I’ve been following this thread, “To mask or not to mask”, for some time now and am amazed at what I’ve been reading – or better, appalled. How can supposedly intelligent people – after all, they are...

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The Silence of the Stars


When Laurens van der Post one night
In the Kalihari Desert told the Bushmen
He couldn't hear the stars
Singing, they didn't believe him. They looked at him,...

Willing

Let me listen.
Let me not know what to say.
Let me receive the world
as it slurs and shrieks,
hums and whispers,
speaks and bleats.
Let me lean ever closer in.
There are walls I...

haven't heard
of anyone
afraid
of masks~


have two progressive doctors
one who has backed away from allopathic medicine
after 19 yrs of study, chemotherapy research developer, teacher of...

The Icelandic Language


In this language, no industrial revolution;
no pasteurized milk; no oxygen, no telephone;
only sheep, fish, horses, water falling.
The middle class can hardly speak it....

Here is a poem by Mary Oliver entitle The Buddha's Last Instruction. It speaks to the nature of Mystery. Star Man

“Make of yourself a light”
said the Buddha,
before he died.
I think of this...

This Is What You Shall Do


This is what you shall do:
Love the earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches, give alms to every one that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote...

School Prayer
In the name of daybreak
and the eyelids of morning
and the wayfaring moon
and the night when it departs,
I swear I will not dishonor
my soul with hatred
but offer myself humbly...

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Very good news from the Lakota People's Law Project:

This morning, District Court Judge James Boasberg ordered the...

Taiwan: 24 million people stacked like sardines, and only seven (7) COVID deaths.

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better than anything US has: inhaled steroid, $200...

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...

"next to of course god america i


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...

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Antilamentation


Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read
to the end just to find out who killed the cook, not
the insipid movies that made you cry in the dark,
in spite of your...

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.

I can't read the article but let's be really clear about defunding. If you have no accountability and no clear strong direction from the community, of course it's not going to end well. It means...

That's an awful story, for sure. But doesn't really apply to us here in Sebastopol which has a very low crime rate, no gangs, etc. And I think what folks are saying is we don't want to just cut...

Fauci himself acknowledges that he lied about the masks. That’s indisputable. Fauci felt it was for a good reason - to keep supplies available to the medical professionals who really needed them.
...

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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...

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“Can’t you do this in a more polite way that I can completely ignore?”

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...

From Thom Hartmann:

How Do We End the Looting?
Looting is the word of the day, on the lips of every newscaster, the president, and elected officials across the country. And, indeed, looting...

deaths by covid to be balanced against deaths and suffering incurred by months of quarantine and lockdown: suicides, homicides, abuse, addiction, etc. acknowledged by psychologists, social workers...

indeed. jude
When Profits and Politics Drive Science: The Hazards of Rushing a Vaccine at “Warp Speed”

By Ellen Brown
Global Research, June 04, 2020

...

I applaud you Woody, for taking on these terrible interests.

That corner of Llano & 12 is beautiful the way it is. It's places like that, that make this a beautiful place to live. Thank you...

Children's Health Defense (RFK, Jr.)

June 04, 2020
LOCKDOWN LUNACY: The Thinking Person’s Guide
By J.B. Handley, CHD Contributing Writer

For anyone willing to look, there are...

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I look at the World


I look at the world
From awakening eyes in a black face—
And this is what I see:
This fenced-off narrow space
Assigned to me.

That;s nice to hear...but folks, we know that more densely populated areas of our county are adversely affected
In addition to our homeless, we know that Hispanics are adversely affected....and...

The Cure At Troy

Human beings suffer,
They torture one another,
They get hurt and get hard.
No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.

The innocent in gaols

Here we are, United States 2020: MEDICAL MARTIAL LAW.

BE PART OF AN EXPERIMENT, WHETHER YOU WANT TO OR NOT -
THE STATE SAYS IT OWNS /CONTROLS YOUR BODY.

They decide your healthcare decisions...

The Morning’s News

The morning’s news drives sleep out of the head
at night. Uselessness and horror hold the eyes
open to the dark. Weary, we lie awake
in the agony of the old giving birth...

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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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This is nothing more than another way to control us. It may sound "good" for our protection. But it states that if no proper way to quarentine in the home..i.e seperate bathroom for the one with a...

My understanding is that if you are outside and keeping a 6 foot distance, there if very little risk (but above zero) of being with others not wearing a mask. I'll venture to say that your risk at...

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Ashes, Ashes
All Fall Down


from 1347-1353
The Black Plague,
(Yersinia pestis), claimed one third of the population of Europe.


Born in a...

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Here's some good common sense written by James Stein, MD, a "Jewish vegetarian cardiologist". After much research, I tracked down the original post to his facebook page here. :waccosun:


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Kentucky River Junction

to Ken Kesey & Ken Babbs


Clumsy at first, fitting together
the years we have been apart,
and the ways.

But as the night

California has joined the growing list of states working toward making natural organic reduction legal. (In other words, a form of composting.)

California has the largest population of any U.S....

This Moment


At this moment of cruel uncertainty
Planet Earth seems pretty steady
In its turning and circling
Gifting our eyes
With the illusion of the sun rising
And later on descending...