Category: Commentary
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My Date at the Local Big Boy – Memoir Extract
My Date at the Local Big Boy – Late 1960s Beaver Park BallRoom, cover band (The Four) playing top 40, Four Seasons, Tommy James, Wipe-out, and most were… Rode with Tiny D…, who having gotten lucky, as usual, left me to find a ride or hitch home. It was late by the time I walked…
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What’s the True Motivation – Memoir – Philosophical Appendices
What’s the True Motivation? I always thought I did things because they were what I wanted to do. But recently I’ve been wondering whether my choices were in reality made for me by society and my peers, fabricating my desires. Did I become a musician, artist, writer because deep in the core of my being,…
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My Residence In Kent – Memoir Continued
My Residence in Kent Toward the end of my time in Kent, Kristen and her family came to visit me. That included her husband, Jerry, and her two sons, Jerid and Colin (my grandchildren), who were a year or two younger than my twins, Dylan and Caitlin (their aunt and uncle). We had a good…
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The River
The River by Blues Saraceno Oh, my Lord, take this soulLay me at the bottom of the riverThe devil has come to carry me homeLay me at the bottom, the bottom of the river Oh, my Lord, take this handSave me from the gallowsHear this news, bear my goldLay me in the shallowsEvil’ll come if…
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Towner’s Woods Remembered
Towner’s Wood Remembered leaf-carpet strewn pathssoggy in low trail dipsdry and brittle where elevatedoak, brich, maple, sassafrasbeach, black walnut, andtree of heaven leaves intertwinedforming that carpet decayed, disintegrating bridgespans the stream-bed leading toTwin Lakes, visible through thetree trunks and from theindian mounds, worn trail tothe crests, offerings scatteredover the rocks old railroad water station andtrack-bed…
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Silence In Motion
Another one from last year… Silence in Motion an inky void sashaysthrough the sunrise longshadows on stealthy cat’s paws from beneath the grapefriuttree, across the porch to the fountain’sreservoir takes a long drinkthen some personal grooming asbright yellow eyes peer through thescreen door for any canine objections –LE
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Verbal Tomatoes
Verbal Tomatoes 🍅🍅🍅 Yes, I’ve chosen to sit back and enjoy the show, as George Carlin liked to phrase it. That doesn’t mean that I have to stay quiet or shut up about the villainy or rank stupidity that I see blatantly thrown in our faces on a daily basis. I am enjoying the show.…
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Some Poignant Quotations
I know it’s difficult, but from time to time, we need to rethink our so-called ‘principles’ and ‘values’ and hopefully realign ourselves in truth (verifiable facts) and reality… Some Poignant Quotations to Help That Realignment “When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected. The greatest tragedy of human…
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Something Is Terribly Wrong
There is something terribly wrong… I’ve immersed myself in alternatives to our currently accepted notions of economy, humanity, and even civilization. The news, both political and economic, along with trends in manufacturing and technology, have convinced me that the current economic model is unsustainable. It’s collapse is inevitable. The only real questions are, when and…
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