Category: Commentary
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Mid March Morning Ride
Mid March Morning Ride milky sunshine leaves dark patcheswhere shadows of trees normally layusual outlines are not on displaya heavily marbled skyto the east and souththe mountains all aroundjust silhouettes deep in the mists still water pools left by rainsfrom last week and the other daydapple the otherwise dry riverbedunder bridges and shaded spaceswhere many…
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A Morning Meditation
A Morning Meditation pair of Budgiesin deep conversationover coffee (I mean,their water and seed) the morning chill pervadesmoments before the sunriseas the distant humof morning rush hour rises but the traffic seems far awayas a train’s airhorn cutsthe morning stillnessthoughts turn back within breathe inlet it gothoughts drift awaystillness holds sway here and nowthankfulall my…
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Superstitions
Are you superstitious? Not really… I equate it to traditional religions, practicing ‘formulas’ for conduct and mental / spiritual ‘proper behaviors’ (morality). They, like the four leaf clover, knocking on wood, throwing salt over your shoulder, or calling on deities of any ilk (Greek, Norse, Hebrew, elemental, psychic, etc.), are just stories we tell ourselves…
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Save Our VA Protest 3/13/26
Yes, I know, Friday the thirteenth… Fortunately, I’m not superstitious. Four of us held the line at the South (Ajo) entrace to the Tucson VA for the morning shift change, 6:30-8:15am. We had an 80-90% response rate again today, with only two negatives that I could see.
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Lady In Black
Lady In Blackby Uriah Heep She came to me one morning, one lonely Sunday morningHer long hair flowing in the mid-winter windI know not how she found me, for in darkness I was walkingAnd destruction lay around me, from a fight I could not win Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ahAh, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah She asked me, “Name…
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Stew And Recipe
Stew and Recipe Closing, the waking dream unfolds, the path to consciousness — untold,The printer hums, the keyboard clicks, the cursor blinks, 1 human brain (shredded). The surge crashes, the mind blanks — consciousness returns. 2-much stock (quantum soup — quarks, mesons, pisons, and other subatomic nutrients — unprocessed). Bio-transducer/receiver translates the quantum…
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Hey, How’s My Future?
Write a letter to your 100-year-old self. Hey, future me, How has the world treated you since 2026? I’m not sure how you’ll perceive this, or even if you’ll (I’ll) still be sentient for my (our) hundredth revolution of old Sol. I expect that your life and insights have changed (evolved) by then as much…
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Reading The Morning Sky
Reading the Morning Sky A perfect ellipsis of cloudsDot, dot, dot …On a blank blue skyA meteorological signInferring something left outOr more to comeBut unsaid Will cloud calligraphyNear the end of timePaint an exclamation point !Or a large PERIOD . ? Reading the morning skyOver the Santa CatalinasTo see what it may prophesy –LE
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Inaudible Teachings
Inaudible Teachings everybody’s talkin’ at mearound methrough mespinning their perceptionstheir fairytale fictionsof reality not ‘real’ realityjust their’sbased on conditioningthe birth lotteryand wishful thinking find myself wishingthey’d all just go awayfind their silencesit in the momentopen their perceptionsand just feel the day no judgementsno ‘convictions’no dogmas to defendjust open and receptiveto this momentand the universe’s inaudible…
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A World More Kind
A World More Kind unbind, unwindfrom a mostlyunkind day dystopian signsfrom world leadersflood the airwaves cause a clenchinga rigidity in my bodyand in my mind perhaps the long sleeptransmigrationto another plane returning millenia hencemay find a societya world more kind but I have my doubts –LE – 3/7/26
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