Category: Commentary
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The Tucson Loop – August
The Tucson Loop On The Second Sunday Morning In August The air is stillHot and dryThe sky is mottledWith china-whiteAnd light touches ofPayne’s grayOverheadLight strokes ofWhite in the westMostly gray inThe eastern skyLike it might rainBut I doubt it A few joggers andWalkers strollingThe lanesNot many bikes yet A lone CoyoteStanding statuesqueIn the dry riverbedEyes…
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Free Will
Free Will I’ve been thinking about the idea of human feelings and emotions being ‘biochemical algorithms’ developed over millions of years on the East African savannahs as defined by Yuval Noah Harari in his books, Sapiens and Homo Deus. It certainly leads to the conclusion that there is no such thing as ‘free will’, just…
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That’s Easy
What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time? That’s easy. It’s a combination … my integrity and humanity.
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Summer Morning Ride
Summer Morning Ride Heading over to the Tucson Loop pathUnder a heavily marbled skyThe morning sun castsLong dark shadowsThat we glide through The stagnant ocean of airIs already hot and dryThe only breezeGenerated by mySpinning pedals A gaggle of RoadrunnersIntercept usPeriodically along the wayAlong with skinksSkink-skanking the path ahead A few morning dovesDart off the…
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I’ll Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know
I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Knowby Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa If I ever leave you, babyYou can say that I told you soAnd if I ever hurt youYou know I hurt myself as well How is that any way for a woman to carry on?Do you think I want my love long…
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Talk About Alternate Universes
Describe your life in an alternate universe. Either we or our ‘owners’ are already living in ‘alternate universes’. It’s definitely not the same universe for the ruling class and the ‘masses’ (us). A universe of opulence for the ruling class vs a universe of austerity for at least 90% of the inhabitants of our mother,…
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Lesson Learned
What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it? I don’t remember exactly, but it was enough that I had to use a credit card since I didn’t have that much cash on me… It was definitely NOT worth it. In any and all of those situations with ‘expensive’ meals,…
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Another Empire In Decline
Yes, I posted this before, but looking around, it’s glaringly apparent to me that it needs reiteration… The New Dark Ages from the declineof the Roman Empireto the Renaissanceover a thousand years clerics and kingsdestroyed most of theancient wisdoms andsciences with burnings books and witcheswith blood-letting‘’medical’ and warringconquering and conjuring religious incantationsrule by ‘divine right’butchers…
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Eternal Now
Eternal Now To paraphrase CarlinNow doesn’t really existMerely the intersectionOf future and past Here it comes..Wait, it’s almost hereNot yet… Now? Nope, it’s already goneHere it comes again… But It’s the future thatDoesn’t exitMerely a hoped-forPotential,An assumptionOf continuation And the past isOnly a story of what hasPassed throughThe eternal presentOnly a pattern ofNeurons strung togetherTemporarily…
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Full Of It
Full Of Sh*t You’re full of sh*tI’m full of sh*tWe’re all full of sh*tNot our faultJust a biological factBut, we do our bestTo eliminate itOn a daily shift But, our bodiesAre not the onlySh*t sourcesWithin us There’s also theMental and emotionalCrap in that cesspoolWe call our minds Not our fault, reallyThe ‘quality’ (or lack thereof)Of…
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