Brilliant. And don't forget that 6 is code for sex! 6666 is a cry for being touched, skin in the game. 6666 = SexSexSexSex.

Too Many Names




Mondays are meshed with Tuesdays
and the week with the whole year.
Time cannot be cut
with your weary scissors,
and all the names of the day

Hozho


And you will see hozho all around you, inside of you.”
This morning she is teaching me the meaning of HOZHO.
It is dawn.
The sun is conquering the sky and my grandmother and I
are...

Cento Between the Ending and the End




Sometimes you don’t die


when you’re supposed to

A Winter’s Alcove

There are sorrowful, chilled fogs these days that remind one of his mortality. We are in that season when the sun loses the eternal tug-of-war with the icy moon, as exhausted...

1914 Truce


Christmas Eve in the trenches of France, the guns were quiet.
The dead lay still in No Man’s Land –
Freddie, Franz, Friedrich, Frank . . .
The moon, like a medal, hung in the...

The most effective way to defund the Republican Party is to boycott Conservatives' businesses. Do the right thing and find alternatives. Shopping at Community Market instead of Whole Foods is a good...

Vanishing
The grief and sense of loss we often interpret as a failure in our personality is actually a feeling of emptiness where a beautiful and strange otherness should have been encountered. -...

Gratitude Goulash


Take down your biggest pot,
bigger than you think you need


Slice, dice or cut into manageable pieces
memories of unbounded joy
and the desiccated remains

Rain In The Time Of Plague


I


Its curtain falls gentle as a quarantine from God
that keeps souls tidied from rain and one another’s faces.

How Does It Happen? <o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
It happens at the borders <o:p></o:p>
when grim men answer <o:p></o:p>
all questions with a flag <o:p></o:p>
and dismiss talk of civil...

Bearing Witness

Sometimes we are asked to stop and bear witness:
this, the elephants say to me in dreams
as they thunder through the passageways
of my heart, disappearing
into a blaze of...

Some Girls


Some girls can’t help it; they are lit sparklers,
hot-blooded, half naked in the depths of winter,
tagging moving trains with the bright insignia of their
fury.
I’ve seen...

At first I let "them" (the user profile is marked as an "organization") post because I thought it might be useful to stimulate discussion, but seeing how's its played out I have now banned them.
...

Ashes Among the Remains


My father responded
Just throw them away
I did not nor did I cast them into
ocean or bay where we’d fished
flounder and fluke nor strew them
over the golf courses...

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ELISSA CHUDWIN
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
August 18, 2020

If you’re...

Sorrow Song

for the eyes of the children,
the last to melt,
the last to vaporize,
for the lingering
eyes of the children, staring,
the eyes of the children of
buchenwald,
of viet nam and...

At the Bomb Testing Site


At noon in the desert a panting lizard
waited for history, its elbows tense,
watching the curve of a particular road
as if something might happen.


It...

When I Am Among The Trees

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would...

For John Lewis


In an age of outrage there is love.
In an age of fear there is love.
In an age of unspeakable grief and loss there is love.


Gratitude remains intact.
But we must act.

On Breathing


I held mine, at a cash point
by the police station
when I saw her kneel to speak
on his level, a mother telling
her not yet three year old son you don’t
need to be scared,...

Weather


On a scrap of paper in the archive is written

I have forgotten my umbrella. Turns out

in a pandemic everyone, not just the philosopher,

is without. We scramble in the drought of...

Legacies


her grandmother called her from the playground
“yes, ma’am”
“i want chu to learn how to make rolls” said the old
woman proudly
but the little girl didn’t want...

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,...

The Leap


50 years ago

At age 19
Intoxicated by Kerouac’s
On The Road
We went down to the
Railroad tracks

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,...

Threshold

It has happened.
You thought you had some control
of your life
and that you were in a place
you understood
in a time that moved
from a past you knew
to a future that followed

The looters came to my town
Rounded us like animals
Tore our families
Chained us in mass
Stuffed us in boats across the sea
Sold us like cattle,
Branded our skin


The looters came to my...

While I've tried allowing thoughtful Trumpsters to post here, as well as allowing space for various conspiracy theories, however lately I and other members have felt these topics are getting out of...

Thanks, Barry. Humor helps, especially in stressful times.

REMINDER FOR FIRE SEASON:

If It Will Burn, Move It
Would you pile kindling all around your house? Noooooo, of course not. But
we do it all the time without realizing. So outdoors, move anything...

CVS is also a problem, both for how they dealt with the city and their evil corporate past, and just the notion of having a corporate big box (or medium, in this case) as part of our downtown.
...

Rite Aid, which was bought by Walgreens who merged with Alliance Boots of the UK, has chosen NOT to use the inversion strategy to avoid US taxes. More info here. Safeway is using inversion.

Mr. O'Foole,

Welcome to Wacco. I have compiled a list of alternatives to CVS for applefan and everyone else, shown below. These should more than adequately meet your needs as well, Bob.
...

How CVS conned Sebastopol
by John Eder, former Sebastopol City Council Member
Part 5 of 5

(See Part 1 here)
(See Part 2 here)
(See Part 3 here)
(See Part 4 here)

The Future

I’ve lived here for only a few years and this election for 5th District Supervisor has been a real eye-opener for me. I’ve gotten to know many local people, a long list of community leaders and...

You are obviously delusional. This is kind of like Nixon saying, "I don't know why those guys were in the office at the Watergate. I was at home, watching All In The Family..."

Excellent Close to Home piece today in response to Lynda and Herman's fluff piece:

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Close to Home: Let’s get real about...

There are plenty of others who question Lynda's "farm friendly" credentials

My consistent advocacy for a City Council that actively supports our hospital and life saving emergency room, and my consistent criticism of those like Jim Horn, and the City Council members who have...

If you don't mind, I will answer this question.

Joan and I are 69 and 70 and can't take it with us to the grave so we believe we have made a good investment in our community whether the hospital...

Palm Drive Board Candidate Jim Horn's Campaign of Deception to Close Our Hospital

October 29, 2016
By Jonathan Greenberg

This post first appeared as a column in the Sonoma Independent here
...

I am a west county native. This is where I grew up, and now I am raising my children here. Honestly, if you have an issue with the smell I think it's time to move on. "Sonoma Aroma" is part of living...

CVS is a nasty corporation. There are many nasty corporations. Maybe we have to live with them. But we don't have to be polite to them or buy anything from them. I certainly won't.

Dear Paula & Varda,
Given that I was raised in a Republican military family, I remember Ike and this quote. He also introduced the term "military-industrial complex," which has gotten much worse....

January 19, 2016
Meeting with ABC regarding Reichwage Winery Inc.

Wendie McDonald, ABC Licensing Representative, says the application is for off sale license only. It is a duplicate license for...

Yet another apple orchard has been converted to a vineyard and an application has been made to make it into a winery. This is at the corner of Elphick, Pleasant Hill, and Watertrough, southwest of...

Agriculture in California consumes approximately 80% of our water. Growers produce approximately 80% of fruits and vegetables which supplies the US. So the question bodes, exactly what can happen to...

I agree.
What are we residents of Sonoma County,
the host for another "wine industry tick"? They are sucking the blood out of what we longer time residents of this area call home.
Their dream of...

People are really fed up. You can feel it. Globally, nationally, locally - there's a lot that has been heaped on the proverbial plate to deal with. People were distraught over Palm Drive, pissed...