Category: Commentary
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To Meat Or Not
What are your feelings about eating meat? It’s complicated. I grew up in a ‘meat and potatoes’ household. Meat was part of almost every meal … That seems like a lifetime ago. Over the years, I kept hearing and reading how ‘red meat’ in particular, with all its hormones, antibiotics, and preservatives, was more detrimental…
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An Autumn Mood
An Autumn Mood… Cloudbursts soak my clothes and shoes,Leave me wet and cold —Web-bound bugs struggle –LE
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Which Would I deny?
What technology would you be better off without, why? Another word for ‘technology’ is ‘artifice’ … human evolution’s propensity for communication, making tools for survival, work, exploration, and ‘civilization’. All of our tools (mental and physical) are historically defined as ‘artifacts’. Artifice Artifacts defineHuman activities shineEdifices prime –LE So, which would we be better off…
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In Reality … All And None …
What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why? In Reality … All And None … Off the top of my head, I’d have chosen my decisions to not fight my exes in their bids to be rid of me. Not to fight the outrageous child support garnishments of my meager wages, that left…
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Save Our VA Protest – Black Friday – 11/28/25
Save Our VA Protest – 11/28/25 We arrived at the Tucson VA’s Ajo entrance at 6:35 AM as the dawn was beginning to roll down Ajo. The sun finally cleared the eastern clouds around 7:20. We left the site by 8:30 AM, after the shift change. There were only three of us walking the line…
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Each New Start
Each New Start each new start, an improvisationlaying-on paint, running musical scalesor penning rhymes – stabilizing time –LE This verse is from a longer poem, That’s Life, and was an epiphany for me, of sorts (a head-nodding realization) … That’s all it ever was … just ‘stabilizing time’, and perhaps my mind, and maybe that’s…
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Baritone Sax
Baritone Sax bass tonesof a baritone saxblast the underpinningsof space/time apartas we tumblethrough the voidreaching out forany residual strandsof melodyfrom the songof life –LE
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The Inevitable End
The Inevitable End Though I may not beThe sharpest crayon in the boxA modicum of intellect resides It occurs to me that reasonAnd desires can rationalizeAlmost anything The resulting reprievesAt best temporaryDon’t mitigate the end As all things doSo it is saidWith a whimper or bang Even the ‘eternal’ universeThough we won’t see itWill eventually…
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On The Beat And Off
On The Beat And Off an hour agoI wason the roadwith Kerouachit the roadJack …in the wastelandon one of those roadsnot takenas Eliot, Frostand I danced withFerlinghettiin his mind’sConey Islandconstantly riskingabsurdityas wehowledwith Ginsberghiking mountainpaths gripping ouraxe handlesin riprapwith Snyderas we ponderedDi Prima’sletters “…withno otherransomthanmyself …” –LE – 11/20/25 Yes, a tribute, mainly to the Beats…
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