The Body Saying goodbye to itself...


The time is coming
just around the bend
when my body will say goodbye to itself...

As the awareness of my own mortality deepens
and courses through...

Could Have


It could have happened.
It had to happen.
It happened earlier. Later.
Nearer. Farther off.
It happened, but not to you.
You were saved because you were the first.
You were saved...

The Earth Pledge

I pledge allegiance to the Earth
on which I live
and to all Her Creatures
Large and Small
and to Her Water, Air, and Soil.
One World, One People...

Bless Their Hearts

At Steak ‘n Shake I learned that if you add
“Bless their hearts” after their names, you can say
whatever you want about them and it’s OK.
My son, bless his heart, is an...

Arms Full

Gratitude means showing up on life’s doorstep,
love’s threshold, dressed in a clown suit,
rubber-nosed, gunboat shoes flapping.
Gratitude shows up with arms full of wildflowers,...

Grace

Thanks & blessings be
to the Sun & the Earth
for this bread & this wine,
this fruit, this meat, this salt,
this food;
thanks be & blessing to them
who prepare it, who serve it;...

Where else in life but "in poetry" can there be so few rules?

This One Precious Human Life

for Grant Dillon

“One theory says you won’t remember dying any more than being born.” – Franz Wright

At noon
they sat the lama down in front of TV.
Some real...

When early on I began to be disappointed in Obama, I started a list titled Obama Bad. I had no idea how extensive the list would become. I offer it here now. Not a lot of details here and a minimum...

Ah so; One Picture says more than one thousand words:

To me, it seems one of the most important things we can do is to sit down together, share our truth and practice hearing and understanding each other. Below is some of what I've come to in pondering...

Hi Edward,
This strikes me as a false statement; purposely made to seem to be a general principle, when it is only potentially and occasionally a special case truth. Parties may ally with one...

Occupy

Let all the heroes come
Let all the spirits and ancestors join us now

When the veil is thin

Let William Blake and Oscar Wilde

lead an army

Sebastopol City Council member Patrick Slayter's statement that there's illicit drug use at Occupy Santa Rosa
is simply not true. I've been there most of the time--at all hours of the day and...

Hope

Hope is with you when you believe
The earth is not a dream but living flesh,
That sight, touch, and hearing do not lie,
That all things you have ever seen here
Are like a garden looked...

Collateral damage from corporate takeover of the healing business. -- Peggy Day, retired RN


Press Release

For...

Where the World is One

My smallest grandson does not understand yet what big means.
Those chickens are big, and he is going so close.
Oh the imagination is a dreadful thing.
My neighbors’...

Good point, Miles; we do agree about that; emphatically. Thank You...


"...When one clicks through," there are over eight hundred thousand hits on the confluence of the words genocide and...

It would seem that male Homo sapiens are blessed with something unique in the mammalian realm, as explained in this video interview.

"Ken McGrath, Senior Lecturer in Pathology at the Faculty of...

I was delighted to read in the paper today that Steve Jobs told a reporter once that taking LSD was one of the two or three most important things he had done in his life. He said that there were...

OCTOBER 5, 2011
Palin Decides Not to Run: ‘I Want to Go Straight to the Quitting Part’
Decision Leaves Moron Vote Up for Grabs


ANCHORAGE (The Borowitz Report) – Former Alaska Governor Sarah...

from delancyplace.com:

In today's excerpt - why study insects? Because the ten million kinds of insects
provide an incomparable variety of behaviors - including some whose genitals explode...

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

Note: A few years ago it was determined that twelve babies missing their brains had been born in a Matamoros, Mexico Hospital.
It's believed that this happened because that section of the Rio...

This is dedicated to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

NUNS
by Stephen D. Gross
https://thesisters.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/Anuncements_Size/about_sisters_0.jpg
The...

They Run, Them Buffalo




{The tune, a variant of



"The Old Plank Road"}

When I went back today to make sure I wasnt imagining this ... The sign actually read "ea"
in very small font.. If this isnt meant to mislead,, I dont know what is.

At the fairgrounds, only $10 admission, kids free, Thursday is the last day.

Just one word: --W O N D R O U S --
:waccosmile::waccosmile:
...

The Dakini Speaks

My friends, let's grow up.
 Let's stop pretending we don't know the deal here.
 Or if we truly haven't noticed, let's wake up and notice.
 Look: Everything that can be lost, will...

BBC Reporter reporting the collapse of WTC Building 7 twenty minutes before it happened.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltP2t9nq9fI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltP2t9nq9fI

Blackberries by the Roadway

In scarred roadcuts
forgotten tracks
of some otherwise interested
caterpillar
lies the bramble

Sharp Himalayan spines
protecting the fruit

Happy ending... I took the baby to the local Wildlife Rescue (even though when I called them, they said they didn't take rats). I thought maybe if they saw her, they would have to take her in. I...

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So, if I had been more careful and inserted appropriate qualifier(s), how might you have responded?

Want to hear something really, really ironic?

Many years ago, back when modems were how we...

Cheingrand wrote:
Definition of COMMON SENSE: sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). It's hard to believe that anyone would...

>>>At the risk of beating a rapidly dying horse...

I object vigorously to beating the horse. Just shoot him.

Seriously, though... Could someone tell me, please, why a leaf-blower is of...

:dox::puppy1::dogrun:
Don't Bite My Dog, Ma
by Stephen D. Gross
(How many canines can YOU find in the below?)

I setter Irish buns down
A little husky but so sharp, eh?
The sky was blue, tic'd...

The weakness in your position is shown by the use of "common sense". What seems obvious or reasonable to you is not universal. To assume it is shows that you are not considering other valid points...

:urgtgslpy:The Night Screamin' Jay Put a Spell on ME!
by Stephen D. Gross

I've had the good luck to meet and talk with a few fascinating folks,,,,,,,

But the night I met Screamin' was bizarre...

AlterNet / By Bruce E. Levine
...

:copcar::dogdance::dogdance::dogdance:

This is about the time I got arrested in Reno, and managed to avoid a conviction because of J. Tony Serra.

CASE DISMISSED

I needed to get back to...

Hi Gina,

I own the kitchen store in Sebastopol, Cultivate Home. We specialize in non-toxic and earth-friendly cookware. Le Creuset cast iron cookware is indeed still made in France with the same...

The Borowitz Report

AUGUST 22, 2011

Gaddafi Found Running for Republican Nomination
Libyan Madman Turns Up in New Hampshire


CONCORD, NH (The Borowitz Report) – The mystery surrounding...

Hi Gina,

It appears that Le Creuset has several lines of cookware that are made in different countries. Their stoneware and enamel-on-steel cookware is made in Thailand, the stainless steel is...

By Laurel Blair, NTP
WaccoBB.net

https://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1064/nontoxicarticle1.jpgWhen I think about toxins in food, it’s the myriad chemical additives, hormones, antibiotics, and...

August

When the blackberies hang
swollen in the woods, in the brambles
nobody own, I spend

all day among the high
branches, reaching
my ripped arms, thinking

=OR=

You could buy my '88 Dodge Ram Van, which has a fine '82 Do-he Ram V-8 Engine 2/3 installed, & which only needs some-one with the skills of a Jewellers touch - or- a Safe-Cracker's touch, to...

Hi Kathy,

If BBQ charcoals are toxic, I'm sure the greater danger is eating whatever is cooked on them, especially if the food is directly open to the flame/smoke. Not that I'm arguing with the...

you're not right or wrong.

The nature of reality is something else.

Good luck to you & your family.

I think casting aspersions on "middle-aged, upper class liberals" isn't very helpful or an accurate assessment of the situation.

I certainly agree that rents are ridiculously high and landlords...