Category: Commentary
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Hmmm, Depression Anyone?
It seems that depression is, or is becoming, the new ‘normal’ in our modern world. A coincidence? I wonder… Depression depression feelings of inadequacydepressionmodern epidemicy o uhaven’t worked hardenough as hardas ancestors ormodern rolemodelsthe system’spropagandahard-won truthsfrom a long life Inadequacy conditionedinto us all by socialgatekeepers socalled‘leaders’consumerismneeds depressedinadequacy fuelcommerce in thingswe don’t need andcan’t afford keep…
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Another Memoir Memory From The Late ’60s
For What It’s Worth – The Hut Lounge Something’s happening here Buffalo Springfield on the jukeboxLinda Lane slayed us with herintricate guitar work andsensuous vocals What it is ain’t exactly clear Her band – Lady and the TrampsGeorge Hoka on his Hammondmesmerizing sound like the Animalsvoice soulful like Burdon’s There’s a man with a gun…
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Checkout Lines
Checkout Lines has anyone hadthe misfortuneto be stuck in a Walmartcheckout line recently have you noticed that mostof the cashiers are theoldest and slowestretirees the store can find trying to bore us intousing the self-checkoutsforce us to do the workwith no compensation no discounts avoid hiring and payingliving wages to thoseforced by austerity policiesto work…
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Big Yellow Taxi
Big Yellow Taxiby Joni Mitchell So they paved paradiseAnd put up a parking lotWith a pink hotelA boutiqueAnd a swinging night spot.Don’t it always seem to goThat you don’t know what you got ’til it’s goneThey paved paradisePut up a parking lot. They took all the treesPut ’em in a tree museumAnd they charged all…
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Let’s Get Real …
Get real! You hear it all the time, but what is “real?” “Real” is a human idea, as are all ideas. Ideas on the nature of reality have evolved with our bodies, brains, and social psyches. And just as all life continues to evolve or go extinct, our ideas of “reality” also continue to evolve.…
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From Behind The Facade
From Behind The Facade I occasionally feel duplicitouspeering out throughthe windows of my facadestudying it in the mirror should one feel duplicitouswhen we all cultivate oneover our lifetimesocieties demand it must submit to social ‘norms’regardless of internal truthsthat may or may not besupported in ours do we, can we evertruly know ourselvesthe essence behindour two…
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Summer’s Early Raid
Summer’s Early Raid summer’s early raidcontinues as temps soarwith blindinglyblue skies thank human ingenuityfor polarized lensesmitigating headachesfrom the harsh glare off the windows and wallsof me casa and yoursfrom highway liquid-looking blacktopmelting into the horizon to a mirage of wateron a scorchedand wind-blowndesert floor while faint wisps of whitefar out over the westernmountains gives an…
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Contentment
Contentment as a youthI thought the worldheld a grudgeagainst methought it wassingling me out eventually truthdawned on meit’s the commonexperience of lifefor any and allborn into it discovered that onehas little choice onhow ‘life’ treats usexcept on howwe perceive itand how we react even with thesocalled ‘wisdom’of age upon usmultitudes of hardshipsand joys continueto bathe…
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Riding And Sweating
Riding And Sweating clear cerulean domewith no cloudsscanning Sol’s barcodefrom the seat ofmy tadpole trikegenerates a 401 error yellow Mesquite blooms are now mostly gone replaced by an abundance of seed pods decorating their longleafy-green bows Palo Verde in full bloomtheir seed pods to arrive soonas a third or fourth iteration ofBrittlebush is blossomingand now,…
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An April Morn…
An April Morn… April sunny blues skieswarm morninglight breeze explosions of yellowand new green havebomb-blastedmost of the trees preview of summerarrives this afternoonhigh in the nineties my ride on the loopfinished for todayrelaxing with cooldrinks and food and arrangingwords on my tabletin simple verses –LE – 4/8/25
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