Category: Commentary
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Change
“And this too shall pass away.” – A saying common to many different cultures and traditions… Change The only constantEven stagnationOne of its forms As now simultaneouslyEvolves and devolves inDisparate and overlappingPerspectivesIn the turbulent eddies ofThe ever-flowingTossing and frothingRiver of space/timeAnd its eternalNow Constantly creating andAsserting spontaneousActions and perspectivesImmediately renderedMemoriesBoth happy and sadBut mostlyBlousy The…
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Season Of The Witch
Season Of The Witchby Donovan; performed by Vanilla Fudge When I look outside my windowWhat do I see?And when I look outside my windowSo many different people to beThat it’s strange, so strangeYou’ve got to pick up every stitchTwo rabbits running in a ditchThe hippies out to make it rich Oh no, must be the…
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Nothing Else Matters
This is a matter of history, my history, the history of my generation, to be exact… plus, I’m a sucker for a good beat boxing, basso profundo, and an electric fiddle…; -) Nothing Else Matters Interesting that such a deepPhilosophical meditationComes from a Heavy Metal bandMetallica But my favorite versionRendered by Voiceplay I saw the…
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Save The VA Protest – Tucson 7/1/25
Save The VA Protest – Tucson 7/1/25 Biked to the 2nd Ave and Ajo Entrance of the VAAnd protested during the 7-8 am shift change Witnessed an interesting phenomenon there18 Teslas entered – doctors, nurses, administrators, provocateurs? D.O.G.E. bros and babes?To undermine VA autonomy, integrity, and funding? Helping create delays and outrageJustify our owners’ calls…
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Education Is Subversive
Education Is Subversive Why do you think authoritarians hate it so much? Do everything in their substantial powersTo dominateUniversity facultiesAdministratorsCurriculums Silence the IntellectualsThe storytellersThe philosophersThe poetsThe artists of all stripes? It’s because educationAnd by extension critical thinking IS Subversive! At least to the AuthoritarianAgenda… –LE – 6/28/25\ PS: Apparently, only the ruling ‘elites’ (in their…
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Perception
Perception All sentience reliesOn perceptions forSurvival But in the case of humansIt’s mostly mis-perceptionsEven to those from the sameFamilies and communities There are theUnconsciousAssumptionsPrejudicesAnd fantasiesBased on the ‘invisible’HormonesPheromones And let’s not forgetIndoctrination andConditioning Even with millions ofDictionaries and thesauriHumans mis-perceiveMore often than notBoth intentionallyAnd not. The thread of human historySeems a continuousStitching of mis-perceptionsSince our…
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Last Weekend In June – Ride’n Rant
End of June Weekend – Morning Ride 79 degreesAt a quarter to sevenIn the AM90 by the timeWe get back Bright sunNo cloudsExcept a few dotsOver the mountains Skinks scurrying inAnd across the pathRight and leftZigzagging As a turkey vultureSurveys the pickin’sFrom the highest branchOf a dead old witch-treeOff to my far right I count…
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Thursday Morning Ride – Late June
A Late June Thursday Morning Ride Blue skies to the southWhile the blue of the northIs marbled with white and theOccasional brushstroke-tipOf light gray Rust colored mountainsVeiled in the morning mistsBoundaries of the Tucson basin While fat skinks and prairie dogsSkitter to and fro across the pathNo snakes or other fauna yetBut for the occasional…
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A More Sustainable Lifestyle?
Are there things you try to practice daily to live a more sustainable lifestyle? What does that even mean in this age of powerlessness and poverty for the many and unconscionable wealth and power for a psychopathic few; of uncertainty, exploitation, and existential dispair? This prompt (to me) smacks of naive denialism. But to attempt…
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The Air That I Breath
The Air That I Breatheby Albert Hammond and Mike Hazelwood – performed by The Hollies, originally in 1974 If I could make a wishI think I’d passCan’t think of anything I needNo cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no soundNothing to eat, no books to read Making love with youHas left me peaceful, warm, and tiredWhat…
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