...

On behalf of myself and the many Waccos who are nourished and inspired by the poems you share with us daily, thank you, Larry, thank you! :waccosun:

May your travels be full of wonder!

Constant


We live for constants,
Rain in winter, the cat
Curled like a furry comma
On the edge of the bed.


Sometimes, many times

Nice one, Larry (and Ms. Gresham)! For those who don't know what an acrostic is, it means a message "hidden" in a poem (or other writing) such that you read it by reading DOWN the page rather than...

Salt

I thought of kneeling. I thought of cold
monastery stone and the red velvet cushions
at the communion rail -- a reverence
history could not contain.

What is history? -- the bones of a...

The Parable of the Old Men and the Young is a poem by Wilfred Owen which compares the ascent of Abraham to Mount Moriah and his near-sacrifice of Isaac there with the start of World War I. It had...

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On Prayer


You ask me how to pray to someone who is not.
All I know
is that prayer constructs a velvet bridge
And walking it we are aloft, as on a springboard,
Above
landscapes the...

>Cal: Not to be too much of a pedant, but I like to consult a few dictionaries besides wiki.
-point taken and appreciated. I don't find you pedantic at all.

>Random House says that
Illusion:...

I don't know where this belongs exactly, it's not political and has nothing to do with food or yoga but I was involved in shooting a music video at Fantasty Studios last year and the video finally...

My understanding is that polygraphs are fairly easy to fool and have so many errors of both types (false positives and false negatives), that they're virtually useless. Unfortunately, there is no...

Larry, Thank you for your thoughts about Thrive and conspiracy theories that are distracting. My daughter now believes some of these false theories, like: Bill Gates is a mass murder because he is...

Thanks Larry for posting an intelligent and compassionate reply from one of those who appeared in Thrive. I would like to think that the word of so many who had been featured in the movie as beimng...

John Robbins, one of the prominent people featured in Thrive, explains why he and 10 others have disassociated themselves from the movie:



There is a great deal about Thrive that I find untrue...

Over the past week or two, I have been getting several e-mail messages from an individual or organization who's e-mail is elnino@ rcn.com. They are pretty long, rants with lots of links about local...

in case anyonehas forgotten...

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."-- George Washington

ignorance = fear
silence = death...

I have gone in, and seen people being helped....but, for the money they are given - thru grants, etc.....they have waaaaayy more resources financially than organizations that feed people with a broad...

Grecian Temples


Because I'm getting pretty gray at the temples,
which negatively impacts my earning potential
and does not necessarily attract vibrant young women
with their perfumed bosoms...

Johnny Otis ('95 Apple Blossom Parade grand marshal) passed on to
great cosmic hand jive this past Tuesday. Might be kinda cool for one
of the local music venues (or ?) to honor Johnny.

From Underneath

A giant sea turtle saved the life of a 52 year-old woman lost at sea
for two days after a shipwreck in the Southern Phillipines. She rode on the turtle's...

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Yes, good point, but, in fact, to benefit the French Garden is to benefit many, many other causes in the West County; they have consistently offered their space and their money to good use. And...

SELF-PORTRAIT

It doesn't interest me if there is one God
or many gods.
I want to know if you belong or feel
abandoned.
If you know despair or can see it in others.
I want to know
if you are...