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I have known some substance abusers in the past, most of them are no longer alive. In my experience, no one else can help them until they decide to do it themselves. Giving them money or anything...

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I respectfully disagree with a mandatory switch to all-electric, especially after the last round of power outages. Anyone with an all electric-household could neither bathe nor cook for several...

Walking by Stolen Creek


the meaning of its name forgotten,

the word remembered.

Whatever happened here

is recalled

So... you're trying to help these "low-income communities" that are effected by the extraction of fuel.... by eliminating their jobs?

The REACH code, is not going to stop lessen, or even mildly...

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This all sounds wonderful, any suggestions for the substance abuse component? Approximately %95 of the homeless people I've encountered have meth and alcohol related issues. Often enough they are...

Is the area you're talking about 3840 Finley Avenue? If so, Barracks 33 is privately owned by Julian Billote. who renovated the building and is renting out several art studio spaces there. I don't...

The Dream

I cried a lot today,
in a way I wish we all could cry.
I cried because
I am part of something
that is dangerously
out of control,
something that started so long ago
none of...

A Third of California Methane Traced to a Few Super-EmittersLet's ban stoves, but leave those monopolized (I mean... government contracted) trash services alone!

This is a perfect example of why I am making my exit plan from CA...

What does this actually accomplish? A very small reduction in emissions, while removing the cheapest (and many of the cooks...

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Truth

And if sun comes
How shall we greet him?
Shall we not dread him,
Shall we not fear him
After so lengthy a
Session with shade?

Though we have wept for him,

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tommy, you wrote:

But you also wrote:

So, if a place is not found in the next six weeks will the money evaporate? Nice of the State & County to dangle a carrot that like when they know very...

At the Homeless Action! meeting, what's needed is a place to house about 30 people, in 12 tiny houses and 12 RVs. Homeless Action has received $450 k (mostly for proposed management) from the City &...

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All That is Gold Does Not Glitter

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From...

I think you may mean "no-one can live there anymore because it's too EXPENSIVE!" I'm not hating on anyone; that's not my style. I'm just stating facts. If someone has lived in the county for 30+...

I mean, I like it the way it was too, but hating on the new people isn't worth it. They're not some weird 'other' that doesn't deserve to be here. It's too easy these days to fall into that mindset...

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Good words, tommy

Yes the Homeless are human, and many of them went to college and once held decent jobs. That is a fact. "There but for fortune, go you, or I" - as the song said. I am a ...

Thanks for your involvement in this issue and your post.

So given "your change of heart", then what??

I'm not sure it's actually a scam. There are storefronts with people who do DMV work for folk who do not want to wait in line at the state offices of DMV. I have paid $35 and my friend pays $50 for...

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Autumn Comes To Healdsburg

Fall arrives, time’s most favored season
at last the heart, the mind loosens its fist so that I no longer need to know who I am
i return to the hills and the great...

also, if you need something that you can't handle online through the DMV if you're a CSAA member you can treat their office as a DMV. I just transferred a car from an Oregon plate to a CA one, and it...

It's true that Sanders is polling marginally better the Buttigieg in head to head polls with trump and the moment.

However, I believe this is because people are still getting to know Pete, where...

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Note that no-one wants to keep their private insurance. They want to go to the providers they use, and have the experience be close enough - no new paperwork/processes/restrictions, etc. Of course...

Anthem for Doomed Youth

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty...

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48211The West County School Board is using funds that would have gone to Special Ed or livable wages for teachers and giving it to a wealthy lawyer who goes...

So I went to renew my car (yes, electric of course) and googled dmv renewal. I picked a site that I thought was the official site. It looked official but was actually run by a company called etags....

Beneath the Surface

Beneath the surface
a firefighter reflects,
even cries.
They did it — they didn’t let the fire
spread beyond 101.
They were not going to repeat
what happened two years...

A Brave And Startling Truth

We, this people, on a small and lonely planet
Traveling through casual space
Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns
To a destination where all signs...

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Say Yes

The moment I slipped my arms
into the poem of falling leaves
shrugged my shoulders just so
the threads of mystery in the fabric
pulled my body straight
...

There’s A Package Downstairs

What are you doing up there? There’s a package downstairs, From the White House, it’s true, And it’s for you.
It’s filled with everything you’ve ever wanted, All the...

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I'd go along if it was "mildly concerning", not terrifying. It's way more terrifying when a health-care provider says "sign here". Is the next doctor who walks up to you in-plan? Wanna hit them up...

You said it so well~

The Last Hotel Room in Sacramento

This time when the fires came, we drove east
past still-charred hills
and vineyards that escaped the flames,
over the Napa wetlands and through bucolic...

Yes... I''m well aware of that... part of my decision making. One of my best friends from Grateful Dead tour days was part of the forest service "hot shot" fire crews... and I learned a lot about...

I was previously signed on for a 5 day retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre that started the very day of our evacuation, so I got in my car (West County) after getting the evcuation...

Turns out that fire can spread through tree tops rather quickly, called a crown fire.

Vineyards, OTOH, do slow down a fire's progress.

Hmm. While I agree to an extent...we've also built communities in areas ripe for wildfires. And chosen, ahem, *cheap* electricity rather then making the hard choice of burying the cables and paying...