Category: Commentary
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New Skills – No; Lessons, Well…
What skills or lessons have you learned recently? To paraphrase an old song: You can’t always get what you ask for, but sometimes you get what you need…; -) I’ve heard that there are no accidents or coincidences in life, only lessons. The problem I have with that is that it’s just another story (fiction)…
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Freedom
Freedom Fight for freedom – you sayWhat freedom – I sayPolitical, social, religiousIntellectual, sexual – you say Or freedom fromLaw – civil, physical, spiritualFrom intellect, emotion, sensationDeath – say you There is no freedom – say IOnly exchange ofOne tyranny for another Political – tax collectors and tyrantsSocial – cliques and classesReligeious – saviors and…
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Life Like Winter Snow
Life Like Winter Snow Life like winter snowIt comes and goesStays its day or twoThen gone, it disappearsIt changes form – evaporatesTurns to vaporRises to the skyAnd waits its turnTo fall againAnd who can sayThe form it takesWhen it returnsRain or snow or sleet or hailSo life’s vaporComes and goesLike spring showersOr summer rainsAutum stormsOr…
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Return Of The Snow
This is another one I wrote several years ago, but seems appropriate in the season for reasons untold…; -) Return of the Snow snow is comingin flurries and squallsin storms and gently fallingclouds of snow-dust swirls, where each flake, an ice crystal,glimmers in moonshine,and under street lights,headlights, and lighted windows, casting long shadows,creates snowscapes —…
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Too Many Times To Count
Have you ever performed on stage or given a speech? Yes, and while I enjoyed the performing (locally, off and on for about 15 years), I ended up hating the ‘business’ aspects of performing (managers, bookings, marketing) and the whole ‘music scene’ of those times. I’ve also read some of my verses at different poetry…
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Save Our VA Protest – 12/12/25
There were only 3 of us out this morning at the Tucson VA’s Ajo gate for the shift change. We arrived at 6:30 AM and left at 8:30. It was pretty chilly, both temperature and responses, at least at first. But responses picked up pretty quickly to about the same as last week’s. And only…
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We Don’t Need Another Hero
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)by Tina Turner Out of the ruinsOut from the wreckageCan’t make the same mistake this timeWe are the childrenThe last generationWe are the ones they left behind And I wonder when we are ever gonna changeLiving under the fear ’til nothing else remains We don’t need another heroWe don’t need…
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Any Gentle Activities
What are your favorite physical activities or exercises? There is a big difference in what I like now and what I thrived on in the past. I prefer walking, riding my recumbent, Tai Chi, gentle yoga, and a little archery. In the past, I loved working out for 2-3 hours in Judo (was a turnament…
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Collective Consciousness
Collective Consciousness according to early psychologistswe are all attached in auniversal unconsciousness but what if it’s not unconsciousbut perspectives of the sameconsciousness pervading all the entire universe a universe of layers and perspectivesfrom so-called ‘matter’consciousness limited and basic to so-called sentientswith more complicated perspectivesmore self-aware perspectives of the conscious universemorality but a means of controlone…
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Creative ‘Solutions’
What is something others do that sparks your admiration? What I admire is the creative solutions people find for our daily trials, troubles, and tribulations… While some are much better solutions than others (pragmaticly), I applaud everyones’ creative attempts … often, the only ‘sanity’ evident in our insane social constructs, castes, classes, hierarchies of injustice…
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