The Real Work


What I would say in one sentence is that, for Americans, the real work is becoming native to North America. The real work is becoming native in your heart, coming to understand we...

4974192 New Cases in Sonoma County. None were in West County.

ICU Beds available are at 5. Lowest number to date. Follow Hospitalizations here...

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love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth oh


say can you see by the dawn's early my


country 'tis of centuries come and go

Hey Folks,

Regarding the gas station and junk food store proposal at Llano & 12...

In case you have not heard, in a very unusual occurrence, the Planning Agency canceled the virtual public...

49732July 1

44 New Cases in Sonoma County. None were West County Residents.

2 More Sonoma County Residents lost their lives to the virus.

ICU available Beds are 11

Parking areas at State...

Antidotes To Fear Of Death

Sometimes as an antidote
To fear of death,
I eat the stars

Those nights, lying on my back,
I suck them from the quenching dark
Til they are all, all inside me,...

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What We Need Is Here


Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to their way, clear
in the ancient faith: what we need
is here. And...

The North Star


When ritual bonds fracture,
handshakes endanger;
When veneer peels, reveals
the sudden care
for the jailed, the homeless,
as mere self-protection;
When our...

Hymn To Time


Time says “Let there be”
every moment and instantly
there is space and the radiance
of each bright galaxy.


And eyes beholding radiance.

Sometimes

Sometimes things don't go, after all,
from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don't fail,
sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.

...

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Murdered by those hired to protect him: May 25,...

The Times They Are A-Changin


Come gather 'round people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7qQ6_RV4VQ
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon...

Bridges


The past didn't go anywhere.
It's right here, right now.

I always thought that anybody who told me I couldn't live in the past was trying to get me to forget something that if I...

49612June 12

21 New Cases in Sonoma County last night. None were in West County.

This is the second day in a row with 21 new cases.

To Change The World Enough


To change the world enough
you must cease to be afraid
of the poor.
We experience your fear as the least pardonable of
humiliations; in the past
it has sent us...

49604June 11

21 New Cases reported last night in Sonoma County. None of the 21 were in West County Residents.

Cases in California are on the rise. Still at the present rate of infection it...

Greetings Waccovian Tribe!:heart:

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I'm writing to invite folks to research Marshall Rosenberg's method of communication, Non-Violent Compassionate...

Anthem


The birds they sang at the break of day
"Start again", I heard them say:
Don't dwell on what has passed away
or what is yet to be.


Ah, the wars they will be fought again,

A New National Anthem




The truth is, I’ve never cared for the National
Anthem. If you think about it, it’s not a good
song. Too high for most of us with “the rockets’
red glare” and then...

Dear Friends:

At the moment there is major construction going on right in front of Many Rivers. I don't know how long it will last. It is part of major road repairs and storm drainage...

Starting to remind me of MAD magazine... a bit funny, a bit offensive, but just in that so revealing in who makes up West county... I had no idea how wacko WACCO was...

Barry,

I thought you were going to keep the junk out of this thread and restrict it to the numbers.

Its getting so filled with nonsense that it is difficult to find the numbers.

Well the numbers are in and the flu had little to no effect more than last years REGULAR virus here ..Oh wait last years flu, that one killed 800 thousand people world wide. Are we looking at a...

Even the no lockdown believers golden example of Sweden has come out and said we really screwed up and got a lot of people killed.https://www.marketplace.org/2020/06/03/sweden-covid-19-no-lockdown/...

49548Hi All,

I hope you all doing well amid our trials and turmoil.

With all of the pressing needs for our community, and community security, one thing we don't need is another gas station...

Wake Up U.S. America!


When a ball player kneels upon the turf
to protest for justice when a bar-room song
made sacred is played, he is vilified
& fired. But when police take their knees
to...

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Here is the text of an email I sent today to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, County Administrator and County District Attorney, as well as local media:

Dear Chairperson Gorin,
...

If there are any efforts to recall Essick I would like to help. He made an enemy out of me by the violent evacuation order last fall, a 2AM extremely loud siren and amplified voice from a sheriff's...

for some reason I've been thinking about George Carlin's routine, on how being drunk changes your priorities.. "I don't care about my shoes.... <barf...>...".
No, only me??
but really, I...

Clearly, they're not, Dusty. :-(

I won't post these hospital utilization charts every night. You can follow them at this link.
It seems we are pretty good on ventilators but don't have a lot of headroom on ICU beds.



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Since I posted the link above, the Sheriff has had yet another change of heart, and now says "“I’m not following this f--king health order, and my original statement that we’re done on June 1 stands...

Sheriff has to be a very high stress job especially during a pandemic. It sounds like it would be a good idea if the Sheriff took some time off and let second in command take over for a while.

Yes, it appears that the coward has recanted his rogue position. Who does he think he is? I believe that, while we cautiously accepted his ascension to the position of Sonoma County Sheriff, and he...

Hello, How Are You?


Tears without knowing why
Grief, deep grief for all the dark
the shadow side of humankind that
ends up spewing their disbeliefs on
my being and the being of my beloveds

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Rialto Cinemas is closed until more Covid restrictions are lifted. In the meantime there are two ways you can simulate the "Rialto Experience" and support a local independent cinema: "Popcorn...

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For a metaphysical view, deep and broad. Jude


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EoDWu8XZbISeth tells us: You cannot begin to understand the nature of mass events of any kind - unless you...

In the Time of Pandemic

It is the time of virus and testing,
of outbreaks and epicenters,
time of rates of infection
and death tolls of loved ones.

It is the time of face masks
and...

How Much


Low stream flows, deceptively gentle
incubate fish eggs, keep them safe,
while storms would sweep them away
toward predators downstream.


Birthing salmon and steelhead, fins...

$3,000,000 of federal funds, then, should go to families of each person who dies from Covid-19, since the Feds are largely responsible due to ridiculous management.

Back in the late 1970's when evaluating the expense of seismic safety measures, our data crunchers used an expenditure of $1,000,000 per life saved, roughly $3,000,000 today.

. Most counties cases are steady, some are going down a few are rising. Sonoma County shows a slight uptrend.

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May 6

14 New cases were reported last night.

Wonder why so few tests after the 1800 the day before.

I expect we will get even better news about the effectiveness of Remdesivir when they...

Is there any data on the percentage of tested-positive but asymptomatic people who go on to show symptoms vs those that remain asymptomatic?

Really appreciate your comparison and conclusion here! I so often hear folks wonder why we are continuing to have such strict shelter in place orders since we are doing so well! Obvious to me this is...

Quarantine, 1918


There were towns
that knew about the flu before
it arrived; they had time to imagine the germs
on a stranger’s skirts, to see how death
could be sealed in an envelope,
how...